What are you reading?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #240 on: February 02, 2011, 10:37:54 AM »
Just started The Color of Magic a few nights ago.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #241 on: February 02, 2011, 11:04:40 AM »
What a coincidence, i've read lately "Sourcery", and now i'm with "(Faust) Eric".
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #242 on: February 02, 2011, 09:40:13 PM »
This thread.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #243 on: February 03, 2011, 08:57:32 AM »
Harry Potter & Der Stein Der Weisen, lol.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #244 on: February 03, 2011, 09:20:04 AM »
What a coincidence, i've read lately "Sourcery", and now i'm with "(Faust) Eric".

Faust Eric is the only Discworld I've yet to read.

I'm now reading The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #245 on: February 03, 2011, 09:55:05 AM »
Right now, I am reading three compendiums(compendia? compendii?) on purifying sewage and sewer water. I also have a book to read on the same  subject, called The Art of Purifying Water. When the nuclear apocalypse rolls over, you'll be happy I'm there to provide you with clean drinking water.
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« Reply #246 on: February 03, 2011, 10:44:39 AM »
Right now, I am reading three compendiums(compendia? compendii?) on purifying sewage and sewer water. I also have a book to read on the same  subject, called The Art of Purifying Water. When the nuclear apocalypse rolls over, you'll be happy I'm there to provide you with clean drinking water.

What. Why?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #247 on: February 04, 2011, 02:38:34 AM »
Right now, I am reading three compendiums(compendia? compendii?) on purifying sewage and sewer water. I also have a book to read on the same  subject, called The Art of Purifying Water. When the nuclear apocalypse rolls over, you'll be happy I'm there to provide you with clean drinking water.

What. Why?

It's for school. That is not to say it isn't interesting.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #248 on: February 17, 2011, 09:37:33 AM »
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #249 on: February 17, 2011, 01:22:21 PM »
"The stand", uncut version by Stephen King.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #250 on: February 17, 2011, 07:30:38 PM »
One of the H.P. Lovecraft collections. 

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #251 on: February 20, 2011, 01:39:20 PM »
Dude, Where's my Country? by Michael Moore.

Meh.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #252 on: February 20, 2011, 01:41:57 PM »
Mark's Gospel.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #253 on: February 21, 2011, 03:52:30 PM »
I was depressed today so I picked up Fahrenheit 451 and finished it in about two and a half hours. It's one of my favorite books.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #254 on: February 21, 2011, 05:49:17 PM »
I'm in the process of reading Misquoting Jesus: The Story of Who Changed the Bible and Why for the first time and reading Philip K. Dick's VALIS for about the 10th time.  They actually work well together, as the idea of Gnostic Christianity (a topic I find really interesting) pops up frequently in both books.  Misquoting Jesus is a bit dry, I guess, but it seems quite thorough and well-researched.  And it doesn't really have an agenda, which is nice.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #255 on: February 21, 2011, 06:06:18 PM »
The only positive of Ehrman, in my opinion is that he is writing to the masses on a topic which is generally written by scholars to scholars. He does have an axe to grind, though the issues (he seems to be focusing on pseudonymity this time) are genuine and age-old; he seems to take an all-or-nothing approach laden with non-sequiturs . I say this as a person who does not believe the New Testament to be canonical.
I've not read anything by the second author.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #257 on: February 21, 2011, 09:26:07 PM »
All right...

I'm going to try and read Moby-Dick with the aid of an audiobook companion. I'm not sure how successful I'll be.

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« Reply #258 on: February 21, 2011, 09:39:04 PM »
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Toni Morisson's Beloved for AP Lit currently. I really enjoy SF so far. I haven't really picked up Beloved like I should have though. I liked what I did read derp.

EDIT: No more Beloved, but I plan to start Gal?pagos soon.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #259 on: February 24, 2011, 12:13:25 PM »
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.. I really enjoy SF so far.
I plan to start Gal?pagos soon.

My advice would be to just read Slaughterhouse Five again.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #260 on: February 24, 2011, 12:29:32 PM »
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Also, Cambridge Companion to Berg. I'm rubbish at reading fiction.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #261 on: March 04, 2011, 08:37:59 AM »
I have my first Asimov book 'Nemesis' to read once I've finished The Fry Chronicles

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #262 on: March 05, 2011, 07:57:18 AM »
The War that Never Was by Duff Hart-Davis. It tells of Britain's unofficial, highly secretive campaign  in the 60s supporting Yemeni Royalists to keep President Nasser's Egyptians and Yemeni collaborators from conquering Arabia and crushing Israel. Interestingly, my dad worked on the Yemeni border in the closing stages of the war servicing missiles, radio equipment and assisting Saudi border patrols.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #263 on: March 05, 2011, 08:47:43 AM »
A Purple Place for Dying by John D MacDonald.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #264 on: March 05, 2011, 09:08:36 AM »
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #265 on: March 06, 2011, 04:30:53 PM »
the hobbit, thought i might read that again
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #266 on: March 06, 2011, 04:48:39 PM »
Good plan.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #267 on: March 07, 2011, 09:22:42 PM »
All right...

I'm going to try and read Moby-Dick with the aid of an audiobook companion. I'm not sure how successful I'll be.

I read that. It sucks.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #268 on: March 08, 2011, 03:42:19 AM »
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, James D. Hornfischer

The Quiet American, Graham Greene

The Mechanic's Tale, Steve Matchett

Also, I read Hitchhiking With Larry David yesterday and I highly recommend it.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #269 on: March 08, 2011, 03:52:20 AM »
All right...

I'm going to try and read Moby-Dick with the aid of an audiobook companion. I'm not sure how successful I'll be.

I read that. It sucks.

What I've read of it was pretty good, though it might have been because I pictured Captain Ahab as patrick Stewart!