Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de for now everything I post here is automatically "re-tooted" there.
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Institutes of the Christian Religion" is the world-changing book of Christian theology by John Calvin, …
but never did any mortal devise a scheme by which religion was not folly corrupted
— Selections from Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (Page 14)
The surprising story of how wrestling superstar Glenn "Kane" Jacobs beat all the odds to …
I'm a Libertarian and a wrestling fan, so this should have been just up my alley. The wrestling stories where good, even if I had heard some of them before. I appreciated Kane's story about meeting Ron Paul with regards to him having been around famous people most of his life, but that was the only time he was ever actually nervous about meeting someone.
I was disappointed in the life in politics side of it. Kane talks about being influenced by von Misses and Harry Browne, not to mention Murray Rothbard, but then spends nearly a quarter of the book talking about how great Trump is. A politician that is the antithesis of libertarianism.
This audiobook was read by the author, but it may be the one time I would have rather someone else did it. Glenn stumbles over his own words and his reading voice is so different …
I'm a Libertarian and a wrestling fan, so this should have been just up my alley. The wrestling stories where good, even if I had heard some of them before. I appreciated Kane's story about meeting Ron Paul with regards to him having been around famous people most of his life, but that was the only time he was ever actually nervous about meeting someone.
I was disappointed in the life in politics side of it. Kane talks about being influenced by von Misses and Harry Browne, not to mention Murray Rothbard, but then spends nearly a quarter of the book talking about how great Trump is. A politician that is the antithesis of libertarianism.
This audiobook was read by the author, but it may be the one time I would have rather someone else did it. Glenn stumbles over his own words and his reading voice is so different from his wrestling voice I actually had to double check it was him. As an author he also repeats himself. For example, two different locations in the book he talks about when he was courting his wife much of it was done while sitting at her daughter's hospital bedside.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best …
I got this collection because it contained "With the Night mail" that I had been wanting to read for quite some time. To say I was unfulfilled would be an understatement. Allegedly one of the first science fiction stories, it's so filled with made up techno babble it was practically unreadable. Basically treating a blimp as it it where a ship and needing all the same parts, bilge pumps etc., described in detail, with a story that had no plot to speak of. The addition of letters to the editor and advertisements was interesting but detracted from the story.
The other stories I read from the collection weren't any better, making no sense and barley readable. It was only after reading a bit that I realized Kipling was the same guy who wrote the Jungle Book, which if it wasn't for LibraryThing I wouldn't have even remembered I'd read before, …
I got this collection because it contained "With the Night mail" that I had been wanting to read for quite some time. To say I was unfulfilled would be an understatement. Allegedly one of the first science fiction stories, it's so filled with made up techno babble it was practically unreadable. Basically treating a blimp as it it where a ship and needing all the same parts, bilge pumps etc., described in detail, with a story that had no plot to speak of. The addition of letters to the editor and advertisements was interesting but detracted from the story.
The other stories I read from the collection weren't any better, making no sense and barley readable. It was only after reading a bit that I realized Kipling was the same guy who wrote the Jungle Book, which if it wasn't for LibraryThing I wouldn't have even remembered I'd read before, as it was equally poor. Unlike Jungle Book though, this one ended in my 1 star so bad I didn't finish it pile.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's …
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. …
The surprising story of how wrestling superstar Glenn "Kane" Jacobs beat all the odds to …
I miss having a CD player built into my car.
Institutes of the Christian Religion" is the world-changing book of Christian theology by John Calvin, …
He also held the office of pastor, which in the ensuing years came to number nineteen members.
— Selections from Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (Page 5)
So his church only had 19 members?
@mouse@bookwyrm.social I figure you can never have too much salt, but that may be why I have heart problems.
Institutes of the Christian Religion" is the world-changing book of Christian theology by John Calvin, the French pastor, reformer, and …
Institutes of the Christian Religion" is the world-changing book of Christian theology by John Calvin, …
I don't understand the idea of predestination, I figured who better to learn from than Calvin himself. @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world @robin1@diaspora.psyco.fr
@mouse@bookwyrm.social maybe its because I grew up in Wisconsin, the dairy state, but the idea of not using salted butter on a daily basis is blowing my mind.
On Anarchism was a collection of short essay that wasn't really what I was expecting. I was hoping for examples, or at least ideas, of how anarchism would actually work in the real world. How we'd get from an idea to a product without a profit motive. What I got instead was basically a label for my wife. She doesn't think governments should exist but while they do she supports a large welfare state to take care of the people. Chomsky appears to be the same. It was well written and well cited, and otherwise awesome if I had gone in with different expectations it might be getting a 5 instead of a three.
If someone has a recommendation for a different book on anarchism that actually answers my questions I would appreciate it.
@mouse@bookwyrm.social what's wrong with self rising flour and salted butter?
The second novel in a two-part Typhon Pact adventure set in the universe of Star …
Next one up in the DS9 Relaunch
