What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

[The Imp]

Mansa Musa's. fixed

Hah, I can speak and read Italian and don't need your pitiful English translation!

 

[Masada]

Hah, I can speak and read Italian and don't need your pitiful English translation!

Correct me if I'm wrong. Your still reading what is essentially a translation from Medieval Tuscan rendered into more modern Italian, right?

 

[JonathanStrange]

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett Combines my interests in books, detective work, insight into criminals' thinking and the strange obsessions that some of us have.

 

[DMOC]

I'm currently reading "Outliers."

 

[Smellincoffee]

Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran.

 

[Love]

The lord of the flies

 

[sophie]

I just started The Arabian Nights two days ago.

 

[Gilder]

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I've already finished Inferno and moved on to Purgatorio. I loved Inferno, and I love the way Dante writes (I also appreciate the translator's extensive commentary and explanations of Dante's myriad references). Its made for a great story.

I just started The Arabian Nights two days ago.

There are some fantastic stories in there.

 

[GoodGame]

Finished most of two Robert E. Howard anthologies. Can really only recommend a couple of stories. "Red Shadows" being one.

 

[Babbler]

I've finally used up all the money I got at Christmas, and I've also borrowed a bunch of books from the library.

The Americas: A Hemispheric History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
The Reconquest of Montreal by Marc Levine
Sorry, I Don't Speak French by Graham Fraser

 

[Dachs]

The Yuezhi: Origin, Migration, and the Conquest of Northern Bactria - Craig Benjamin

 

[Murky]

The Terror by Dan Simmons

 

[Gilder]

I just started Hogfather by Terry Pratchett earlier.

 

[SchoolzSoKewl]

I just started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and the writing is so pretty.
I also just finished Go Ask Alice which was really fun until it got really intense and a little bit scary.

 

[The Imp]

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

 

[Smellincoffee]

I just finished William Irvine's A Guide to the Good Life: the Ancient Art of Stoic Joy and will soon be reading a book for class in Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel.

 

[cardgame]

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

sounds fun

 

[sophie]

There are some fantastic stories in there.

Yeah. I made it through the first 2 parts, and they are just delightful. I've been reading tale a night before bed.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

I love that book. So funny!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I've already finished Inferno and moved on to Purgatorio. I loved Inferno, and I love the way Dante writes (I also appreciate the translator's extensive commentary and explanations of Dante's myriad references). Its made for a great story.

Now moving on to Paradiso. Purgatory was fun and all, but Inferno was way cooler. Still, there's something very... human about contrapasso atonement, and most of all, the final step being confronting your own lover's shade, against whom you were unfaithful after she died, and being made to repent for it.

I don't anticipate Paradiso to be anything but stuffy and high-minded, but its all a part of the experience. Onward!