What book(s) are you reading now?

[Apex]

Reading "The Eye of The World"

You have just started reading the best series ever written in the history of man.

Unless your reading some other book with the same title, in which case your doing it wrong.

 

[Panda]

You have just started reading the best series ever written in the history of man.

Unless your reading some other book with the same title, in which case your doing it wrong.

Greatest series ever? Will be hard to compete with H2G2 but I am enjoying it.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Greatest series ever? Will be hard to compete with H2G2 but I am enjoying it.

Get out now. The first few books are excellent, but the series quickly devolves into an endless expanse of convoluted plotting, repetition, stilted dialog, and braid-pulling and skirt-smoothing.

I started reading the series in the 90's so it's too late for me, but get skilled at scanning past huge swaths of pointless text if you're going to keep reading and want to maintain your sanity.

 

[Panda]

Get out now. The first few books are excellent, but the series quickly devolves into an endless expanse of convoluted plotting, repetition, stilted dialog, and braid-pulling and skirt-smoothing.

I started reading the series in the 90's so it's too late for me, but get skilled at scanning past huge swaths of pointless text if you're going to keep reading and want to maintain your sanity.

Lies and slander! They are awesome books and saying otherwise must be against forum rules (or it will be soon )

 

[SageTree]

St. Francis by Nikos Kazantzakis

 

[ChristineES]

I just finished Janet Evanovich's To The Nines and I am starting Ten Big Ones (Stephanie Plum series). I am also reading Ernest Hemingway's Island's in the Stream- which was published 9 years after his death.

 

[Magic Man]

Treasure Island

 

[JacobEzra.]

I actually just finished a rather short excerpt from a biography, called "Story of Blima". Was very good. My one teacher is going to get Anne Franks diary for me aswell.

 

[Rakhel]

I be reading this
The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs: or, The truth about the ... - Lucien Wolf - Google Books

 

[Caladan]

I'm reading The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Book description from Amazon:

He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist and gastronome. With this edition by Mackintosh-Smith, Battuta's Travels takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.

 

[rageoftyrael]

You want to hear a really good trilogy? I am not a serial killer, the john cleaver trilogy. It is pretty frickin' good. Look it up, you won't regret it. I will warn, it's pretty dark, but if you don't mind that, go nuts.

 

[SageTree]

I and Thou
-Buber

 

[dyanaprajna2011]

I'm about to start reading Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Beginning to read World War Z

 

[JacobEzra.]

Homer's Odyssey

 

[uu_sage]

Currently Reading
The Fall and Rise of Angelshut by Dorthea Yale
1925 Book of Common Prayer according to the use in King's Chapel Boston
New Zealand Prayerbook: He Karakia Mihinare O Aotearoa

Finished
American Fascists: The Christian Right' and the War on America by Chris Hedges
Love Wins by Rob Bell
5 Love Langues
Eat, Pray, Love
Pledged: The Secret Lives of Sororities
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner
How Good Do we Have to be? by Harold Kushner
The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart by Peter Gomes
Christianity After Religion by Diana Butler Bass
No Future without Forgiveness by Desmund Tutu
Mere Churchianity by Spencer
The Last Testament: A Memoir by God with David Javerbaum
Sources of Strength and Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter
Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
The 1979 Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal)
Hip Hop Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal)
Book of Uncommon Prayer (UCC)
Broken We Kneel and A People's History of Christianity by Diana Butler Bass

 

[SageTree]

^ You read the Book of Common Prayer?

Like front to back, straight through???

 

[uu_sage]

Yes I have read through the entire Book of Common of Common Prayer cover to cover both Rite I and Rite II.

^ You read the Book of Common Prayer?

Like front to back, straight through???

 

[SageTree]

Yes I have read through the entire Book of Common of Common Prayer cover to cover both Rite I and Rite II.

Care to share why it grabbed our interest?

And for that matter, what the differences and corrections are?


I've read a good deal of the Anglican BoC and Alternative Services, but not all of it, so it just struck me as an interesting choice. It's pretty dry going and heck... I like dry... but that stuff, after a while, gets to be like a sham-wow-ed mess... dry and bleached out as the desert in August.

 

[Renji]

Books on medical surgical nursing