What are you reading at the moment?

[Jabato]

I'm reading "40 fundamental questions regarding the Spanish Civil War" by Stanley G. Payne, a ver popular US Hispanist

And you?

Saludos

[Enver]

The second edition of Ed Moloney's A Secret History of the IRA.

[bay]

I'm reading the computer screen right now

[miriya]

Battle Angel Alita. a manga about a little girls quest to find herself and best friend, in a world that is against anything called free will

[Gareth]

History of the Crusades - Steven Runciman (volume 2)

[Chookie]

"All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye" by Chris Brookmyre - a crime novel with a Scottish slant, leavened with Nua-bhardach Ghaidlig.

[ciaranxavier]

natural gas and propane installation code.

[Viv]

Chookie, you inspired me to read "Decameron" by Boccaccio? It is taking me a while but it's the kind of book you can pick up and put down.

Anyway, I am reading Alatiel's story...lol...even in those days spin was everything. 8 men and still married the King of Africa :D

[flax]

Im reading three books atm.

Issues in Wolrd Politics 3rd ed.

Stumbling Colossus.
The red army on the eve of world war.

The apochrypal texts of the new testament.

i dontrealy know what to make of that mix :P

[donquixote99]

The Battle of Blair Mountain: the Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising, Robert Shogan.

[An Céachta Dearg]

The second edition of Ed Moloney's A Secret History of the IRA.


Talks a lot of shit... proves nothing

God is not great
Hitchens

[Askatasun_haizea]

Being an avid reader I usually read more than one book at a time.

I´m currently reading The Trial (Der Process) by Kafka. The story is quite scary and paranoic. But as Metamorphosis a masterpiece, with a lot of interpretations, always a good read.

I´m also reading " Ten Men Dead" by David Beresford, about the Irish Hunger Strike in 1981, it´s great, specially thanks to the comms. Which books would you recommend on the subject?

[quirk]

Both great books. I am just after watching the movie H3 about the hunger strike , which we have in our movie section here. Would be good to watch it alongside ten men dead. Heres the link:

http://worldagenda.net/forum/vbtube_show.php?do=tube&tubeid=80

[Askatasun_haizea]

Yeah, I´ve watched it and it´s very good, much more than "Some Mothers Son". It really moves and shocks me what they went through.

[Dreadfulfaery]

All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye" by Chris Brookmyre - a crime novel with a Scottish slant, leavened with Nua-bhardach Ghaidlig.


His books are great - ever read Not the End of the world - its great, very funny

Im currently going between The Shoguns City - all about the Tokugawa and the formation of Edo in Japan and The Forbidden City - and account of the last emperor of China and the city. Very interesting

[An Céachta Dearg]

Hegemony or Survival~ Noam Chomsky

[Nationalrevolutionär]

"Nationalbolshevism and nationalrevolutionary movement in Germany" by Karl Otto Paetel

[ciaranxavier]

where the sun was buried. its an autobiography about a lady who spent 5 years of a 25 yr sentence in the gulags under stalins rule.

[mickyk200]

Haven't read anything in a while but the last book I read was Das Kapital...just the first volume. I found it very diffcult to get my head round. Marx has a very complex writing style.

[LARKIN32]

culture and imperialism ...edward said

[Gareth]

Lee Strobel - The Case for Faith.

[bay]

doesn't anybody read somethign fun????

[Askatasun_haizea]

The Da Vinci Code, counts as funny?

Seriously, I hate that book and Dan Brown :D:D

[LARKIN32]

also noam chomsky book on anarchism published by AK press

[quirk]

Haven't read anything in a while but the last book I read was Das Kapital...just the first volume. I found it very diffcult to get my head round. Marx has a very complex writing style.

It is extremely difficult. Its best to read a study guide along side it. I could only read a little Das Kapital at one time and the biggest problem is that his examples of which there are many are hard to relate to the modern world. However its definitely worth the effort and I came out of it knowing much more than when I began.

[bay]

well, I'm finishing up a book I started ages ago, Animals as Guides for the Soul by Susan chernak McElroy. Before anyone gets upset, it's NOT about worshipping animals. It's about how animals teach us more about ourselves.

[LARKIN32]

well, I'm finishing up a book I started ages ago, Animals as Guides for the Soul by Susan chernak McElroy. Before anyone gets upset, it's NOT about worshipping animals. It's about how animals teach us more about ourselves.
hows that?
i suppose 'everything' in nature can learn us about life/lifeforce.when attuned to it..



also a book by edward said ,culture and imperialism

.

[bay]

i suppose 'everything' in nature can.if attuned to it


exactly.

Animals have lots of lessons to teach us.. patience, love, kindness, when to be strong and protective, when to back down, when to guard one's dinner and when to share....

[LARKIN32]

go bhfóire Dia orthu!

[bay]

Ni' thuigim, ta' bro'n ormsa.:p

Nil Gaeilge maith agam.!!!!

[Gareth]

I don't get the idea of a lifeforce? Could someone describe that for me? At first sounds it seems like repackaging God to make it fit somewhere in secularism.

[LARKIN32]

its a dogmatic way of looking at things..

[quirk]

I have heard the term life force used before. Not 100% sure what it means but I think that maybe its used to emphasise that we are all linked and all have such a force within us.

[bay]

Life force is the energy that's in all of us. In Oriental medicine it's called Chi and they see a system of meridians that this chi flows through similar to the nervous system we have. The HIndus see this life force as Chakras, circular centers thorughout the body where our life energy is. There's a Chakra for the mind, for the heart, the gut, your sexual energy, all of it.

Acupuncture and acupressure are based on the meridians. So is Tai Chi exercise. The theory is that when you are ill or feeling bad, there's either a blockage of the energy or too much energy getting to a system. The Tai Chi exercises or acupuncture fix that.

I've seen it work on horses. It can't be a placebo effect on them.

Before you scoff at this, if you looked at your own hand under an electron microscope, you'd see electrical energy pulsing through it. Our nervous systems are electrical energy. It's what tells our hearts to beat, our lungs to breath, our brain to function.

As you know from physics, energy can neither be created nor destroyed (well, except in the case of atomic), so what happens when we die. where does that life energy go? Back to the universe to become part of other life energy. It doesn't die, it's always there.

anyway, you wanted to know what time it was and i told you how to build a watch, hahaha

metaphysics is very interesting to me. A crash course in this life force idea is in the book The Secret. The theory is that everything that happens to us, good or bad, we manifest to ourselves through our thoughts. Through our thoughts we emit energy to the universe and bring people and things to us.

[Chookie]

doesn't anybody read somethign fun????

Tha, mise.

[Vox Populi]

Finished reading 'Nell' by Nell McCafferty. Quite a good biography with excellent political commentary and lesbian sex stories.

[bay]

was it titillating??? ROTFLMAO...

[Nationalrevolutionär]

Lesbian sex stories? Sounds interesting :cool: With pics? :p

[bay]

I've got two books going. One is blowing my mind. It's called Animal Voices, Telepathic Communication in the Web of Life, by Dawn Baumann Brunke. I've read a lot of AC books before, but this one takes it further, deeper. And while I was reading it, had the most incredible experience and message from my dog Lady.

Ok, so I'm weird.

I'm also reading 1001 Pearls of Yoga Wisdom by Liz Lark

[Oliver Lang]

I'm reading "In defence of Atheism : The case against Christianity, Judaeism and Islam", nearly finished it and have to say its good stuff. :)

[LARKIN32]

"politics of dispossession",(again)
edward said

[bay]

who is edward and what did he say?? (JK)

[Gareth]

I started into Intellectual's Don't Need God, and Other Modern Myths by Alister McGrath today.

[Lightweaver]

I just started reading "I Still Miss My Man But My Aim is Getting Better" by Sarah Shankman. :D I'm not making it up. I checked it out of the library because I got such a kick out of the title. So far it is just so-so but I've only read a few pages and I'm hoping it gets as funny as the title. :p

[bay]

LOL, I'll have to look for that one...

[LARKIN32]

who is edward and what did he say?? (JK)edward w. said(sayeed)

[bay]

edward w. said(sayeed)

I know, was kidding, mo chara....:D

[LARKIN32]

noam chomsky...
on anarchism

[bay]

wow, you pick some fun, light reading there ;)

[Askatasun_haizea]

noam chomsky...
on anarchism

I´m also reading Chomsky. World Orders Old and New .

Very interesting so far.

[Drycon]

after checking this thread this morning I headed out to the book store, I picked up 3 new books.

Two by Noam chomsky, what we say goes, and, Perilous power, I have not started on these two yet.

The other book I picked up is The twilight of atheism by Alister McGrath, I cant put this one down, thanks for mentioning this guy garreth, I had never heard of him.

[An Céachta Dearg]

after checking this thread this morning I headed out to the book store, I picked up 3 new books.

Two by Noam chomsky, what we say goes, and, Perilous power, I have not started on these two yet.

The other book I picked up is The twilight of atheism by Alister McGrath, I cant put this one down, thanks for mentioning this guy garreth, I had never heard of him.

I have those two Chomsky books. The Perilous Power is his discourse with Gabrial Achar on many issues. If I were you Id skip to the middle East debate its great. Havent started what we says goes. But i am reading hegemony or survival

[Gareth]

The other book I picked up is The twilight of atheism by Alister McGrath, I cant put this one down, thanks for mentioning this guy garreth, I had never heard of him.

Man, that book is meant to be a fantastic read. I hope you will give me your thoughts on him afterwards.

[Lightweaver]

Bay, I finished "I Still Miss MY Man But My Aim is Getting Better." Although the book was written in a lighthearted vein, it didn't live up to the title, which was the funniest thing about it.

If you want to laugh out loud, I suggest you read Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. All of her books have a number in the title, starting with the number one, then the next one has two in the title, with the latest one being "Fearless Fourteen." Although each book can stand alone I suggest you try and read them in order as she introduces each eccentric character and then develops them. She has a hilarious cast of characters. Stephanie gets into some comical situations and her Grandma Mazur is a real hoot. Then there is the ex ho who works in the office, extremely full-figured but still dressing like a ho. :D

Another author who writes books that can make me laugh out loud is Elizabeth Peters. She is the only author whose books I eagerly await when a new one is announced. Her wonderful Amelia Peabody series are murder mysteries solved by British archeologists who dig in Egypt during the turn of the last century. There is interesting history in there as well as comical situations. The family members are all eccentric and I just love these books. As with the Stephanie Plum series above, I suggest you read them in order so you can follow the character development. The very first book in the series isn't as funny as the subsequent ones but it's very good and I recommend you start with that one since it tells the story about how Amelia and her husband met.

[bay]

those sound good lightweaver! rightnow the book im reading is my own that I'm polishing up and getting ready to peddle to literary agents. I don't have the heart or resources to do self publishing.

It's called "Winter's coming, Winter's here." about a hippie chick living the back to the land life in northern wisconsin in the 1970s.

WISH ME LUCK...

[Shadow]

WISH ME LUCK...

You bet !! bay. Keep us posted .....

[Drycon]

Man, that book is meant to be a fantastic read. I hope you will give me your thoughts on him afterwards.

I just finished the book, I will be ordering the rest of his published works in large now.

I find his thought proccess to be a bit hard to follow at first, or at least in this book, but that feeling faded away fast as you see everything he had covered was leading up to something much bigger, and then he makes his point. A point wich I found hard to defute, as he had just pages upon pages building the evidence for you.

I also like how he is quick to point out wrong doings of the church, he never dances around the subject in that way.

Over all a great read, I can not wait to get some more of his work.

[Lightweaver]

those sound good lightweaver! rightnow the book im reading is my own that I'm polishing up and getting ready to peddle to literary agents. I don't have the heart or resources to do self publishing.

It's called "Winter's coming, Winter's here." about a hippie chick living the back to the land life in northern wisconsin in the 1970s.

WISH ME LUCK...

You wrote a book!!!? I'm impressed! I've never gotten further than the prologue and a chapter or two with mine.

A story about a hippie chick in the 70's living the back to the land life is definitely a story that I'd want to read. Is it semi-autobiographical by any chance? GOOD LUCK and keep me posted!

[An Céachta Dearg]

Currently reading. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce.

[quirk]

Currently reading. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce.

Not bad. I much rather Dubliners.

I am reading Milestones by Syed Qutb.

[bay]

I just started "Rebels" by Peter De Rosa

[bay]

The IRA, a History, by Tim Pat Coogan

[LARKIN32]

just started reading this robert fisk book
http://www.robert-fisk.com/the_great_war.jpg

[bay]

Earth Spirit Living

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fitWNV9rL._SS500_.jpg

yeah, I'll always be a hippie girl....

[Shadow]

yeah, I'll always be a hippie girl....



.....and more power to ya, bay.:rockon:

[Drycon]

im reading the "The Dawkins Delusion" its a great read.

[bay]

many people (parents, husbands, friends, even one of my sons) have tried to turn me into a mainstream kinda girl, but it just didnt work, hahahahahahahaha

I yam what I yam, as Popeye said.

[Shadow]

im reading the "The Dawkins Delusion" its a great read.


as is Dawkins book: "The God Delusion'. A superb read.:)

[faceless]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345476158.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

by the way, there's a lot of good stuff on www.scribd.com - it's basically like youtube, but for books.

[bay]

thanks for that link faceless!

[bay]

here's a source for free books to download

250 titles. some aren't that interesting but there are some classics

http://myfreebooks.biz/members/

[Gareth]

I'm reading William Morris' - News from Nowhere (1891) as part of a politics assignment on socialist / anarchist utopian works. It's pretty good so far I must admit.

[Gareth]

Finished Morris, now I'm going to be reading another anarchist utopia, The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin written in 1974. My copy is more newly published than that but it should be an interesting read. I was a bit shocked when my next book for my politics course was coming from the Science Fiction section :)

[An Céachta Dearg]

I'm reading William Morris' - News from Nowhere (1891) as part of a politics assignment on socialist / anarchist utopian works. It's pretty good so far I must admit.

It would appear that Dr. Cox is one of your lecturers?

[bay]

I've got 2 books going. One is a spiritual read, "Longing for a Homeland" by Lynn Anderson.

the other is Agatha Christie's autobiography