I feel like a dope next to you guys...I just finished the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyers. My 14 year old female students recommended them to me. Lots of sexual tension, but no actual sex. Very addictive books. What can I say? I teach middle school.

Edited by author 06-23-2008 07:23 AM
I am reading...

Archaeologies of Consciousness
Essays in Experimental Prehistory
by Gyrus

and bloody brilliant it is too
you should (all) read it too

Edited by author 06-26-2008 04:51 AM
i want to know that quantity of poision did golden cobra contain

I am reading
books by Robert Anton Wilson
books by Roger Penrose

I am re-reading "Christine", by Stephen King. My husband found a copy of it at the county dump, and I used to read all of King back when I was in my teens, when "Christine" came out. I forgot what a good writer he is.

Edited by author 10-21-2008 01:12 AM
Four Major Plays - Aristophanes... caricatures of Grecian life.

The Tao of Meditation - Tsung Hwa. Jou... meditation techniques and a practical guide to the fourth (or fifth) dimension... what? - i say fifth because one eye shows two dimensions; two eyes show three... what do three eyes show? think fibonacci...

Carlos Castaneda - The Power of Silence... while I sometimes doubt the timeline and authenticity of reported events, Castaneda's books are nevertheless an intriguing port into the world of cosmic spirituality

The book I'm reading now is called "Failed God" Fractured Myth in a Fragile World.
by John A Rush

"Does the "Politics of Truth" cloud our understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?"

Great Book...

Edited by author 07-03-2009 03:19 PM
Currently reading;
Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp
A Vector Space Approach To Geometry by Melvin Hausner
Year's Best SF 14 Edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer

Read 25 books last year.

My three favorite books are;
Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Laws Of Thought by George Boole

I am currently reading three:
Modern and Modernism-The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885-1925-by Frederick Karl. While focused mainly on literature, this explores the growth of Modernism and Avant Garde movements. Equal parts literary and cultural criticism.
Jean-Christophe-by Romain Rolland-The story, both internal and external, of a musician who led an idyllic childhood (for an artist anyway), being beaten daily by an alcoholic father. He runs off to Paris to meet his (you fill in the blank).
Course in General Linguistics-Ferdinand de Saussure-Along with Pierce, this is one of the building blocks in the foundation of semiotics. A bit thick in places, but if you are interested in language (which everyone should be since language is now reality) it is well worth the read.

A few others you should check out-
Sleepwalkers-Hermann Broch
Mysteries-Knut Hamsun
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler-Italo Calvino-Quite simply, one of the best books ever written.
For you mathematicians and physicists out there, Flatland by Edwinn Abbot

Always remember, reading will take you further afield than any other endeavor, yet it is a dying art. Do the world a favor and turn someone on to reading.

Currently I am reading Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell, Richard Dawkin's Ancestor's Tale and Cormac McArthy's The Orchard Keeper.

"planet of slums" by Mike Davis- exaustively researched about the explosive rise in slums with industrialization of the globe, economics, ecology, politics of slums are discussed. Davis deserves a nobel in my opinion- the reality of truth about slums is horrifying.

I'm currently reading two books by the same author, and it's a great experience read them alternately, viewing two opposite sides of the same realty. They are "History of Beauty" and "On Ugliness", both by Umberto Eco, both Hardcover, both translated by Alastair McEwen.