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| Topic Started: Aug 30 2006, 03:41 PM (191 Views) | |
| Jivdom | Aug 30 2006, 03:41 PM Post #1 |
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I think it might lead to more interesting debate if we choose books that reflect a flash of tastes so with that in mind I ask; What type of books you favour? What do you look for in a book? Which authour do you like? Whether you perfer to stick to books with a politcal slant or not? me.. I generally read quite Gothic books (from gothic romance to gothic thrillers all are interesting) or mystery type books. I look for excitement intrigue and perhaps something to argue with along the way to an unforeseen and shocking ending. I like Anne Rice (Queen of the damned serious etc), Ed Gorman (cage of night) + Robert Harris (archangel) alot. I think generally keeping to poltically slanted books is wise but I think we should include some books from other genres to "mix-it-up" too. |
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| Love and Honour | Aug 30 2006, 03:46 PM Post #2 |
Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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I read Sci Fi, Fantasy, Politics, Nature, Astronomy and Science. I look for a good tale in the Fiction and an easy to understand in the factual. No Author in mind. Here in GRA yes I'd prefer to stick with political books but I will try read most anything so whatever people want is OK with me. |
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| Old Zertaxia | Aug 30 2006, 05:45 PM Post #3 |
The Ex-Speaker
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History, Fantasy, Mystery. I like 'em long, exciting, and action-packed. Authors, I don't really look for them....I buy books, not the people who write them. Honestly, political books bore me sometimes. Thats why I've sort of dropped off the radar of this particular organization. |
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| South Land | Aug 30 2006, 05:48 PM Post #4 |
Living The Dream
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Yup, I agree with Old Z... i would like to partake, but really am more into suspense or horror (dean koontz for example) .... i wouldnt mind reading about someone like story of george washington, etc... but not really into political novels... i already got my degree so no need to read anymore text books 
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| Jivdom | Aug 30 2006, 06:50 PM Post #5 |
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KLooks like I might have been mistaken about the membership wanting Political books!
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| Love and Honour | Aug 30 2006, 07:03 PM Post #6 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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 Me too
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| Obana4 | Aug 30 2006, 07:46 PM Post #7 |
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
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sci fi fantasy mostly and some political books. authors any by James Patterson, Lisa Scottoline is ok I'll try most anything once. |
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| Old Zertaxia | Aug 30 2006, 08:15 PM Post #8 |
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The Ex-Speaker
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I KNOW!!!! Let's read the latest by Ann Coulter! GODLESS!!! Wanna see some chick bash 9/11 widows? ME TOO! |
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| Obana4 | Aug 30 2006, 08:23 PM Post #9 |
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my library has that..it looks good but has been checked out, all 7 copies looks like a 2 week wait on it. |
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| Love and Honour | Aug 30 2006, 08:40 PM Post #10 |
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No luck in my Library either
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| Old Zertaxia | Aug 30 2006, 08:50 PM Post #11 |
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Kids, that was a joke. Ann Coulter is a fascist (well, almost). I only read her stuff as comedy, even though she actually means it. |
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| Old Zertaxia | Aug 30 2006, 08:55 PM Post #12 |
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Read this stuff. I mean, even I, the ultra-conservative, don't agree with some of this stuff. "If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law. Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely on the Left's attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: liberalism is a religion—a godless one. And it is now entrenched as the state religion of this county. Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In Godless, Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ (Roe v. Wade), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the "absolute moral authority" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident). Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: it is bogus science. Writing with a keen appreciation for genuine science, Coulter reveals that the so-called gaps in the theory of evolution are all there is—Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution's proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the "evolving" peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom? Liberals' absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution's scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force. They will brook no challenges to the official religion. Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter's razor-sharp wit, Godless is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today's most lively and impassioned conservative voices. "Liberals love to boast that they are not 'religious,' which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'" —From Godless" She's crazy! Also, for those not in the know of America jurisprudence, Roe v Wade is a Supreme Court decision legalizing abortions. |
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| Love and Honour | Aug 30 2006, 09:05 PM Post #13 |
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Wow! Yet I have no problem reading the book as I like to read all opinions not just the ones I agree with. She is a little wacky alright judging by those quotes. 
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| Obana4 | Aug 31 2006, 01:17 AM Post #14 |
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I have read that and her web page. I thought it would be good for comedic relief and great debate.
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| Jivdom | Aug 31 2006, 04:30 PM Post #15 |
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I would much rather gauge my own eyes out. And christ! If anyone saw me checking out that book... |
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| U-ropa | Sep 3 2006, 11:30 AM Post #16 |
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i have such a good web blog on her... however, it is a touch explicit... bloody funny though. edit- just for clarity, i didn't write it. |
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| Arov | Sep 3 2006, 01:27 PM Post #17 |
Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
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Provide the URL. I simply cannot stand that woman. |
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| U-ropa | Sep 3 2006, 01:31 PM Post #18 |
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i'll PM it. it may not be suitable for young eyes. |
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| Arov | Sep 3 2006, 02:00 PM Post #19 |
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Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
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I'll judge for myself, U-ropa. |
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| Love and Honour | Sep 3 2006, 02:11 PM Post #20 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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Pm it to me also please. |
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