Yesterday for some reason I got to thinking about
the books of my late adolescence. Many of the books
I read were in the science fiction genre — books by
Heinlein and Clark, etc.
But I also remember a book by Richard Church called
Five Boys in a Cave.
In spite of the somewhat porno movie sounding title,
the book was about five actual boys having an adventure
in an actual cave. It was a very exciting book. And not
too many years later I was to do quite a bit of caving
in southern Indiana.
The seminal book of those years though was C.W. Ceram's
Gods, Graves, and Scholars. Now that one blew my mind.
It was a very exciting book too, in a way much different
than the cave book had been. In fact it stimulated a life-
long interest in archaeology.
I guess you could call it Five Men in a Test Pit.
Well, maybe not.
In any case I had my copy of Ceram for many decades.
And in fact once in 1977, then in college, I had the
book lying by my bed and a girl who was spending the
night with me vomited all over it. Luckily, the book
didn't sustain too much damage.
That's the problem with women — they're always vomiting
all over your books.
Well, maybe not.
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I think I'd like to read Gods, Graves and Scholars. That's so gross that the girl vomited all over it. Did you have to clean it off or did she?
I cleaned it. I think I gave her a sympathetic pat on the shoulder and then ran for a wash rag to save the book. :p
BTW, here's the link to the book.
PS. GGS is still in print if you want to buy it. In fact I ought to buy it and read it again.
Glad you liked it! Hey maybe V. would like GGS, yeah? It doesn't read like a typical archaeology book, more like fiction.I'm actually surprised they haven't made a porn movie out of Five Boys in a Cave. They satirize every other thing in the universe. The one I remember the most (although I've never seen it) was Das Booty. :p Yeah nothing like a whole bunch of horny guys in a submarine… LMAO.
Thanks for the link. That's not a bad price. I'll check out Bookman's this weekend. That's a used bookstore and I haven't been there in a while.
In spite of the somewhat porno movie sounding title, 😮 I would have never thought ,unless you mentioned it! :D"I had the book lying by my bed and a girl who was spending the night with me vomited all over it. Luckily, the book didn't sustain too much damage."ROFL ahahaha the time is brutal on books, unless they are coated with acid :Dtanks for sharing Eddie,despite of laughing all the way while reading your post, I did follow the link and it is very exciting :yes::love:
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
😥 she is writing more than reading Eddie!has note pads everywhere,she can be in bed and remembers a verse or something she put together and she will jump up and write it down! Y and I read the most in the family, we can pick up a piece of paper from mud and read it…I will sugeest it 🙂 we'll see…speaking of caves and porno movies,I always wonder if cavemen had multple women, and I am not talking about a group party, but during the night if the visited multiple fur sleeping bags,** fur* was added in te actual meaning… you kno what I mean! :lol:hmmmmmmmmm submarine orgies !! 😆 neah somehow I don;t see it! 😀
hmmmmm unless a carving in a cave is discovered ,with a man and women in the scenes,I guess we will never know… no other form of documentation existed,Since a male animal is dominating the pack, I assumed that it happened with cavemen too…
Originally posted by ellinidata:
Ha! It takes quite the caveman to visit multiple fur sleeping bags! :lol:I don't think we really know much about Paleolithic social structure. At least not to the best of my knowledge. Based upon a comparison of present day hunter-gather cultures it could have been anything — so that's no help there.
Well there are these.Some say they are a fertility goddess or something. Me, I think they were the world's first Playboy Magazine. :p
PSI think this is more graphic 😀http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/13/oldest-naked-woman-sculpt_n_203230.html
She is certainly busty. Not sure about that hairstyle though. Or is it a hat?:lol:That second one on Huffington looks to me like a frog. I guess it's been way too long. :p
"These figurines were carved from soft stone (such as steatite, calcite or limestone), bone or ivory, or formed of clay and fired"a man obsessed with her bewbs did care them for sure!:lol:oh beauty has come a long way! Playboy for sure in my books too!http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Wien_NHM_Venus_von_Willendorf.jpg
LMAO.Froggy style. I love it.
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
ahahahah "foggy style" will be a new one :pthose ancient people knew many ways to party!
Hippity hop, hippity hop…hop…hop…hop. :p 😆
:lol:I'd be willing to try it. :devil:
you are very funny guys! 😆
Back to topic for a while :PThe book that I remember from my youth is "Fair Wind, Blue Bird" by Yugoslav writer Berislav Kosier. I think I was maybe 9 when I read it and that book made me interested in travelling and meeting people from foreign places; made me wish to learn languages; to climb mountains and look at the endless seas. My imagination was very well developed back then 😀 Later I discovered another one, "Sunny Sail" by Kojadinovic Jelena and Srboljub – they managed to travel from Europe to Polinesia in 111 days, writing a ship log and then publishing it :happy:Later I discovered SF….:)
Did you ever read Kon Tiki by Heyerdal? I really loved that one. And the sequel, The Ra Expeditions, was just as good IMO. Thanks for the explanation. 😀
Blue Bird was a name of a ship and a book was about a bunch of kids travelling on the Mediterranean sea, all kids from all over the world, different nations and stuff. Having all sorts of kid`s adventures :DThat sentence is one American Indian tribe`s song. One of the Algonquin tribes, Ojibwe.:)
Darko, what was the Fair Wind book about if you don't mind me asking?Does the blue bird have anything to do with the bird of your blog subtitle?
I remember GCS too, read it when I was a kid. I lost it when I left home many years ago but I got here in my shelf now Cerams "Narrow notch, black hill" about the history of the Hethites.
Thanks for the notice, Pineas. I'll have to look that one up. :yes:
Originally posted by gdare:
:yikes:did we fall off-topic??:lol:have a great weekend guys 🙂
Well to get back to off-topic…Pineas' Ceram book I guess could get us the porn movie "Narrow Crotch, Black Beaver":pHave a great weekend to you too!
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
the title alone is very catching! I predict success! :pPSI have to insist that we are on topic, we base our comments of books after all:p* covers eayes,closes eyes to Darko's comment above and sings "lalalalala" * so there! 😆
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
😆 I have to admit that the geek in me did make many connection based on this to remember the title,onehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea(:D now you know what a geek I am in disguise :lol:)" The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects it to the Aegean Sea region of the Mediterranean. These waters separate eastern Europe and western Asia. The Black Sea also connects to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Sea_map.png(home sweet home :sing: )
Hey you know it's easy to do Greek when I copy and paste it out of Wikipedia. :p
I thought that photo on your trip post had to be there."And I can see Turkey from my house." :pHerodotus called it the Euxine Sea, Εὔξεινος Πόντος. As was noted in the wiki article, I guess he was classified there as one of the "Graeco-Roman sources."One good nerdyism deserves another! 😀
And then there's this. The Lord of the G-Strings. seriously. :p That's an actual movie, by the way. I ran into it the other night on cable. Didn't watch it as I had already missed half of it.
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
true! if you go at night at the balcony, the lights from the small Turkish villages are visible! Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
true!Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
I am sure many Greeks won;t be happy with this Graco-Roman naming ,it is very much believed that the Bysantioum came to end after Rome betrait the Orthodox by making a deal with the Muslim world a.k.a. Turkey. Every Greek believes that one day we will take back Constantinoupole a.k.a Istanbul . In my books, all are hateful comments that makes Orthodoxy and Islam separated to te max in the area I am coming from. Hate is a bad thing. In my heart there is only one God.:D did you say "One good nerdyism deserves another! " 😆 I couldnt agree more!:lol: copy and paste Greek PWNS!Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
""Lord of the G-Strings" a true Epic! :lol:I wouln;t pass on it if it re-runs, honest!!! :pthanks for the link! very enjoyable 😀
:eyes: darn I add very long comments tonight! (I apologize ..)
That's okay! It's been a little slow in the Comment Department here today anyway. I've been mostly sitting around reading a magazine. 🙂
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
I have been bad myself,I am helping a disable friend in need and I read info that needs attention and I am printing forms almost all day …
Ceram had a great hand for titles. GCS is in german "Goetter, Graeber und Gelehrte" what makes a good alliteration. The english title of the book about the Hethites sounds, well, very interesting. A little bit like a book by Sam Ronson about her time with Lindsay Lohan.
:)Always knew Lindsay Lohan was a Hethite. :p
I had another, greek word in mind.