What are you reading?

Currently reading ancient iraq by George Roux. Highly recommended. Very well known man on mesopotamian history.

Spin is your book on recent history?

SumerianKing said:

Currently reading ancient iraq by George Roux. Highly recommended. Very well known man on mesopotamian history.

Spin is your book on recent history?

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Mostly 20th c. Covers some earlier Ottoman era.

Ok cool, my book finishes before the ottoman empire, it stars from cavemans in mesopotamia till the persian rule.
Tell me how the book is once you finished and if its worth reading

SumerianKing said:

Ok cool, my book finishes before the ottoman empire, it stars from cavemans in mesopotamia till the persian rule.
Tell me how the book is once you finished and if its worth reading

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They complement each other, good. I was going to look for exactly what you are talking about after finishing with this.

Thats good, Thanks. Yeh it's realy interesting, it makes you relise what a diverse and fasinating country we live in. Not how some people portray it to be just black and white. when thinking about it, these catagories of "arab" "kurd" etc mean nothing. Beth nehrain is a fasinating land with still so much mysteries.

The Evolution of GOD by Robert Wright.

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Thieving fear by Ramsey Campbell, I cant seem to finish it, its so damn boring but i don't like to leave books unread since i do admire authors, whether crap or not.

sheytanElKebir said:

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Hmm, do u need to read that? Its good that we don't need our hands to read

baghdad_sara said:

Thieving fear by Ramsey Campbell, I cant seem to finish it, its so damn boring but i don't like to leave books unread since i do admire authors, whether crap or not.

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Drop it. If you adopt this approach it will make you more reluctant to pick up a new book in case it's boring.

True, only the book was bought for me so technically that rule shouldn't apply because i usually read the blurb before buying books anyway.

Fiction or non-fiction?

SumerianKing said:

Fiction or non-fiction?

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Non-fiction is just all that more interesting, some authors just don't have enough substance to keep the reader going and so many fictitious novels can seem rather bland

Same. Also its real KNOWLEDGE.

SumerianKing said:

Same. Also its real KNOWLEDGE.

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I prefer non-fiction to fiction in general, however, you shouldn't dismiss non-fiction as not imparting something real. Non-fiction is often used to convey ideas, it's not just entertainment.

Orwell's work is a great example of this. Everyone should read Orwell, especially 1984.

Spin Cycle said:

I prefer non-fiction to fiction in general, however, you shouldn't dismiss non-fiction as not imparting something real. Non-fiction is often used to convey ideas, it's not just entertainment.

Orwell's work is a great example of this. Everyone should read Orwell, especially 1984.

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You mean fiction?

Chounz said:

You mean fiction?

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yup. :bash:

Spin Cycle said:

Drop it. If you adopt this approach it will make you more reluctant to pick up a new book in case it's boring.

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One of the main reasons. Why I read book reviews.