What are you reading?

Postby **Mineko** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:55 pm

I'm reading "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad and "The Secret to a Happy Christian's Life" by Hannah Whittall Smith, and I just finished "Authentic Beauty" by Leslie Ludy and, for all you girls out there, that is an awesome book.

Postby **Mineko** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:56 pm

"Lord Jim" is very boring, btw. I have to read it for school.

Postby **Ashley** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:58 pm

YAAAAAAAY!
I finally found Lawhead's next book, Pendragon. I've been looking for this one for months now. Eee! I'm so happy.

Postby **Locke** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:09 pm

THE BOONDOCKS TREASURY for some reason

hehe i like that book

its comics for smart people!!

also i just finshed reading Artemis fowl and the eternity code, also the second to last remnants

Postby **Lochaber Axe** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:38 pm

Well right now I have to read for school is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gastby. My small library however is growing quite efficiently, I hope to have a full book library one day (preferably a whole room full). Well my library to the right of me currently has in it (note: alot of the books are ones that I had to get for school; you can probably guess which ones) from bottom right to upper left: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, Taggerung by Brian Jacques, Black Hawk Down (the book the movie was based on) by Mark Bowden, Dark Canyon by Louis L'Amour, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Hiroshima by John Hershey. Now for the upper row, if you are still reading this mad props to you. And now for the finishing move: The Ice Wind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore, Prey by Michael Crichton, A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Uhhh... I have the Penguin Critical Study for The Great Gatsby (it came in by mistake), next book I have to read for school: A Lesson Before Dying by Gaines, Piercing the Darkness by Frank E. Peretti and the first book, This Present Darkness, next to it, and finally my first ever manga, Trigun by Yasuhiro Nightow. I am tired :sweat:

. This is definitely off topic, WAyyy off topic. :grin:

EDIT: Yeah I know it isn't impressive.

Postby **EireWolf** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 10:43 pm

I just started "Byzantium" by Stephen Lawhead. I am pleased to see his name repeated oft here. :grin:

I read the Song of Albion trilogy a long time ago with OldPhil, as well as the Pendragon Cycle. Loved them all. (Come to think of it... I don't think I ever read "Grail." I'll have to do that next.)

I also love all things Madeleine L'Engle. She's awesome. One of my life goals is to read all of her books. Along with many of C.S. Lewis's... once my Theology degree wears off. :sweat:

(Had to read too many theology books, need a cooling off period.)

Oh, I'm also currently reading this month's Reader's Digest, and catching up on my National Geographics.

Postby **Turbocat** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:26 am

I'm reading Let Freedom Ring by Sean Hannity, Hacker Culture by Douglas Thomas and Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis- which is his autobiography and isn't quite as good as his other non-fiction works in my opinion. The last fiction book I read was Patrick by Lawhead. Pretty good but I liked Byzantium alot better. I'm pretty jaded on fantasy- right now I'm into historical fiction of all eras, especially about the early church-any suggestions?

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:33 am

I'm gonna have to say Lawhead is a wonderful writer. If you wanna start reading Lawhead, Technomancer, I would recommend Empyrion (get the omnibus eddition so that you have I and II). You seem to have similar taste in styles as I - so I don't think you'll be disapointed.

Oh and Ash - you'd probably faint if you saw the Lawhead collection on this shelf right here. Hmm, let's see what's here... Merlin, Taliesin, Arthur, Grail, Pendragon, The Paradice War, The Silver Hand, The Endless Knot, The Iron Lance, Dream Thief, Empyrion I & II, Byzantium (on wolf's night stand, actually), what the... where did that come from??? I seem to have two coppies of Iron Lance. Hmm. And what happened to my Dragon King trillogy..? I also don't see to have the next two books in the Celtic Crusaids series, or Patric - Son of Ireland.

There you go. Think I'm a Lawhead fan? And all that's sitting next to the nice letter he wrote me about my website. (Before he had his up, mine was the most complete SRL reference on the net. Now it's at least 8 years out of date. I am SO old.)

If one is ever in the mood for a real emotional book that's not by SRL, I'd recommend Tuesdays with Morey. It's an interesting story where a non-Christian deals with death.

Oh, and if Jon is lurking around here still, I just finished reading your manuscript of "The Acadamy" and I'm mailing the edits back to you.

Postby **Tet-chan** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:53 am

I am reading some book called "The Bible Code 2" by Michael Drosnin.Its something about computer unlocking bible code and tells about the future.I am not sure wether this is true or not .

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:58 am

The Bible Code was highly scoffed at by most theologians. I haven't read it, so I can't say whether it's good/bad/meh.

(And scoff is such a weird word)

Postby **madphilb** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:54 pm

For every person to "scoff" at "The Bible Code" there is at least 1 to give it some sort of thumbs up.

I can't remember his name, but the guy who wrote "Signature of God" I think has the best take on the whole thing. It's basically really cool, but you're not going to get the answers from it... for that you have to read the Bible the other way

(serious paraphrase)

I've read the 1st Bible Code book and part of the problem there is it wasn't written by a believer (so he's got no understanding of how Free Will comes into play or how the whole God being God thing works). It's much like the Shroud of Turin, it's really cool, but no matter what anyone comes up with, it won't make converts out of anyone (so to speak).

BTW - currently reading the Narnia series (about to start book 3/4 depending on where you start at

)

PHIL

Postby **Straylight** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:04 pm

I'm really not sure about Bible codes. About a year ago some of us at school got into these things because we were bored, and we managed to find all kinda of unrelated nonsense in the code. I'd say approach with caution

Postby **Icarus** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 3:26 pm

I just finished Sir Stalwart, by Dave Duncan (an interesting book by the way, and a companion to the King's Blades series), and am looking forward to January, when Robert Jordan will (hopefully) release book 11 of The Wheel of Time.

Postby **Azier the Swordsman** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 3:30 pm

Dean Koontz's Seize the Night

Postby **JediSonic** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 3:40 pm

I'm reading that sci-fi triology by C.S. Louis. Just finished "Out of the Silent Planet", now I'm on book two

Postby **Ranmei** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 5:06 pm

Hmm... I tend to read a few books a at time, and when I get tired of reading one, I go on to another one... I hopoe that made sense.

Anyway, I'm readinf "Goddess Of Yesterday", "The Dragons Of Spring Dawning" (Margaret Weis and Tracy Something) of the Dragonlance Series, and I'm re-reading "Fall Into Darkness", by Christopher Pike.... I forgot what happened. >.>;

Postby **Technomancer** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 5:14 pm

I've finished the Unsworth that I was reading (good, but "Songs of the Kings" was much better), and have started "First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women" by Eric McCormack. What I really want to do though is read Gen. Dallaire's new book "Shake Hands With the Devil" (there were over 40 holds for it at the library sadly).

Postby **Ranmei** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 7:51 pm

Technomancer wrote:What I really want to do though is read Gen. Dallaire's new book "Shake Hands With the Devil" (there were over 40 holds for it at the library sadly).

Over 40 holds? It must be really good. (BTW: I love your icon. n_n)

Postby **Technomancer** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 8:08 pm

I expect it will be, but also brutal and hard to read. Gen. Dallaire was the head of the UN detachment in Rwanda before and during the genocide. He had repeatedly warned the UN that massacre was in the air and pleaded with them for more troops so he could do something (he asked for 5000, he was given 270). His warnings went unheeded, and he witnessed the events firsthand.

When he returned to Canada, he would suffer a nervous breakdown and attempt suicide. He has said "I know there is a God, because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil"

PS. thanks, glad you like it!

Postby **postbagboy** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 8:13 pm

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden. it's kind of... disturbing.

Postby **Tet-chan** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 3:39 am

Azumanga Daioh(manga)
This manga is so funny

Postby **c-girl** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:08 pm

I've been reading Ranma 1/2. It's funny.

Postby **Michael** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 3:11 pm

Calvin's Golden book of the Christian Life-John Calvin

Gone for Soldiers-Jeff Sharra

The personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant-Grant(Can you say duh? Very natural)

Bravo Two Zero-Andy McNab

Fear Nothing-Dean Koontz (Actually as soon as my dad checks it out of the library)

Postby **Tet-chan** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 2:20 am

Some Gundam Wing manga
Ground Zero

Postby **Yoda47** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 6:54 pm

I'm reading The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien, last months and this months issues of Newtype USA, and will be shortly starting Dragon's Kin, by Anne McCaffery.

I would be reading more, but there's no time with work.

Postby **Technomancer** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 9:41 am

"Darwin in the Genome: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution"- by Lynn Caporale. A good read.

Also, "The Finite Element Method: Prinicples and Applications". Work-related, but still a subject I've wanted to pick up for a while.

Postby **Danyasaur** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:43 am

".Hack//Legend of theTwilight" the manga, I HIGHLY recomend this manga!

Postby **Solid Ronin** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:45 am

Shogun for me

Postby **Yoda47** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 12:14 pm

My updated reading list for December: (I know, I should have edited my other post, but I realized that too late.... gomen)

Have read:
- Dragon's Kin by Anne McCaffery

Are reading:
- The Silmarillion by Tolkien (I've been working on this one off and on for quite a while)
- A couple diffrent Japanese self-study type books (again, working on them in what little spare time I have...)
- Last months and this months issues of Newtype USA

Will read:
- Onegai Teacher
- Acorna's Rebels by Anne McCaffery
- Amageddon by Tim Lahay (I know, I spelled it wrong ^_^; )

Lost in the pile:
- Dune
- A few Tom Swift Jr books
- A few Danny Dunn books
- Some book about one of the Rosevelts
- A few diffrent C.S. Lewis books
- a few more that I can't remember

Postby **Azier the Swordsman** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 8:42 pm

I can't finish Sieze the Night... got to caught up reading Prey. I'll have to finish it some other time.

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