currently reading....

Post by **Deathshroud** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:15 am

Good Omens

Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman

Just finished, American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Post by **Captain** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:31 am

The Rainmaker, can barely put it down.

Post by **tnf** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:49 am

Letter to a christian Nation by Harris.

Post by **Hannibal** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:52 am

"Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" by Harold Bloom

Post by **Cory** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:18 am

Fender wrote:I just finished The DaVinci Code, first book I've read in quite some time. I should read more... dunno what's next.

Angels and Demons.

If you are into the whole Templar stuff then The Last Templar is another excellent read. I also have a few more, but I havent read them myself yet because of how busy I've been this term so i can't really comment on them.

Edit:
Oh and right now I'm reading The Varities of Religious Experience.

Oh, and Choke by Palahniuk. I need to finish these books

Post by **Captain** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:14 am

Angels and Demons is an excellent prequel. Brutally violent too :icon14:

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:19 am

ordered "Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant?", should be here in a few weeks.
http://www.amazon.com/Belief-God-Good-B ... F8&s=books

also, about to borrow Dawkins' "The God Delusion" from a collegue. after he's done with it that is

http://www.amazon.com/God-Delusion-Rich ... F8&s=books

Post by **Dark Metal** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:40 am

Robert Fisk - The Great War for Civilisation The Conquest of The Middle East

Post by **Wabbit** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:08 am

No more book store for me. At least until next week when I pick up the two books I ordered :icon32:

Just picked up:
Architecture - Sandra Forty
The Art of Color Calligraphy - Mary Noble
Stories in Stone - A field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography - Douglas Keister
The Great Masters of Italian Art - Elena Capretti
Nature Photography Close Up - Macro techniques in the field - Paul Harcourt Davies

There was an interesting book of NYPD Crime Scene photos from 1914-1918 that looked pretty good. The first half is all pics and the second half has a thumb nail of the pic and then commentary/police notes about each pic. If I didn't hate looking at dead people, I would have picked it up.

Post by **Cory** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:14 am

theoneandonly wrote:
Cory wrote:
Fender wrote:I just finished The DaVinci Code, first book I've read in quite some time. I should read more... dunno what's next.
Angels and Demons.

If you are into the whole Templar stuff then The Last Templar is another excellent read. I also have a few more, but I havent read them myself yet because of how busy I've been this term so i can't really comment on them.

Edit:
Oh and right now I'm reading The Varities of Religious Experience.

Oh, and Choke by Palahniuk. I need to finish these books
I liked The Last Templar at first cause I could forgive the female protaganist being an idiot for the first few times, but she just kept doing stupid shit throughout and it bugged me so much that about half way through I just stopped reading it all together.

I agree with you somewhat, I definately think Davinci Code was a better read, by a decent bit. But being interested in the stuff I still found The Last Templar to be good. She was quite annoying though.

Post by **l0g1c** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:42 am

I wonder how many people are actually reading the books they post and not just posing with them in public.

I hate that shit.

Post by **mjrpes** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:44 am

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life :icon14:

Post by **l0g1c** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:54 am

Deathshroud wrote:Good Omens

Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman

Just finished, American Gods by Neil Gaiman

You know the Sandman anthology is out, right? I've been avoiding bookstores since I found out. (It's been out for months).

This is, of course, assuming Sandman is what got you into Gaiman.

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:17 am

Fucking great book.

Post by **Wabbit** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:55 pm

l0g1c wrote:I wonder how many people are actually reading the books they post...

For myself, if it's a novel, then I read it, but if you look at the books I just listed they're mostly reference books.

The Architecture book is 600 pages of pictures of architecture from around the world. I looked at most of the pics last night. The book on Italian painters is also for reference. It had a small blurb on Botticelli (who I was looking for specifically--those are the two books I ordered) which I read in it's entirety.

The last book I read all the way through was "Salt - A World History" by Mark Kurlansky. It really is a good book though. As a for instance, it had more indepth information about http://www.thenagain.info/Webchron/India/SaltMarch.html

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:56 pm

l0g1c wrote:I wonder how many people are actually reading the books they post and not just posing with them in public.

I hate that shit.

well i havent received my posted books yet so no
currently reading: Neverending Story, once again. about the 300th time now

Post by **Mat Linnett** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:52 pm

Currently reading Cryptonomicon. I love the concepts and the characters, but it's a little... dry. Got a bit fed up with it really. Can't quite put my finger on why, as the subject matter is enthralling.
It's possibly because it feels more like a series of unrelated anecdotes rather than a single story. Maybe that'll change soon, dunno.
And yes, I know there's family relationships tying most of the characters together through the ages, but so far that's it.
Am also trying to work out why this is considered Sci-Fi.

Post by **Cory** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:04 am

mjrpes wrote:From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life :icon14:

I have that and think its an amazing book.
It was my textbook for my western civ class, my class rocked.

Post by JB » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:09 am

im reading "The Kiterunner" at the moment. Its a tad political, but a good read nonetheless.

Post by **Wabbit** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:58 am

Brunelleschi's Dome - Ross King.

It is a great book if you love history and architecture. It's only 167 pages (not including notes). If you've ever heard the apocryphal tale of Brunelleschi receiving the commission to design the vaulting for the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, you'll want to get this book.

Brunelleschi asked the members of the committee to demonstrate to him how they would stand an egg on the table. No one could. With that, Brunelleschi banged an egg on the table breaking its shell at the end and proceeded to stand this egg on the table.

Post by **poxy1** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:11 am

currently reading The Open Society and Its Enemies, and started reading Anna Karenina, but it got kind of boring, so im gonna finish open society first.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:25 am

Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

Not too far into it yet, but it's really interesting. I like this guy's thought process, it reminds me a lot of my own at times.
It's funny to think that on a basic level, using economics as a filter to look at social issues comes very close to actually relating to people on human terms; close to empathy.

I've also been reading Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why - by Laurence Gonzales. It's a highly interesting book. It documents dozens of survival stories, from shipwrecks to plane crashes to mountain climbs gone wrong, and analyzes survivors' actions, reactions and thought processes and compares them to others who didn't survive - including physiological/biological aspects of the brain's functions in these situations. He also attends two different survival schools to learn what they have to teach, from two completely different schools of thought on survival.

Also read the Apology of Socrates and Plato's Crito in the last few weeks. Once in a blue moon I get in the mood and dig into the genre with a vengeance - then don't pick them up again for a couple years.

And Hunter Thompson's Generation of Swine has been my toilet material for 2 months now I think.

Post by **menkent** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:31 am

Goldelse by Marlitt (think Bronte/Austen... but German)
A River and its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (decent, though at times a bit academic to recommend casually)

oh, and i picked up some east german fiction that i'll start on soon.
Ingrid Babendererde: Reifeprüfung 1953
Egon und der achte Weltwunder (a nice socialist coming of age story)

then Neruda's "100 love sonnets" and Dürrenmatt's "Der Richter und sein Henker"... though I'll probably not re-read all of the latter. just grabbed it to show me students something potentially at their level.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:39 am

menkent wrote:Goldelse by Marlitt (think Bronte/Austen... but German)
A River and its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (decent, though at times a bit academic to recommend casually)

oh, and i picked up some east german fiction that i'll start on soon.
Ingrid Babendererde: Reifeprüfung 1953
Egon und der achte Weltwunder (a nice socialist coming of age story)

then Neruda's "100 love sonnets" and Dürrenmatt's "Der Richter und sein Henker"... though I'll probably not re-read all of the latter. just grabbed it to show me students something potentially at their level.

Do you ever read and Rilke? He makes me want to learn German.

Currently (re)reading The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul

I highly recommend this book.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:41 am

l0g1c wrote:I wonder how many people are actually reading the books they post and not just posing with them in public.

I hate that shit.

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