What are you reading right now?

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn and Mdaniel Quinn. There also seems to be a follow up book My Ishmael. Sounds worth reading thanks Hug a Bahail Today

 

Somebody Else.Arthur Rimbaud In Africa 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl
An Open Heart by H.H The Dalai Lama

the Rimbaud book is extremely interesting

 

nice, I've had that book on my shelf for about two years, but never got around to reading it fully...I'll sit down one of these days and read it. good book?

I'm reading for the third time:

The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer

 

Drawing Down The Moon by Margot Adler

 

How is it?


I'm reading the History of Atlantis by Lewis Spence.

 

Hey Shaba ... Its alright, I mean, its a pagan classic but its mostly a historical book which I do like but the author lacks excitement. But once I start a book Im a little OCD about finishing it so I only have a few chapters left.


Its funny though, loads of people will say "Oh you HAVE to read this awsome book, or see this awsome movie ect." and I will read it or watch it and am not impressed. But when someone says.. "Oh, that book was just ok or that movie was kinda lame.." I end up LOVING it.

What are you reading Shaba?

 

Oh, I just saw you posted what you are reading...duh

 

If you like greek mythology the book im reading really sucks.

 

the Rimbaud book is excellent.well written and covers a lot of his pre Africa life.read it ,my friend

 

Faust

 

Marharanis, by Lucy Moore.
"The lives and times of three generations of Indian princesses.

"In Maharanis, Lucy Moore brilliantly recreates the lives of four women: two grandmothers, a daughter and a granddaughter, all of them princesses of the royal courts of India. In a grippings narrative set between exotic palaces on the subcontinent and the drawing rooms of Europe, this powerful story spans 150 yoears. Full of spirit and courage, each maharani changed the world she lived in, shaping the way modern Indian women define themselves. This is an intimate portrait of a nation during an era of great change - the rise and fall of the Raj and India's long road to Independence and beyond."

 

yes... my ishmael is in the same time frame as ishmael however the student who answers the ad is a young girl with an alcoholic mother - ishmael teaches the same lessons but using different methods tailored to this student - very cool - the friend i lent ishmael to actually traded me for my ishmael - it's around here somewhere *looks around a cluttered desk* but i can't find it - lol

peace all,

 

Love, Janis by Laura Joplin

 

cheers :sunglasse ...I will...right after The Slave

 

The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The book itself was published in samizdat in the USSR. I can say that it basically sums up life in a police state. He defected to America, and started writing about America in the same fasion.
Long read, about 650 pages long. The way samizdat writers saw it, it would be wise to publish many writings at once, so if you were caught by the KGB, they'd only try you on 1 charge of treason, whereas if you published the same writing in 2 books, you'd be hammered with 2 charges.

 

Treasure Island - Robert L. Stevenson

 

I'm taking on LOTR. ALL OF EM.

 

some stories from O Henry

 

The Historian was very good better, I think than The Da Vinci Code. I loved the Hitchhiker's Guide and am probably the last person in the galaxy to read it.

Have just started The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Michael Hanlon which I was given (that’s why I had to read the Hitchhiker's Guide) and The World's Worst A guide to the most disgusting, hideous, inept, and dangerous people, places, and things on earth by Mark Frauenfelder.

 

just readed ''pic'' by kerouac - ebook