What are you reading?

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Chronicles of the Host Book 4: Final Confrontation by Doug Brian Shafer and now I'm about to begin Three by Ted Dekker.

[Technomancer]

I've read Night Watch but none of the others about Samuel Vimes (personally one of my favorite characters, though I also like Lord Vetinari and Death... and, oddly enough, Mr. Pump of Going Postal). Are there others have focus on him somewhat? By mini-series' do you refer to other sets of characters on the Disc, or different worlds entirely?

'Guards! Guards!' was the first Vimes book, but there was also 'Men at Arms', 'Jingo', 'Feet of Clay', and 'The Fifth Elephant'

[uc pseudonym]

Interesting; thank you for those titles. On that series, I also read Lords and Ladies, but now I have exhausted the local library's supply of Discworld books.

I'll soon begin Shadowmancer by GP Taylor, now that it is off the reserved list. We'll see what I think of it.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Shadowmancer I found very interesting but the author doesn't have the best writing skills at all.
I have just finished reading Three by Ted Dekker and all I can say is Wow! The book was so darn hard to put down that I read it in a day (of course doing other stuff also).

[SailorDove]

Just finished "Decent into Hell" by Charles Williams (one of the Inkling Gang w/ Tolkin & Lewis)

Had to smile when I saw "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" & Campion's name in previous posts. Enjoyed the former, should read the later.

[kirakira]

I'm halfway through X-Wing: Rouge Squadron, by Michael Stackpole. I got it at a used book store, and it says 'To; Tony Frome; Kenny *smiley face* Happy 12th Birthday' scribbled in pen on the back cover. *lol* Gotta love books with personality.

[battletech]

I'm reading the complete" Chronicles of Narnia " by C.S. Lewis again.

[uc pseudonym]

Shadowmancer I found very interesting but the author doesn't have the best writing skills at all.

I have to agree there]I have just finished reading Three by Ted Dekker and all I can say is Wow! The book was so darn hard to put down that I read it in a day (of course doing other stuff also).[/QUOTE]

I'm curious about both Ted Dekker's writing in general and this specific book. Can you give me a synopsis in the latter case and your commentary on the former?

[mitsuki lover]

I am reading The War Hits Home:The Civil War In Southeastern Virginia.
I'm reading it to learn what the war was like for my southern ancestors.
One of the things I have found though is that every so often I have to close the book and check my genealogy files for names that appear in the book.

[uc pseudonym]

Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster

I am about two thirds of the way through this book, and I have enjoyed it as of yet. It resonates with much of what I believe, yet still forces me to think beyond that and contains much that is useful in a very practical sense. Better yet, it includes quite a few recommendations for further reading. I've read about half of it, but I intend to explore the rest.

[Sammy Boy]

I am reading "UFO Religions" (ed. Christopher Partridge). From Routledge.

It's about .. er .. UFO religions.

Has a chapter on the Raelian Movement, which is what I am doing my class essay on.

[termyt]

Can Man Live without God? by Ravi Zacharias.

An excelent book for those interested in apologetics.

[Ssjjvash]

Shadowmancer I found very interesting but the author doesn't have the best writing skills at all.

I was a little disappointed by this book because it built up in suspense, but didn't really go anywhere with it.
Now I'm reading Wormwood. So far, so good. Everyone's been saying it was Shadowmancer's sequel, but I haven't found any indication that it is.

[Todeskreuz]

Shadowmancer I found very interesting but the author doesn't have the best writing skills at all.

I totally agree...I was let down by that book >.>

but right now I'm reading Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller -awesome awesome book btw ^^

[uc pseudonym]

I was a little disappointed by this book because it built up in suspense, but didn't really go anywhere with it.

Furthermore, the plot at the end was far too rushed. After finishing it, I feel he brought in two many elements that didn't contribute to the story. They were interesting, merely not good writing.

Now I'm reading Wormwood. So far, so good. Everyone's been saying it was Shadowmancer's sequel, but I haven't found any indication that it is.

Such will occur in time. It is only loosely related.

[Sammy Boy]

Termyt - yeh, that book by Zacharias is great reading. Very interesting.

[Yumie]

Right now I'm reading a devotional book by Ted Dekker called The Slumber of Christianity. It's very interesting-- it gives a lot of insight into why it is that Christians in general aren't as happy in life as God intends us to be. Some of us aren't even happier than non-Christians. The book is about how we lose sight of our hope for heaven as time goes by, and without hope we can't have true happiness, because real happiness just can't exist without hope. I'm not very good at giving sypnopsis's, but it's been very interesting to this point. It also gives a lot of background about Ted and his life; reading about what he was like as a child and a young adult gave me a lot of insight into how he came up with characters like Kevin Parson and Seth Border. Anyways, it has been good so far!

[Technomancer]

"Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe" by Simon Conway Morris

From the back: 'Is evolution random, or is there a pattern?...Simon Conway Morris asks whether the emergence of life will inevitably lead to intelligence'

Also I'm reading: "Encoding Stimulus Information by Spike Numbers and Mean Response Time in Primary Auditory Cortex' by Israel Nelken et al. It's an article in the Journal of Computational Neuroscience.

[Locke]

"Darkly Devoted Dexter"
The sequel to Darkly Dreaming Dexter is out!

Hands down the coolest serial killer (he only kills bad people).

[Espoir]

Yumie, that book sounds really intresting! I'll have to look into geting a coppy.


I am reading Harry Potter (yes, slow reader) and loving it!

Captivateing by Staci Eldridge, the wife of the dude who wrote Wild At Heart. I'm barely into it, my friend reccomended it. Supposed to be very good.

Sin Eater by Fraince Rivers. Mom liked it, so I'm just into it, not enough to form any oppions.

Alot of random magizines lately, Oprah, Real Simple, Adbusters...

Genesis, about the fall.. Analyizing it..

[dragonshimmer]

The second book in the Sovereign Stone Trilogy Guardians of the Lost - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[Azier the Swordsman]

Japanese for Busy People Vol. 1

[uc pseudonym]

Frankenstine (yes, the original) This will probably take me a very long time to finish due to the manner in which I am reading the novel.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Actually, I am merely rereading some parts of the latter, with the perspective of the ending in mind. It actually didn't change as much as I suspected, though a few scenes do have more meaning.

[Kaori]

Over the course of the summer, I have read the following books:

The Faerie Queene. I began reading this book quite some time ago and finally finished it. I found the symbolism and allegory fascinating, and it contains quite a bit of beautiful poetry.

Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones. The movie and the book were both highly enjoyable, but in entirely different ways. Jones has a wonderfully quirky sense of humor.

The Golden Key, by George MacDonald. This was my first time reading anything by MacDonald. All of the stories in the book were good, but "The Golden Key" was the best of the lot.

Absalom! Absalom! by Faulkner. As all Faulkner novels, it was a difficult read, and I liked it less than As I Lay Dying or The Sound and the Fury.

Myths of the Norsemen, by H. A. Guerber. Along with the myths themselves, the book contains quite a few cultural details. The reading was slightly dry at times, but still an excellent (and very informative) read.

Vampire Hunter D (vol. 1), by Hideyuki Kichuchi. Pulp is still pulp, apparently, even when originally written in Japanese. On the plus side, the novel features cover art and several illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano. It was interesting to find that the first Vampire Hunter D movie follows the plot of the book fairly closely; unfortunately, Kikuchi's writing is not impressive.

Kim, by Kipling. A worthwhile read, but not one that I found particularly remarkable.

Doubleday Prayer Collection. The quality of prayers in the volume is rather mixed; some were very good, but others were merely mediocre. I was slightly disappointed by its lack of a bibliography; this meant that I could not have gone to any of the editor's original sources for further reading, had I wished to do so.

Studies in the Short Story, by Virgil Scott and David Madden. This seems to be a textbook written by professors specifically for a course they taught. While the editorial comments are not of enormous value, some of the stories are very well-written. (The authors also included several poorly-written stories to illustrate the differences between popular and literary fiction, but high-quality stories make up the majority of the book.)

[TurkishMonky]

I'm saturating my brain with the chronicles of narnia for the 5th time since the begining of summer in preparation of the movie... i can quote most of it now...

I've also been speed-reading books on christian living (have gone through about 20 - 30), but i don't think that counts

[Scribs]

Startinga textbook on Western Civilization

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Red by Ted Dekker.

[uc pseudonym]

Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone

For a class. It's a good class, but I wish we started with a different book.

[Technomancer]

"Inamorata" by Joseph Gangemi. It's well written, although the ending is disappointing.

[Scribs]

The Bible