What are you reading right now?

[tom502]

I don't get to read much, books that is, it seems the TV is always on, the darks barking, I'm tired, and such. But I do like books and have a nice little library about topics that interest me.

I read a little last night from the Shinshu Seiten, a book of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, which I like, and also I read some of the Tathagata Abidharma, by Shoko Asahara(of the Tokyo subway gassing fame).

[deadohsky]

Thanks SG and PP. Should have seen my face when i found them.

I definitely have read my fair share on ufos lol, dont really know how i feel about them. I was convinced as a kid, but not anymore. Part of me just doesn't believe aliens have come to earth although there are some things that are fairly convincing and hard to explain differently. Most alien life is more than likely microbial and just with the vast distances involved i dont really see the relatively few advanced civilizations coming here.

Another interesting book in same general area is Death By Black Hole by Neal Degrasse Tyson.

[Monkey]

I'm on my fifth time through the Wheel of Time series. I'm on book six. I read up to book 9 last time I read through but waiting for the next one and life got in the way. I'm trying to time getting to the last installment of the last book when it comes out. (I started with the prequel this time)

[deadohsky]

Started The Stand by Stephen King last night.

[danielan]

Started The Stand by Stephen King last night.

That's a good book. That and the Dark Tower series are my favorites of his.

[deadohsky]

That's a good book. That and the Dark Tower series are my favorites of his.

I have yet to actually read it, hence why i started it last night. Thats the way i am with most Stephen King. I have all of his books minus about five. I have seen the majority of the movies (despite the cheesiness of most of them, i love them, say what you will lol), but i haven't read as many as i've watched. The books i've read i have enjoyed. So far only read one dark tower book, the first, The Gunslinger. I have them all but haven't read them yet.

One thing about my father that lives on past him, is his love of literature. Luckily i had a father that was very into books so i have a very nice start to a personal library. A lot of work to read them all though. I have inherited his obsessiveness as far as taking care of and preserving books that i own.

Edit: Very good topic sgreger1. I have a passion for books that i am glad i can talk about now, haha.

[The Great Dane]

Anyone who is intirested in the holocaust, or in what goes on inside the mind of someone imprisoned in a Gulag/Concentration camp MUST read "Man's Search For Meaning", which was written by someone who was in Auschwitz. It is intiresting for me to try and understand mass movements, what leads to them and what becomes of them. But more important to how the leaders of the movement pull it off, is how it affects the worker bees. I find what happened in Germany to be the best place to observe this from recent times.

Why look to the past, you can look at it in pressent.....just go to a football match it has a essens of the same nature and real close that is, politics/religion/army/schools/sports its all around you!

The rush of being "right" together with a whole bunch of ppl is the feeling that most ppl get, without they even understand what they are doing or why they are "right" they just tell each other; We are right, they are wronge....tadada = Mass movment!

ppl dont like to stand alone, they are a pack "animal" and are affraid to be outsite the "mass" so they bow their head or persude them self, that they are like the rest - if everyone is saying this is right and that is wronge.....who is stronge enough to say: No thats not right - its just plaine wronge...maby somebody, but if you get punished to do so, most ppl will look the other way and say....its not gonna be me, who says it! its in the massmovments nature to supress its followers.....dont think and your happy!

well maby not totally the truth of how mass movments are working...but its something like that!

reading AAAAAAADDDDDDDDD + D

IV got up to 8 books going at once, just not at the moment, as im moving and the most of my 400 - 500 books are in boxes iv got my usual 4 - 5 books going:

Jerome K. Jerome
Knud H. Thomsen
Jøren Riel
James Herriot

LOVE to read, its the best!

[deadohsky]

Picked up the new Stephen King novella, Blockade Billy, today. Still debating if i should read through it tonight or wait. Ill probably end up reading it i'm sure.

[danielan]

Tom Holt - May Contain Traces of Magic

[sgreger1]

One thing about my father that lives on past him, is his love of literature. Luckily i had a father that was very into books so i have a very nice start to a personal library. A lot of work to read them all though. I have inherited his obsessiveness as far as taking care of and preserving books that i own.

Edit: Very good topic sgreger1. I have a passion for books that i am glad i can talk about now, haha.

I figured most people on here are 30+ so SOMEONE must enjoy reading lol. Im the same as you in that my father (and mother) have a massive library. When they pass on I won't get any large estate but I will get one hell of a book collection! All the classics, it'll take me 20 years to read through them all lol.

[Snusdog]

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist." - Epicurus

Dear Epicurus, death is non-being and therefore by default does not exist. It is nothing and so cannot be. It is nowhere and so cannot arrive.

And yet death most certainly is and death most certainly comes

Thus good sir philosopher quite possibly we have stumbled upon some deep and hidden truth behind the cosmos-- that non-being is never the equal of being but rather its dependent and derivative. Thus, is not must always assume is.

Therefore good sir philosopher consider: We must be before we can die. And we must remain or nothing is dead.

So eat, drink, and be merry...............for tomorrow you shall die....................and thus beyond doubt, tomorrow you shall most certainly exist

Aristotle's dog

[sgreger1]

Dear Epicurus, death is non-being and therefore by default does not exist. It is nothing and so cannot be. It is nowhere and so cannot arrive.

And yet death most certainly is and death most certainly comes

Thus good sir philosopher quite possibly we have stumbled upon some deep and hidden truth behind the cosmos-- that non-being is never the equal of being but rather its dependent and derivative. Thus, is not must always assume is.

Therefore good sir philosopher consider: We must be before we can die. And we must remain or nothing is dead.

So eat, drink, and be merry...............for tomorrow you shall die....................and thus beyond doubt, tomorrow you shall most certainly exist

Aristotle's dog

/Smartass punk. If I saw that Dog, i'd kick it square in the a$$!

[tom502]

I wanna pick up some old 50's 60's vintage sci-fi short novels. I've read a few long ago, I don't recall the titles. But those books of that era have a charm to them.

Currently, I'm sorta reading Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat by Ori Hofmekler.

[Snusdog]

/Smartass punk. If I saw that Dog, i'd kick it square in the a$$!

[takach]

just finished Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

just started A Moveable feast by Hemingway