What Book Are You Currently Reading?

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I'm a little over half way through Bob Dylan's Chronicles Pt. 1, which at first I felt a certain indifference to but I kept returning to it anyway. Once I got to "New Morning" I was hooked.
 
I'll soon start Stephen King's "Cell", after which I plan to start Laurell K. Hamilton's new Anita Blake novel "Micah". Horror is good. :)
 
I'll bite. I'm rereading "When Jesus became God - the Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome" by Richard E. Rubenstein. It's an exquisite exploration of the Arian Vs. Nicean christological battles of the Constantine era and how the various creeds came about.

When I get the money, I've a copy of the Canon RF book at my FL Used Book Store.

William
 
DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown were the last 2 books I read. Both were great in the can't put them down and stop reading sense.
 
I haven't started the DaVinci Code yet because I wanted to wait for a paperback (I'm cheap, don't ya know), but Angels and Demons was good.
 
Just finished Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything (great read BTW) and am now re-reading Hamlet.

Gene
 
GeneW said:
Just finished Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything (great read BTW) and am now re-reading Hamlet.

Gene
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Bill Bryson causes me to laugh out loud! That man is FUNNY!

I just picked up a copy of his "A Walk in the Woods" today and am looking forward to reading it. If you have not read "I'm a Stranger Here Myself," do so. It's hysterical.

I'm almost finished with "A Pictorial History of Jazz." Not a lot of text.
 
I *was* reading On Bullshit, but I can't remember who wrote that. I could look it up, but I'm feeling rather lazy as it's past midnight.
 
...reading "wings of honor, book three" by tom willard... an absolutley great story about the "tuskegee airmen" - the first black military aviators... set just before wwii and goes through their experiences in north africa and then in europe...i believe everyone should read this book for so many reasonsi...i found book three first and will now look for the first two...

hasta la vista, adieu, dasvidanya,,fino al prossimo tempo, auf wiedersehen, and later y’all
kenneth
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"...patience and shuffle the cards" miguel cervantes
"nothing can be learned" herman hesse
"everybody knows everything" jack kerouac
"some memories are realities and better than anything" willa cather
" doo-wacka doo, wacka doo" roger miller
"we have met the enemy and they is us !" pogo
 
Two-thirds through "The Gunter Grass Reader" (great compilation). Have a large handful of titles on hand to catch up with, fiction and non-.

- Barrett


P.S. to Kenneth: Book Three of "Wings of Honor" is on my shortlist. Thanks for the reminder!
 
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Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

For months now I've been trying to reread The Winter of our Discontent by Steinbeck, but I keep getting distracted by other things.

Also through my laziness, I've got another book I've been chewing on, Mr. Mani by a greek Israeli author whose name I can't remember.
 
'Camera Culture' by Halla Beloff It's sort of a psychological/anthropological analises of what photography means to the viewers as well as why we take photos; interesting but for me somewhat cynical view of the photography.
 
"The Enigma of Arrival" by V.S. Naipaul, "Zen in the Art of Archery" by Eugen Herrigel, and "Rangefinder Perspectives" by the Fotogroep Park-Heverlea.

 
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