What book(s) are you reading now?

[Dezzie]

I am currently reading two books...

The Green Mile by Steven King (BEST story ever! Also my favorite movie!)
AND
... a book about Special Makeup Effects because makeup effects are awesome.

 

[IsmailaGodHasHeard]

I am reading the Holy Bible.

 

[SageTree]

Three Cups of Tea

 

[Renji]

Pharmacology book

 

[Caladan]

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives.

I was lucky to get a signed copy after ordering from an on line second hand bookshop.

I have a signed copy of Sahara by Michael Palin.

Now I just need John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Eric Idle! way too late for Chapman!

 

[Gaura Priya]

Egyptian Book of the Dead, translated by E.A. Wallis Budge...

No offense, but it's slightly boring to me. I don't even know why I even bought the book. Some edification, I guess... Only reached page 47 of 128. It's going to be a long next few days!

 

[Caladan]

Egyptian Book of the Dead, translated by E.A. Wallis Budge...

No offense, but it's slightly boring to me. I don't even know why I even bought the book. Some edification, I guess... Only reached page 47 of 128. It's going to be a long next few days!

You should go see an exhibition of the Egyptian Book of the Dead if you ever get the chance, it might change your mind.

 

[Draka]

Just finished all of the Iron Fey books up to now. Waiting with bated breath for the next book due out in a few months. Could not put them down. Read the Iron King and had to run out and buy the next two at once. Read the Iron Daughter and once I got to the end of it I put it down and immediately picked up the Iron Queen and didn't miss a beat. Flew threw them faster than any other books I remember reading. Even counting the two e-novellas that are kind of bridge stories between the first and second books and the third and fourth books. Absolutely fantastic story. I'd read the Iron Queen again right now if I hadn't lent all of them to my mother yesterday.

The Iron Knight is released on Oct 23. :jiggy: can't wait :jiggy:

 

[Splarnst]

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks

Just finished:
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles Mann

 

[Dezzie]

I just started reading The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations behind the 2012 Prophecies.

Very interesting book so far.

 

[Majikthise]

The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat /Harry Harrison
Thers's actually 9 books in the series and I read them all as a youth. I'm just starting the second book. Been feeling nostalgic and I really haven't found any good science fiction out there lately. I started reading a book called Empire, but it turned out to be more overtly political than sci fi.

 

[NeedingGnosisNow]

Just finished ON GOD Uncommon Conversations by Norman Mailer with Micheal Lennon. I love the fact that Mailer didn't know he was a Gnostic till the end of the book. I'm am about to start reading Bearers of the Black Staff by Terry Brooks. It's the latest in the Legends of Shannara series i think.

 

[Lokabrenna]

I'm currently reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. These books are next on my list:

The Shapeshifters of the Kiesha'ra (eBook format) by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer
Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Angel Town by Lilith Saintcrow
Radical Ecstasy by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy

 

[Nerthus]

The Rite.

 

[not nom]

not yet reading it, but about to: "God's First Love" by Friedrich Heer.

didn't get far yet, but I'd already highly recommend it..

This - seen from the perspective of the Jews (and aware Christians who take themselves seriously have to honour this) - greatest robbery in world history puts the Old Testament in the service of the Christian church: The prayers, sacrifices, liturgy, poetry, expressiveness that Jewish prophets, priests, messengers, sons, fathers of the Jewish people have created in over a thousand years -- at the cost of unspeakable suffering and pain, long before and long after Babylonian captivity -- becomes now, as loot of the "new Israel", the church, the sacrosanct inheritance of the church.

!

the book isn't as polemic or onesided as this bit taken out of context may make it seem, but it makes a lot of valid, uncomfortable points. great book.

 

[ohhcuppycakee]

I'm currently reading Bhagavad Gita again and a book on Hindu gods and goddesses.

 

[Gaura Priya]

Jaiva-Dharma, by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura!

 

[Awoon]

The book I'm reading is Aramaic Light on Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lametations.

(A commentary based on the Aramaic Language and Near Eastern Customs)

By Rocco Errico/George M. Lamsa

 

[nnmartin]

I'm on 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' - Thomas Hardy.

it's ok but not the best Hardy I've read to be honest.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I just got the first two volumes of Death Note.