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@Rebelofnj,

There’s a quiz show over here called Pointless. It’s like Family Fortunes in reverse, the whole point is to get the most obscure correct answer.

One round was about sequels. Various sequels with their authors were presented. One of them was the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernell called I will repay. They had to say what the original was called. He said, Give me my money.

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@littlek,

Personally I am not a reader of fiction and haven't been for many decades now.

Presently I am re-reading:

Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

ISBN 13: 9780691089386
ISBN 10: 0691089388

No, it is definitely not some sort of right wing or National Socialist propaganda. Rather it details and explores the place of academics in the 'Final solution'. It plus details the mechanisms used in Austria which provided an 'economic template' and the socio-economic/fiscal realities which took National Socialism in the direction it took.

The 3rd Reich has many important lessons which need to be understood because the reasons which they made sense in the 3rd Reich, still blatantly exist today for so many in the masses. Indeed for many of the ignorants who post on here .... If people do not understand why these things happened, then they do not see the warning signs. as it starts to happen again. The targets may have changed (to some extent) but the thinking pattern is the same.

People should be aware that the 'Final solution to the Jewish question' as it was termed, was a in truth a reality which took 20+ years to come about ... it didn't happen over night.

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@farmerman,

Don't read much any more. Not likely to remember what I read yesterday.

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@BillW,

R u ok bill?

This rankles with this post you just did “ I take what I call a "Wholistic" view of God. It involves ALL views with equal weight that reveals the truth!”

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@hingehead,

Yeah, I'm OK, just getting older. Short term memory can be a little tricky at times. It sucks to read 20-30 or say 50 pages; then not pick the book up again for a week or so and then have to go back over the 50 and review. So, it is just beat to complete a to in one sitting.

The God thing has been with me for years, it is part of my life. You can go back over that thread and see where I have "talked" about my views in the past.

BTW, thanks for asking!

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GN = graphic novel.
M = manga.
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Anders: 5/5;
Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care by Scott Pilgrim's writer, Bryan Lee O'Malley: GN 5/5;
Artificial Flowers by Rachel Smith: GN 4/5;
Make Russia Great Again a Trumpian satire by Christopher Buckley: 4/5;
The Rabbit, another by Rachel Smith (I bought 3 or 4 books from her UK publisher, Avery Hill via a tweet): 3/5;
Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1 (Yotsuba&! #1) by Azuma, Kiyohiko: M 5/5;
Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles Volume 1 by Narumi, Naru: M = 5/5.

I'm a sucker for slice of life anime and manga. Great comfort food during these times of anxiety.

The Elementals by McDowell, Michael. Slow burner horror that could make for a great character study if adapted as a miniseries. Wouldn't work as a film. 4/5.

Currently reading a really new YA novel, Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland.

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@tsarstepan,

THE REYKJAVIK ASSIGNMENT, but doing a very poor job of it. Been sitting on my nightstand for months, and reached page 35. Got this book after visiting Reykjavik many years ago.

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@Rebelofnj,

Rebelofnj wrote:

I just started reading The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. It was published in 1904, and it is generally viewed as a precursor of the popular trope of a masked hero with a secret identity.

The book is about a British member of high society and his alliance rescuing imprisoned royals before they are killed by the new French government. I'm 4 chapters in, and it is clear the book is very sympathetic towards the aristocrats and royals escaping the horrors of the French Revolution, probably because the author is an aristocrat herself.

You hardly need to be an aristocrat to hate what happen during the French revolution.

Thomas Paine was endanger of the French Guillotine and he as never an aristocrat of any kind.

In the end the french revolution committee of public safety turn on each other.

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@BillRM,

Usually, the historical opinion and popular view of the French Revolution favors the working class over the nobility, so it was strange for me to see the other way around.

The book did bring up the Reign of Terror, The September Massacres, and the death of Princess de Lamballe as primary examples of the committee's horrific actions.

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Azumanga Daioh: The Omnibus ([Azumanga Daioh] #1-4) by Kiyohiko Azuma

Outland by Dennis E. Taylor. Yellowstone erupting and ending most of the life on Earth and throw in portal technology to the multiverse? I'm down with this work of science fiction.

Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care (reread)
Snotgirl, Vol. 2: California Screaming
Snotgirl, Vol. 3: Is This Real Life?
by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Leslie Hung

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@tsarstepan,

an antiquarian book store in chester county (South of Lancaster County where we live) was selling out at remarkable prices. I picked up a bunch of autographed first editions of Watson Guptil Artbooks and Eric Sloane and a bunch more. I allso picked up a few books Id not ever heard of.
There was one "Hiroshima" by John Hersey written in 1946. Its creative non-fiction. Its a very short narrative of the people who lived through the Enola Gays flyover.
It was really heart rending and even uplifting about how so many of the victims (those who survived) were so fatalistic and were able to dust off an start over even having lost families.

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@tsarstepan,

BTW. Are you firing your 50 cal? (I dont get the Baka Baka thing)

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

an antiquarian book store in chester county (South of Lancaster County where we live) was selling out at remarkable prices. I picked up a bunch of autographed first editions of Watson Guptil Artbooks and Eric Sloane and a bunch more. I allso picked up a few books Id not ever heard of.
There was one "Hiroshima" by John Hersey written in 1946. Its creative non-fiction. Its a very short narrative of the people who lived through the Enola Gays flyover.
It was really heart rending and even uplifting about how so many of the victims (those who survived) were so fatalistic and were able to dust off an start over even having lost families.

I read a book back in about 1962 or so for a book report. It was about 9 people who lived through Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was thoroughly eye opening affected me for the rest of my life.

In one story, a man in was talking to his boss telling him how it started with this extremely bright light. Simultaneously, a very bright light flashed from the widows. He proclaimed, "Just like that!", immediately prior to taking cover.

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@BillW,

two kids also had similar reports in the Hersey book. They reported how there was a brilliant flash but no sound at all. They were probably in a compression zone but somewhat protected . They were interviewed in a hospital by a priest who was helping administer to all the burnt , sick and dying.
The two kids died within a few days after, both of burns and extreme radiation sickness. I have to say, after over 25 years experience (on and off) at Oak Ridge,NTS, Sandia, and Rocky Flat I NEVER ever heard any stories of the first A bomb from anything available at these sites.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

BTW. Are you firing your 50 cal? (I dont get the Baka Baka thing)

I was riffing on an a2k incel who made a thread on why moron should be considered hate speech.
Baka is a very versatile Japanese slang/idiom closely defined as idiot.

Besides, anime is probably the single most watched genre I've been watching these COVID months.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

It was really heart rending and even uplifting about how so many of the victims (those who survived) were so fatalistic and were able to dust off an start over even having lost families.

I didn't find it heartrending or uplifting. They got what they deserved and they knew it.

They didn't complain about their fate because they knew that they were the bad guys and we were merely defending ourselves.

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@BillW,

BillW wrote:

In one story, a man in was talking to his boss telling him how it started with this extremely bright light. Simultaneously, a very bright light flashed from the widows. He proclaimed, "Just like that!", immediately prior to taking cover.

I'll bet the little thug also learned to not commit genocide and war atrocities anymore.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

I have to say, after over 25 years experience (on and off) at Oak Ridge,NTS, Sandia, and Rocky Flat I NEVER ever heard any stories of the first A bomb from anything available at these sites.

They probably have better things to worry about.

Still, I do approve of the book. It serves a valuable purpose in informing the rest of the world exactly what awaits them if they provoke us into launching our nukes at them.

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@oralloy,

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It serves a valuable purpose in informing the rest of the world exactly what awaits them if they provoke us into launching our nukes at them.

From the sound of it, the book Hiroshima by John Hersey is more about the horrors of nuclear war and less about fearing American retribution. Especially as other countries now have the ability to produce nuclear bombs.

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@Rebelofnj,

It's the same thing.

Teaching people the horrors of nuclear war is teaching them what will happen to them if we launch our nukes at them.

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