Whats the last book you read?
Not books about wizards or people who can turn into werewolves?
I do not like novels or anything fction. I like history or something technical or instructional.
The last book I read was Churchill's memoirs of WWII, the condensed version. Still a large volume but nothing close to the entire three volumes he wrote. I really enjoyed reading it.
These days I read or watch instructional courses related to music production, mixing, room acoustics, etc.
Awesome
I will ask my butler what he is reading to me tonight :old:
I highly recommend "Piercing the Reich," which covers the actions (and antics) of the OSS in London during WWII. It can be a little tedious when describing the necessity to obtain different papers for photo IDs for different countries, acquiring different types of ink, and so forth, but it's a well written book, both entertaining and educational.
probably julia child best dick cake recipe?
semp
That does sound like something I would enjoy. These days I don't have a lot of time or energy for reading. I'm up at 5am and usually don't get home until 5pm (at the eraliet) and up to 8pm sometimes.
When I get home I usually have enough energy to wash my pretty face and go to bed. lol.
That’s because it’s a book about a spoilt man who still gets a happy ending.
Bit like you lot :rofl
Loving my life. Sorry you're such a bitter pos.
Coogan
Your easily pleased or a liar
Green Eggs and Ham...it's an intellectual classic
Eagler
Zach may be alright. If he gets over his inferiority complex and American envy.
ADS. America Denial Syndrome? Seems like that's all he thinks about. I picture him sitting in his tiny little row house, bitter as hell and no hope for a good life.
Dude. You have to be happy with yourself in order to start to be truly happy. It's no fun being negative and living as a miserable. negative person.
Zach may be alright. ...
Zach is funny. Be like Zach.
Yes. Some of us here are taking Zach way too seriously.
- oldman
Yes. Some of us here are taking Zach way too seriously.
- oldman
:aok
Been wondering how long it would take those that do to figure it out; maybe they will now.
:rofl
Freaks
The whole of US culture is based on that yellow puke you call mustard.
That stuff which is made from poster paint.
Budweiser and yellow mustard what are they?
Budweiser light :rofl
Its cat wee to start of with, you have to drink 13 gallons of it to gain any effect.
When was that nonce Woody Allen funny?
:rofl
Freaks
The whole of US culture is based on that yellow puke you call mustard.
That stuff which is made from poster paint.
Budweiser and yellow mustard what are they?
Budweiser light :rofl
Its cat wee to start of with, you have to drink 13 gallons of it to gain any effect.
When was that nonce Woody Allen funny?
American mustard tastes of road.
English mustard is only for real men.
French mustard is for who like men.
Whats the last book you read?
Shida used to be English :rofl
The Alchemist
Nationality is just an artificial construct.
This is the gibberish people write when they are stateless and rich.
Is it standard practice to put yellow-mustard on a hamburger in the US?
This banned book is a hard read for many:
Beloved examines the legacy of slavery, covering the life of a black woman named Sethe. It encompasses her days as a slave in Kentucky to her eventual freedom in Cincinnati, Ohio. Although she became a free woman inside she is still held prisoner by thoughts and memories involving the trauma of her life as a slave which includes being haunted by her ... Beloved.
Adult reading (very harsh reality in this work of fiction).
https://books-library.net/files/books-library.online-12222233Xb2Q3.pdf
Scared people ban or attempt to ban books.
Never look at American hamburgers through a yellow mustard tube. :old:
Scared people ban or attempt to ban books.
And Twitter posts, Facebook posts, Youtube videos, and websites.
Don't confuse fiction books with hate speech or misinformation.
Ayn Rand's stuff was never banned. :old: :)
I want the masses to have limited access to information especially American
Books are very upsetting to said individuals
When said individuals read such facts as the American civil war was not fought to end slavery they suffer anxiety.
So Lord of the rings and Elton johns warbling is better for said individuals
One man's misinformation is another man's repressed truth.
Yet that's not the case for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, some Dr. Seuss books, 1984, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird.
If we are talking about the kerfuffle over what should be in one's kids' school library.
Yet what is in the school library has always been up to the local parents and community. No one starts yelling "banning!" because grade-school libraries don't have Naked Lunch and Zorba the Greek.
I want free speech and freedom of the press for adults. For kids, a parent is always to judge what is appropriate.
I want my kids to read those above books eventually, when I think it is age appropriate. If those books aren't in the school library, I can easily still get them. Lack of a book in the school library isn't a big deal. They have limited selections anyway.
Can anyone offer advice for books available to show me how to be a lady :old:
dr seuss books were never banned.
the family, or organization whatever you want to call it said since some of theme were not selling they would take them out of print.
(For sake of clarity, as RotBarron points out, few or no books are banned in recent times in the US. We are talking about school libraries choosing not have this or that book, which is part of their normal function.)
Once a library buys a book, it has it. Matters not if the publisher ceases printing it later. Lots of out-of-print books are in libraries. Removing some of the Seuss books from the shelves (which many school libraries did) was a voluntary choice to get rid of it same as choosing to remove some other book, Huck Finn, say.
I'm not complaining about that. School libraries can remove what they want.
It's only "banning" when one side wants it and the other doesn't. When neither side wants it, no one is bandying about the word "banning."
look at it from another point of view. libraries remove books that anybody hardly read. it's all computerized now. I have never read any of his books. the books that you grew up with are not necessarily the books kids read now. so they make room for new books.
semp
None of this controversy is about saving space on shelves or removing books that no one reads.
It's about left vs. right and what each side wants in or out of the school library.
My feeling: Take it out if some group of parents is uncomfortable with it. If you disagree, you can easily get the book for your kid another way.
None of this controversy is about saving space on shelves or removing books that no one reads.
It's about left vs. right and what each side wants in or out of the school library.
My feeling: Take it out if some group of parents is uncomfortable with it. If you disagree, you can easily get the book for your kid another way.
RE: Left V. Right
I've not seen an instance of parents on the left spectrum trying to purge any book from a school library.
things change, you can make a political statement about it or make it about it. but truth is kids dont want to read ham and bacon books. my grandkids dont want to read them. it's just that simple.
This issue of adults arguing over what should be removed from school libraries -- talk of "banned books" -- is a current news issue and has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with whether kids themselves give a fig about any of those books.
Here's news on it if you want to know what we're talking about:
https://news.google.com/search?q=banned%20books&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
I dare you, i double dare you. go outside and ask kids if ham and eggs is a good book.
the same 7 books banned.
you want to justify now what has been going on for decades. but if you step back, you will see that it's been going around for way before you were born.
Yes. Those are the ones groups didn't want in schools because of racial issues.
It is easy to spot racist, they always make everything about race. No matter how trivial or simple, they always compare everything to race and try to find a way it bothers them.
It is easy to spot racist, they always make everything about race. No matter how trivial or simple, they always compare everything to race and try to find a way it bothers them.
MLK would be ashamed that content of character still is not the focus.
Here's a picture of Nazis burning books that threatened their hatred/fear of all 'others':
Again, this has nothing to do with what kids like. It is about left vs. right adults and what they are arguing should or shouldn't be in school libraries.
Nazis hate everyone but Nazis. They excluded themselves from inclusion. :old:
so you are complaining that parents are fighting each other over books their kids dont read anymore but should be in schools.
No. I'm saying the opposite of all three things you put in that one sentence.
"so you are complaining"
No. It's normal, usual, and expected for parents to disagree on books. I mostly feel that if any group of parents doesn't like a particular book, just take it out of the school library. You can get it easily if you want it for your kid.
"fighting each other over books their kids dont read anymore"
No. Parents fight over availability of books regardless of popularity among kids themselves. Some might be popular for all I know. Some probably aren't. Doesn't matter -- it's that a kid could be exposed to it.
"but should be in schools"
No. One group feels it shouldn't be in schools. One group feels it should be in schools.
I love you, semp (in a manly way, of course), but just Google "book banning controversy". Read a news item or two. Then you will know the news topic we're discussing.
so you are complaining that parents are fighting each other over books their kids dont read anymore but should be in schools.
I am confused. sorry.
semp
Here's a picture of Nazis burning books that threatened their hatred/fear of all 'others':
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Expecting to be called dog poo something-or-other something sometime in the near or far future. :D
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Seems like you’re hung up on thinking much of this is about old books, partly it is.
There is a reason reading lists in modern history have included the ‘Classics.’
From Homer to Sun Tzu to Machiavelli to Hemingway, in between and on, they are timeless.
If kids only read what they wanted to, most would end up with so little exposure to the world they would end up thinking Call of Duty was a very important part of life - ooooops :uhoh
and by the way, you guys complaining about kids now a days playing call of duty is ironic. after all we all play pretend to be pilots in a ww2 simulator and we have been doing it for, well some, for decades. that is amusing too.
Missed my point entirely about kids playing Call of Duty…
Reread and you might see it’s about how much significance kids vs a (well adapted) adult places on trivial matters like video games.
lol well adapted adults, guess you never been on 200. :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
semp
Those losing their minds on 200 about the game is about the equal of the not so well adapted adults in society, around ~10% I surmise.
that is a scary thought, similar to it just started a couple of years ago and books are banned.
Who will save my monkey :embarrassed:
What is ‘it’?
Banning books has already been covered, reread.
Trying to imitate the community contrarian?
nope just trying to understand why people think ban on books is a thing now when it's been going since well before I was born.
left v right. :cheers: :cheers:
nope just trying to understand why people think ban on books is a thing now when it's been going since well before I was born.
left v right. :cheers: :cheers:
Zack's current persona:
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One reason is the explicit sex in books pushed for minor schoolchildren, that's new.
which books? and be careful,...
which books?