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Let me recommend the humor of O Henry. Aside from humor "The Gift of the Magi" is a classic of his.

It's been a while since I read White Fang, but the time frame is probably late 19th century. I don't remember any actual dates given within the story of White Fang, but since you've got the gold rush...

War and Peace fits the profile nicely. It might fail on the revenge side as I don't remember anything like that in it (someone remind me if anything like revenge happened in War and Peace). But when...

Thanks for your info. I guess LOTR is a vast canvas and can certainly get complicated. I'm not sure about complicated, but can get lengthy where one point takes you deeper than you originally wanted...

Simply my original question. Why a green stone? As far as I've guessed up till now, with the help of BlueSkyGB's link, is that it helps Aragorn's cause in his love for Arwen. I could be off here, but...

Thanks for the link, very helpful. :thumbs_up
Though I'm still a bit wondering at it :blush: , I'll leave it up for my imagination to figure it out.
Again, thanks. :)

Curiously, within the chapter "Many Meetings" Bilbo sings a song that he made up about Eärendil. Afterwards when Bilbo asks Frodo what he thought of the song, Bilbo says:

So, what's with the green...

Thanks for your replies and time, PeterL, but we are seriously different :brickwall (not that I hold it against you, nor do I mean any offense by it). It's been fun, kinda, but no matter what I come...

Hmm...it's a bit difficult for me to respond to this statement as I am not a scientist nor do I understand electricity beyond an elementary level. From one point I can say that I hope you don't think...

That's a very broad statement. Can you explain what you mean more?


I don't know who Velikovsky is, though I understand he proposed radical ideas during his time and published a few books about...

Well, actually, the video deals with multiple facets of science, primarily the electric view of the Universe, and mythology is a part of that view as the video shows.
Our ancient ancestors carved...

I've noticed that quite a number of people like JRR Tolkiens works and so I thought I would share this video with you all, especially those who are fascinated by myth. The video is lengthy (over 1...

And as you read, you will notice they don't advocate a vegetarian diet, but rather a diet rich in fruits, as our stomachs are designed for.


I find it all rather interesting.

Thanks Logos. :thumbs_up
I don't know why but that sentence always rattles my brain. Somehow it's hard for me to grasp, don't know why. But thanks for your reply as it will certainly be helpful. ;)

Here is the beginning of an O Henry short story titles Hearts and Crosses:

I am confused by that last sentence. The reason is because I don't understand the word "consultee", as it's not in any...

I'd like to put in Jeff Peters and Andy Tucker from O Henry. I really had a great time reading their adventures swindling people out of their money.
I remember starting to read Dorian Gray, but I...

Well, yeah, every book that I read has something in it that I pick up on too. Though there was one book that really had quite an impact on my thinking, and that book was Papillon, by Henri Charrière....

I'd like to quote Dr. Emanuel Lasker from his book Lasker's Manual of Chess:



Directly this can be applied to life and to overall health. Not simply grain or aloe, but by the "multitude of...

When I used to visit the comic store it wasn't all that uncommon to find more adults looking around than teenagers!

"He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her."

'....What are we eating?'
'Black beans and rice, fried bananas, and some stew.'

Actually,...

There have been many moments where I felt bad the way a story went, and I'm not sure how often I may have cried because of it, but the latest book I can remember crying was Papillon, by Henri...

Yeah, I read one at a time. Everyone else who reads one at a time sums up my opinion. However, I'm slightly different in that my lack of vocabulary has a heavy weight in making my choices for me....

Absolutely! But my comparison was to show that chess could be dominated in approximately 150 years. Who knows how long it may take to conquer the emotions and to pin point how they develop. I'm not...

Very true, but look at chess. Why does a computer play chess well? The computer can't play chess well if it wasn't for the programmer giving it "the book". Basically, chess has been documented so...

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Books I wouldn't read, hmm . . . I probably would never read anything by Stephen King.