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[kennyc]

So That's where you've been!

[recluse]

I found "Basic Writings of Nietzsche", also translated by Walter Kaufmann, to be an excellent companion volume to "The Portable Nietzsche". It includes: The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case Against Wagner, Ecce Homo and 75 aphorisms from 5 volumes.

[thinkpad]

Originally Posted by David Munch

Just finished Jan Guillou's Road to Jerusalem, and have started the sequel The Knight Templar. I'm really enjoying it, and can recommend them both already

This series by Guillou is one of my favorites and I've reread them several times. I can recommend them warmly.

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Just finished re-reading The Portable Nietzsche, translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann.

The Portable Nietzsche contains complete translations of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and additional selections from this most accessible of philosophers who a wit once described as the "King of the One-Liners."

Originally Posted by recluse

I found "Basic Writings of Nietzsche", also translated by Walter Kaufmann, to be an excellent companion volume to "The Portable Nietzsche". It includes: The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case Against Wagner, Ecce Homo and 75 aphorisms from 5 volumes.

I read a few pages of Zarathustra, but I'm not sure the "preaching" style is for me Are Nietsche's other books in the same style?

I finally finished the foreword of the book of Seneca's works, and am still enjoying the letters to Lucilius, I think I'm about halfway through now but I have to return the book this week-end! I may buy it as I mentioned, or simply borrow it again when I come back from my holiday. I think it's the first time I enjoy a book this old so much. In part I think it's because of the quality of the translation, which uses my own modern language and makes it very accessible, but not only. But to be honest I'm not sure why I like them so much

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

I read a few pages of Zarathustra, but I'm not sure the "preaching" style is for me Are Nietsche's other books in the same style?

Much of his writing is in a poetic style, but not all. I wouldn't call his style "preaching", although there's certainly an evangelist streak his make-up; not to mention more than a bit of megalomania. That being said, try The Antichrist. I think you'll appreciate it. Of everything I've read by Nietzsche, I believe I like that one the best. In a way, he reminds me of Jesus. Both men had a way of turning conventional morality on it's head and using inversions of traditional ways of understanding the world in order to arrest the attention of the listener.

[onewayherway]

Just finished The Passage by Justin Cronin, really enjoyed this. Now reading The Stand by Stephen King. So far so good.

[MelC]

Originally Posted by onewayherway

Just finished The Passage by Justin Cronin, really enjoyed this. Now reading The Stand by Stephen King. So far so good.

I just finished that too. It was decent but I definitely had a number of whiffs of borrowed styles/themes in it. The Stand is excellent and I think holds up better under comparison. YMMV.

Mel

[columbus]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Hi Folks....

Can you please refrain for posting cover images here. It causes the thread to load much more slowly and makes the data download much bigger. We have many users that are not lucky enough to have flat rate unlimited internet service and have to pay by the bit.

Thanks for your consideration.

BOb
<<Moderator>>

Well said Sir!
Bandwidth is important to me, where in the world I live. Not only is internet access very slow it is also Very, very expensive.

(Still, I suppose there is always the ignore user option).

[columbus]

Having been told by my doctor to exercise more “Or else!” I have taken to walking along the beach for an hour or two every day.
Ebook readers and salt water don’t mix too well, so with a cheap Mp3 player I have taken to audio books for my exercise reading.

Just read/listened to *Playing for Pizza* by John Grisham, read by Christopher Evan Welch.
I know very little about American Football and *Bleachers* left me cold, but I found this a very entertaining read as an audio book and probably also as an eBook.

Charting the downfall of Rick Dockery a third-string quarterback becoming un-popular after a big mistake in a big game.
Knowing only football his agent manages to place him as starting quarterback: for the mighty Panthers of Parma, Italy. Yes, Italians do play American football to some extent.
To say that Italy holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement.

Book details here

Or Here

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by columbus

Just read/listened to *Playing for Pizza* by John Grisham, read by Christopher Evan Welch.
I know very little about American Football and *Bleachers* left me cold, but I found this a very entertaining read as an audio book and probably also as an eBook.

I thought Playing for Pizza was about baseball. Yea, I've been wrong before and will be again.

"Bleachers" are the seats they set up at stadiums. Usually just rows of benches set in a staggered hight so you can see past the person sitting in front of you. They are called "bleachers" because they are usually not covered and you sit in the hot sun. (Although more akin to baseball which is played in the summer than Football which is a Fall/Winter sport in the US.)

BOb

[columbus]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I thought Playing for Pizza was about baseball. Yea, I've been wrong before and will be again.

"Bleachers" are the seats they set up at stadiums. Usually just rows of benches set in a staggered hight so you can see past the person sitting in front of you. They are called "bleachers" because they are usually not covered and you sit in the hot sun. (Although more akin to baseball which is played in the summer than Football which is a Fall/Winter sport in the US.)

BOb

No it's definitely about football - helmets, body tackles broken limbs etc.

*Bleachers* was one of Grishams earlier books which I did not enjoy.

[BearMountainBooks]

Originally Posted by columbus

No it's definitely about football - helmets, body tackles broken limbs etc.

*Bleachers* was one of Grishams earlier books which I did not enjoy.

I don't read much Grisham, but I did like Bleachers okay. It wasn't my normal type of book but I was looking for an audio that my husband would also like. Good enough for the car, entertaining, had emotional hooks. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have read it had it not been audio because I don't generally pick up that type of thing.

It's always hard to find something that both husband and I will enjoy -- and that is fast paced enough for car listening. There is nothing worse in a book than something that drags on when you can't flip pages. With audio, you're stuck with every word.

[columbus]

Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

I don't read much Grisham, but I did like Bleachers okay.

So have you listened to/read playing for pizza? it's very light & easy also.

[Quake1028]

Sorry folks, new here and didn't know about the image kibosh. I post short thoughts on each book read at another forum, so I'll just copy and paste here to get up to date for the last few weeks. These were all on Kindle.

Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie
A bit hard to read due to the style of English that was used. Many words I had no clue what they were in the form they were used, and had to look them up. Still a good mystery that kept me guessing, and by one of my favorite authors (Ten Little Indians is probably my favorite or second favorite book ever) - B+
Blockade Billy - Stephen King
Far too short, and easy to figure out, but a breeze to read and fun. At less than 100 pages or so in book form, don't expect a fleshed out story or characters. Still, King made it work pretty well for what was there. I did really like the way the story was told, as an interview of sorts. - B
Kiss Her Goodbye - Allan Guthrie
Couldn't sympathize or really care for any character. Not one really had a redeeming or saving quality about them. The protagonist of the story was as unlikable as the antagonist, and that's not good. Having said all of that, the story was decent, even though I figured out the villain well he was revealed. - C
Besserwisser - Steve Anderson
Good first time effort by an MR member, but disjointed and lacking explanation or reasoning in spots. Sometimes I felt like I skipped over a page or one was missing entirely. The ending kind of left me with a look on my face, because it wasn't really explained why the main character was doing what he was doing. Love the beer references. - C
UR - Stephen King
Better than Blockade Billy, more fleshed out. Fun story, but superficial. About twice as long as BB, so there was more time to flesh out the characters a bit and learn their motivations. I did find one big flaw though, no guy would go around showing off a pink Kindle like that, even if he was trying to impress a girl . - B+p

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Quake1028

UR - Stephen King
Better than Blockade Billy, more fleshed out. Fun story, but superficial. About twice as long as BB, so there was more time to flesh out the characters a bit and learn their motivations. I did find one big flaw though, no guy would go around showing off a pink Kindle like that, even if he was trying to impress a girl . - B+

If Amazon sends you a pink Kindle, be sure and check out the experimental functions!