Never liked NIV, too different from the way I learned them, but that's just me.
I like NASB a little better than KJV.
What's the simplest most interesting book you've ever read?
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Never liked NIV, too different from the way I learned them, but that's just me.
I like NASB a little better than KJV.
Was afraid of that. Anyone got a link to the Frank Thomas manly pills?
Dicky Disk, Perry Plow, & Clancy Combine....you did NOT want to F%$# with Chucky Cultivator.
Probably a really good choice
I read Gary guys’d novels in high school and shortly thereafter - those were “simple “ entertaining books I guess
Tony Iommi autobiography “iron man” is straight forward and a very solid rock biography thing....
I had Animal Farm in mind but it's been listed. So, I'll put out two: All Quiet on the Western Front, and Hiroshima.
What I found interesting about this simplistic, steaming pile of **** was how corporate America spent money to buy it and required employees to read this drivel. In our case, they not only bought it for us, but we actually got paid to read it.[laughing]
Mine would be... Heaven is For Real. It's a book written in the words of a little boy who's near death experience took him to Heaven. He came back and told things that he couldn't possibly have knowed if he hadn't visited Heaven.
Read this a while back. Definitely a feel good kind of book.
Trailed off on this one over the summer. Got Coxsackie virus on an island and spread it to like 5 other friends. Only got a few chapters in before I thought I was dying of the Plague. Will need to pick it back up.
Dicky Disk, Perry Plow, & Clancy Combine....you did NOT want to F%$# with Chucky Cultivator.
I have those from when I was a kid also.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson. Lexington's own with a dystopian examination of the excesses of American culture.
In the Heart of the Sea. The true story that Melville used to author Moby Dick. Whaling vessel from Nantuckett is sunk by an angry sperm whale leaving the crew to sail from the middle of the south Pacific to Monte Video, Chile, with almost no food, water, or shelter. It's in movie form, with Chris Helmsworth (for the ladies), but doesn't do the book justice.
Batavia's Graveyard. True story. In the 1600's, a ship running with a hurricane is driven aground and breaks up on coral reef hundreds of miles off the Australian coast at around midnight. No lights, a driving rain, huge storm surge, the passengers and crew have to abandon ship, and stand for hours on the reef in the dark. The reef was only inches above the water line. It goes down hill quickly when the Captain is ordered by the owners representative to save the cash box, and not the survival supplies.
World travel, sailing, took years sometimes to get from one place to another. These people were never missed, and had to save themselves. Life in the poorest of countries today are almost idyllic compared to then.
In the Heart of the Sea. The true story that Melville used to author Moby Dick. Whaling vessel from Nantuckett is sunk by an angry sperm whale leaving the crew to sail from the middle of the south Pacific to Monte Video, Chile, with almost no food, water, or shelter. It's in movie form, with Chris Helmsworth (for the ladies), but doesn't do the book justice.
Batavia's Graveyard. True story. In the 1600's, a ship running with a hurricane is driven aground and breaks up on coral reef hundreds of miles off the Australian coast at around midnight. No lights, a driving rain, huge storm surge, the passengers and crew have to abandon ship, and stand for hours on the reef in the dark. The reef was only inches above the water line. It goes down hill quickly when the Captain is ordered by the owners representative to save the cash box, and not the survival supplies.
World travel, sailing, took years sometimes to get from one place to another. These people were never missed, and had to save themselves. Life in the poorest of countries today are almost idyllic compared to then.
I cheated and listened to the audio book, but I enjoyed "Atlas Shrugged" (I understand that many won't due to length and content).
I also enjoyed "The Divine Comedy".
Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom".
Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom".
Simple?
Mostly garbage fiction, though there have been a few exceptions. One was about the Enron scandal another about the year after 9-11. I have an hour round trip to work and do many audio books.
I also enjoyed "The Divine Comedy".
Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom".
Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom".
Simple?
Mostly garbage fiction, though there have been a few exceptions. One was about the Enron scandal another about the year after 9-11. I have an hour round trip to work and do many audio books.
