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FAMILY BOOK CLUB - JUNE: FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS
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Hey, everybody!
The June selection for the book club is Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock.
We'll continue to meet for weekly chats in the Book Club chat room on Thursday nights at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT: http://tinychat.com/dtfhbookclub.
Reading/discussion schedule:
6/07 - Parts 1 & 2 (Chapters 1-12)
6/13 - Part 3 (Chapters 13-23)
6/21 - Parts 4 & 5 (Chapters 24-32)
6/28 - Parts 6, 7, & 8 (Chapters 33-52)Post edited by grl_come_undone at 2012-06-30 15:32:08 -
Synchronicity alert!
Ordered it yesterday. -
Yay! I've been regularly passing this around to friends for the past year or so...
Right now I'm reading his novel Entangled.
It's like a fictional telling of Supernatural... You can tell he wanted a different way to disseminate the knowledge he has gained. Unfortunately, dialogue isn't his strong point, but dammit if he doesn't have sooo much enthusiasm. I love Graham. :)Post edited by kungfu2882 at 2012-06-01 01:14:27 -
thanks, @KHAN.
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thatdude21601 said:
Synchronicity alert!
Ordered it yesterday.
+1 on the synchronicity
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I just downloaded Fingerprints of the Gods with my free Audible credit. It is quite short, just under 3 hours long.
Meaning, everyone should be able to get in on this DTFH book club action. -
I've got Fingerprints of the Gods and have been looking for an opportunity to read it. @kungfu2882, you might be amused to know that I actually did the publicity for Entangled, and that's how I got to know Graham Hancock. Wonderful guy, The mainstream sci fi/fantasy/book review community completely ignored that book. Sigh.
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@deadlights I don't understand how the audiobook could be 3 hours. The physical book is a tome. I let a friend borrow it, but I recall it being almost 600 pages.
@mattstaggs when you had Graham on the show, did you guys talk about Fingerprints? All I can remember is him talking about Entangled.The future ahead of us is beyond our wildest imaginings. It can't be any other way. Business as usual is off the menu. -
I added the discussion schedule to my original post.
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Klorptar said:
@deadlights I don't understand how the audiobook could be 3 hours. The physical book is a tome. I let a friend borrow it, but I recall it being almost 600 pages.
@mattstaggs when you had Graham on the show, did you guys talk about Fingerprints? All I can remember is him talking about Entangled.
It IS abriged. I didn't even consider that. What a waste! -
i'm not a great reader but i excel at pictures, and with all the B&W pages i'm assuming this book makes reference to/wanted you to see the images.
if they're identified in the audio and you're a diligent skilled googler, you could look them up on the innernets, but a problem i've run across w/audio is it's hard to go back. they (audiobooks) are at least divided up by chapters.EDIT:if you get the legit versions from places like audible, but if you get them from the piratebay.se you might be disappointed
in the past a few unabridged selections i've made do seem to carry on excessively (ayn rand for one at 13hrs, dawkins for another at 9hrs), but thats ok if you've got the time.Post edited by jdirt2019 at 2012-06-06 22:12:07we're totally fucked, and that's ok, because you gotta go somehow; let us #collapse in style! BOOKS:http://bit.ly/ZQSFyT -
@mattstaggs Entangled is compulsive reading... It's been a while since a book has made me read 100 pages a day, but it's unputdownable(?)... About 40 pages remain... I'm really excited to see where Graham goes with his next work.
It seems that you have a really rewarding job. You get to discuss the world with some of the greatest modern thinkers... and your comments are always spot on. Good work, my friend, good work. :) -
FYI: John Anthony West, the archaeologist whom Graham Hancock refers to in his book as dating the sphinx and much of the Giza Plateau much farther back, is going to be on Joe Rogan's podcast this week. It should be good supplemental information for the book.The future ahead of us is beyond our wildest imaginings. It can't be any other way. Business as usual is off the menu.
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I'm working on Fingerprints of the Gods now. Great book. I think that Graham will be remembered as a martyr, ultimately. He says things other people are terrified to consider. Some people won't even give him a chance.
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@kungfu2882 That's just one of my many jobs, LOL! I've got a day job, and I have to find some place to burn the excess energy accumulated eight to five. Being Cubicle Veal isn't too invigorating, although I do like the people I work with and believe in the mission. (I work in public health.)
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Klorptar said:
FYI: John Anthony West, the archaeologist whom Graham Hancock refers to in his book as dating the sphinx and much of the Giza Plateau much farther back, is going to be on Joe Rogan's podcast this week. It should be good supplemental information for the book.
fuck yeah!! I've wanted to hear from John Anthony West ever since hearing Hancock and Rogan referencing him..
should be a great podcast.
PS. I'm excited for this month's book club as well. It will be a challenge for me to get through all the text, but I know it will be rewarding.
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What are the arguments against "earth crust displacement"?
A quick google search seems to be that the main argument is that it's not anartica at all on the maps, and that ancient map makers just assumed there would be a southern continent for balance purposes. Comically weak, but the theory seems like a wild leap also. Einstein finds it credible I guess.
As I go forward this is all true, unless somebody does fact checking for us.Post edited by thatdude21601 at 2012-06-05 15:41:51 -
It's been a while since I've read the book, but doesn't he state that the piri reis, which cartographers at the time allowed had been pieced together from other older maps, drew the northern tip of antarctica in such detail that in the 50's, before we used seismographic mapping, were able to correct some of our maps?
The future ahead of us is beyond our wildest imaginings. It can't be any other way. Business as usual is off the menu. -
Post edited by jdirt2019 at 2012-06-15 22:04:31we're totally fucked, and that's ok, because you gotta go somehow; let us #collapse in style! BOOKS:http://bit.ly/ZQSFyT
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Hey guys, I'll be a about a week behind by the time I start the book but I wanted to mention that earlier today I called my local barnes and noble to check availability and they actually have it in their bargain books section for ten bucks! Maybe it's on sale in your neighborhood too:)
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even though the audiobook is seriously abridged, i downloaded it anyway. i figured it would only add to my reading experience. i've been super busy all weekend and this week - hoping to get through chapter 12 by tomorrow night!
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possible spoiler alert? (but i mean, c'mon...there's a sphinx on the cover, what do you think this book is about?). this is typical book tour stuff, it just makes you want to read even harder. read hard!
Post edited by jdirt2019 at 2012-06-06 22:11:27we're totally fucked, and that's ok, because you gotta go somehow; let us #collapse in style! BOOKS:http://bit.ly/ZQSFyT -
What happened with John Anthony West on Rogan's show? Did anyone else hear him say last week (Shane Smith episode) that he'd have him on the show Wednesday?The future ahead of us is beyond our wildest imaginings. It can't be any other way. Business as usual is off the menu.
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Hey, everybody! We'll meet tonight and discuss Chapters 1-12 at 11pm/8pm ET/PT: http://tinychat.com/dtfhbookclub.
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need to get this book been on my porn star wish list for a while
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Mr Hancock should be a guest on DTFH.
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So John Anthony West was on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast yesterday. It's a nice bonus material to add to the book.
Here the link:
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Hello, friends!
We'll meet tonight at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT to discuss Part 3 of Fingerprints of the Gods - that's Chapters 13 through 23.
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Going to start this once I finish "The Varieties of Scientific Experience". Does FOTG take little while to get into? Just seems so massive and the first couple pages are hard to get into IMO
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I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. - Aleistor Crowley
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Cthulhu said:
third. who do we talk to about making that happen? is this a democracy or a dictatorship? whats for lunch? wheres the beer? i'm tired.we're totally fucked, and that's ok, because you gotta go somehow; let us #collapse in style! BOOKS:http://bit.ly/ZQSFyT -
that might already be in the works:
Graham Hancock interested in being a podcast guest!
cross your fingers, kids.
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When I read it a year or so ago, I remember thinking, "damn, I've never read a book this fast."Until the 20th century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see and hear. Since the initial publication of the charted electromagnetic spectrum, humans learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear... is less than one millionth of reality.
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