by JimmyPage 41 Replies latest jw friends
I never read roots, but I can vividly remember watching the miniseries on tv when I was very young.
When Roots was televised, I did not have a TV. I lived in the inner city of Chicago at the time. My mother in law let me borrow the book to read, since I could not watch the series. I ended up, along with my first husband, being the brunt of a workmate's anger over the series. We did not know about the anger and indignation the series was causing for African Americans until that night.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - by Shirer. Read this when I was a teen-ager - I don't know why, it wasn't required reading, it was just fascinating.
Currently reading The Raj Quartet, each around 600 pages - 1) The Jewel in the Crown (finished) 2) The Day of the Scorpion (1/3 through), 3) The Towers of Silence (finished), 4) A Division of the Spoils (awaits me). Didn't read them in order, obviously.
Well, let's see.
gently feral
Dune
The Thorn Birds
Atlas Shrugged
Sears Catalog
Roots for me too. I read my dad's old copy at least twice when I was a teenager.
I think the original miniseries came out in the 1970's when I was too young (or maybe not born) to see it. I didn't get a chance to see the miniseries till I got my hands on a library copy of it at some point in my 20's.
I recently bought a copy of Roots for myself. Though I don't do much personal reading for pleasure now, I have started reading it again. Maybe I'll get through it again.
Bizzy Bee,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - by Shirer. Read this when I was a teen-ager - I don't know why, it wasn't required reading, it was just fascinating.
Agreed! I read it as a teenager and once more after being in Germany. 1134 Pages....still in my library. Also the 900 days and the Arms of Krupp are 2 additional great reads on the same subject and just as long.
r. (ps....sorry can't get these fonts to straighten out!)
I am a detention officer on the midnight shift, so I get to read at least one book a week. Sometimes there thick sometimes there thin.
What I look for is that they are interesting to me.
I'll see what the reviews say on Amazon.
If by thick you mean dense, boring and imcomprehensible I try to avoid those.
I'm not a fan of fiction either. I will read some science fiction.
The thickest book I have in my bookshelf right now is "Our Oriental Herritage" by Will Durant
Hi Pagey!
I have read The complete guide to Linux Administration, Networking Guide to TCP/IP and lots of other text books in the past couple of years. I have read my entire Rotherham's Bible which was about two or more inches thick! I also read War and Peace, and some thick Readers digest compilations too.
Yup - read many many books that are 1000 pages, small print. Currently started The Initiation, can't remember who the author is again.
Ken Follett, Pillars of the earth, and World without end. Both around a 1000 pages.
Those were the first two I thought to mention. I just finished World Without End yesterday. Both of them excellent books. My list also includes: Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver (started The Confusion but haven't gone back to it yet). Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamozov Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Trilogy (actually five books, but I have the first four bound in one volume, so I'm counting it). Thomas Friedman: The World is Flat
