By coincidence, I happen to be tackling one of my bucket list books at this time.
I acquired one of the older Kindle eReaders in a stack of electronic widgets I bought, and I downloaded some classic books from Project Gutenberg, so now after thinking about it for many years, I'm actually reading "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.
I think that book is still required reading at West Point
and I have read it
a lot of nuggets there
@wolfgang59said @lemondrop I 've started "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" 3 times.
I'd like to read it full one day.
just a note
the authors son who rides with him in the book was murdered in, I believe, San Francisco
sad but at least he got to journey with his son
I am not giving anything away by this note
hope you do finish it one day
@lemondropsaid just a note
the authors son who rides with him in the book was murdered in, I believe, San Francisco
sad but at least he got to journey with his son
I am not giving anything away by this note
hope you do finish it one day
Didn't know that.
ZAMM is acknowledged as a work of fiction - but based on real events.
How closely based? I see from wiki that he died fairly recently.
By coincidence, I happen to be tackling one of my bucket list books at this time.
I acquired one of the older Kindle eReaders in a stack of electronic widgets I bought, and I downloaded some classic books from Project Gutenberg, so now after thinking about it for many years, I'm actually reading "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.
I have read TAoW several times.
It is more useful than you might think. Many of its strategies can be adapted to daily life.
@wolfgang59said Didn't know that.
ZAMM is acknowledged as a work of fiction - but based on real events.
How closely based? I see from wiki that he died fairly recently.
You might be interested to read this article which appeared in the New York Times on March 30, 1975.
@lemondropsaid for me it's War and Peace
I've tried it a couple of times but all the Russian names are confusing
I'm not getting any younger and it won't be any easier
if I don't get around to it within the nest 5 years I'll be scratching it off
what about you?
I have started and not finished Herman Melville's Moby Dick three times.
There are many and as they appear I "order" them in from my local library but the list never seems to reduce as almost daily I hear of another one that catches my fancy. So I suspect that my list will never reach an end...which is OK by me.
@great-big-steessaid Is this a metaphor? “Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
― Truman Capote
I love it.
“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent
I have read such good books lately, it is difficult to find those that compare.
Some of them have been slow and difficult to get into, to find the characters but when that is achieved, there is nothing like a really good read.
@handyandysaid Why are we compelled to return to a long, digressive book we had trouble getting through in the first place? Life is short, good books are plentiful.
Because you know that you will like it - you just have to get used to the writer's individual way to express himself (or her), find the rhythm of the text, the structure of the chapters. This can be difficult but there is something in the early part of the novel that makes you curious and maybe you are amazed by the writer's poetic expression - you can't stop but it is tiresome too. 🙂
If by your comment you mean books that we are struggling with at the beginning.
@torunnsaid Because you know that you will like it - you just have to get used to the writer's individual way to express himself (or her), find the rhythm of the text, the structure of the chapters. This can be difficult but there is something in the early part of the novel that makes you curious and maybe you are amazed by the writer's poetic expression - you can't stop but it is tiresome too. 🙂
If by your comment you mean books that we are struggling with at the beginning.
I mean books like War and Peace that you read as far as Page 500, put it down, and then return to it three years later and go back to the beginning, and manage to read as far as Page 475... Whew!
12 Oct '19 21:13
is there a book on your bucket list?
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