What are YOU currently reading? (8)

[Bumble Bee]

77 Shadow Street by Ted Dekker. It's monotonous

 

[thehehe]

Suffer little children, Peter Tremayne
Captivating book.

 

[HereIStand]

Recently finished The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. This is classic book published in 1864. Can't recommend it too highly. I wrote this review on Amazon:

It's hard to appreciate the radical nature of Christianity without the knowledge this book provides. Through an in-depth study of mostly Greek and Roman classics, the author shows that ancient religion was tied to the family and the state. Individuality was absorbed into the household gods, sacred fire, secret prayers, and other elements of a family faith, based on ancestor worship. Land could not be willed or sold, but was simply passed on to male heirs, who were obligated to continue the family worship. Citizenship in a city was only realized within the family.

Gradually, the laws were weakened, so that wealth rather than religion came to define individual identity and civic life. The idea of individual conscience, and the concept of spiritually not belonging to any state existed in the Stoic philosophy. "But that which was merely the effort and energy of a courageous sect [the Stoics]," the author notes, "Christianity made a universal and unchangeable rule for succeeding generations." By proclaiming that "religion is no longer the state, and that to obey Caesar is no longer the same thing as to obey God," Christ broke "the alliance which paganism and the empire wished to renew."

 

[thehehe]

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

 

[Bumble Bee]

A clash of kings

 

[Theodorus700]

Dialogue with a Nonbeliever
( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NCOR83Z/ free at this moment ).

If anyone else reads it, I'm curious to know your opinion, especially about the anti-evolution arguments.

Thanks.

 

[Cimorene]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I like it.

 

[gentlejah]

Flow My Tears the Policeman Said- Philip K Dick

 

[Cimorene]

Flow My Tears the Policeman Said- Philip K Dick

Is it any good? I thought about reading his books bc I'm watching the The Man in the High Castle, this show based on one of them. I liked the series at 1st and then it got cringeworthy fast but the premise of it is interesting. My teacher said the book is WAY better and that he's a really good writer.

 

[gentlejah]

He's not for everyone but The Man in the High Castle is one of my favorites and very little if any of his works translates well to movies or tv. He was a very interesting philosophical kind of man to be sure who also suffered from some mental problems. This is a good look at the mans mind How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

 

[HereIStand]

I've been reading God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America by Larry Eskridge. Would recommend it.

 

[gentlejah]

The Imitation of Mary

 

[Bumble Bee]

Black Rose by Nora Roberts

 

[country woman]

The Reluctant Groom by Debbie Macomber

 

[NIrelandGillian]

I am currently re-reading "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I am also reading "The Apostasy that Wasn't."

I usually read three or four books at a time.

Would you recommend A Princess of Mars? I'm like you, I read several books at a time also, including free ones online.

Gillian

 

[God's Child]

Tangled Webs by Irene Hannon

 

[Konnie King]

The Zombie Chronicles: Book 2 Race for the Cure by Chrissy Peebles

 

[Konnie King]

Burnt Mountain by Anne Rivers Siddon

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

Lisey's Story by Stephen King. I have read many of his books over the past year.

 

[ForeverEternal]

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

It's a pretty good book and quite insightful, although, the character development of Jurgis is rather repetitive. Regardless, I enjoyed it for the message it delivered and the emotion it held.