MobileRead October 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by =X=

What's a page?

I understand perfectly!

[eGeezer]

Originally Posted by =X=

What's a page?

It's an ancient device kinda like a text-messeger.

I think it was the Romans who used to have to carry a device on their belts that would let them know someone wanted to talk to them, then they would get out the papyrus and pen a response.

It was basically what caused the downfall of the Roman Empire, cuz their younger soldiers would stop in the middle of a battle to answer pages from their girl friends.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by eGeezer

It's an ancient device kinda like a text-messeger.

I think it was the Romans who used to have to carry a device on their belts that would let them know someone wanted to talk to them, then they would get out the papyrus and pen a response.

It was basically what caused the downfall of the Roman Empire, cuz their younger soldiers would stop in the middle of a battle to answer pages from their girl friends.

I vote for this answer!

[edbro]

Are we sure Risen is fiction?

http://detnews.com/article/20101013/...o-euthanize-it

[Phebe]

Originally Posted by =X=

What's a page?

Ooooooo...................... good point.

[J. Strnad]

Originally Posted by edbro

Are we sure Risen is fiction?

http://detnews.com/article/20101013/...o-euthanize-it

Holy crap. You just gave me nightmares for a week.

[nguirado]

I started Risen, but stopped after the allegation that the townspeople spread small pox amongst natives. I know it's a fiction book, but many people take that slander seriously.

[lene1949]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

The winner is _Risen_ see the poll. THe discussions starts on the 20th of the month.

BOb

Aaarrgggh... I've read another 5 books since this one was nominated...

[lene1949]

Originally Posted by edbro

Are we sure Risen is fiction?

http://detnews.com/article/20101013/...o-euthanize-it

That's frightening, not in a horror type of way, but that animals are put down without enough medication to actually put them to sleep - forever...

[monkeyluis]

Risen

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by nguirado

I started Risen, but stopped after the allegation that the townspeople spread small pox amongst natives. I know it's a fiction book, but many people take that slander seriously.

The claims that smallpox was deliberately used as a genocidal weapon on a massive scale are overblown, but its use as a weapon was not unknown, and it seems indeed to have been used against Native Americans.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...16#post1139316

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

The claims that smallpox was deliberately used as a genocidal weapon on a massive scale are overblown, but its use as a weapon was not unknown, and it seems indeed to have been used against Native Americans.

Cecil Adams at The Straight Dope, has a discussion about Lord Jeffrey Amherst, commander of British forces in North America during the French and Indian War (1756-'63), who seems to have seriously considered giving Indians infected blankets. No proof that it was actually done, though Lord Amherst considered Native Americans subhumans who ought to be exterminated.

[Phebe]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

The claims that smallpox was deliberately used as a genocidal weapon on a massive scale are overblown, but its use as a weapon was not unknown, and it seems indeed to have been used against Native Americans.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...16#post1139316

I have read the British used this tactic more often that we realize, early on. And not just against Indians, perhaps. George Washington was convinced that the British were sending smallpox-infected "visitors" out to his troops around Boston, and he had every man in his army variolated (a less-safe form of vaccination). Martha Washington gave at least one "smallpox party," a social form of infecting each other on the extremities, like a hand, which was safer than catching it the normal way, and immunized people permanently. This was in a book about smallpox I have; I have an amateur's interest in epidemiology.

[Phebe]

I started Risen, but it seemed a pale imitation of Stephen King. I gave up.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Phebe

I started Risen, but it seemed a pale imitation of Stephen King. I gave up.

Let the Risen Short Stories draw you in, then go back to the novel.