Which Book are you reading

[Zibago]

For a while as a kid I had a healthy avoidance of books without enough pictures in them (I am pretty visually/spacially oriented person)...so most of what I bothered to read were non-fiction mostly...especially Space/Earth/Wildlife etc.

It was only later (I think around 10 years old and later) I forced myself to read longer "writing only" kinda books...and I learned to appreciate them too. I think the Hobbit and Lord of the rings were my first long binge reads....and then I found Tolstoy, Twain, Dickens and all the rest....I didn't have to see a snippet of something they wrote laundered through someone else's interpretation as something on TV/stage etc like I sort of relied on till then....rather I could just read it for myself..right at the source. It was quite liberating haha....and I have never stopped....only discovered new worlds like long rich history books etc (that I would never ever have thought of reading back in the day when I was hooked on pictures).

Then there are such things like Hamlet by the "Titan of english"-speare himself which I find something new in each time I read it (esp as my own perspectives on life change with time)...and probably always be the case....as I stare into my psyche like Hamlet stared into Yorick's skull.

iScam/fakebook/twitterati/insta-derp kids these days just don't know what they are missing out on!

@Zibago @Pakhtoon yum @Vergennes

This is weird but I have only read two complete non circuilum books in my life
Dune and Atlas Shrugs
In my mid teens I had no interest and in my late teens and twenties no spare time as all the spare time was spent on pursuit of a fair maiden or video games
But there are about 30 something books I started but never finished as reading the book after watching the movie kind of bored me or the positive review was overrated

 

[Tps43]

This time your companion is a leave form. aren't you at your work place?

yarr stop pulling his leg

 

[VCheng]

One of my teachers in middle school (American guy, this was in an international school in Singapore), 8th grade humanities, left a coffee cup stain on a book I lent him about the German Army (under the Wehrmacht times)....because we got into a long winded conversation about WW2 stuff the one time...and he wanted to know where I got some of my info from. Never forgave him for that heh.

But he was quite the eccentric teacher I learned much from (he lived on a houseboat in Europe on the Danube for a decade or so, lived in Turkey too...and retired over there I believe). He was the guy that I first came across that told me about the three way haterade between Arabs, Turks and Persians heh (i.e to never lump em together and think they all the same middle easterner etc).

Real life knowledge and sharing books, I wonder if they even do that these days in schools anymore....its not very "politically correct" stuff anymore what we talked about a lot. Heck the year before for humanities (7th grade)...I had an oddball Vietnam war veteran as teacher....we enjoyed goading him into sharing stuff he had seen (when the curriculum stuff was getting dull)...and he would oblige almost always, those stories still stick with me (well past what we were supposed to learn)....stuff they would fire a teacher for and brain-bleach the students after that these days I suspect.

@padamchen @Joe Shearer @jbgt90 @VCheng @Metanoia @OsmanAli98 @The Sandman @Hell hound @Signalian

The internet revolution has changed information dissemination in revolutionary ways. Books are still important, but nowhere near as in the past, and interactions are far less face to face or personal but more online. The change has been good and bad, both.

 

[__Jihadi__]

I need a book on the history of Khilafate Usmania or Turkish history + i want to understand the falsafa khudi of Ilama Iqbal so where should I start from ??

 

[Nilgiri]

Uhh, pardon you. I've read hamlet, romeo and juliet, midsummer nights dream, Macbeth, hunger games, the handmaid's tale, the hobbit etc. Mostly cause I was forced to read em.

Btw what's iScam? Was it something 30 years ago?

Heh any apple product to me is an iScam

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

Heh any apple product to me is an iScam

Ohh, I thought it was some sort of social media hahaha.
And true apple products are kinda meh. I use a samsung S8, great phone. The camera is amazing too.

 

[Zarvan]

Did some shopping

@Horus @Path-Finder @Arsalan

 

[Arsalan]

Did some shopping

@Horus @Path-Finder @Arsalan

Nice books but you have made a terrible mistake to buy them together!! Why would you do that? Never do that!! Never buy more than one book at a time as the you wont be able to do justice with the one you are ready (will be tempted to finish up and go for the next one).

The history of CIA and Genius Weapons are both good reads, do not know about others. Were they recommended or you just go to Variety Books in liberty and randomly pick a few?

 

[Zarvan]

Nice books but you have made a terrible mistake to buy them together!! Why would you do that? Never do that!! Never buy more than one book at a time as the you wont be able to do justice with the one you are ready (will be tempted to finish up and go for the next one).

The history of CIA and Genius Weapons are both good reads, do not know about others. Were they recommended or you just go to Variety Books in liberty and randomly pick a few?

Obama Wars is by Bob Woodward one of the most authentic journalist in USA. Accessory to War is written by world famous scientist and is New York Times Bestseller. The Exile is by The Guardian Journalist Adrian Levy. But not so sure about the guy as for LOC is the recent book Happymon Jacob and The Unending Game is by Vikram Sood former RAW chief about the work of Espionage

 

[Arsalan]

Obama Wars is by Bob Woodward one of the most authentic journalist in USA. Accessory to War is written by world famous scientist and is New York Times Bestseller. The Exile is by The Guardian Journalist Adrian Levy. But not so sure about the guy as for LOC is the recent book Happymon Jacob and The Unending Game is by Vikram Sood former RAW chief about the work of Espionage

Yes dear i saw the author names!

The question was:

The history of CIA and Genius Weapons are both good reads, do not know about others. Were they recommended or you just go to Variety Books in liberty and randomly pick a few?

 

[Zarvan]

Yes dear i saw the author names!

The question was:

I keep doing my research on books so I made my own list

 

[Arsalan]

I keep doing my research on books so I made my own list

 

[dexter]

Bought these from 14th Karachi international book fair:

 

[Arsalan]

Finally i have started reading "Mein Kampf". Have been planning to do it for quite some time now but just could not manage enough spare time. Hopefully i will be able to go through it now!! Done with first couple of chapters and it is very interesting so far.

I watched the pilot episode of this series, it looks promising. There are some commie infiltrators in this scene (at least from what was implied in the pilot) btw hah....I wont spoil (who) in case you watch the series....I have to see how it all plays out...looking good so far (the premise*)....the visual style + pace overall is very Fritz Lang + Hitchcock (pilot episode had a chase scene very eerie reminiscent of the movie Vertigo).

*Babylon Berlin co-writer Henk Handloegten commented, "One of the main reasons to make Babylon Berlin was to show how all these Nazis did not just fall from the sky. They were human beings who reacted to German society’s changes and made their decisions accordingly."

@django @Gomig-21 @Zibago @Michael Corleone you all might want to try out this series at some point (it is R rating - so heads up, but not super crazy level of it etc)

Isnt it in German language? What about that?

Add Brazilian serial killer drama "Merciless" and Mexican hitman dram "Mr Avilla".Kudos bhai

same issue

Has anyone read IMRAN SERIES ?

LOADS of them!! Good old times! I have read over a 100 of these, plus read every one form Ibn-i-Safi

 

[Nilgiri]

Isnt it in German language? What about that?

There's this thing called subtitles ...my german is very rudimentary so I can catch some stuff without it too, but not much.

I have yet to bring myself to start season 2...just not much time.