What Are You Reading, Again?

[Plexus]

The Buisiness of Heaven- CS Lewis
The Divine Comedy: Inferno- Dante Aligheri
Time Travel in Einstein's Universe- J. Richard Gott
The Niihau Incident- Allan Beekman
Brunelleschi's Dome- Ross King
Anicent History of the Hawaiian People- Abraham Forander
The Bastard- John Jakes

Wow, that's a lot more than I thought.

 

[wildWolverine]

I enjoyed the Inferno far more than Purgatorio and Paradiso....

 

[wildWolverine]

Originally posted by Ancient Grudge
Battle Flag by Bernard Cornwell

Would this be the same author that wrote the Warlord Trilogy, quite possibly the best fictional account of Arthur since Mallory?

 

[wildWolverine]

Originally posted by newfangle
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
A summary of her philosophy through an awe-inspiring work of fiction.

Did you read The Fountainhead? I find myself often disagreeing vehemently w/ Rand's philosophies, but truly enjoy reading her works.

 

[cgannon64]

Originally posted by Plexus
The Buisiness of Heaven- CS Lewis

What is this one about, I've never heard of it.

If you're getting into Lewis, I highly reccomend "The Great Divorce", its a very interesting book about a annual excusion that people in Hell get to see Heaven. His visions of Hell and Heaven are interesting, and he makes an interesting case for why someone from Hell would choose Hell over Heaven.

 

[Xen]

a VERY good book is "The Ten Thousand" by Michal Curtis Ford, it about the near legendary journey of the Athenian XENophon and how he becomes a general os a greek mercenary army, wont ruin for you but its a very good, book with alot of fact behind it

 

[Plexus]

Originally posted by cgannon64


What is this one about, I've never heard of it.

If you're getting into Lewis, I highly reccomend "The Great Divorce", its a very interesting book about a annual excusion that people in Hell get to see Heaven. His visions of Hell and Heaven are interesting, and he makes an interesting case for why someone from Hell would choose Hell over Heaven.

Yea, I read and liked The Great Divorce a lot. I reccomend The Screwtape Letters to you, the book you mentioned seems similar.

The Buisiness of Heaven is a collection of Lewis's writings, in a devotional format.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Had this humongous book called 'History of Islamic Societies' or some such. But too lazy to read it...

 

[floppa21]

Three books by Anton Lavey. The Satanic Bible (reread), The Devil's Notebook, Satan Speaks!

Been looking at this religion/philosophy a bit lately. I fit the mold perfectly but I don't like the fact that it is still an organized 'religion'... Sorry, back on topic.

After that, a reread of Brave New World by Huxley.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Oh yeah, as reading goes, does manga count? If so, I'm a darn heavy reader too.

 

[Mikoyan]

The Dragon's Eyes (or whatever it's called in english) by Stephen King.

 

[Cilpot]

Currently I'm reading 'Hearts in Atlantis' by Stephen King. And I just finished 'the Testament' by John Grisham and 'the Withches Defenders' by Jan Guillou (a Swedish author, not sure about the english name of the book).

The Guillou book is highly recommended. It's about the prosecution of witches in Sweden from the 13th century and on. It's more of a documentary than a novel.

 

[Grisu]

Just started with the first Discworld novel: The Colour of Magic

 

[Ancient Grudge]

Originally posted by wildWolverine



Would this be the same author that wrote the Warlord Trilogy, quite possibly the best fictional account of Arthur since Mallory?

Yes it would and the same author who wrote the Sharpe series and also the Harlequin and Stonehenge.... He is one of my favourite authors at the moment.

 

[wildWolverine]

I haven't read anything by him other than the aforementioned Warlord Trilogy, but those were very well written...

On topic: added some more reading material

The Last Convertible Anton Myrer
The Silmarillion Tolkien (again... )
The Big Ten 2003 Football Preview

 

[cgannon64]

Originally posted by Plexus


Yea, I read and liked The Great Divorce a lot. I reccomend The Screwtape Letters to you, the book you mentioned seems similar.

I've read it two, maybe three times.

 

[newfangle]

Originally posted by wildWolverine


Did you read The Fountainhead? I find myself often disagreeing vehemently w/ Rand's philosophies, but truly enjoy reading her works.

I just finished the Foutainhead, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Philosophy aside, IMO Atlas is a better novel .

 

[ravensfire]

Originally posted by KaeptnOvi
Just started with the first Discworld novel: The Colour of Magic

Just to warn you, if you do like it and get hooked, you just keep buying, and buying, and buying, and ....

Just finished Sourcery and Soul Music. Hmmm, time for me to grab another one from my library. Something with Carrot in it I think. Nothing like a 6' (or taller!) dwarf!

Also reading Cryptonomicon. Very interesting so far.

 

[Ian Beale]

I've been reading Stalin in power 1928-1941. It's very interesting. Before that i read William Hague- in his own right. Before that i read 6 books on Hitler and the Nazis! I only read political books and bookos on modern european history- very sad, I know!

 

[Little Raven]

"The War of the Flowers" - Tad Williams

That and the odd Lovecraft story.