What book(s) are you reading now?

[misanthropic_clown]

Who Runs Britain? by Robert Peston. He's the BBC's financial correspondent, and this book was recommended as something to explain what has created this economic mess, which I promised I would get my head round. I have the basics, but I was looking to find out more details about the bad habits of big business.

Interesting so far, and a little bit infuriating.

 

[Trey of Diamonds]

I've recently discovered Carl Haissen. Spectacular work! I'm currently reading Nature Girl.

 

[sandandfoam]

We're on hols next week and I got 2 books today to take with me 'The Essence of Sufism' - John Baldock and 'The Story of God' by Robert Winston.
Bring on the holidays!

 

[Stellify]

I recently finished reading Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo" as well as Sophocles' "Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Colonus" and "Antigone".

I also read a book that Buttons* sent me, called "The Year of Living Biblically" by A. J. Jacobs. It's an amazing book! I highly recommend it, especially to the members here. It's well-written, touching and humorous...and to be honest, I think I've learned more about the Bible from Jacobs' account of his year than I ever did in my nine years at Episcopalian school or my "Understanding the Bible" classes at my Catholic University.

Basically, Jacobs is an agnostic who wants to figure out what it's all about....and he proceeds to do this by living, for a year, and following as closely as possible the literal dictates of the Bible. He doesn't pick and chose what to follow, but tries to follow every rule he possibly can. Everything from wearing white, attaching tassels to his clothing, not touching "unclean" women...to following more vague rules such as not wearing clothing with mixed fibers, not separating a mother bird and its egg, and restricting his diet so that he didn't eat fruit from trees that were less than five years old.

Absolutely fantastic read

 

[Makaveli]

I'm almost finished with Anna Karenina... War and Peace (gulp) after that.

 

[ChristineES]

I am getting ready to read Chocolat and it's sequel, The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris.

 

[Stellify]

I'm almost finished with Anna Karenina... War and Peace (gulp) after that.

Yeah...right now I'm reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness" (only about thirty pages left), which will be followed by his "The Death of Ivan Ilych", " The Kreutzer Sonata", and "Hadji Murad". :bounce

After that, I can't decide whether to start "Anna Karenina" or Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov".

I don't have "War and Peace" yet, but hopefully it will be added to my collection soon...

How did you like "Anna Karenina"?

 

[Caladan]

Im making my way with A Guide to the Christian Historical sites and Holy Places in Israel (Ely Schiller, in Hebrew)

and The Greeks and the Persians (Hermann Bengtson)

but im thinking of putting them aside for sometime and confront Prescott's monumental works: The conquest of Mexico, and The conquest of Peru, in which he actually used the Spanish archives and the conquistadors material left in them.

 

[Yes Man]

Visual Magick: A Handbook of Freestyle Shamanism by Jan Fries.

A must read for any current (or beginner) magick practitioner.

 

[Nepenthe]

Yeah...right now I'm reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness" (only about thirty pages left), which will be followed by his "The Death of Ivan Ilych", " The Kreutzer Sonata", and "Hadji Murad". :bounce

After that, I can't decide whether to start "Anna Karenina" or Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov".

I don't have "War and Peace" yet, but hopefully it will be added to my collection soon...

How did you like "Anna Karenina"?

Read Brothers'!
I once spent a drunken, gloomy semester reading Tolstoy, Dost', Nabakov (the best of the lot), Pasternak, and Chekhov. The same semester I totalled my car! Coincidence?

Oh yeah, reading various Nature articles. I'm a month behind.... Oh look! The Oldest Articulated Osteichthyan Reveals Mosaic Gnathostome Characters. It's the March 26th issue if anyone wanted to know!

No?.... :sleep:

 

[Stellify]

Read Brothers'!
I once spent a drunken, gloomy semester reading Tolstoy, Dost', Nabakov (the best of the lot), Pasternak, and Chekhov. The same semester I totalled my car! Coincidence?

Oh yeah, reading various Nature articles. I'm a month behind.... Oh look! The Oldest Articulated Osteichthyan Reveals Mosaic Gnathostome Characters. It's the March 26th issue if anyone wanted to know!

No?.... :sleep:

Haha ok, will do!
Oh man, I really want to read Lolita! My list of things to read next:

Brothers Karamazov- Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
Lolita- Nabokov
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
Grendel- John Gardner
And I want to re-read The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams

I've also been thinking of going back over some Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas, but...Not sure if I can bring myself to do that again quite yet

 

[Makaveli]

Yeah...right now I'm reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness" (only about thirty pages left), which will be followed by his "The Death of Ivan Ilych", " The Kreutzer Sonata", and "Hadji Murad". :bounce

After that, I can't decide whether to start "Anna Karenina" or Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov".

I don't have "War and Peace" yet, but hopefully it will be added to my collection soon...

How did you like "Anna Karenina"?

Start whichever one is shorter . I haven't read "Brothers" yet so I don't know the length.

I find it a wonderful story of high-society drama and romance, and since it's almost 1000 pages long Tolstoy explores all his characters and turns them into rich, dynamic, multi-layered personalities. It gets tedious at times (such as when Levin, Koznishev, and other intellectuals debate the dichotomy between the Russian peasant and the land) but it's never dull.

Although some people call it the "greatest novel ever written" I wouldn't know. I haven't read enough yet .

 

[Yes Man]

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. Seems somewhat Chuck Palahniuk-like (Although I freely admit I haven't read any of good ol' Chuck's books, I've heard a lot).

 

[Buttons*]

Reading list for now:

"The New Religions" -- Jacob Needleman
"The Mysteries of Religion" -- Stephen R.L. Clarke
and
"Freedom, East and West" -- Jay Shakhar

 

[Alceste]

Now I'm reading Shantaram, Great Apes and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health.

Shantaram is so absorbing the other two have fallen by the wayside for the moment, but I'll get back to them soon.

 

[Quagmire]

Job: A Comedy of Justice: Robert A. Heinlein:



It's only OK.

 

[Circle_One]

I just finished reading Jesus Freaks by Andre Duza sent to me by a certain Californian on RF. It was AMAZING!

Zombies, two Jesus' duking it out, Jim Morrison zombie, apocalypse, Judgement Day... It really is one of the best books I've read in a long, long time. It made me almost cry to finish it. I wanted it to keep going.

Edit for description:
For God so loved the world that he gave his only two begotten sons. and a few million zombies Thugs, pushers, gangsters, rapists, murderers; Detective Philip Makane thought he'd seen it all until he awoke on the morning of Easter Sunday 2015, to a world filled with bleeding rain, ravenous zombies, a homicidal ghost, and the sudden arrival of two men with extraordinary powers who both claim to be Jesus Christ in the flesh.

 

[misanthropic_clown]

I recently bought the '100 Classic Book Collection' for the Nintendo DS. I have just finished 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass', both of which were a lot more amusing than I thought they'd be. I'm going to be going all Dickensian next.

 

[Kathryn]

Great books, Misanthropic Clown - and a breath of fresh air.

I'm currently reading "Confederates in the Attic" which is hilarious and sad at the same time.

Next on my list - I'm going to reread "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. I did my senior thesis on that book, so it will be interesting to see how my perspective has changed over the years.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I read "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" this weekend.

Fabulous novel!