What Book Are You Reading? - Part VIII

The last book I read (“Neverwhere” by Neil Gaiman) was very good “dream-fuel.” :3

Just started “Animal Farm” by George Orwell.

Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum.

I’m that kind of 13 year old.

I’m reading the Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, again. It’s such a lovely book - brilliantly written, the a lot of imagination, and great meaning.

that’s been one of those ive-been-meaning-to on my list for a long time now, ever since i read If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, i’ve been meaning to read something else by Calvino, never got around to it.

edit: though actually i was swaying more towards The Nonexistant Knight and the Cloven Viscount.

Right now i’m reading, or attempting to read as i find it fairly boring so far, Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.

Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult --> for myself. I love the style of that author.
The Iliad - Homer --> History assignment
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger --> English assignment

I really like all of these books.

Weisheit - Über das was uns fehlt
or in english:
Wisdom. About what we are missing
by Gert Scobel

this is the damn most helpful book I have read yet. :read:
It is really helping me on the path to my very own happiness :spinning:

Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring

Pretty awesome thus far

A demon-haunted world - Carl Sagan
great read, i haven’t had much time for it lately though

Of course it is. It’s Tolkien.

But I actually think that the movies were kind of better (that’s the only book(s) I find worse than the movie) because of a few reasons. The movies were good already, unlike almost all other movies from books, with pretty nice visual effects and all. Also, Tolkien was boring me to death sometimes with his long-windedness, and I felt uninterested in some parts of the books, especially with The Return of the King.

The fact that I watched the movies before I read the books might have affected my opinion though. :content:

Just finished The Morning of the Magicians http://www.amazon.com/Morning-Magicians-Louis-Pauwels/dp/0812885325 It is an excellent book dealing with alchemy, secret societies, Hitler’s ideas and regimes and a lot of stuff dealing with the mysteries of the universe.

I am now finishing up Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell https://www.amazon.com/Myths-Condor-Books-Joseph-Campbell/dp/0285647318/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273606738&sr=1-1
It deals with mythology and psychology.

Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane

started The Lovely Bones, which i’m liking so far very very much.

Advanced Magick for Beginners, by Alan Chapman; Illusions, by Robert Bach (of which I finally could get a hold of a paperback copy).

I just finished Diary of a Drug Fiend (again) and now have started reading (for a second time) The Book of Thoth - the Egyptian Tarot. Both works are by Aleister Crowley.

Both good books. :smile: I never got around to printing that copy of Book 4; I should do it this week so I have what to read when I’m done with Chapman.

I just started reading The Odyssey - I’d read pieces of it for school, but not all the way through. It’s very pretty. You don’t really get a sense of that with the little chiseled-out bits they put in textbooks, I guess.

Hey, I’m reading that too. But I’m reading for school, and I don’t get to read past where the teacher tells us to stop at. I also like it, but I’m not that far into it yet and I still think that the Iliad was better.

/me had the opportunity to read portions of the Odyssey in their original language.

Not all from the same MS, of course, but still a beautiful read. Although I’ll always prefer the Iliad—reading the Iliad was actually a turning point in many subtle aspects of my life. I changed my attitude towards things a little because of that book.

Right now I’m reading Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers, and Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation (Idea).

I’m also going to read Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung).

Are the first 3 books worth reading? I sometimes have a problem with work that has been ‘challened’ from otherworldly entities!