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Reading Jesus Through Pagan Eyes
Ugh!
Some of the interviews are OK.
Otherwise, I just don't need to read about someone else's Vision Quest.
Jesus Speaks Shaman. Duh. I already knew that.
 
I'm on book 11 of the Wildcard series. Multiple authors all writing in one world, one timeline, edited by George R R Martin (some written by him) based on his gaming group's DnD adventures.

It has been amazing.
 
Just finished Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon, which is excellent, and am working through The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. Also very good, thus far.
 
I've been reading:

Federal Income Taxation
Disput Resolution and Lawyers
Federal Administrative Law

I can tell you they are SUPER fun reading >:/

Eh whatever, I'll get to read for fun again in a year maybe....

However, bathroom reading is my old standby:
The Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson.. you can't go wrong with that gem.
 
I'm re-reading The Republic by Plato. I read the same translation about 10 years ago but I thought I'd read it again to see if my point of view has changed. So far I still find myself arguing with Socrates on certain points but It's still a great dialogue and I agree with most of the framework he puts forth.
 
I am reading a great old book. The passing of the Armies by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. My copy was from a 1993 bantam edition. It was originally published in the authors extreme old age in 1915. If you read Angels and Demons or the Killer Angels, you are familiar with General/Professor Chamberlain. This book recounts the last campaign of the civil war up to the surrender of Lee at Appomatox and the march of the Army of the Potomac to Washington for it's mustering out. The history of the bloody days are recounted in brief and the book is most recommended to people fairly knowledgeable in the tradgedy that was the American Civil War. Good Lord talk about millions with PTSD! These vets had a reason to have some! I wonder how many did? All? I know my father did from his time with Patton from the Ardennes to Bavaria where he ended up. I digress wonderful book and it makes one grieve over the devolution of education and the mother tongue.
 
Vance G said:
I am reading a great old book. The passing of the Armies by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. My copy was from a 1993 bantam edition. It was originally published in the authors extreme old age in 1915. If you read Angels and Demons or the Killer Angels, you are familiar with General/Professor Chamberlain. This book recounts the last campaign of the civil war up to the surrender of Lee at Appomatox and the march of the Army of the Potomac to Washington for it's mustering out. The history of the bloody days are recounted in brief and the book is most recommended to people fairly knowledgeable in the tradgedy that was the American Civil War. Good Lord talk about millions with PTSD! These vets had a reason to have some! I wonder how many did? All? I know my father did from his time with Patton from the Ardennes to Bavaria where he ended up. I digress wonderful book and it makes one grieve over the devolution of education and the mother tongue.
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Cool, I never realized that Chamberlain had written about his time during the Civil War, now I have to go find a copy ... :)
 
Currently reading No Ordinary Joes. It's about four submariners that went down in WWII and were Japanese prisoners of war, Larry Colton started writing it because of a short story written by one of the gentleman about the love he had for his wife. The wife happens to live at the retirement community I work at. I will never look at her the same way again. :o
 
Kelvin said:
I've been reading:

Federal Income Taxation
Disput Resolution and Lawyers
Federal Administrative Law

I can tell you they are SUPER fun reading >:/

Eh whatever, I'll get to read for fun again in a year maybe....

However, bathroom reading is my old standby:
The Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson.. you can't go wrong with that gem.
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No you can't, it's one of my favorite books. All his stuff is worth reading.
 
Guinlilly said:
Currently reading No Ordinary Joes. It's about four submariners that went down in WWII and were Japanese prisoners of war, Larry Colton started writing it because of a short story written by one of the gentleman about the love he had for his wife. The wife happens to live at the retirement community I work at. I will never look at her the same way again. :o
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Wow. Great story.
 
Not much reading right now, if not counting the Wikipedia and consorts.
Too much work on the house, and leaves little budget for books. (I like
to buy them for keeps) The last ones where Design Patterns: Elements of
Reusable Object-Oriented Software, and Islam: Critical Esseys on a Political
Religion. Last fiction was so long ago I can't even remember. Probably
a book from Agatha Christi.

Vance G said:
I know my father did from his time with Patton from the Ardennes to Bavaria where he ended up.
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Hat of to your dad, sir. We all have a debt to these men we will never
be able to repay. If you ever visit Belgium do visit the Bastogne War
Museum. It left quit the impression on me. (Its closed for renovation
till 2013 I think.)
 
Just finished Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Sword in the Stone by TH White, just starting Jane Austen's Emma.
 
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