What are you reading right now?

I am just starting on Darawin's The Origin of Species. I had a lot of my grampas old britannica books sitting around so I thought "hey I have nothing better to do". I am going to read Plato next I think or maby Aritotle.

 

"Taltos" by Anne Rice. I'm not a gothic dude or anything but its pretty good. Kind started reading her by accident but her books (although graphic) are very good.


Johnny D.

 

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

 

A Brief History Of Everything - Ken Wilbur

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The Sacred East

 

Under the Bar - Twelve Lessons of Life from the World of Powerlifting - by Dave Tate.

AMAZING book.

 

I'm reading Garcia by the editors of Rolling Stone. Really interesting reading!

 

The Moon Under Her Feet: The Story of Mari Magdalene in the Service of the Great Mother

 

im reading The Birth of Venus. kind of a weird book....

 

i'm re-reading "i know this much is true" by wally lamb for like the seventh time

 

7th part of 'dark tower' saga by stephen king

 

"The Order of The Phoenix" and Volume 1 of The Bob Dylan Chronicles

 

Wisdom Of The Elders..pretty good so far

 

The Wicked Witch Of The West.... It's based on the Wizard Of Oz stories....very good.

Oh and I'm looking for Treasure Island to read too.

 

Stonehenge - Bernard Cornwell

 

The Communist manifesto, awesome book

 

Communist Manifesto ay? Let me know how it ends.
Just finished the dispossessed for the first time - have moved onto more Ursula le Guin cos she's like, god.

 

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova a great Dracula story - also reading the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - took me a long time to get to it so i was able to get all 5 books togeather in one large paperback - not very good SF but very funny and it tells you the only way to learn to fly, which was worth reading the book for alone

 

I've been trying to not try and in the end accidentally succeed in flying since the series came out. I still believe it can be done though, I mean how often do you accidentally fall over and then get distracted from the ground b4 you hit it, it would take more than a long lost bag (even if it did have olive oil in it) to do it for me. That bit where he keeps finding new bags with variously similar contents - I swear I've lived that, on a trippy trip to France and Holland. I mean I would lose stuff in France and find it again when I got to Holland, in a different bag which I had just acquired from somewhere (but I was pretty sure I didn't have it with me when I left France... as sure as you can be of anything whilst tripping. Except that you've worked it all out and the world is finally coming to the end of its downward spiral, and things will soon be looking up. I'm absolutely positive of that when I trip). Funny.

 

I've been reading "Ishmael" - just finished it but i can't remember the author's name and just lent it to a friend - very good book - ishmael is the name of a gorilla who puts an ad in the paper "teacher seeking pupil with an earnest desire to save the world" a disillusioned writer reads the ad and finds ishmael in an abandoned office space where he is taught to view the human existence and "mother culture"'s effect on us from the point of view of a highly intelligent and reasoning.....gorilla. it seems a little kooky but it really helps you to look at our history and tendencies from outside of yourself and conditioning - VERY AWESOME!!!!!!
one reviewer said of this book, "the world is divided into two groups; those who have read ishmael and those who haven't" - i believe it!!!!

peace all

 

wow - i hear you there = i'm in the tail end of a history/literature double major - my eyes are starting to cross from all of the reading!!!