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[Viper1]

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. - Frederick Douglass

Nothing beats primary sources. For all the folks who want to “free the oppressed,” I recommend it. You’ll be hard pressed to find another such story of courage and resilience. Slavery nearly killed this country, it poisons the minds of the enslaved and slave masters, and denegrates the principles of human dignity.

 

[Gunz]

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. - Frederick Douglass

Nothing beats primary sources. For all the folks who want to “free the oppressed,” I recommend it. You’ll be hard pressed to find another such story of courage and resilience. Slavery nearly killed this country, it poisons the minds of the enslaved and slave masters, and denegrates the principles of human dignity.

...And the after-effects are still felt today...

 

[Gunpowder]

Goggins...Can't Hurt Me...nuff said..

 

[LibraryLady]

Goggins...Can't Hurt Me...nuff said..

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins

Care to join?

LL

 

[Gunpowder]

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins

Care to join?

LL

have a few more chapters to go...

 

[Viper1]

Starving for Leadership: E.M. Burlingame

I enjoyed this quick read. Could be done as an LPD or leader training module on the parallels between SF and entrepreneurship. Premise is that the entrepreneur space needs the SF leader to affect world change. (Disclosure: know the author, big man of ideas, former AD group NCO)

 

[Viper1]

#4: God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert

Also began Start with Why by Simon Sinek

Y’all knew this was coming. I love this series.

#5: Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert

 

[Gunz]

Y’all knew this was coming. I love this series.

#5: Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert

I just ordered Dune from Amazon, thanks to your posts here. I read the first three back in the 80s...time for a long overdue re-run with Frank Herbert.

 

[LibraryLady]

Y’all knew this was coming. I love this series.

#5: Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert

I'm looking forward to your opinions once you move into Brian's work. I haven't read them.

LL

 

[Viper1]

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy

In less than one hundred pages, Tolstoy writes on life, death, careerism, love of neighbor, moral living, and moral dying with blunt force language. For those interested in "self-help" books, put them down and give this one a read. In today's lexicon, "I felt seen" in various parts of the book, especially around topics of marriage and the stress of self-centered careerism. Brutal truth but I learned that if I had kept living a self-centered life, it would have killed me, just as it did Ivan Ilyich.

 

[AWP]

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy

In less than one hundred pages, Tolstoy writes on life, death, careerism, love of neighbor, moral living, and moral dying with blunt force language. For those interested in "self-help" books, put them down and give this one a read. In today's lexicon, "I felt seen" in various parts of the book, especially around topics of marriage and the stress of self-centered careerism. Brutal truth but I learned that if I had kept living a self-centered life, it would have killed me, just as it did Ivan Ilyich.

1. I'd never heard of this book until your post.
2. Because of your post I have to read this book.
3. I doubt I'm the only one.

DOL

 

[LibraryLady]

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy

In less than one hundred pages, Tolstoy writes on life, death, careerism, love of neighbor, moral living, and moral dying with blunt force language. For those interested in "self-help" books, put them down and give this one a read. In today's lexicon, "I felt seen" in various parts of the book, especially around topics of marriage and the stress of self-centered careerism. Brutal truth but I learned that if I had kept living a self-centered life, it would have killed me, just as it did Ivan Ilyich.

I'm not amazed my library has a copy, the breadth of their collection is awesome, I'm amazed it's checked out. I've got it on hold, and I think the subject will dovetail nicely with the Goggins book.

Thanks for the review, Viper, you're an interesting reader. (In librarian speak, that's a compliment)

LL

 

[Viper1]

1. I'd never heard of this book until your post.
2. Because of your post I have to read this book.
3. I doubt I'm the only one.

DOL

Thanks @AWP I think you’ll like it. I hadn’t heard of it either until I went into the local used bookstore. @LibraryLady , thanks for the compliment. I originally went into the used bookstore looking for Anna Karenina (also by Tolstoy), but found this and decided to get it anyhow. What a juxtaposition of books: Ivan Illyich is just under one hundred pages while Anna Karenina spans over 800.

 

[LibraryLady]

Thanks @AWP I think you’ll like it. I hadn’t heard of it either until I went into the local used bookstore. @LibraryLady , thanks for the compliment. I originally went into the used bookstore looking for Anna Karenina (also by Tolstoy), but found this and decided to get it anyhow. What a juxtaposition of books: Ivan Illyich is just under one hundred pages while Anna Karenina spans over 800.

Amazing to think someone who's known for dense tomes can also write short stories.

LL

 

[Gunz]

Thanks @AWP I think you’ll like it. I hadn’t heard of it either until I went into the local used bookstore. @LibraryLady , thanks for the compliment. I originally went into the used bookstore looking for Anna Karenina (also by Tolstoy), but found this and decided to get it anyhow. What a juxtaposition of books: Ivan Illyich is just under one hundred pages while Anna Karenina spans over 800.

I read War and Peace in college and thought it was amazing. Now I'll have to add this one. Children of Dune just came in with Dune and Dune Messiah lagging in transit. Sapiens and The Mongol Conquests: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Subetei came in with Dune Messiah.

I need three pairs of eyes and 36-hour days.

 

[Devildoc]

Thanks @AWP I think you’ll like it. I hadn’t heard of it either until I went into the local used bookstore. @LibraryLady , thanks for the compliment. I originally went into the used bookstore looking for Anna Karenina (also by Tolstoy), but found this and decided to get it anyhow. What a juxtaposition of books: Ivan Illyich is just under one hundred pages while Anna Karenina spans over 800.

I took 3 years of Russian in college; for an elective my senior year I took a grad-level Russian literature (in Russian) class, taught by my Russian professor. Anna Karenina was one of the books (along with Eugene Onegin and Fathers and Sons). I was so out of my element, I had to read the English version side-by-side. I love Russian literature.

 

[Devildoc]

I read War and Peace in college and thought it was amazing. Now I'll have to add this one. Children of Dune just came in with Dune and Dune Messiah lagging in transit. Sapiens and The Mongol Conquests: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Subetei came in with Dune Messiah.

I need three pairs of eyes and 36-hour days.

I graduate with my masters in 3 weeks. I have a bedside table with 7 or 8 non-school books waiting for me, and about 4 more I want to order. Not enough time in my life to read everything I want to read.

 

[LibraryLady]

I read War and Peace in college and thought it was amazing. Now I'll have to add this one. Children of Dune just came in with Dune and Dune Messiah lagging in transit. Sapiens and The Mongol Conquests: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Subetei came in with Dune Messiah.

I need three pairs of eyes and 36-hour days.

Herbert and Tolstoy - I can see some similarities...

LL

 

[Koochiching]

As a fresh 18x I'm assuming it's my solemn duty to read Chosen Soldier. I'm a bit busy reading for school right now, but I like it so far.


I also just finished In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien. Really fantastic. I hadn't read anything by him since I read The Things They Carried which was in... middle school? I think?

 

[Viper1]

A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis.

Sent by a friend after my brother died. I’m grateful for his wrestling with God upon the death of his wife. It’s helped with my own laments.