Can we have one of these threads?
>>1515I loved it, but get your point. Though to be honest...it is about a wartime *ambulance driver*, not a soldier.You might like "For Whom the Bell Tolls," it has more military bits.
>>1540No, I liked the romance fine. Frederic and Catherine was one of the best done pairings I've read about in a while.What I didn't like was the WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, WORDS to describe things that have nothing to do with anything. Paragraphs and paragraphs about every road, every sky, every stream he passes by and is never mentioned in the book ever again.
And Abe swimming from Italy to Scotland while following a leviathan that had swallowed Hellboy.Naked.And a poor little redshirt that went mad.
I'm back from my vacation and I want to play.So this. Also, incest undertones that would make Japan proud.
>>1430Looks like I ducked out at just the right time.
>>1607Tell me more about that lovely ninja on the right.
>>1634Pina coladas, walks in the rain, etcetera.
>>1634Yumiko likes shake shashimi, warm sake, the screams of the wicked, and being in a motivator that is the first image that comes up when you Google 'ninja.'Her turn offs are garlic breath, bright lights, pirates, and the never ending moral black hole she has fallen into.
>>2528OUTRAGEOUS ADVENTURES?!
Woodie Guthrie: A lifeBy Joe Klein
>>2528I think I cried at the end of that book.
Still one of the better Holmes stories.
>>2528How interesting, I got Brian Blessed.
>>2792Same difference.
Seriously, this shit contains less information than your average school textbook and is so racist I can't believe it was published in 2007. In fact, who the hell would ever agree to publish a book like that? *checks out publishing house and it's other titles*Okaaay...Washington Summit PublishersThankfully I found this in a torrent
>>4039Details?
>>4039You'd be amazed. The scientific Racism community got a giant boost in recent years.
>>4048That thing looks ancient. Racism was scientifically enforced up until about the 1930s in the U.S. Is this a newer work?
>>4049>>Michael H. Hart (born April 28, 1932 in New York City)>>Understanding Human History (Washington Summit Publishers, 2007).Also, on the matter of 'Washington Summit Publishers'?>>Washington Summit Publishers produces and sells books in the categories of anthropology, evolution, genetics, psychology, philosophy, and current events.[1] It is run by Louis Andrews, who is on the Board of Directors of the National Policy Institute, the editorial board of the Occidental Quarterly,>>The Occidental Quarterly is a journal "devoted to the ethnic, racial, and cultural heritage that forms the foundation of Western Civilization". It aims to defend "the cultural, ethnic, and racial interests of Western European peoples" and examine "contemporary political, social, and demographic trends that impact the posterity of Western Civilization".These guys got a new boost with the recent genetics. They latch on to a few factoids, about haplotypes, and such, and create a veneer that few people will understand/bother to wade through. They smack a stuffy academic sounding title on the cover, ape the outward appearance of scientific impartiality, and suddenly they seem not quite so obviously backwards.
>>4052Can't even trust the standard media these days
>>4043Little paleoanthropology in this book (which was the main reason I downloaded this). A lot goes into the discussion of how the different races evolved after their spread out of Africa. It's pretty accurate until it gets to the part where he talks about how the unique conditions of Europe lead to the evolution of greater intelligence, explaining why the white race evolved into a superior form and dominated other peoples to this day.All the facts and sources he presents are genuine, but the link between these facts and his ideas is mostly speculation and a wide range of factors have been left out.And his previous book still sold half a million copies...
>>4060It sounds like he read the dust jacket for Guns, Germs, and Steel but didn't bother to read the book.
>>4063Speaking of Which
And it was AWESOME.
It was pretty good!
>>4082 You really thought the creature was named Frankenstein didn't you.
>>4082You'd be surprised at how much the novel differs from the 1931 film.
>>4079
I don't recommend it.
>>4165The first Halo book was pretty good, but other than that yes
>>4210Evolution had some gooooood ones.
There's more to convey, but I think you get the idea.
An awesome read.