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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A vivid trip through the mind of the top professional wrestler in the business - …
Today is my anniversary. I have a vagina on my head. My wife isn't mad at me yet. She might be later. I think I wanna DDT Nicky on a bundle of light tubes.
— Mox by Jon Moxley (Page 266)
What in the world does it mean to have a vagina on your head?
This book was banned in Australia, gazetted in 1992 as "refused classification" and a prohibited …
John Muir said that if it ever came to a war between the races, he would side with the bears. That day has arrived.
— Ecodefense by Dave Foreman, Edward Abbey, Bill Haywood (Page 11)
Millions thrilled to Kenneth Johnson's hugely popular mini-series "V," an action filled drama of alien …
V: The Second Generation is an independent novel authored by Kenneth Johnson the producer of the original 1983 V Miniseries, the only part of the V "universe" that Johnson owned the IP rights to. Its written in a way that it should be able to stand on its own so if you've never read or watched anything in the V francise you should be fine to pick this up. However, if you have, I recommend re-watching the the original miniseries first. If you've watched "The Final Battle" or the '85 or '08 T.V. series, or read the earlier spin off books, it can be confusing following this. The Visitors never left Earth, the've been here for over 20 years and the lizard people have continued to control world affairs and are still stealing our liquid water and our second generation has grown up under their brainwashing "knowing" that the Visitors …
V: The Second Generation is an independent novel authored by Kenneth Johnson the producer of the original 1983 V Miniseries, the only part of the V "universe" that Johnson owned the IP rights to. Its written in a way that it should be able to stand on its own so if you've never read or watched anything in the V francise you should be fine to pick this up. However, if you have, I recommend re-watching the the original miniseries first. If you've watched "The Final Battle" or the '85 or '08 T.V. series, or read the earlier spin off books, it can be confusing following this. The Visitors never left Earth, the've been here for over 20 years and the lizard people have continued to control world affairs and are still stealing our liquid water and our second generation has grown up under their brainwashing "knowing" that the Visitors arent' only our friends but the only reason the human race still exists. Much of the original heros are still here, save Mike Donavan who has assumed killed in '91 during a raid in france, and much of the world wide resitance was destroyed in '99. For the most part I like this book, but it was written oddly. It started very interesting with new aliens shoing up in their rural hunting cabin and our fisherman super excited by their naked bodies. But I don't know why they had to kill them. Sometimes it is hard to keep straight because Johnons switches scenes/perspectives so quickly. Sometimes he adds the double line break to indicate and sometimes he doesn't. Its clear that he is more use to writing for T.V. than writing a novel. I appreciated the tension between Diana and the new Visitor commandant Jeremey and "The Leader" finally coming to earth. I was surprised how the "half-breeds" where treated as slaves and despised by most everyone but their own families. The descriptions of the new alien Zenthi and their are they with us or are they not was treated very well. The closer I got to the end the more I wondered if it was going to get all tied up or if this was intended to be the first in a series that didn't occur. It has a happy ending, if inconclusive.
Millions thrilled to Kenneth Johnson's hugely popular mini-series "V," an action filled drama of alien invasion, a TV event that …
A vivid trip through the mind of the top professional wrestler in the business - …
We attempt the same superplex on Kane, but he knocks me down and sends Seth careening to the floor, before bouncing off that table and sailing his big ass through the air with a vintage Flying Cow like it was 1998.
— Mox by Jon Moxley (Page 199)
What in the world is "a vintage Flying Cow"?
A vivid trip through the mind of the top professional wrestler in the business - …
If I remember correctly, it was an injury to Punk that forced a change in the card.
— Mox by Jon Moxley (Page 194)
Of course it was. Not only is C.M. Punk a trash wrestler & a self-centered twit, he's also injury prone as all get out.
A vivid trip through the mind of the top professional wrestler in the business - …
I had come back through the curtain at the arena adrenaline pumping, puddles of blood still forming in my eye sockets. People were congratulating me. It was dizzying. I was so excited I didn't know which way to walk: proud, happy, smiling, breathing hard, high on brutality and the crowd's subsequent reaction. I ended up standing in the locker room. I was a sitting duck. In the state was in, I could have been talked into riding a motorcycle through the jungle, naked covered in honey after signing over my 401k and agreeing to sell Herbalife products.
— Mox by Jon Moxley (Page 167)
LOL
In the North American Confederacy . . . People are free—really free. Free to do as they please, whether it …
In the North American Confederacy . . . People are free—really free. Free to do …
The American Zone was a good way to end out the North American Confederate series. Nearly as good as the first. It really can stand on its own. Certainly no reason to read the rest of the series, particularly the barely even relavant books 3-8. That being said it is certainly a product of its time> Being written at the tale end of 2001 there is a more than mild obsession with terrorism and the possibility that the terrorist aren't who they seem but actually folks who want to create a laviethan state. I susepct that L. Neil Smith is, or at least was at the time, a so-called 9/11 truther. Regardless the story is entriguing. our hero Win-Bear is saved by his healer wife far more times than should be justified for any red-blood American. And even the open minded confederates start blaming the terror plots on immigrants, like …
The American Zone was a good way to end out the North American Confederate series. Nearly as good as the first. It really can stand on its own. Certainly no reason to read the rest of the series, particularly the barely even relavant books 3-8. That being said it is certainly a product of its time> Being written at the tale end of 2001 there is a more than mild obsession with terrorism and the possibility that the terrorist aren't who they seem but actually folks who want to create a laviethan state. I susepct that L. Neil Smith is, or at least was at the time, a so-called 9/11 truther. Regardless the story is entriguing. our hero Win-Bear is saved by his healer wife far more times than should be justified for any red-blood American. And even the open minded confederates start blaming the terror plots on immigrants, like those from the USA and other altenrate realities, after all they didn't have these issues before there was an "American Zone." A few thigs do seem a bit far fetched, like that one of our new comers finds a market for troll dolls because they never came to this reality, but somehow no one has thought to bring all the gold from all the other realities to debase their precious metal currency? Oh and of course there is Smith's regular obsessoin where we get more descriptions of a character's firearms than we do of the characters' character.
Ponniyin Selvan is Kalki R Krishnamurthy's magnum opus, set in 10th century Tamil Nadu, exploring …
I am so white and so American. I've been struggling to get through this just because of the lengthy Indian names of our characters.
Spiritually called to take part in Lakota Sioux rituals, the author of The Pipe and …
There is a tendency to consider history as a smoothly advancing reality. The four-fold model, however, finds the events of world occur in quantum steps so that there are enduring, distinct stages in Salvation Historvy as there are in the "spiration" of Triune God and in the four-fold aspects of Wakan Tanka. Therefore, as the Person's of the Trinity and the spirits of the Four Directions remain enduringly distinct, so too are the levels of revealed religion in Salvation History to be recognized as enduringly distinct—of which the Lakota religion and the Christian religions are from two distinctly different stages of revealed religion and should be respected as such and remain enduringly distinct.
Spiritually called to take part in Lakota Sioux rituals, the author of The Pipe and …
These scriptural passages trom Ezekiel and Revelations are apocalyptic, and it is most difficult to know absolutely the realities indicated by these colossal descriptions. Obviously they were written in times of religious suppression, and the great visions were given to spur hope more than anything else. But ímages expressing hope must have some basis in reality. Each image had meaning; some were known only in local religious circles. Still there are four levels of interpretation of any scriptural passage: 1) the original historical meaning, 2) the meaning in reference to Christ, 3) the meaning in reference to the church and the individuals in the church today, 4) the meaning in reference to the final judgment. It is experience that fills out the details of any kind of vision, be it covenantal, vocational, prophetic, or apocalyptic. A person familiar with Lakota symbolism is immediately drawn to many meaningful and coherent religious understandings that are most difficult to put into words. While it cannot be said that the above Scripture passages prove that there really are four-sided creatures around God's throne now and at the ends of the earth, one begins to wonder when the same type of imagery emerges from the revelations of other religions. At least the Lakota and the Christian religions are compatible on this point. Still, a more profound comparison can be made.
— The Pipe and Christ by William Stolzman (Page 200)
Spiritually called to take part in Lakota Sioux rituals, the author of The Pipe and …
Whites judge a person good or loving if there is something positive coming from inside a person toward an other. For a Lakota "to love" is "to cause something positive and good in the other." Consequently, the Lakota do not get hung up with the question whether an action originates from free will to be a loving act. A mother, who unretlectively picks up a child to comfort it from its crying, may be acting reflexively, but she is still acting lovingly—according to the Lakota. By their deeds and not their reflection will you know them. Consequently, it is easier for a Lakota to say that this morning when my horse took me out to fix fence and I later fed him, we loved each other and felt a lot closer to each other than I do with many of the people down the road. Certainly one's horse has its own nature or way and relationships are closest with one's family and relatives. Nonetheless, for a Lakota, love can bridge differences of nature both ways...for are we not all relatives, mitakuye oyae in?
— The Pipe and Christ by William Stolzman (Page 130)
Spiritually called to take part in Lakota Sioux rituals, the author of The Pipe and …
Some White people ask whether the Lakota worship the sun at the Sundance. The word "worship" refers to the special recognition given to a spiritual person, recognizing that person as divine, or at the highest spiritual order. One Sundance chief said, "So many people have asked me about the Sundance. Do we worship the sun? I tell them, No. We worship almighty God. We admire his work, Without the sun we wouldn't be able to see one another or recognize the different colored people of the world in the four directions of the Sundance."
— The Pipe and Christ by William Stolzman (Page 158)
Spiritually called to take part in Lakota Sioux rituals, the author of The Pipe and …
In my opinion, the Lakota spirits have shown greater appreciation and towards the Church than the Spirit of the Church has shown toward the Lakota spirits. But times are changing.
— The Pipe and Christ by William Stolzman (Page 127)
