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300 pages into 'Until I Find You' by John Irving. Great read so far, but then again, I also enjoyed reading Hotel New Hampshire and The Cider House Rules.
What Are You Reading, Again?
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The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
The Ancestor's Tale, by Richard Dawkins.
Ciceronian said:
One of my favorites too. I tried to read it to my son when he was five and he didn't like the way the opening was progressing. He could see the noose tightening. I had him read it to me a few years later and it's still a book he quotes often. My first dog and I shared the same bond as White Fang had with his last master. So it struck a deep cord in me.
jalapeno_dude
AKA Panda Judo Eel
Finally finished the Road to Reality, then read two school reading books: the autobiography of Ben Franklin, which put me to sleep, and This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff, which I enjoyed (although enjoyedisn't quite the right word). Then I started The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. I've read Quicksilver and most of The Confusion so far, and am liking it very much.
Narz
keeping it real
I'm reading Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing by Jed McKenna. Highly recommended. 
CIVPhilzilla
Reagan Republican
Mythology by Edith Hamilton. As soon as I'm done I'm getting Wealth of Nations from my school library.
tomsnowman123
Simple Liver
I decided to read Affluenza, by John de Graaf, for the third time.
Ciceronian
Latin Scholar
I think some passages in White Fang are probably a bit too gory for five year-olds. I think I would have been quite frightened if I had been read it at that age.garyg said:
How are you finding the Aeneid btw? If you have read the Iliad or the Odyssey, how do you think it compares to them? I'm just reading the Iliad and I think it is superb, the poetic imagery is just sublime. There is quite a lot of fighting though, and although it is narrated in a captivating fashion, it does get quite much at points. I prefer the passages where the characters interact in a non-battle environment. Is there more of that in the Aeneid?
I've read books IV and IX of the Aeneid in Latin, and book IV with Dido and Aeneas is a great mini-tragedy in a non-battle environment, whereas book IX also contains a mini-tragedy (Nisus and Euryalus) but in a battle. How does it look with the rest of the epic, which is there more of?
jalapeno_dude said:
Yup, good book, slightly disturbing in parts but still great.
CartesianFart
Deity
Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels.
jonatas
tropicalista
CartesianFart said:
What's next, the Nag Hammadi?
CartesianFart
Deity
If you are willing to translate Coptic for me.jonatas said:What's next, the Nag Hammadi?
ParkCungHee
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The Dynamics of War and Revolution By Lawrence Dennis, the second book of his I've read, I just cant find a copy of Is capitalism doomed?
Till
Adventurer
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.
A most unfit title for a Pulitzer winning novel about the Battle of Gettysburg.
A most unfit title for a Pulitzer winning novel about the Battle of Gettysburg.
AceChilla
Goedheiligman
20 years Crises by E.H. Carr for my study
The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbera W. Tuchman for fun
The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbera W. Tuchman for fun
Kan' Sharuminar
Fluffy
AlCosta said:
I read A Short History of Nearly Everything last year, I rather enjoyed it
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