What are YOU currently reading?

[michabo]

Have you read "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer? It isn't nearly so hardcore, and contains a lot of history, but also looks into the minds of people who perhaps followed their beliefs a little too far, and with a little too few questions.

 

[godscreation8888]

Currently reading The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. Is anyone else reading this???

 

[Blessed-one]

oh yes, that's a good book! haven't finished it though..

 

[theFijian]

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

Hey great book, I read that a year or two ago. Let me know what you think.

cheers,
Andy

 

[Rab Tull]

Lincoln: A Novel by Gore Vidal

 

[matty c]

glorious appearing and the bible

 

[AngelAmidala]

Just finished Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs.

I'm starting on "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis.

 

[sparklecat]

I'm starting on "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis.

Absolutely amazing book. And when it's an atheist saying that, you know it must be true

 

[TransverseWave]

I'm starting on "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis.

A very good book. (I like every work of his nonfiction I ever read, and much of his fiction.)

I'm reading:

Darwin's Black Box, by Michael Behe

The author is a biochemist; the book is written in a style readily accessible to the layman. An argument not against the common descent of life on Earth, but against the adequacy of known mechanisms as an explanation for the development of certain complex biomolecular systems.

Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization,
by Graham Hancock

A thoroughly heretical challenge to the accepted picture of man's recent prehistory, arguing (among other things) that a) civilization arose thousands of years earlier than is commonly thought, b) it suffered greatly during episodes of flooding at the end of the last Ice Age, and c) that physical evidence for this might well be sought by marine archaeology.

Fiefs and Vassals, by Susan Reynolds

A challenge to the received hierarchical picture of European feudalism. The author says that the previously accepted view of feudalism is an oversimplification arising from early modern historians' construction. Some of the potential oversimplifications involve a) extrapolating from treatment of Church lands to lay lands without sufficient evidence; and b) assuming that a rather theoretical, and rather late, Italian description of feudal law reflects conditions elsewhere and earlier.

The Church Fathers. Right now I'm reading Ignatius.

I have some mysteries and fantasies in my to-read heap (I'm not neat enough to have a list), but I haven't gotten into any of them yet.

 

[Konnie]

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

 

[Echoes Peak]

A Peculiar People by Rodney Clapp

 

[Dyrwen]

What is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
and... Derailing Democracy by David McGowan

Tend to read the first book before bead, the second book in school with my off-time and the last in the bathroom. Just a little ecclectic..heh. Berkman's book is probably the most down to earth FAQ book I've ever read, great so far. Chomsky is an incredible information of history and philosophy detailing the encounters of America's imperialism. And McGowan has a great fact-book of quotes and statistics about the United State's records in various realms including Human rights, prison population, and military records.

All quite neat for political books, just finished reading "The Portable Henry Rollins" so after all that poetry, I needed something ...educational.

 

[nadroj1985]

Utopia, by Thomas More.

 

[Arwen Undomiel]

(rereading)
The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. A classic.

 

[The-Doctor]

reading "The time travellers wife" by audrey neffeneger?

 

[WildHeart75]

"The Signature of God" By Grant R. Jeffrey. Had the book for a few years and my husband and friends read it and now I am FINALLY getting around to reading it.

 

[oworm]

Expository sermons on 2 Peter.

D. Martin Loyd Jones

 

[nicodemus]

A History of Indonesia.

 

[Koryu]

Just Finished Eragon by Christopher Paolini...
Now I'm reading the 3rd WoT book, The Dragon Reborn (gosh those books are big!)

 

[Yahweh Nissi]

I am currently reading through three books (this is not an unusual situation for me ) :-
"The variety of life"; an overview of all living creatures, the system used to clasify them (domain, kingdom ... genus, spiecies), and their relationship to each other, a fascinating read.

"The paradise of association - Political culture and popular organisations in the Paris commune of 1871"; the title says it all.

And a collection of essays, sermons, articles, etc by C. S. Lewis on "Faith, Christianity and the Church"; absolutely superb, I love C. S. Lewis.