What are You Reading Now?

[edger]

Continuing to read through Phillip K. Dick’s short stories.

Good stuff! What a writer, for all his craziness.

 

[musicman]

It's been a while since I picked up a new (to me) book and read it cover to cover, but last week I started A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson. It covers the quest to figure out the nature and the age of the universe, and all the different sciences that had to be developed over the past few centuries to answer our questions about our place in it (from Seismology to Astronomy, and pretty much every scientific discipline in between). Fascinating stuff!

Also, just finished The Monkey Wrench Gang, by Ed Abbey, for the second time. Fun read!

 

[brian64]

Good stuff! What a writer, for all his craziness.

+1

Seems as though a certain degree of craziness might be a prerequisite for great writers.

 

[Jwebb90]

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

 

[edger]

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

He is the best! There have been some one man stage performances going around( actually before coved) one with an actor named McLean, I believe. I also like Tim Keller. Enjoy.

 

[Jwebb90]

He is the best! There have been some one man stage performances going around( actually before coved) one with an actor named McLean, I believe. I also like Tim Keller. Enjoy.

I am in seminary and just started a course called the Theology of C.S. Lewis. I am excited to dig into his works. I also appreciate Tim Keller. We are in the same denomination (Presbyterian Church in America).

 

[samuelgawith01]

"Typhoon" by Joseph Conrad.

 

[edger]

Reading the handful of Cadfael novels that I picked up. I listen to medieval music for atmosphere. I'm going to pick up the full set someday.

 

[highwaycobbery]

Charles bukowski, always bet on the muse. You want extreme, check this guy out. Fascinating. I would recommend notes of a dirty old man.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Just finished reading "The Secret Sharer",by Joseph Conrad.......Much recommended.

 

[olkofri]

Just finished reading "The Secret Sharer",by Joseph Conrad.......Much recommended.

That one came as 'side B' with my copy of Heart of Darkness. Pretty cool.

 

[Chasing Embers]

 

[olkofri]

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Boo! ??

 

[bullet08]

Done with first 6 Dune. Not sure I really want to read what his son wrote. David Wong's books will be here soon. John Dies in the End or something and first book of his new series? Heard it might have some potential for a good laugh.

 

[ssjones]

One of the best horror books I've read in a long time, sorry to see this one end and bit surprised, my expectation was low.

 

[ukbob]

War Lord by Bernard Cornwell , the last book in the Last Kingdom Series excellent.

 

[highwaycobbery]

Stephen king, if it bleeds.have all his books, I wait about 4 years and re read the dark tower series. Epic.

 

[lraisch]

Since it's almost Halloween, I picked up an old paperback I read when I was a teenager.

"Zacherley's Midnight Snacks", a collection of spooky short stories from the likes of Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. Van Vogt.

It's a fun trip down memory lane for me.

 

[saltedplug]

Longchen Rabjam (Longchenpa) The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena and the Bodhisattvacaryavatara.

Just got wind of the value of Longchenpa a few days ago as explicating the perception of formlessness and breaking the conceptual mind. I was fortunate to find a pdf that was downloadable and amenable to being copied to my words processor, that I will edit.
But manipulating pdf's can range from difficult to impossible. This pdf when copied lost formatting such that although all the text was present,. I'm having to restore the verse lines. Still, very worthwhile.

 

[morgansteele]

Interior Chinatown: A Novel by Charles Yu.