Books you're currently reading???

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

(recently) 'War of Gifts' by Orson Scott Card

It was indeed a stinker. Just 'cause Ender is in it, doesn't mean it's any good. I read it to my daughter, because we'd read a couple other Ender books together, and she was also not impressed.

[Gravdigr]

Who the hell names their kid 'Orson' anyway?

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Who the hell names their kid 'Orson' anyway?

Orson Welles and Orson Bean

And let's not forget Mork's boss.

[Cloud]

Just got my new Sookie Stackhouse book, "Dead in the Family." Pre-ordered from Amazon for $10. I mean -- you can barely get a paperback book for $10 these days.

[skysidhe]

Fear Nothing - Dean Koontz


Then
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. Release on May 25th!


wow it's $11 dollars on Amazon too.

[Flint]

Just finished 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Nice story, but for Christ sake every page has at least 4 paragraphs of what every damn type of fish is called and what color they are. I actually started skipping sections so I could get to the plot development.

Interestingly, Jules Verne, in 1869, makes a number of specific observations that I see verified in articles in Scientific American that I happen to be reading in 2010.

[GunMaster357]

Originally Posted by Flint

Just finished 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Nice story, but for Christ sake every page has at least 4 paragraphs of what every damn type of fish is called and what color they are. I actually started skipping sections so I could get to the plot development.

That's due to the writing style of that period. If you were to read "Le Capitaine Fracasse" by Théophile Gautier (1863), you would find the same kind of lengthy descriptions. If memory serves me, The first 4 or five pages of the book are about describing the castle of a minor noble in the southwest of France. Yet, the plot is nice but it's more of a romance than an adventure.

I still read both of these authors with pleasure.

[mywork08]

Mastering Visual Basic

[DangerouslySimple]

LOL SG, I meant being so angry to throw books in general, I've never read White Fang, but I did throw Jesus Saves across the room when I read the ending. I was fuming for quite awhile over that stupid book.

[Stormieweather]

Relentless - Dean Koontz.

Edge of your seat page turner!

[skysidhe]

I usually like Dean Koontz but in this particular book, the main character is running a gambit of catastrophes and bizarre occurrences running from one side of town to the other in the course of 8 hours all of this after his dad dies in the hospital.


I know it is fiction but the progression of events is annoying.
* spoiler alert*

All in the course of 8 hours.
His dads body is stolen.
Visits friend.
Genetically engineered evil monkeys kill friend.
Evil monkeys play head games with main character.
Evil monkeys start fire.
Main character barely makes it out alive.
Main character goes to another friend.
eats - takes a shower they see the evil monkeys.
Main character leaves.
Evil monkeys stalk main character on bicycle.
Main character goes to another friend.
Weird things are discussed.
Main character leaves runs into
sheriff. Sheriff is becoming infected
with evil monkey traits.
Main character kills psychopathic cop then blows up his car.
There is 4 more hours of sunrise and
the main character spends all of them in even more bizarre life lessons which I am not going to mention. It is very redundant.( maybe redundant isn't the right word. I want to say incredulous but then why should I feel some sort of flaw in logic. I mean the book taking about evil monkeys for crying out loud!

I am almost finished with it and it is defiantly NOT a keeper. I am though turning pages as fast as I can to see what happens with the evil monkeys.

[wolf]

I just finished two very different books on Faith.

Have a Little Faith - Mitch Albom
This is a small delight of a book. Rather than defining Faith, Albom shows it to you, through the lives of two very different kinds of clergymen, a Rabbi and a Christian Pastor.

Dynamics of Faith - Paul Tillich
Supposed to be a classic in the discussion and definition of Faith. I'm sure it is. I found this very difficult to read and comprehend in a lot of places ... not for a lack of trying. But it's a rare book that makes me reread and go back a couple pages here, a chapter there. There are reasons that I chose not to be a philosophy major. Books like this were one of the biggies. Well, that and the lack of job opportunities for Industrial Philosophers these days ...

Don't worry SG, I loved White Fang too (assuming you mean the one by Jack London rather than some newly published piece of vampire/werewolf porn that the youth are all gaga about currently).

[DanaC]

@ Wolf: have you 'The five people you meet in heaven' ? also by Mitch Albom.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by DanaC

@ Wolf: have you 'The five people you meet in heaven' ? also by Mitch Albom.

Not yet, but it is on my rather extensive to read list. I'm trying to work my way through some of the books I've bought and downloaded first, though.

Currently reading:

Second Coming - David H. Burton
Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy (the big cataclysm brought magic back to the Earth, events of the book take place a couple hundred years post fall)

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel DeFoe
Never read it when I was supposed to. It was free Kindle content.

Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Excerpts from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. I think I got it because it was part of a "members selection" (book we send you if you forget tell us not to, and it's a hassle to send it back after you open the box because you don't remember what you ordered or didn't, so you might as well just pay for it) from One Spirit Book Club

Dominion and Common Grace - Gary North
This is the book I leave in the special tiled reading room. I would probably be getting more out of it if I were reading it all at one shot rather than a paragraph here and a paragraph there.

I think that's it for right now ...

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by wolf

Not yet, but it is on my rather extensive to read list. I'm trying to work my way through some of the books I've bought and downloaded first, though.

Currently reading:

Second Coming - David H. Burton
Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy (the big cataclysm brought magic back to the Earth, events of the book take place a couple hundred years post fall)

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel DeFoe
Never read it when I was supposed to. It was free Kindle content.

Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Excerpts from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. I think I got it because it was part of a "members selection" (book we send you if you forget tell us not to, and it's a hassle to send it back after you open the box because you don't remember what you ordered or didn't, so you might as well just pay for it) from One Spirit Book Club

Dominion and Common Grace - Gary North
This is the book I leave in the special tiled reading room. I would probably be getting more out of it if I were reading it all at one shot rather than a paragraph here and a paragraph there.

I think that's it for right now ...

Wolf, check out Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying; An exploration of Consciousnes with The Dali Lama, Edited and narrated by Fancisco Varlea, Ph. D.