Last Book That You Read- Non- Fiction

trevanian wrote:

Makes me wonder if Patrick McGoohan read him.

Oh, how so?

His THE PRISONER series seems to come right up against this, especially with the conclusion suggesting #6 is still in his same old groove, that he hasn't yet learned enough about himself to be truly free (unless his discovery is that he will kill with a gun, since that is something #6 -- and his quasi-alterego John Drake -- didn't ever do until the finale.)

There were some original novels that came out in the years after the series first aired that also kind of genuflected in this direction.

Wasn't 100% sure where to post this ... I went to a NI Science Festival event last night, a talk based on this book -




- by the author herself. It was most entertaining, I may well buy the book.

Currently reading Woody Allen’s autobiography: Apropos of Nothing. Very amusing, as expected.



Side note: I haven’t got up to any of the abuse allegations-- not even sure he explores it in his book-- but the man is innocent. Give him a break.

Nice one, BI. I'd be interested in that talk if they happened to film it for YT or the like.

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

Side note: I haven’t got up to any of the abuse allegations-- not even sure he explores it in his book-- but the man is innocent. Give him a break.

I am still quite flabbergasted that anyone could truly believe that the journalist kid could was Woody Allen's son instead of Sinatra's.



I mean...who is buying that?

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov.
The Kubrick adaptation was great. The book is even better.

Nabokov is a wonderful author. You should read the novel Glory and his short story "Details of a Sunset."

Presently reading Emmanuel Levinas' Humanism of the Other. Like most poststructuralist philosophy, it is about 2/3 incoherent gibberish.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Nabokov is a wonderful author. You should read the novel Glory and his short story "Details of a Sunset."

I definitely should, I only read one other book by him before, and I just realized I posted in the wrong thread. Oh well, surely I am forgiven for that.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF NOSTRADAMUS
The "original" source is Les Prophéties de M. Michel Nostradamus from 1568. Only read excerpts of this before, in the 80s or 90s. Not done yet, so I cannot tell you how it ends.

You cannot tell us how it ends?! Well clearly, you're no Nostradamus.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

You cannot tell us how it ends?! Well clearly, you're no Nostradamus.

All I know is it ends in 3797.

Apparently the sole thing in Nostradamus' writings that is still provably 'right' nowadays is ... a jam recipe.

Tickles me, that does.

THE SECRET DOCTRINE by Helena P. Blavatsky

Very interesting. One of the greatest personalities of the 19th century.

Phantom Commander wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

You cannot tell us how it ends?! Well clearly, you're no Nostradamus.

All I know is it ends in 3797.

I was wrong about that, by the way. It ends in the 61st century. Not the world, but the prophesies.

OK. A short book but even so maybe a bit longer than what it wanted to say which is effectively that "Churchill and Britain could not have won the Second World War; in the end America and Russia did. But in May 1940 Churchill was the one who did not lose it.”



The business and technological side of the Reformation. Maybe between the lines is the idea that the Catholic Frederick the Wise's protection of Martin Luther was less because of any personal belief in fairness and moreso to keep the Reformation engine humming as a sort of weapon against the Italian elites.

Phantom Commander wrote:

THE SECRET DOCTRINE by Helena P. Blavatsky

Very interesting. One of the greatest personalities of the 19th century.

Are you a devotee of Rudolf Steiner, as well?

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Phantom Commander wrote:

THE SECRET DOCTRINE by Helena P. Blavatsky

Very interesting. One of the greatest personalities of the 19th century.

Are you a devotee of Rudolf Steiner, as well?

I have read a few of his books.

Currently reading PERCEPTIONS OF A RENEGADE MIND by David Icke. Nothing new in this one.
I like Icke, and he gets much right, but like everyone else he is not always as right as he thinks he is.

THE FOURTH WAY by P. D. Ouspensky.
Have read it before, but Ouspensky stands another read.

What about Swedenborg? I assume you're well acquainted with his work.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

What about Swedenborg? I assume you're well acquainted with his work.

I have read it online some years ago.

PHANTOM SELF (AND HOW TO FIND THE REAL ONE) by David Icke.

30 or so years ago, Icke appeared on the BBC chat show Wogan and said that within 6 months the White Cliffs Of Dover would have fallen into the sea. They didn't (and still haven't), and yet there are still those who take him seriously.

Life is strange.

There is certainly a little hubris going on.