What are you reading?

[INFESTA]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "100 Years of Solitude"

That's a right down classic. Congrats on your choice: Latin-American writers are the crop of the crop as far as I'm concerned, but rarely get any credit outside their native languages.

 

[Run DMB]

Just finished "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel.

This book is an atheist's investigation into the evidence for Jesus Christ, his resurrection and his divinity, leading up to Strobel's own conversion to Christianity. Strobel interviews the nation's leading Christian scholars, confronting them with the toughest challenges made by skeptics regarding the accuracy of the Gospels. I think it's a great read for anyone who's even the least bit open-minded about the Christian faith and wants to see its foundation in reason.

 

[rhizome17]

Just fiinished the World Without Us http://www.worldwithoutus.com/index2.html which I thought was fantastic. Great hypothesis, and a very even-handed examination of many of the environmental, ecological and political issues of the present day, as well as a thorough understanding of history. I consider myself a reasonably thoughtful guy, so it was great to have a book that extended my thought processes on several things - ike the extent to which plastic is overtaking the plankton population in the sea, the interconnectedness of political regimes and their environmental impacts throughout history and how ecology can have such dire consequences for a civilization. Easy read too. Highly recommended to anyone who wants an analysis of the impact humans have on the planet without taking the usual sides in the 'great debate' over environmental policy (where most peoples stance just 'happens' to coincide with their voting practices).

 

[Bobby]

Plato's Symposium, then I'm going to read "The other Boleyn Girl".

No, I'm not gay.

 

[champdave]

I'm currently reading "Process Dynamics, Modelling and Control" by B.Ogunnaike and W.Ray, it's a fascinating read . . . err.

 

[Nettles]

I'm currently not reading Strange News From Another Star by Blur I mean some German author named Herman Hesse. I'd love to read it, found a copy at the uni library ^_^ but have to read physics and linguistics textbooks and what not.

I'm not a sci-fi guy but if you're interested go for it.

 

[Mandieta6]

Recently finished Blindness by Saramago, and Prey by Crichton, smashing books, really good, particularly Blindness. Am currently reading The Story of Philosophy, which stopped me in the middle of Hunger by Hamsun, which I'm hoping to finish soon.

 

[Zlatan]

Max Havelaar. A historic book about Holland's colonial past in Indonesia. Boring, boring, boring so far though. Gotta read it for school.

 

[Áļéאָ]

damn, this thread is older than toms mum!

anyway, tho i stopped reading like 2 months ago, the book "im currently" reading is Rise of Babylon (Tim Lahaye)

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies Third Edition by Erwin Chemerinsky

Civil Procedure: Examples and Explanations Fifth Edition by Joseph Glannon

Even more fun than they sound!

 

[Back Door Skip]

I'm currently reading The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell. Okay, I'm lying, I only read the intro so far. But I will read it before the end of the year ends. I swear.

I read The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho(sp?) a few months back, though. Great book.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

damn, this thread is older than toms mum!

Wow, yeah it is. I started this my freshman year of college.

 

[hanek45]

The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan. It's quite interesting but i haven't read much in the last 3,4 weeks : /


and by the way, ShiftyPowers, I've got that Constitutional Law textbook too

 

[Run DMB]

I just read "A Tale of a Tub" by Jonathan Swift. I hadn't read anything about it beforehand, so I have to admit I was quite lost initially. Eventually I started making sense out of it, as the satirical jabs at Catholicism and Calvinism became apparent. Not the easiest or most accessible read, but quite brilliant. He's targeting so many ideas and institutions at once that's it's a little overwhelming at first.

 

[INFESTA]

Recently finished Blindness by Saramago, and Prey by Crichton, smashing books, really good, particularly Blindness. Am currently reading The Story of Philosophy, which stopped me in the middle of Hunger by Hamsun, which I'm hoping to finish soon.

Thank God! I've been preaching the gospel of Saramago since this thread begun, back in 2003! DOn't stop there, dude, he has at least 4 other all-time great novels.

I'm currently reading Преступление и наказание, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I might murder anyone soon.

As I usually do, am also reading one work-related book at the same time (well, not AT THE SAME TIME exactly), management-related, for the capitalist in me.

 

[Mandieta6]

I have the Gospel According to Jesus Christ, plan to read it in the summer.

 

[Bonzi]

Nikolai Gogol, "Dead Souls"

 

[night]

Programming Language Pragmatics by Michael L. Scott
Brilliant book for those who are into programming language theory. In other words, none of the SG members..

 

[Filipower]

Memorial do Convento, Saramago.


oooooh look at me, I right with no paragraphs, I'm so good...just die already, or at least make the Ministry put some of your other work as obligatory reading material..

 

[Mandieta6]

I really like Saramago's style, it's unique and, at least in Blindness works well on a symbolic level, too.

I don't think you'll ever really love a book which is forced upon you. Although I have, several.