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So...has anyone bothered to read any books lately while entropy sets in? Larry Send a noteboard - 08/10/2016 09:37:35 AM

I'm finding myself reading a lot of the Library of America editions I've bought over the years. Currently reading, in rough chronological order, the letters/documents/speeches/etc. of various Founding Fathers, such as Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams, John Marshall, and James Madison, as well as reading Henry Adams' Histories of the Jefferson and Madison Administrations. Also mixing in a short story collection by John O'Hara, Ursula Le Guin's Malafrena, and recently-translated writings that Jack Kerouac did in French in the early 1950s.

Other than that, not reading much at all.

So...

Anybody reading anything besides tired political news?

Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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So...has anyone bothered to read any books lately while entropy sets in? Larry - 08/10/2016 09:37:35 AM 1748 Views
Nope. jh - 10/10/2016 05:10:00 PM 1378 Views
The Great Ordeal was a mixed bag for me Larry - 13/10/2016 05:55:57 PM 1658 Views
After a summer of no reading, I'm back on the train DREWRULESWOT! - 10/10/2016 09:15:44 PM 1362 Views
I haven't heard Abercrombie's name mentioned much lately on other sites I occasionally visit Larry - 13/10/2016 05:54:07 PM 1693 Views
I still have functioning eyes, so of course I'm still reading Tom - 11/10/2016 11:31:57 PM 1393 Views
I have no idea how you manage to keep up intense reading along with your practice. Ghavrel - 12/10/2016 08:09:41 AM 1396 Views
Try working for yourself Tom - 16/10/2016 03:40:53 PM 1295 Views
Ah, see, I'm going into public defense. *NM* Ghavrel - 19/10/2016 05:27:16 AM 815 Views
Please don't take this the wrong way, but why the Hell would you want to do that? *NM* Tom - 25/10/2016 05:20:04 AM 804 Views
An almost fetishistic degree of masochism. Ghavrel - 26/10/2016 03:29:25 PM 1254 Views
Good to hear Larry - 13/10/2016 05:51:45 PM 1401 Views
Trashy genre fiction, mostly, but I just got a copy of the Oxford Annotated Bible. Ghavrel - 12/10/2016 08:22:03 AM 1340 Views
Well, you could list the "trash" as well, I suppose Larry - 13/10/2016 05:50:03 PM 1310 Views
Does the script of the new Harry Potter play count? Legolas - 12/10/2016 08:07:37 PM 1626 Views
If Bob Dylan's lyrics count as literature in the eyes of the Nobel committee, why not? Larry - 13/10/2016 05:48:08 PM 1260 Views
For a guy who used to be "Dylanfanatic" that sounded a bit disdainful *NM* Tom - 25/10/2016 05:21:28 AM 768 Views
Ha! Larry - 25/10/2016 09:59:32 AM 1662 Views
I couldn't agree more on all accounts *NM* Tom - 25/10/2016 03:45:41 PM 752 Views
Datasheets and application notes mostly but I am fighting my way through a Black Company reread random thoughts - 26/10/2016 09:58:05 PM 1199 Views
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization by Parag Khanna *NM* Vodalus - 02/11/2016 09:15:18 AM 693 Views
Across the Ussuri Kray: Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains by Vladimir K. Arsenyev *NM* Vodalus - 14/11/2016 08:45:30 PM 712 Views
The First and Second Sikh Wars: An Official British Army History by Reginald George Burton *NM* Vodalus - 02/12/2016 08:56:27 PM 719 Views
I rarely have the concentration/motivation to read for pleasure these days. Stephen - 30/11/2016 12:56:34 AM 1227 Views
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