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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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I just received (20 minutes ago) a copy of "Dark White - Aliens, Abductions and the UFO Obsession" by Jim Schnabel.
His book "Round in Circles" about the history of those involved in the crop circle phenomenon in the late 80s early 90s is well worrth a read. I'll let you know how I get on with this one.
 
1inChrist said:
THE HOLY BIBLE
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Are you sure you're not reading "Fortune Telling for Dummies", 1inC? :p :D
By the way, Osama bin Laden wasn't captured. Guess god wasn't speaking to you after all...
 
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you too!!!

I'm also reading the holy bible!

Or more accurately I'm burning holes in a bible

but same difference

kinda like "Osama will be captured" = "Osama will be on TV"
 
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Good for you, hopefully this time you'll understand it.

I'll give you a hint, Jesus preached patience, tolerance, forgiveness, pacifism, humility and charity. My personal favourite bit is the parable of the good Samaritan, you do understand what Jesus meant to say with this parable don't you?
 
Just finished American Psycho. Can't say I enjoyed it, but I did like the movie based on it as a wonderful exercise in black humor. I shudder to think how much research had to go into describing in excruciating detail every bit of clothing that every character was wearing. Without those paragraphs, it would have been about 1/3 shorter. Otherwise, about halfway through, it turns nasty and franky, apalling.

Now I'm on The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading. Just got it in the mail yesterday. I'm not sure how much more I'm going to learn from it considering all I've picked up from this site, but it is really nice to have it all in a concise volume.
 
I have about 20 books in my bookcase (well I say 'bookcase' but I really mean 'pile on the floor') waiting to be read. I'm currently reading "The secret origins of the bible" by Tim Callahan and "Fools Errand" by Robin Hobb. I recommend both highly.

Problem is that I have so little time to read these days. I'm lucky if I can sneak 20 minutes a day to read, due to work and family commitments. :(

I'll echo the recommendations for Bernard Cornwell's books. I've only read one of the Arthur series so far but it was a real page-turner. I think it was called "The Winter King". I wish I had the time to read a few more.
 
Depraved: The Shocking True Story Of America's First Serial Killer by Harold Schechter

Here's a little from the blurb:
Herman Mudgett, who called himself Dr. H. H. Holmes, seemed the epitome of the late 19th century "Golden Age": he was a well-dressed, charismatic, self-made entrepreneur (think Andrew Carnegie). Unfortunately for his many victims, he was also a liar, bigamist, debtor, con man, and murderer. The setting for several of his murders was the bizarre urban "castle" he built in Chicago--a ramshackle construction with mazelike corridors, soundproof rooms, sealed vaults, oversized furnaces, and chutes leading down to the cellar. Holmes's undoing was an insurance scam in which he planned to use a corpse supplied by a doctor to fake his partner's death, but ended up killing the partner, his wife, and his five children.


Just a little light reading.:)
 
Holmes's undoing was an insurance scam in which he planned to use a corpse supplied by a doctor to fake his partner's death, but ended up killing the partner, his wife, and his five children. [/B]
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Sounds like he over did it a tad;)

Jim Bowen
 
P�lux said:
Crime and punishment (Dostoievski)
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I'm having a hard time getting through it... It's like there's these brilliant ideas and psychology and character development surrounded by incredibly boring, lengthy, irrelevant details.

Am I the only one who got the impression Dostoyevsky really needed an editor?

Anyway, I've recently decided to seriously educate myself on philosphy, so I just finished a good bit of Plato (The trial of Socrates, mostly), and now I'm reading The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant. I'm reading the introduction for the second time (Taking notes this time around) and I've already learnt a bunch. I really like his style, and how he gives examples, makes it much easier to understand.

Fiction, I finished Starfish by Peter Watts...excellent book. Gritty sci-fi and the most interesting characters of...well, nearly any other book I've ever read.
 
I have just been introduced to the Shannara series by Goodkind. The first one was a good read, but also a near scene-for-scene rip off of LOTR. Am starting the second (Elfstones of Shannara) now.
 
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I have just been introduced to the Shannara series by Goodkind. The first one was a good read, but also a near scene-for-scene rip off of LOTR. Am starting the second (Elfstones of Shannara) now.
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Huh? The Shannara series is by Terry Brooks IIRC. Terry Goodkind wrote the Sword of Truth series - which is not a rip-off of any kind.
 
I'm currently reading "The Way The Future Was", Frederik Pohl's autobiography from 1978. Very interesting.............
 
I've now finished "The Meme machine" by Susan Blackmore, and am now reading "The Twisted Root".
 
Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science, Taner Edis.

Had a great chat with him during a lecture he gave here, and got my copy signed. I dig it.
 
Today at the library I picked up The Full Cupboard of Life, one of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith... and The Complete Idiots Guide to Scrapbooking.

I've got about 15 years of family photos to deal with.
 
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