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What I'm Reading -- How About You?

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I'm about to start The Treasury of David by Spurgeon once I finish Spurgeon's Sermons on Prayer. I'm also reading The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts. I also recently bought Hayek's The Road to Surfdom, C S Lewis' Till We Have Faces, and a one volume collection of Augustine's writings and biography. I'm also thinking of picking back up Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death form a long break from it.
 
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I've been reading a little from Thomas Brooks, his work "Paradise Opened", and it is mind blowing. It may be slow reading for modern readers, but it's worth the extra time, and to date is probably the best work on "Covenant Theology" that I have read. I've only read a small portion, and found it to be surprisingly helpful on a topic I have need to study more.
 
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I purchased The Works of Thomas Brooks for my Logos library. They're in the public domain though, and available at Internet Archive as PDF's. However, I wanted fast clean searchable texts with links. I copied "Paradise Opened" from Vol 5 from Logos into doc, docx, rtf, and pdf, I also used created links identical to those in Logos. I could give you a copy in any of those formats if you would like to convert to epub. Just let me know.
 
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Eddie L said:
Tarzan and the Golden Lion.

Sigh... I always feel so inadequate when I post here.
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I love Edgar Rice Burroughs! Read every one of the Tarzan series when I was a kid and when I do read for the mere pleasure I read one of his books. I just finished what I could get me hands on of the Barsoom series. I also read his series on the center of the Earth from which the movies were made. I find him much more readable that Jules Vern.
 
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I didn't realize Burroughs wrote the John Carter series. My son and I recently enjoyed the movie and thought it would be great to read the series. It's free on Gutenberg so I downloaded it and the first Tarzan novel.
 
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This summer:
Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics" and his "Applied Economics"
Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny" and his "Ameritopia"

I work a seasonal business; I get Jan. Feb. and March off.
I have very little time to read for pleasure this time of year.
 
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JM said:
I didn't realize Burroughs wrote the John Carter series. My son and I recently enjoyed the movie and thought it would be great to read the series. It's free on Gutenberg so I downloaded it and the first Tarzan novel.
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The movie is only very loosely based on the books. I would have enjoyed the movie more if it hadn't claimed to be the stories in the books. Dejah Thoris was very feminine in the books (she was NOT a warrior), but was also very influential and honorable. The world would have stopped to listen every time she opened her mouth.

Reading Burroughs has been educational about the mindset of the 1920's regarding evolution and racism. This is true in every book of his that I've read. He makes it apparent that evolution, eugenics, and racism are all tied at the hip, not because he says so, but because you get to take in all the assumptions he was making.

At the same time, it's interesting to note how honorable people were, even the bad guys. His books were either expressing optimistic expectations for people, or people in general really were more honorable back then.
 
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Sowell and Walter Williams are pair of guys I love reading and listening to.

I'm on chapter 4 of the first John Carter novel and yeah, Burroughs is not politically correct. I'm enjoying it so far...
 
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What always caught my eye, were the painted covers, especially covers by Frank Frazetta.
 
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