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Category: Reading

  • Beware The Ides Of March

    Beware The Ides Of March

    I have been reading the Dumbest Blog Ever by Dumbestblogger. Sometimes he writes something that is intelligent and makes sense and puts himself in danger of losing his title. One of these instances was the other day when he wrote about one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. In fact, he…

  • Common Sense About Covid19 and A New Setting For The Blog

    Common Sense About Covid19 and A New Setting For The Blog

    I was visiting Erratic Engineeress today and found a really terrific and in-depth article about how we all need to behave rationally in the face of this virus. It is so full of common sense that I highly recommend you go read what she has to say in her post…

  • Readable Books

    Readable Books

    As I said the other day, the most popular pages on herbthiel.com are the pages I made about the order to read Louis L’Amour’s books about the Chantry, Sackett, and Talon families. He is one of the most popular authors around, even though he doesn’t always get mentioned in articles…

  • Popular Stuff Here

    Popular Stuff Here

    Even though I have written about a wide variety of controversial and potentially controversial subjects, the posts that elicit more comments than any others are the ones about Louis L’Amour and the ones about coffee. This kind of cracks me up because I don’t really know a lot about coffee.…

  • How To Act

    How To Act

    Still rebuilding but I also have to maintain my (25 days, so far) streak! Go me! The Good Book, the real one, the Bible, is full of all kinds of awesomeness but one of the things it really does well is to help a person live life to the fullest.…

  • Introducing Fahrenheit 451

    Introducing Fahrenheit 451

    I love introducing a classic piece of literature to someone for the very first time.  Especially when you are introducing an author like Ray Bradbury and a book like Fahrenheit 451.  I had wanted to offer my friend a little background but the fact that the book was published in…

  • Passin’ Through

    Passin’ Through

    On the main page here I have a few fan pages about Louis L’Amour books and stories relating to the Sackett, Talon, and Chantry families.  The two chronologies, one I call Louis’ chronology, which is based on his book about the Sacketts and my sticking my ideas of where the other lines fit…

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