So, What's Everybody Reading at the Moment?

[lk70]

I did already read the DaVinci Code and while I didn't find it was a page turner, when all was said and done I ended up liking it a lot. I very much like the idea of the Divine Feminine and I don't have any Judeo-Christian based faith to be challenged, so I really just enjoyed it as a story.

I enjoy books that presuppose truth that is different from what is normally considered truth by most of the world. It's good exercise for the mind and spirit.

 

[Mimi]

I'm currently reading "Dark Forces"....a HUGE hard cover horror and fantasy anthology. 😀

 

[Lady Dedlock]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

 

[isabeau]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

ahh a true reader. i have read that book many, many times.

right now, i just started forever amber by kathleen windsor

isabeau

 

[Redmage]

Both books definately push limits on reality and theology. Seen as an attempt to portray reality, they would be tossed aside fairly quickly. Seen instead as the works of fiction that they are, I can relax and take them as is.

No, I wasn't offended by them in any religious sense. It was things that were simply out of character.

For example, Robert Langdon is supposedly a world-renowned authority on the history and symbolism of religion. Yet he's shocked to learn that a scientist might have religious faith. There's just no way that someone with Langdon's qualifications could be unaware of that. Brown's scientist characters make similar out of character goofs, and finally it just got to be too much for me.

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

That's totally understandable. Sometimes authors push the limits where they shouldn't. When it's a topic that we've devoted time to on any real level that can be pretty grating after a while. When that's done in a movie, I just sit back and laugh at it. When it's in a book, I don't tent to accept it as easily. I tend to read a mix of things mystery and suspense being the focus for simply relaxing, history and spirituality for study and more serious reading.

Ann

 

[Mark Diplock]

Shadow star

Its a book written by Star Wars director Geogre Lucas and X-men Writer Chris Claremont. Its based on the Film Willow and continues from where the film left off. Its pretty good and is part of a trillogy.

 

[ali32]

I'm reading 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini. Anyone read that?

Ali32

 

[shooter]

I'm reading "Eldest" by Chris Paolini.

 

[Mz Chaos]

The Surgeon Generals Warning on the side of by tobacco box.

"Warning: This product Contains/Produces Chemicals Known To The State Of California To Cause Cancer, And Birth Defects Or Other Reproductive Harm."

Thank the Fates I don't live in California or I'd be worried!!!

 

[unit5610]

Land Development Handbook: Planning, Engineering and Surveying
for my school project

Exciting stuff for exciting times.

 

[tulipangel]

The Catcher In The Rye (Yes again)! I love to re-read something once im done incase i missed something the first time 😉

 

[Illtcklu]

TMF?! Is this a trick question!!!

 

[tulipangel]

TMF?! Is this a trick question!!!

And again... your a goof ball LOL but correct with your answer!

 

[Mastertank1]

Red Rogue

True story about how a faction within the Kremlin, headed by Mikhail Suslov and Yuri Andropov, tried to trick the USA into a massive nuclear attack on Red China in 1968 by disguising an old Russian missile sub as a new Chinese missile sub based on the plans of the old Russian model, and hitting Pearl Harbor and the city of Honolulu with a megaton range nuke missile. The plot failed because the plotters, including the covert ops team that was sent to join the sub crew at the last minute to take it over at the critical moment, did not know about a secret device the Russian nuclear weapons command had built into their missiles to guard against a sub commander going rogue and launching anuke attack on his own.
I'm at the part where we know all these details because the sub, which sank when the secret device blew uo the (non-nuclear) fuel in the missile and blasted a hole in the sub, was later salvaged by the US secret salvage ship the Glomar Explorer, which of course, as of 2006, has long since ceased to be secret.
Fascinating read!
I'm also into the first book of a scifi trilogy by David Weber where the moon turns out to be a disguised alien warship 3000 miles in diameter which has been there, having replaced the moon and sent it into the sun, for about 52,000 years.
Hey! It could happen! (Yeah, right!) 😎

Mastertank1

We who play and dance are thought mad by they who hear no music.

 

[Redmage]

True story about how a faction within the Kremlin, headed by Mikhail Suslov and Yuri Andropov, tried to trick the USA into a massive nuclear attack on Red China in 1968 by disguising an old Russian missile sub as a new Chinese missile sub based on the plans of the old Russian model, and hitting Pearl Harbor and the city of Honolulu with a megaton range nuke missile.

A title! Give me a title!

I'm also into the first book of a scifi trilogy by David Weber where the moon turns out to be a disguised alien warship 3000 miles in diameter...

You know, I hate when that happens.

 

[Johnny Ticklish]

I'm reading "Alaska." Love Michener.

 

[isabeau]

The Surgeon Generals Warning on the side of by tobacco box.

"Warning: This product Contains/Produces Chemicals Known To The State Of California To Cause Cancer, And Birth Defects Or Other Reproductive Harm."

Thank the Fates I don't live in California or I'd be worried!!!

isabeau

 

[theshire]

The novels based on the Halo video games. They're great so far, just page after page of pulse-pounding action and alien-blasting, very much in the tradition of the games, but also with surprisingly well-drawn characters and good plots. Stuff your boring yawn-inducing Frank Herberts, this is my kind of sci-fi. 🙂

 

[lightninbug]

One Down...2 to go.

Just finished Team of Rivals or Abraham Lincoln's Political Genius by Doris Kearns Goodwin; The Politcal Insight , (not to mention cajones), of this man was AMAZING...putting his Rivals for the Presidential Campaign of 1860 in his cabinet took the courage of a Lion AND the patience of Job.

For a twisted view of Politics in the new century I'm refering back to the Campaign of 72 by re-reading Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail by
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.

As you can see, I try to cover ALL the Bases.
BUG

 

[ShadowTklr]

I'm reading Jack and The Beanstalk. Well, actually, I just finished it. Sometimes its great to revisit the classics that helped to formulate my opinions of the world.

 

[isabeau]

I'm reading Jack and The Beanstalk. Well, actually, I just finished it. Sometimes its great to revisit the classics that helped to formulate my opinions of the world.

um Craig? how did that book do that, if i might ask?? also, i still enjoy reading alice in wonderland, and peter pan... peter pan i might add had some sexual undertones and also some bad language for a child.. tinkerbelle saying you silly ass lol...

isabeau

 

[pfromptown]

I'm reading about ten books at once at the moment but there is a logical explanation for that: eight of them are for history coursework. You probably aren't familiar with the setup for it, but it's basically 3000 words and you're expected to do one paragraph at a time!! It's in next week and I'm still doing it. I'm doing the Battle of the Somme, so it's all related to that.

For leisure, I just finished Heavier than Heaven by Charles R. Cross - the biography of Kurt Cobain. I finished it at about four in the morning on the twelth (Holy shit how do you spell twelth?!) anniversary of his death, crying my arse off. I even e-mailed Charles R. Cross thanking him for writing it and he replied!

Right now I'm onto Mr Nice by Howard Marks, the ex-drug lord's autobiography. I love reading biographies; something about other people's lives in other times just fascinates me. I'm also reading the scripts/series guide to Porridge!

 

[Bugman]

that book about the KGB sounds interesting always been intrested in that thanks for the tip

 

[Strider]

An update, currently reading:

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden. From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001-Steve Coll

Europe: A History-Norman Davies

Just finished:

Colossus: The Price of America's Empire-Niall Ferguson