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If you'd like to share favorite books - fiction or non-fiction - and their appeal, whether or not you're one of society's under-appreciated two percent who can boast recessive allele on chromosome 16 and the resultant different take on the MC1R protein 🙂

If you'd like to share favorite books - fiction or non-fiction - and their appeal, whether or not you're one of society's under-appreciated two percent who can boast recessive allele on chromosome 16 and the resultant different take on the MC1R protein 🙂

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Read Heads
Aug 12, 2019Aug 2019

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Just reread Paul Fussell's Wartime, a look at the real brutality and daily horror of World War II that shows the romantized portrayal on tv and the big screen for what it is (it took Hollywood more than fifty years to finally acknowledge in Saving...
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Read Heads
Jun 5, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by moNOtheist
Got a book (or poem, come to that) you consider particularly erotic? I think I'd go for Anais Nin's 'Delta of Venus'.
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Read Heads
Jun 4, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by moNOtheist
Any poetry suggestions? Ted Hughes, for example? Apple Tragedy So on the seventh day The serpent rested, came up to him. "I've invented a new game," he said. The serpent stared in surprise At this interloper. But said: "You see this apple?"...
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May 29, 2018May 2018

Posted by moNOtheist
If you could sit down for an hour or two with a writer or two - not necessarily novelists - living or dead, who would you choose?
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Read Heads
May 24, 2018May 2018

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Can you sum up a favorite book in five words? How about time-traveling optician dies again
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May 23, 2018May 2018

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‘It’s an astonishing career. I can remember when 'Portnoy’s Complaint' was the book that everyone identified him with. He was very much part of that great outburst of liberation, freedom and erotic excitement of the 60s. He was the head of that...
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Read Heads
May 18, 2018May 2018

Posted by moNOtheist
Let me put this out there... is the bible, at least the King James version, worth reading simply for its language? I find such turns of phrase as "and darkness was upon the face of the deep" almost poetic in their expression...
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May 18, 2018May 2018

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A book that's known rather more for its reincarnation as a notorious movie adaptation than the debate it proposed about free will, there's Anthony Burgess' 'A Clockwork Orange', still tarred in the collective memory for its realistic depiction of ...
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May 17, 2018May 2018

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A favorite book of mine, and one that I've read more than once over the years is Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death', his beautifully honed reminiscence of surviving the 1945 Allied firebombing of ...
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Posted by MynamehereAnyone really into reading apocalyptic fiction right now?

Posted by AmelieMatisseMy latest read. I really though I was well informed about this era. Sadly I was not.

Posted by AmelieMatisseI went to a lecture by author Richard Rothstein. If you are interested in learning how our government segregated this country, you will find this book fascinating

Posted by Marcie1974This made me giggle

Posted by Marcie1974This made me giggle

Posted by snytiger6With the current trend of the far right moving into the forefront of many countries aroudn the world, perhaps it is time for people to rediscover the book "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.

Posted by AmelieMatisseAnyone who is an art lover will enjoy this book. And if you are anywhere near Baltimore MD a trip to the Baltimore Museum will get you the chance to see the Cone sisters amazing collection for free

Posted by AmelieMatisseJust finished a biography on Frederick Douglass and this seemed like a good followup.

Posted by GuyKeithAnyone here like Joseph Heller? You may be familiar with Catch-22, but have you read his other books, especially Something Happened? If anyone has read it, let me know. I would like to discuss it.

Posted by ninjarider1Well, one can always hope!

Posted by ninjarider1I "check out" when I read!

Posted by ninjarider1Twenty five percent? I'd say more than that!

Posted by snytiger6Instead of powering it up...

Posted by KodiamusCurrently reading

Posted by MoonTigerA REAL Read Head!

Posted by ninjarider1Any science fiction fans here?
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