The now reading thread ...

Seriously I have no preference, I am very anti-religious but I still find it interesting what others believe and why (except christians because I very much dislike them as a religion) and I totally respect all religious people so take no offense I didnt mean to offend anyone.
 
Jeremiah said:
Seriously I have no preference, I am very anti-religious but I still find it interesting what others believe and why (except christians because I very much dislike them as a religion) and I totally respect all religious people so take no offense I didnt mean to offend anyone.
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Sounds kinda like me. Which is why I recommended the Tao Te Ching. Eastern philosphy is the way to go. Taoism isn't big into deities and all that which is why I'm drawn to it. Just plain old tips for living a rich life and that sort of thing.
 
Tyra said:
Unfortunately, I have to read too much stuff for school for my eyes to handle reading much of the fiction stuff. Not that I don't like the books for school, but a change is nice sometimes. In that spirit, I read Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom. I think most of you would like that book a lot. It's part one of a three book series. I read it because I've enjoyed Cornwell's previous series so much, but it didn't hurt any that the story is about Alfred the Great and his descendants as seen "through the eyes of Uhtred, an English boy born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria, captured by the Danes and taught the Viking ways".
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i was just about to mention that i've been reading bernard cornwell... i'm waiting to get the 3rd book, lords of the north. i read the pale horseman this summer after i re-read the last kingdom. i'll probably re-read both books before i get lords of the north.
i was telling a friend of mine that bernard cornwell's books are almost like harlequin novels for me 'cause he does the battle scenes so damn well... :rolleyes:
i've been on a bit of a douglas coupland binge since i read eleanor rigby... despite the fact that i keep saying that i'll stop 'cause i don't like the way he ends his books. i swear... it's like crack.
a friend of mine lent me, me talk pretty one day. it's a good bunch of short stories. i've also been reading yarn harlot: the secret life of a knitter on the side.
but since someone mentioned bernard cornwell... i think i'll re-read the books i have. the arthur series is SO good. i haven't read any of the sharpe books, i've just been sticking to the sword fighting ones.
oh yeah... for anyone who reads "graphic novels"... aka comics... carnet de voyage is great. craig thompson is such a good artist and the book is about his travels in europe and morocco.
i'm also trying to resist giving into peer pressure and begin reading the wheel of time series. i've seen friends read and re-read and then re-read again. but the idea of an uncompleted series which is on book 11... it sounds a bit... futile. if anyone's got a good legit reason for starting the "wheel of hell", let me know.
 
Other books I have had to read or am currently reading for school are:
Have read:
-selected sources:
Two Powers by Gelasius
Edict on the Power of the Roman See by Valentinian III
Battle of Adrianople by Ammianus
Battle of Chalons 451 by Jordanes
Theodoric the Ostrogoth by Jordanes
Attila (2 accounts) by Pope Leo I
Theodoric the Visigoth by Sidonius
Clovis and the Vase at Soissons and the Conversion of Clovis (from History of the Franks) by Gregory of Tours
Charles Martel
Annals of Lorsch and letters to St. Boniface by Pepin
The Myth of Sextus (from Theodicy) by Leibniz


Full texts:
Confessions by St. Augustine
The Rule of St. Benedict in English
Beowulf (for the 3rd time)
Age of Bede: Eddius Stephanus-Life of Wilfrid Bede:Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow
The Odyssey by Homer (for the 4th time)
Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod
Antigone by Sophocles
Symposium by Plato (for the 2nd time)
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Meditations on First Philosophy by Decartes
Monadology by Leibniz
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding by Hume

(currently reading):
Life of Charlemagne by Einhard
Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides
Apology and Crito by Plato (for the 2nd time)

This is just a partial semester's worth of stuff! (not including text books) ...mostly from my early medieval europe history class
Some of the reading I enjoyed and some were just meh...
 
You a history major Dragon? I've actually read quite a few of those for fun, at least in part. And Decartes sucks.
 
^ Yup, I am a history major. Same here, the ones that I have read multiple times have been for fun. There is one thing that I do agree with Decartes on and that is that everything has a rational explanation...I am a rationalist/realist when it comes to philosophy hehe. But other than that, I am not a fan of Decartes, and Leibniz can be confusing with his monad stuff.
 
^ Same here. Somehow everything can be explained. The only reason superstitions exist is because people can't find a good enough explanation. It's just that Decartes' reasoning has a lot to do with his belief in god, which to me is just another superstition.
 
At least in Descartes case, he was not persecuted for his science, like Da Vinci and Copernicus and many others. I suppose that even if you were not a religious person, back then, you'd have had to add God into the research just so you didn't get burnt at the stake. Like Voltair said, "If God didn't exist, he'd have to be invented". Descartes didn't have to, though, cuz queen Kristina had a deep crush on him and did what she could to protect him and his work. And again, one should not throw the baby out with the bathwater. If you were to only study the western style philosophy that was not centered around judeo-christian religious thinking, you'd pretty much be left with nothing.
 
*necropost* Since this thread was already open I thought I'd post what I'm planning to read here when I've ordered it.

"The Rise of the Horde" by Christie Golden.

A Warcraft novel. Big fan of the videogames and the lore behind them :).
 
Currently, hmm... The Hollander and Thorpe versions of the Poetic Edda, the Everyman and Broduer versions of the Prose Edda, A Storm of Crows by George RR Martin, The Once and Future King by TH White, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, the JRR Tolkien collection(15 volumes, oi)... it all kinda depends on what room and mood I'm in :) I've actually finished everything except the Eddas at least once, but, well, I like to read.
 
Yeah, I have no idea what the hell that means. The only thing about Holland I know is the Amsterdam coffee shops.
Kinda like the only thing I know about Belgium is that it's economy was surpassed by DethKlok.
And all I know about France is, well, if I say anything bad about it, Celtik will have a meltdown :p

Yeah, I am an American :p But at least I can find them all on a map.
 
iv began reading a part of a Viking trilogy by Tim Serverin, reading "Odinn's Child" now and it has rather good plot so far. Its about a pagan in the year 1100ish when even northern Europe is turning mostly to Chirstianity and the pagan has to pretend to be a Catholic Monk to surive and practice his paganism. It is from a british writer so mostly to do with the celts and the vikings mostly in Greenland an Iceland.

Been trying to get me hands on the "Anarchirsts Cookbook".....but as it is illegal in most countries from its explination of how to make certian bombs it is proving hard to get hold of........:waah:
 
Nothing in there you can't find on the Internet. Unless it's under gone revisions, a lot of it is pretty outdated now, too. Not mention many of the materials in there are now watched over.
 
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