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zenwarner
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posted November 09, 2008 04:02 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here are the last few books I've read lately.

And I would highly suggest any of them.

This appealed to my inner child. But it also had a great moral theme to it. Kindness and humanity and other things that people usually make fun of nowadays. But I still found them very refreshing. In fact, I may have been a bit teary eyed towards the end......

This is an amazing book based off of a true story. It's about a young man who gives up all his money to the poor and leaves society for a new nomadic existence. It does have a sad ending. But it also has alot of themes I identify with.


A very long read, but well worth it! Its set in victorian England. It's about two magicians who are bringing magic back. It involves fairies and of course the struggle between good and evil. It's pretty dark in some parts. I loved it.

I just finished Schindler's List. I dont know how but I still havnt seen the film! I can watch it online on Netflix, but I wanted to read the book first.
My god. It hurt to read. But the good that emerged...... Very inspirational.

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blue moon
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posted November 10, 2008 05:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for blue moon     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Escape from Sobibor, that's another excellent book.

I've read quite a few Holocaust memoirs. I can't wrap my head around it. I never will.

My grandad was one of the troops that liberated Belsen. He said you could smell it 5 miles on the wind.

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blue moon
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posted November 10, 2008 05:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for blue moon     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Outside of my usual turgid historical material, this is one I can recommend:



And every now and then I treat myself to a little something by Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown. Some snippets of which are available on the 'net:

http://www.georgemackaybrown.co.uk/siteindex.htm

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posted November 17, 2008 11:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 23     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm currently reading Metamorphoses by Ovid.

Only have read 150 pages but it is a MUST read for the astrologer out there.

As the title suggests, the book is very plutonian, ie about metamorphosis but it should be read to see the relationships of the Gods (or planets with us astrologers ).

Also did you know that gods (or planets in our case) cannot cancel each others' actions out, ie a god cannot undo the work of another god but can only undertake another action that may assist the object that was affected. This explains very well how aspects work....

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zenwarner
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posted December 01, 2008 03:15 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Everyone should read this book. Seriously. Everyone. Several of the things he attacked in the book, are things I was told in school. He is really against mythologizing our founding fathers and presidents.

"History, ultimately, is a selection of facts, and Loewen argues convincingly that current textbooks have chosen to include all the wrong facts. It is no wonder that most students find history boring when it is taught as merely a succession of presidents, with a pleasant little war every now and then to spice things up. But shouldn’t students learn all aspects of our history? Instead of being spared the unpleasantness of racial violence, shouldn’t they learn that over a three-year period in the 1860s, an average of one African-American per day was murdered in Hinds County, Mississippi? Shouldn’t American students learn that president Woodrow Wilson was a vicious racist and that the Federal government, which was integrated when he took over, had been purged of African Americans by the time he left office? Shouldn’t they learn about the government’s kidnapping and deportation of thousands of Mexican-Americans – including many who had been born in the United States – in the 1930s? Shouldn’t they learn about the concentration camps in which Japanese Americans were confined during World War II? Shouldn’t they learn about Paul Robeson, perhaps the most talented performing artist in American history, whose acting and singing career was prematurely ended by McCarthyism? Shouldn’t they learn that America’s foreign policy during the 20th century consisted of violently overthrowing the government of any country that refused to bow to U.S. corporate interests? Shouldn’t they learn that the CIA, acting on behalf of the United Fruit Company, hunted down and murdered one of the century’s most important revolutionaries, Che Guevara, in 1967?"

Historical fiction. My favorite. This book gives a detailed account of the history of London. Except he does it through fiction. He tells the story of several families throughout several generations. You'll learn alot of interesting facts about the city.


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posted December 02, 2008 07:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for wheelsofcheese     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Paul Robeson. A friend to the Welsh Miners and an incredible man. A beautiful man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson

Good book recommendations zenwarner.

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praecipua
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posted December 02, 2008 01:24 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
i realise i just read astrology books and spiritual stuff. may be i'm too engrossed in my "work"

thanks for the suggestions

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praecipua
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posted December 02, 2008 01:24 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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