What Are You Reading?

[Simon Darkshade]

Hitro - 'Tis a good book.

Currently browsing through the always entertaining and inspirational My Role in Germany's Triumph by Dr. Joseph Goebbels.

 

[Hitro]

Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
Hitro - 'Tis a good book.

Think so too. Have so far read another one of his and found that quite entertaining as well.

 

[Stapel]

ATM I am organizing a book BBQ. Only Potter books are allowed on this fire !

Serious: I just Thijs Voskuilen's "Alias Paulus" two weeks ago, a book about a brilliant theory: Saul / Paul was a not a christian, but a roman spy! The book really makes sense! It is scientific and backed by historians and theologists.

When I finished it , I bought a modern translated bible. I really was triggered by Voskuilen's book! The bible contains more crap (IMHO...) than I could imagine. Reading it from this point of view is quite an experience!

 

[mayakovsky]

"Crime and Punishment". This will round out my Dostoevsky phase I've been in recently. BTW, I highly recommend 'The Idiot' by Dostoevsky. My favorite!

 

[Zcylen]

Originally posted by Stapel
ATM I am organizing a book BBQ. Only Potter books are allowed on this fire !

count me in! but dont you think we should call the fire dept to prevent a massive fire in the city?



btw, Dostoyevsky is agreat writer!

 

[John Bull]

I'm reading Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock

 

[Zwelgje]

Long John Silver by Bjorn Larsson.
Entertaining book about the life of a pirate.

 

[jack merchant]

Originally posted by Zcylen

count me in! but dont you think we should call the fire dept to prevent a massive fire in the city?

Really, your taste, or rather, the lack thereof is rather regrettable

 

[floppa21]

Originally posted by mayakovsky
"Crime and Punishment". This will round out my Dostoevsky phase I've been in recently. BTW, I highly recommend 'The Idiot' by Dostoevsky. My favorite!

One of my favorite authors. His short stories are really amazing.

 

[YNCS]

I'm presently reading Alan Palmer's Victory 1918. It looks at the last year of World War I. In March 1918 the Germans almost won the war, the next November the Germans lost the war. The book explains what happened and why.

BTW, Palmer has little respect for either Lloyd George or Woodrow Wilson.

 

[Pongui]

Originally posted by Ohwell


Congrats Mojo, you've fallen to my level.

Not fallen, matured.

As a small boy, I saw this calcification in adults, and vowed I'd prolong its onset in myself as long as possible. I guessed that people run out of mental "elbow room" when their minds are full of experience; from then on they grow more robotic than dynamic. I decided my best defense was to bar irrelevant information from piling up in memory. I had a serious issue with baseball cards!

Currently I read nothing but picture books full of donkeys and penguins and 10 ladybugs (count them all!), with my son.

 

[luiz]

I today finished reading The Archer, by Bernard Cornwell(I believe the original british title is Arlequin).
Its a very good novel about the life of a english longbowman in the early years of the 100 Years War. Things get complicated when he discovers that his family is a noble and heretic one. Its a triology and Im looking forward on reading the next books.

 

[Eli]

I'm currently reading The Guns of August by Barbara Tuckman, and its fascinating.

Hey, me too!

 

[Cimbri]

I'm currently reading the TV guide

and a book called Stalingrad by Antony Beevor...

 

[Neomega]

Invisible Landscape by Terence and Dennis McKenna

A book that presents the hypothesis that memory is holographic and memory and DNA are one and the same.

 

[nihilistic]

Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
by John E. Hopcroft & Jeffrey D. Ullman

 

[Mikoyan]

Originally posted by Cimbri

and a book called Stalingrad by Antony Beevor...

I'm reading the same book.

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

Shadow of the Hegemon by O.S. Card, I've read the Ender saga straight thru and am on the penultimate book.

 

[puglover]

Originally posted by Stapel
ATM I am organizing a book BBQ. Only Potter books are allowed on this fire !

YES! I'll be there!

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by puglover
YES! I'll be there!

Since you love pugs so much, and hate Harry Potter so much, how would you feel about a hairy pug that smokes pot?

[/stupid joke]

Edit: Oh, and I'm currently reading When the Legends Die by Hal Borland, since it's required for school summer reading.