Hi, thought we should make a thread where we write down books we are reading at that moment. Quite a diverse crowd here, so the list should be quite interesting too. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ------------- Anyway, today I started reading Joseph Campbell "The Masks of God - Oriental Mythology" which is the second book in the "Masks of God" tetralogy. The first one I very enjoyed and it was "Primitive Mythology". This is from the Amazon.co.uk page:
"the sea hunters 2" by clive cussler deals with finding old shipwrecks "secrets and spies" by readers digest deals mainly with world war 2
The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/06...2792/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-8939794-4965743?ie=UTF8
I.Asimov´s Foundation series, currently "Foundation and Empire". I have read Asimov´s popupar science books before but I picked Foundation up quite recently.
I've currently got a huge list of books sitting on my desk waiting to be read. The stack contains: 1) See No Evil- Robert Baer 2) The Autobiography and Other Writings- Benjamin Franklin 3) The Elegent Universe- Brian Greene 4) A Brief History of Time- Stephen Hawking 5) A License to Steal- Benjamin J. Stein 6) The Design of Everyday Things- Donald A. Norman 7) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens- Sean Covey 8) Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy- Partha Bose 9) The Einstein Factor- Win Wenger, PH.D, and Richard Poe 10) Creative Visualization- Shakti Gawain 11) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson (school) 12) Life is a Series of Presentations- Tony Jeary 13) The Thinker's Way- John Chaffee 14) The Art of Speed-Reading People- Paul D. Tieger I'm glad I'm an abnormally fast reader Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! AmishRakeFight
The "Secret" World of Vickers Guided Weapons - John Forbat Statistics of Deadly Quarrels - L F Richardson The Far Call - Gordon Dickson The Confusion - Neal Stephenson Armament of British Aircraft 1909-1939 - H F King British Aircraft Armament Vol.1, RAF gun turrets 1914-95 - Wallace Clarke Istoria i Konstruktsi Samoletov v SSSR - V Shavrov Britain 1939-1945: The Economic Cost of Strategic Bombing - John Fahey
"THE BOOK OF TEA" by KAKUZO OKAKURA A book about the history, the spirituality, the beauty and the masters of tea. You can read it on the Internet here .
Currently reading: Noll, Mark A. America's God. Barker, Clive. Galilee. Recently read: Cady, Jack. The Hauntings of Hood Canal. James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. On deck: Brust, Steven. Dzur. (Awaiting Aug., 2006) If you ever want to ruin your vacation by reading, Henry James is your man. The Turn of the Screw lives up to the reputation I'd learned over the years: "The finest horror story in which nothing happens." In the meantime, Cady's Hauntings, a 2003 release and the last novel he published before his passing, is one of the finest creepy tales I've encountered. Noll's America's God is exactly what it sounds like: a dry, thick, dense history of theology in the United States of America. I've neglected Barker's Galilee for too long, and it's enough to say I'm nearly salivating for Brust's Dzur.
I liked the Turn of the Screw; its like two completely different stories in one, depending on who you believe, the children or the governess. Great read!!
It's a wonderful read, but tasking to the point of nullifying the idea of a vacation. I look at it differently, though: I think the true horror of the story is that the children knew what was at stake; Miles was assured of his sister's condition when he spoke alone with the governess, and I believe he knew what was to come. Stylistically, though, it's a heavy, demanding read; and I'm one who actually likes semicolons and commas. You know, some stories are an education in themselves? James schools me on rhythm and punctuation; I wasn't prepared to be educated in such a manner while on vacation.
Well I usually don't get more than an hour to read every day, so I take much longer to get through a book nowadays; I think I read it over two weeks which is slow for me. You're right, it was heavy. But I was brought up on Somerset Maugham, A J Cronin, James Michener, Dickens and Joyce, so you could say I've plowed through too many of them now to feel the pain.
Right now I'm reading 'Memoirs found in a Bathtub' by Stanislaw Lem, but I just finished up 'Timeline' and 'State of Fear' by Micheal Crichton. They were both great reads.
Adams' "Way of the Weasel" is worth reading (not comic collection though). And its sequel - "exactly the same title and text, but all the words are pronounced differently". I love that guy's sense of humour.