pirateye is currently reading Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations) and DailyLit's Book Channel.
I’m 66 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since February 13, 2008. My reading interests include history, scifi, action, and non-fiction.
Books
- DailyLit's Book Channel 100% complete
- The Moonstone 58% complete
- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations) 47% complete
- Crush It! 100% complete
- Life on the Mississippi 91% complete
- Wikipedia Tour: The Grand Tour finished
- The Education of Henry Adams finished
- 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen by Leonard Maltin finished
- The Souls of Black Folk finished
- Art and Craft of the Machine finished
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano finished
- Earth Day, Every Day finished
- Words That Matter from O, The Oprah Magazine finished
- The Best American Humorous Short Stories finished
- The Federalist Papers finished
- Promissory Payback finished
- You're Only as Sick as Your Secrets finished
- Flipping the Funnel: Company Edition finished
- Anonymous finished
- Robin Hood finished
- Someone Will Be With You Shortly finished
- America's Greatest Hits finished
- Burn This Book finished
- Dr. Heidegger's Experiment finished
- Future Imperfect finished
- Unleashing the Ideavirus finished
- Berlitz DailyLit Spanish Lessons finished
- King Solomon's Mines finished
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Heroes For My Son finished
- Star Soldiers finished
- On the Origin of Species finished
- War of the Worlds finished
- 30 Stories in 30 Days finished
- The 50th Law finished
- Organizing the Disorganized Child finished
- The Ghost in the Pantry finished
- Authors in the Kitchen finished
- Get Cooking finished
- Book Sampler: Science Fiction finished
- Momlogic Recession Survival Guide finished
- Who is Mark Twain? finished
- The Path of the Law finished
- Little Brother finished
- Walden finished
- The Bootstrapper's Bible finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Key Philosophers finished
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin finished
- The Virginian, Horseman of the Plains finished
- 100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money finished
- Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories finished
- Up from Slavery finished
- The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finished
- Phantasmagoria and Other Poems finished
- The Art of War finished
- Art of Money Getting finished
- State of the Union Address finished
- Overclocked suspended
- A Place So Foreign and Eight More suspended
- When the World Shook suspended
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater suspended
- The Alchemist suspended
Posts
Question of the Week - Sweet or Salty?
salt over sweet, but hot! over all
Question of the Week - DailyLit is...
the open door to a free library. The classics I "should "have read long ago I can now peruse in just a few minutes a day. I recently finished "Origin of the Species" and I'm getting ready to begin the "Federalist Papers". The "Tea Party" claims this as their origin, but is it really?m I for one will soon know, how about you?
Heroes For My Son - Great bedtime read to a small child
Interesting choices of Heros. Children will be improved by hearing these stories. That will make all of our lives better.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #71: Reading Together, Reading Alone
A book is just a containerized idea, read alone it remains just an idea, read as part of a group it becomes a focus for discussion that may or may not have anything to do with the original idea. So much of modern life is isolating any personal interaction , I think, is to the good.
pirateye
Question of the Week - To Trick, or To Treat: That Is the Question
One year I dressed in a "Rasta" wig, frock coat and was liberally wrapped in chains. My character? THE MARLEYS, Jacob and Bob
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #38: Books on Repeat
The Little Prince, because no matter how I feel it makes me feel better. Every reading is different in some fundamental way because i have changed from one time to the next.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #20: Potent Quotables
"T.A.N.S.T.a.a.F.L." From Robert Heinlein "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". There is cost to everything and you may not expect me to carry you. I may choose to but the choice is mine because I PAID for it. Stands for "There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch". Inscribed on the flag of the "Independent Moon". Read the book!
Adventure Books - Adventure Fans
Finishing the last 3 instals of "The Virginian" nice adventure/romance. I loved the "Further Adventures of Robinson Caruso" and never knew it even existed. I'm also a fan of Heinlin's "Stranger in a Strange Land". I've already read most of Dumas but "The Count" may be coming up on my list soon. Recently finished the "100 ideas for successful Business" or at least that is what it was about and that was pretty good. I used some quotes from that when I made a suggestion to CORPORATE. (No response to date). Great reading to all!