RedJessi Posted September 23, 2009 Posted September 23, 2009 I finished The Lost Symbol. Ugh. Bad stuff. I may be writing a review for a website - if so, I will post a link to it here.
Raphael Misson Posted September 23, 2009 Posted September 23, 2009 Is it basically the same novel as his first two books? “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire
RedJessi Posted September 23, 2009 Posted September 23, 2009 (edited) Is it basically the same novel as his first two books? I am assuming you mean Angels & Demons an DaVinci Code and not Deception Point and Digital Fortress. And no - Angels & Demons/DaVinci Code were junk-food fiction - not wonderful literature, but fun and entertaining fictional fluff. Plowing through The Lost Symbol was a meandering and plodding chore centered around a foregone conclusion. Edited September 23, 2009 by RedJessi
CaptainSatan Posted September 23, 2009 Posted September 23, 2009 (edited) Edited September 23, 2009 by CaptainSatan As we say in Ireland let's drink until the alcohol in our system destroys our liver and kills us.
RedJessi Posted September 23, 2009 Posted September 23, 2009 (edited) Ok, my review of The Lost Symbol is now up on the Misfits website - which is more like a review wrapped in an open letter. - so you can read all about it and comment till your heart's content! Edited September 24, 2009 by RedJessi
Red-Handed Jill Posted September 23, 2009 Posted September 23, 2009 Just finished Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Great book that explains why certain societies became the more prominent and powerful ones (e.g. why Europe "conquered" the New World and not the other way around.) It's extremely well written - highly recommended!
Bilgewater Browne Posted September 27, 2009 Posted September 27, 2009 As a microbiology professor, I concur. I'm reading Running a Bar for Dummies. I can't teach forever. Craig Browne Captain Half Moon Marauders
LadyBrower Posted October 1, 2009 Posted October 1, 2009 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies but Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith. It's fantastically ridiculous and I'm only on page 13. Cook and Seamstress to the Half Moon Marauders Lady Brower's Treasures, Clothing and other treasures Hell Hath No Fury like the Wrath of a Woman... No that's it. She doesn't need a reason. www.myspace.com/halfmoonmarauders www.myspace.com/faerienoodle
Iron Jon Posted October 1, 2009 Posted October 1, 2009 I just got a Kindle from Amazon and loaded it up with all kinds of good pirate reading from Project Gutenberg. Jonathan Washbourne "Jonathan Washbourne Junr of Bridgwater appeared in court and was ordered to pay £5 fees and charges or be publicly whipped 20 stripes for his abusive and uncivil behaviour to Elizabeth Canaday Late of said Bridgwater by Thrusting up or putting of a skunk under the Cloaths to her Naked Body And then saying he had Done the office of a midwife." (from The Plymouth Journal, July 1701)
Captain Synn Posted October 1, 2009 Posted October 1, 2009 Just put down "Death: a Life" by George Pendle... I wholeheartedly recommend it!!! Never before has th' history of the whole of creation made so much sense... in a darkly British Humor manner that is... Continuin' with th' British Humor I just started on Terry Pratchett's "Making Money" ... So far it be livin' up t' th' rest of th' Disc World series... I expected it would... Terry hasn't disappointed me yet... Once that is finished th' book I pre-ordered should arrive... Ti's the season fer somethin' spooky!!! An' bein' th' huge nerd I be I'll be sinkin' me undead teeth int' Star Wars: Death Troopers ... That's right kiddies... a Star Wars Zombie novel... just what I been waitn' fer!!! Commodore Ashton "WeirdBeard" Synn Highest Quality Handcrafted Leather on or off the 7 seas!
Blackbead Posted October 1, 2009 Posted October 1, 2009 Just started re-reading War of the Worlds to prepare for a Steampunk short story. "In the end, it's not the gold that sets our sails, 'Tis freedom and the promise of a better life That raises our black flags."
Capn Bob Posted October 1, 2009 Posted October 1, 2009 Aye, well, ye can't be going wrong with Terry Pratchett... Just put down "Death: a Life" by George Pendle... I wholeheartedly recommend it!!! Never before has th' history of the whole of creation made so much sense... in a darkly British Humor manner that is... Continuin' with th' British Humor I just started on Terry Pratchett's "Making Money" ... So far it be livin' up t' th' rest of th' Disc World series... I expected it would... Terry hasn't disappointed me yet... Once that is finished th' book I pre-ordered should arrive... Ti's the season fer somethin' spooky!!! An' bein' th' huge nerd I be I'll be sinkin' me undead teeth int' Star Wars: Death Troopers ... That's right kiddies... a Star Wars Zombie novel... just what I been waitn' fer!!! Commodore Ashton "WeirdBeard" Synn Damn, thats sharp!
Capn Bob Posted October 1, 2009 Posted October 1, 2009 As for me, just grabbed a library copy of "A pirate of exquisite mind : explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier"...good so far, and there's mention of the Old Country...which, for me, is Virginia. (Born in Charlottesville, so I was) Damn, thats sharp!
Capt. Sterling Posted October 2, 2009 Posted October 2, 2009 The careening and bottom maintenance of wooden sailing vessels "I being shot through the left cheek, the bullet striking away great part of my upper jaw, and several teeth which dropt down the deck where I fell... I was forced to write what I would say to prevent the loss of blood, and because of the pain I suffered by speaking."~ Woodes Rogers Crewe of the Archangel http://jcsterlingcptarchang.wix.com/creweofthearchangel# http://creweofthearchangel.wordpress.com/
Raphael Misson Posted October 2, 2009 Posted October 2, 2009 Hippocratic Writings translated by Francis Adams. Plus my Spanish Textbook. “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire
Capn Bob Posted October 2, 2009 Posted October 2, 2009 We should all of us maintain our bottoms... The careening and bottom maintenance of wooden sailing vessels Damn, thats sharp!
Dusi Sparrow Posted October 2, 2009 Posted October 2, 2009 White Line Fever The Autobiography from Lemmy Quick and easy read about the life of the frontman from Motörhead.
Hawkyns Posted October 2, 2009 Posted October 2, 2009 The Brotherhood of the Blade - A Lord John Grey Novel by Diana Gabaldon Great mid 18th century stuff, centered around Lord John Grey. Deals with gays in London, military society stuff, and the Seven Years War, all as they relate to Lord John Grey. This is a spin off from the Outlander series which follows a woman plucked from the 20th century and deposited in Scotland, just before Culloden, and her subsequent life in the 18th century. Unfortunately, they are frequently classed as bodice rippers, which they most certainly are not. Hawkyns Cannon add dignity to what otherwise would be merely an ugly brawl I do what I do for my own reasons. I do not require anyone to follow me. I do not require society's approval for my actions or beliefs. if I am to be judged, let me be judged in the pure light of history, not the harsh glare of modern trends.
LadyBarbossa Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 Not really reading a book, but returning to some research on the "Baron" de Kalb. Conversing with a gentleman in Camden about this and such interesting new information plus one of the comissioned pictures de Kalb had Peale do before he was sent to South Carolina is now out on the internet (bloody damn time, too!) Handsome as ever. So, most interesting info. Now, just trying to get the information from the Paris Archives is the biggest issue. ~Lady B Tempt Fate! an' toss 't all t' Hell!" "I'm completely innocent of whatever crime I've committed." The one, the only,... the infamous!
blackjohn Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 Everyday Life of the Barbarians: Goths, Franks and Vandals My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together.
Capn Bob Posted November 3, 2009 Posted November 3, 2009 Just started reading me all new, *just* got in today copy of "The Lo-Tech Navigator", by Tony Crowley. Also reading "Compass : a story of exploration and innovation" by Alan Gurney. Come the dread, dark, dreary and baleful winter, I might try making up some of the items in the Lo Tech Navigator. I also have "Latitude hooks and azimuth rings" on order and should be getting it sometime soon. Damn, thats sharp!
Joe Pyrat Posted November 7, 2009 Posted November 7, 2009 The Charles Towne Few - We shall sail... The sea will be our empire.
Capn Bob Posted November 7, 2009 Posted November 7, 2009 That "Empire of Blue Water" is a good read, Joe...I've read my copy through several times...very often while eating bbq chicken wings. Having finished "Compass", I've once again taken up into me hands Jon Latimer's "Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire" Our good friend (Sir) Henry Morgan features it as he does in "Empire". Damn, thats sharp!
Badger Posted November 7, 2009 Posted November 7, 2009 Yarrh, looks good, Cap'n Bob! I's plowin' an wallowin' luxuriously through Alexander Kent's Bolitho series, fer th' 8th or 10th time. American Revolutionary an' Napoleonic wars naval fiction....rousing stuff, full o' th' thunder of th' guns an th' smell o' powder. If'n ye likes Hornblower, ye will a'most certainly like this series. An' its more'n twice as long!
Hester Posted November 14, 2009 Posted November 14, 2009 (edited) Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters So far, I think I like the concept better than the actual execution. But a movie version would be great! And I wonder if I could convince my English Country Dance group to have a Sea Monsters & Zombies Ball. [Not likely. The Pirates's Ball that I pitched to them got shelved pretty quickly.] Edited November 14, 2009 by Hester
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