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<blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 586752" data-attributes="member: 15907"><p>You're going to laugh...</p><p></p><p>I lost a bet. And as a result, I have to read "Dianetics" cover to cover. It's... well. Hubbard needed an editor worse than Anne Rice. Think of some Pop Psychology thing mixed with some things that could *almost* be right (if you substitute "reinforced traumatic pattern from the amygdala" for "engram" it could be not horrible.) But then it gets beyond tiresome in so many places, and it's written in that GEE WHIZ! style of 1940's pulp science fiction chattiness. I got better personal development advice out of doctor Smith's "Lensman" series. </p><p></p><p>Also I'm reading Xenophon's biography of Cyrus, the "Cyropaedia." (Free download from gutenberg.org!) I love that style of writing, 'though if you're just starting out reading that kind of historical biography, I suggest Suetonius' "The Twelve Caesars." It would make a fantastic mini-series! Oh wait, BBC adapted Graves' "I, Claudius" for the little screen, and that's basically what it is. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>What else? I'm sure there's more. Just got home from a 520 mile drive down south for Mom's 94th, and boy is my tuchis tired. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Gorgeous drive once I got out of the Foreclosurevilles of Riverside and San Bernardino County, CA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nerfherder, post: 586752, member: 15907"] You're going to laugh... I lost a bet. And as a result, I have to read "Dianetics" cover to cover. It's... well. Hubbard needed an editor worse than Anne Rice. Think of some Pop Psychology thing mixed with some things that could *almost* be right (if you substitute "reinforced traumatic pattern from the amygdala" for "engram" it could be not horrible.) But then it gets beyond tiresome in so many places, and it's written in that GEE WHIZ! style of 1940's pulp science fiction chattiness. I got better personal development advice out of doctor Smith's "Lensman" series. Also I'm reading Xenophon's biography of Cyrus, the "Cyropaedia." (Free download from gutenberg.org!) I love that style of writing, 'though if you're just starting out reading that kind of historical biography, I suggest Suetonius' "The Twelve Caesars." It would make a fantastic mini-series! Oh wait, BBC adapted Graves' "I, Claudius" for the little screen, and that's basically what it is. :) What else? I'm sure there's more. Just got home from a 520 mile drive down south for Mom's 94th, and boy is my tuchis tired. :) Gorgeous drive once I got out of the Foreclosurevilles of Riverside and San Bernardino County, CA. [/QUOTE]
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