Jas. Hook Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 John Drake's LJS book #3 Skull and Bones. Now in paperback, purchased through a UK bookseller. Jas. Hook "Born on an island, live on an island... the sea has always been in my blood." Jas. Hook "You can't direct the wind . . . but . . . you can adjust the sails." "Don't eat the chickens with writing on their beaks." Governor Sawney
hitman Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 Alright I finally finished Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and am now six pages into my next book (It will be the fourteenth of the year) don't expect me to finish soon though as the book is War and Peace and 6 pages is not a lot as compared to the 1701 pages this book contains. THIS BE THE HITMAN WE GOIN QUIET
Capn Bob Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 At my demand, the library where I work picked up this book "Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean : the adventurous life of Captain Woodes Rogers", by David Cordingly. And altho he be a villian to all right-thinking pyrates, I still grabbed it off the shelves and am reading it now... Damn, thats sharp!
Jas. Hook Posted May 22, 2011 Posted May 22, 2011 Pirates Magazine, Issue No. 14 Jas. Hook "Born on an island, live on an island... the sea has always been in my blood." Jas. Hook "You can't direct the wind . . . but . . . you can adjust the sails." "Don't eat the chickens with writing on their beaks." Governor Sawney
blackjohn Posted May 23, 2011 Posted May 23, 2011 Finally finished reading The Hobbit to the kids as a bedtime story. It took about 1 1/2 years to do it, but I did it. I'm now reading 20000 Leagues Under the Sea to them. As for myself... I'm trying to catch up on scifi classics, so my eyes have turned toward finding a used hardback copy of Asimov's first Foundation book. My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together.
Gunpowder Gertie Posted May 24, 2011 Posted May 24, 2011 starting Dampier's A New Voyage Around the World, and just finished Silver by Ed Chupack. Good read, indeed!
Capn Bob Posted May 25, 2011 Posted May 25, 2011 I'm about finishing up the Woodes Rogers bio, still reading the Newgate Calender (hey, it's a *big* file...reading an electronic version, d'ye ken...), I've got the *second* book of the Newgate Calender (1740-1799) lined up...and I've started re-reading Konstam's Blackbeard bio, since he's currently starring in his very own movie... Damn, thats sharp!
Jas. Hook Posted June 4, 2011 Posted June 4, 2011 I just finished a reread of Power's On Stranger Tides having last weekend viewed POTC 4... just to refresh my memory. I wonder why Disney even selected the title?????? Jas. Hook "Born on an island, live on an island... the sea has always been in my blood." Jas. Hook "You can't direct the wind . . . but . . . you can adjust the sails." "Don't eat the chickens with writing on their beaks." Governor Sawney
Capn Bob Posted June 4, 2011 Posted June 4, 2011 I've finished with A.C. Crispin's "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom", which wasn't a bad read at all, and I've started David Mamet's "The Secret Knowledge", and after that will be our own E.T. Fox's "Pirates of the West Country". Damn, thats sharp!
James Smythe Posted June 6, 2011 Posted June 6, 2011 I just finished a reread of Power's On Stranger Tides having last weekend viewed POTC 4... just to refresh my memory. I wonder why Disney even selected the title?????? Jas. Hook They wanted to use the concept of Blackbeard searching for the fountain. Right now I am brushing up on my Norse mythology.
Daniel Posted June 18, 2011 Posted June 18, 2011 I've been listening on CD to the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Because Franklin is so deeply associated with the American Revolution, it's easy to forget that he came of age at the height of the Golden Age of Piracy. He had an early hankering to become a sailor, wrote a poem about Blackbeard's final battle in 1723, just five years after the event, and later worked for Blackbeard's nemesis, Alexander Spotswood. An interesting period point I found in the book: we often hear that people in the Golden Age drank beer because water was too dangerous. But Franklin says that he drank water daily and shunned beer when he worked in London, and apparently remained in excellent health and (he claims) substantially stronger than the beer-drinking London printers, who spoke in amazement of the strength of the "water American."
Capn Bob Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 Currently reading "Mao's Great Famine : the History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962"...madness, I tell you, utter madness...and of course, things just get worse during the "Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution" just a few years later... Damn, thats sharp!
Daniel Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 Currently reading "Mao's Great Famine : the History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962"...madness, I tell you, utter madness... Indeed. Ever read Li Zhisui's The Private Life of Chairman Mao? It paints a pretty nasty picture of the famine too, and how indifferent Mao was to what he was doing. And Mao's wife Jiang Qing is in some ways even scarier than Mao is. Believe it or not, in the '80s you could still find American college textbooks that tried to blame the famine on the bad weather. Leftist apologetics at its worst. and of course, things just get worse during the "Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution" just a few years later... Personally, given the choice, I'd much rather try to survive the Cultural Revolution than the great famine. If you kept your head down, parroted the party line, and jumped whenever the Red Brigades said "Frog," you could live through the Cultural Revolution not much worse than at any other time in China before the 1980s. And even if you were unlucky enough to get singled out for "re-education," it most often meant that you were very, very miserable on a remote farm for several years, rather than being murdered outright. The worst risk, of course, was to fall into the hands of the peasant "doctors" brought down from the countryside. Not a pleasant time to live, but much easier to withstand than simply starving to death as millions did in the Great Leap Forward.
Capn Bob Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 Aye, I've heard of the "Private Life"...never read it, tho. Just did a catalog search at the library where I work (since I'm working there today), and we don't have it...altho I could get it thru SearchOhio or Interlibrary Loan... Currently reading "Mao's Great Famine : the History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962"...madness, I tell you, utter madness... Indeed. Ever read Li Zhisui's The Private Life of Chairman Mao? It paints a pretty nasty picture of the famine too, and how indifferent Mao was to what he was doing. And Mao's wife Jiang Qing is in some ways even scarier than Mao is. Believe it or not, in the '80s you could still find American college textbooks that tried to blame the famine on the bad weather. Leftist apologetics at its worst. and of course, things just get worse during the "Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution" just a few years later... Personally, given the choice, I'd much rather try to survive the Cultural Revolution than the great famine. If you kept your head down, parroted the party line, and jumped whenever the Red Brigades said "Frog," you could live through the Cultural Revolution not much worse than at any other time in China before the 1980s. And even if you were unlucky enough to get singled out for "re-education," it most often meant that you were very, very miserable on a remote farm for several years, rather than being murdered outright. The worst risk, of course, was to fall into the hands of the peasant "doctors" brought down from the countryside. Not a pleasant time to live, but much easier to withstand than simply starving to death as millions did in the Great Leap Forward. Damn, thats sharp!
Dutchman Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 King of the Pirates- the swashbuckling life of Henry Every. Authored by E.T. Foxe
Capn Bob Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 Hey, I got that one! King of the Pirates- the swashbuckling life of Henry Every. Authored by E.T. Foxe Damn, thats sharp!
CaptainB Posted July 13, 2011 Posted July 13, 2011 I just started on A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. "If I believed in fate, I wouldn't be playing with loaded dice..."
Jas. Hook Posted July 13, 2011 Posted July 13, 2011 Alexander Kent's In the King's Name (Bolitho Series Novel). Jas. Hook "Born on an island, live on an island... the sea has always been in my blood." Jas. Hook "You can't direct the wind . . . but . . . you can adjust the sails." "Don't eat the chickens with writing on their beaks." Governor Sawney
Capn Bob Posted July 13, 2011 Posted July 13, 2011 And for some reason, I've entered a "Soviet" phase...which means I'm currently reading Lenin lives! : the Lenin cult in Soviet Russia / Nina Tumarkin, *and* Lenin Lives by Gregory O'Brien, a rather strange little work of fiction, that. Damn, thats sharp!
Pew Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Finshed On Stranger Tides, almost finished Woodes Rogers Pirate Hunter. Soon to start If a pirate I must be, the story of Black Bart. , Skull and Quill Society , The Watch Dog "We are 21st Century people who play a game of dress-up and who spend a lot of time pissing and moaning about the rules of the game and whether other people are playing fair."
Ransom Posted July 16, 2011 Posted July 16, 2011 Recently finished "Charles Jessold, Considered As A Murderer" by Wesley Stace Almost done with "Founding Gardeners, The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation" by Andrea Wulf. Next in the line up is "The Unruly Queen, The Life of Queen Caroline" by Fiora Fraser. Ya gotta love the library! ...schooners, islands, and maroons and buccaneers and buried gold... You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you. But if you're a good navigator, a least you'll know where you were when you died.......From The Ship Killer by Justin Scott. "Well, that's just maddeningly unhelpful."....Captain Jack Sparrow Found in the Ruins — Unique Jewelry Found in the Ruins — Personal Blog
hitman Posted July 22, 2011 Posted July 22, 2011 An interesting period point I found in the book: we often hear that people in the Golden Age drank beer because water was too dangerous. But Franklin says that he drank water daily and shunned beer when he worked in London, and apparently remained in excellent health and (he claims) substantially stronger than the beer-drinking London printers, who spoke in amazement of the strength of the "water American." Just a thought here, (devils advocate if you will) Franklins autobiography was laid out by him to be an instructional text more so than a normal biography. I won't say he shaded the truth on this point but it does seem to be the only point in his life where he was a T-totaller. THIS BE THE HITMAN WE GOIN QUIET
Daniel Posted July 22, 2011 Posted July 22, 2011 Just a thought here, (devils advocate if you will) Franklins autobiography was laid out by him to be an instructional text more so than a normal biography. I won't say he shaded the truth on this point but it does seem to be the only point in his life where he was a T-totaller. That could be. You are certainly right that the book is intended to be didactic. Although the message I got from it was not so much that Franklin was a teetotaller, much less that others should be, but just that making beer your principal beverage was a needless expense. Then too, I don't know if Franklin appreciated the fact that for poor Englishmen, beer was an important part of the diet, worth several hundred calories a day, while water has none. 18th century American workers typically ate a lot more and better than English workers did, and could better afford to dispense with those beer calories.
Jas. Hook Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 Just started Linda Greenlaw's All Fisherman Are Liars Jas. Hook "Born on an island, live on an island... the sea has always been in my blood." Jas. Hook "You can't direct the wind . . . but . . . you can adjust the sails." "Don't eat the chickens with writing on their beaks." Governor Sawney
Capn Bob Posted July 26, 2011 Posted July 26, 2011 Currently making my way thru the library's copy of "Starman : the truth behind the legend of Yuri Gagarin" , by Jamie Doran, and on my Coby, reading an epub version of Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett. Oh yes...88 days to go til me cruise... Damn, thats sharp!
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