# Looking for a book... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [June 22, 2011, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-book/213751 "2011-06-22T07:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KuntryQuestTSi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kuntryquesttsi/32/5010_2.png) [@KuntryQuestTSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KuntryQuestTSi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-book/213751/1 "2011-06-22T07:51:39Z")
Never thought I would see the day, but I find my self with a hour plus of down time when I work the late shift at work. Rather than surfing the internet for useless information and stuff I’ll never own, I figure I’ll pick up a book. Hell maybe my spelling and grammar will improve? This may be a tough one, but I really enjoy learning about older tradtions. Anything from dating to farming just the way things used to be. Is there any good books like this? Thanks -adam ---
**Author:** ![walter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/walter/32/7202_2.png) [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-book/213751/2 "2011-06-22T10:10:47Z")
am this the cerius? ---
**Author:** ![Coldaccord](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/coldaccord/32/7272_2.png) [@Coldaccord](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Coldaccord)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-book/213751/3 "2011-06-22T10:13:18Z")
wrong forum. nothing nerdy about reading books. the nerd forum is for IT and RPG’s ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-book/213751/4 "2011-06-22T10:23:48Z")
Pillars of the Earth. It goes into great detail about daily life, religion, and architecture. 1000 years ago. :tup: ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-book/213751/5 "2011-06-22T10:37:07Z")
I personally have been wanting to find time to read 1984 by george orwell. If I do read, its usually to learn something so you can find me in the science, astronomy, programming section. > **[Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four)** > > Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. Oceania's political ideology, euphemistically named English Socialism (shortened to "Ingsoc" in Newspeak, the government's invented language that will replace English or Old The t... ---
**Author:** ![Coldaccord](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/coldaccord/32/7272_2.png) [@Coldaccord](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Coldaccord)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-book/213751/6 "2011-06-22T16:29:50Z")
1984 was awesome. the idea that military confrontation as a necessity to eat budget surplus to propagate class struggle was awesome ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-book/213751/7 "2011-06-22T17:37:06Z")
> [@KuntryQuestTSi"](#): > > Hell maybe my spelling and grammar will improve? “Yikes; can’t work miracles” ---
**Author:** ![KuntryQuestTSi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kuntryquesttsi/32/5010_2.png) [@KuntryQuestTSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KuntryQuestTSi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-book/213751/8 "2011-06-22T17:45:43Z")
> [@Willybeen](#): > > “Yikes; can’t work miracles” :picard: