Sign in with Facebook
Duane’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Duane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Duane S. Nickell’s Followers (11)
Duane S. Nickell
Goodreads Author
Member Since
December 2017
To ask
Duane S. Nickell
questions,
please sign up.
More books by Duane S. Nickell…
Duane’s Recent Updates
|
Duane Nickell
rated a book liked it
|
|
| I'm a big fan of Sam Kean! I've read all of his books and I highly recommend every one of them...except this one. This book is about experimental archeology, which "puts ideas about the past to the test, either in the lab or out in nature." (p. 3) Th ...more | |
|
Duane Nickell
rated a book did not like it
|
|
| I read this book for a book club. Didn't like it at all. The narrative was disjointed and hard to follow. There were times when I didn't know what the hell the author was talking about. Not to my taste. ...more | |
|
Duane Nickell
rated a book liked it
|
|
| I enjoyed this book as a whole. The first 100 pages or so are good and the ten pages that describe the writing of Treasure Island are fascinating. I did not enjoy reading a detailed synopsis and analysis of every little story ever written by Robert a ...more | |
|
Duane Nickell
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| An excellent and very easy-to-read biography of Martin Luther King. The author provides an honest, warts-and-all, portrait of King. Don't be put off by the thickness of the book; it's a fairly quick and easy read. ...more | |
|
Duane Nickell
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| I read this book for my book club and enjoyed it very much. It's unique because the main character is not a person, but a place. The book traces the events that take place at the house and surrounding woods over several centuries. The book is, in pla ...more | |
|
Duane Nickell
rated a book really liked it
|
|
|
Duane Nickell
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| I'm giving this 5 stars based on the importance of this book. (If I were to rate it on readability, I'd give it 3 stars.) The book is exhaustively researched; the author spent years gathering oral information on sundown towns. (Sundown town policy is ...more | |
|
Duane Nickell
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| Yet another terrific book by Hampton Sides. He never disappoints! I learned a lot about a war that I didn't know much about. Highly recommended! ...more | |
|
Duane Nickell
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| Yet another great book by Malcolm Gladwell. Fascinating and easy to read! I especially enjoyed Ch. 7 "The L. A. Survivors Club" about Holocaust survivors which included, on p. 224, a passage that I think is relevant in light of the disastrous results ...more | |
|
Duane Nickell
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| After reading this book, I am much more skeptical about the honesty, integrity, and morality of police and prosecutors. I admit that I previously believed that the police usually got the right person when investigating a crime - no longer. I noticed ...more | |
“Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings. To put it the other way round, isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of it?”
―
―
