BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
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^^ Wow, thanks!
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As some of you may know i'm dyslexic and up until a couple of years ago I struggled with most texts and found I missed words when reading or found some grammar impossible to understand. Reading whole books was so difficult that I never read for pleasure.
Now I have various tools to assist me, I can read and understand almost anything. I now have a growing book collection and today on a family trip I purchased these :
The Lord of The Rings (1991) with appendices + maps - J.R.R Tolkien
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r0vk3u98w9xbv ... 2.jpg?dl=0
&
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gq5w86mnyhpht ... 6.jpg?dl=0
The Art of War (Sun Tzu) & The Book of Lord Shang (Shang Yang)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7wi2mmd4k4xg ... 0.jpg?dl=0
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qd6s841eqafjc ... 9.jpg?dl=0
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hxbxev9nu2f22 ... 8.jpg?dl=0
The book i am reading at the moment is :
The Three Muskateers - Alexandre Dumas
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rne8rpxt1dvuw ... 2.jpg?dl=0
I read on average one book per week, however I have read one book a day for a few days last month. Safe to say I am now a book worm :D
Now I have various tools to assist me, I can read and understand almost anything. I now have a growing book collection and today on a family trip I purchased these :
The Lord of The Rings (1991) with appendices + maps - J.R.R Tolkien
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r0vk3u98w9xbv ... 2.jpg?dl=0
&
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gq5w86mnyhpht ... 6.jpg?dl=0
The Art of War (Sun Tzu) & The Book of Lord Shang (Shang Yang)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7wi2mmd4k4xg ... 0.jpg?dl=0
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qd6s841eqafjc ... 9.jpg?dl=0
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hxbxev9nu2f22 ... 8.jpg?dl=0
The book i am reading at the moment is :
The Three Muskateers - Alexandre Dumas
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rne8rpxt1dvuw ... 2.jpg?dl=0
I read on average one book per week, however I have read one book a day for a few days last month. Safe to say I am now a book worm :D
* Be fat, be as fat as you fucking please, just don't sit next to me on an aeroplane.
* "The sun never sets on the British Empire...." "Yeah, well, the sun never sets on my asshole!!"
* I am an "old skool" administrator who has been managing UNIX and Linux systems since the early 80s <-- big fkin lol
* "The sun never sets on the British Empire...." "Yeah, well, the sun never sets on my asshole!!"
* I am an "old skool" administrator who has been managing UNIX and Linux systems since the early 80s <-- big fkin lol
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^ All great books. Happy to know you can enjoy them.
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Enjoy. That is quite a list.
Right now I am reading a book about the Spanish civil war.
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Spain-Spa ... 014303765X
Right now I am reading a book about the Spanish civil war.
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Spain-Spa ... 014303765X
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Nice one Titan, LotR is a most awesomely epic novel - good luck getting through that in a week!
my current hardcopy:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/111 ... UTF8&psc=1
guess what I'm working towards :D
my current hardcopy:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/111 ... UTF8&psc=1
guess what I'm working towards :D
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Sounds really interesting Ivan. When i studied history in school we only learned about JFK and all the terrible things white people did in Africa. Nothing about Europe, WW1 or WW2, or UK history.
Wux - thought you knew everything about linux already? :D
Wux - thought you knew everything about linux already? :D
* Be fat, be as fat as you fucking please, just don't sit next to me on an aeroplane.
* "The sun never sets on the British Empire...." "Yeah, well, the sun never sets on my asshole!!"
* I am an "old skool" administrator who has been managing UNIX and Linux systems since the early 80s <-- big fkin lol
* "The sun never sets on the British Empire...." "Yeah, well, the sun never sets on my asshole!!"
* I am an "old skool" administrator who has been managing UNIX and Linux systems since the early 80s <-- big fkin lol
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^ I only studied about pre 1850 england. As I mentioned to my collegue today. "there is a fucking lot of history"
^ Only Bacon knows everything there is to know - if you look those are practice tests, so I quite like that approach, there is a ton of material, and my first informal run through I got pretty high marks. turns out i don't know much about systemd :)
^ Only Bacon knows everything there is to know - if you look those are practice tests, so I quite like that approach, there is a ton of material, and my first informal run through I got pretty high marks. turns out i don't know much about systemd :)
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Just started using Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/748 ... uel-uberti
I needed a place to discover new books and track my reads at the same time. Kind of like what Letterboxd does for me with cinema.
I put only 2017 books, honestly can't be bothered to put all my books on it.
I needed a place to discover new books and track my reads at the same time. Kind of like what Letterboxd does for me with cinema.
I put only 2017 books, honestly can't be bothered to put all my books on it.
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The only hardcover book left in my house that i still give a fuck about is Horowitz's Art of Electronics 2nd Edition https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167 ... ent_Manual
Which i bought (by the kilograms!) alongside few other reference books from a thrift market during my undergrad years.
Which i bought (by the kilograms!) alongside few other reference books from a thrift market during my undergrad years.
rice no more.
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Finished with "My Struggle" by Karl-Ove Knausgård. For me, one of the most extraordinary novels that I have ever read. If you want to read something really "adjective of preference", give it a try! :)
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Currently reading:
- "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi: so far absolutely fantastic and highly recommended
- "The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film" by Mikhail Iampolski: a difficult read for someone not well-informed on the story of arts and philosophy such as myself, but the challenge has been fun so far. Learning a lot too, so always a welcome add to my shelves.
- "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi: so far absolutely fantastic and highly recommended
- "The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film" by Mikhail Iampolski: a difficult read for someone not well-informed on the story of arts and philosophy such as myself, but the challenge has been fun so far. Learning a lot too, so always a welcome add to my shelves.
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I picked up 'Salem's Lot from Stephen King. I loved some of his books when I was a kid, but completely forgot about him.
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^ when I was a teen my mum gave me a compendium of RIchard Bachman short stories, I was like who is this dude?
great stories though :D
(bachman = king btw)
great stories though :D
(bachman = king btw)
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^ I got about 15 books by him ready. The rest of the year is set, I suppose.