What book are you reading now?

Edvard · 24 July 2016 21:55

I don’t like it and so I dumped it. Am now reading “HMS Ulysses”.

shirley · 27 July 2016 10:53

My next read is The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez

Floydy · 31 July 2016 17:58

Finding Rick Wakeman’s two memoirs hilarious at the moment:
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Aysa · 31 July 2016 19:41

Im reading a collection of short stories by Stephen King now called “Different Seasons”
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Ive read a lot of Stephen Kings books and find I really enjoy his short stories selections…I have ready and waiting to be read after this one ,his latest book out called “End Of Watch”
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Julie1962 · 31 July 2016 20:19

Clan of the cave bear inspired by a recent thread about it thought I’d read it again, as good as the first time I’m finding.

Muddy · 1 August 2016 06:15

An excellent book Julie .

MKJ · 2 August 2016 11:08

I’ve just ordered ‘Suicide of a Superpower’ by Pat Buchanan. All the way from the US of A for just £5.86 all in (used) - 50 bucks brand new .

Amazon:

America is disintegrating. The “one Nation under God, indivisible” of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unrecognizable to our parents. This is the thrust of Pat Buchanan’s “Suicide of a Superpower,” his most controversial and thought-provoking book to date.

Buchanan traces the disintegration to three historic changes: America’s loss of her cradle faith, Christianity; the moral, social, and cultural collapse that have followed from that loss; and the slow death of the people who created and ruled the nation. And as our nation disintegrates, our government is failing in its fundamental duties, unable to defend our borders, balance our budgets, or win our wars.

How Americans are killing the country they profess to love, and the fate that awaits us if we do not turn around, is what "Suicide of a Superpower "is all about.

The same fate awaits us …

One for Realist here - was it orchestrated?

Julie1962 · 2 August 2016 12:00

Sounds like my apocolyptic collection great for a good story but not to be taken seriously

MKJ · 2 August 2016 12:13

Apparently this book - and others by Pat Buchanan - deal with all the social, religious, economic troubles we are facing today. In the video I found (whilst looking for something else) I was taken aback by how knowledgeable he is. By the looks of it many of the answers I was looking for could well be found by reading his books. Also ties in neatly with other videos and info I have come across as to why the West is in such a mess at this point in time.

Pat Buchanan Videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pat+buchanan

When I asked the question to Realist as to whether or not the way the West is now was orchestrated I was serious as it does look like it was.

It is amazing what can be found by searching through the YouTube archives.

Julie1962 · 2 August 2016 13:34

He was an isolationist way back in the seventies, I think he looks like everyone else for things that support his way of thinking. I’m not saying he is wrong just needs to be taken very carefully or you could fall into his isolationist ideals which aren’t really good for anyone or any country.

malcolm · 2 August 2016 13:39

A very good book you may enjoy is HTML for beginners available in all good bookshops

susiejaeger · 2 August 2016 14:37

Perfect People by Peter James.

MKJ · 2 August 2016 15:30

Haven’t you written one yourself?

MKJ · 2 August 2016 15:39

I think you have to give me more credence that that - gullibility is something I tend not to be guilty of. Also this book was written in 2011 so covers how things are now. The reviews are exceptionally good too. At just under 6 squid delivered it sounds like a damn good buy.

malcolm · 2 August 2016 15:59

Yes I have

MKJ · 2 August 2016 18:58

Where is it then? Lets have a look at it.

Julie1962 · 2 August 2016 18:59

I do give you more credence the you was more general sorry.

Bruce · 2 August 2016 22:45

Just borrowed “No Need for Geniuses” by Steve Jones from the local library, it has a sub heading “Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine”.

This book deals with the astonishing advances made by French scientists of the late 18th century around the time of the French Revolution. The subjects range from the isolation of chemical elements to the understanding of human metabolism to the physics of electricity. The era’s remarkable technical innovations included the metric system, ballooning, the invention of canned food, and the semaphore telegraph. Each chapter seems to be about one subject but he then wanders off to deal with its implications and how the science was developed.

I am only about a quarter way through the book but it is a fascinating read. Well worth reading.

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Steve Jones is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Senior Research Fellow at University College. He delivered the Reith lectures in 1991 entitled “The Language of the Genes”, that was where I first heard of him (via the podcast) and have bought several of his books on genetics since, he writes in a very entertaining way and manages to keep your interest when dealing with quite complex subjects.

malcolm · 3 August 2016 06:22

To do so would give away my true identity and I don’t wish to do that on the forum.

Tpin · 3 August 2016 08:23

If you’re so protective of your identity(nothing wrong with that) wouldn’t it have been better using a pen name?

I think I know your book…is it comedy?