What are you reading?
Vita Nouva by Dante Aligheri, the same guy who wrote the Divine Commedy. (Both are amazing, by the by.)
Kyrie eléison.
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Animus Seed - Posts: 430
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Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden, and bits and pieces out of a World Mythology book. I also recently read Light on Snow, by Anita Shreve. It was surprisingly good.
fightin' in the eighties
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the bride of stone by Thomas William
it's a christian fasntasy novel. very interesting! Somewhat gruesom though, but wonderful!
it's a christian fasntasy novel. very interesting! Somewhat gruesom though, but wonderful!
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Havent picked up a book in a while but I just got Stardust by Neil Gaiman (The Sandman series, MirrorMask, Neverwhere etc...) the other day at borders. Havent got to far but so far its pretty awesome IMO.
Its an "adult" fantasy novel about this guy,Tristan, who goes on a journey beyond "the wall" to get a fallen star for the icy cold Victoria who he really likes who says she will marry him if he can bring back the star. (BTW, adult not in a bad way like "adults only" just that its not aimed at kids really)
Its an "adult" fantasy novel about this guy,Tristan, who goes on a journey beyond "the wall" to get a fallen star for the icy cold Victoria who he really likes who says she will marry him if he can bring back the star. (BTW, adult not in a bad way like "adults only" just that its not aimed at kids really)
"Take me down, shake me out. Give me a brain, that I might know You better"
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Scarecrow - Posts: 1354
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Stardust is amazing. That's the book that made me realize, "Hey, Gaiman's my favorite author, isn't he?"
Kyrie eléison.
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Animus Seed - Posts: 430
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I just finished Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
It was pretty awesome.
It was pretty awesome.
Go young wildebeest
for you must gallop yonder
mayonaise amen
for you must gallop yonder
mayonaise amen
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The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare.
Selections from the New and Collected Poems of Czeslaw Milosz. Since Milosz was a Christian and a Nobel prize-winning poet, I feel I ought to have liked him, but I actually felt pretty ambivalent about his poetry. *goes back to reading the metaphysical poets*
Selections from the New and Collected Poems of Czeslaw Milosz. Since Milosz was a Christian and a Nobel prize-winning poet, I feel I ought to have liked him, but I actually felt pretty ambivalent about his poetry. *goes back to reading the metaphysical poets*
Let others believe in the God who brings men to trial and judges them. I shall cling to the God who resurrects the dead.
-St. Nikolai Velimirovich
MAL
-St. Nikolai Velimirovich
MAL
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Kaori - Posts: 1463
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I find that the older I get the harder it is for me to really concentrate on full length books of any sort.
Loosing neurons in your brain can do that to you.
Loosing neurons in your brain can do that to you.
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mitsuki lover - Posts: 8486
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Halo Graphic Novel
Marvel 1602
This isn't real reading, but I'm on my break and I'm tired of textbooks. Stopping by the local library for CAA yesterday, I happened upon these two titles, both of which have been on my general reading list for some time. I was a bit disappointed with the Halo Graphic Novel. Not that it was bad, but I expected more (the first story about the Elites and the last one about the media ops guy were solid, though). At some point in the future I'll read Marvel 1602 and I'm sure it will be interesting.
Marvel 1602
This isn't real reading, but I'm on my break and I'm tired of textbooks. Stopping by the local library for CAA yesterday, I happened upon these two titles, both of which have been on my general reading list for some time. I was a bit disappointed with the Halo Graphic Novel. Not that it was bad, but I expected more (the first story about the Elites and the last one about the media ops guy were solid, though). At some point in the future I'll read Marvel 1602 and I'm sure it will be interesting.
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uc pseudonym - Posts: 15506
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas, by Agatha Christie
Morality for Beautiful Girls, by Alexander McCall Smith
The Sunday Philosophy Club, by Alexander McCall Smith
All mysteries today....
Actually, I'm reading some other books as well, but I'm not sure if I'll finish them or not, so I didn't write them down here.
Morality for Beautiful Girls, by Alexander McCall Smith
The Sunday Philosophy Club, by Alexander McCall Smith
All mysteries today....
Actually, I'm reading some other books as well, but I'm not sure if I'll finish them or not, so I didn't write them down here.
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
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Alice - Posts: 1707
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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. So far I really like! Very good, interesting, keeps me interested, VERY well written.
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Best Beginning To A Review EVER: The fact that I watched this movie after eating poisonous mushrooms only went to enhance the realism
Best Beginning To A Review EVER: The fact that I watched this movie after eating poisonous mushrooms only went to enhance the realism
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Rereading A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar.
Those Tudors and Plantagenets were such loving families that they could have
plucked each others eyes out and stabbed each other in the back without blinking.
Those Tudors and Plantagenets were such loving families that they could have
plucked each others eyes out and stabbed each other in the back without blinking.
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mitsuki lover - Posts: 8486
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i'm currently reading a historical fiction novel called "Dust" by Arthur Slade. i haven't gotten very far into the book yet so i can't say much about it...
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"Sometimes we don't present the Gospel well enough for the non-elect to reject it."
- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
- Dr. Joseph Ton, the exiled Romanian pastor (quoted by James Montgomery Boice)
"The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to condemn the whole world."
- John Bunyan
"If the Christian has lost sight of Calvary, that shows that he has lost his way."
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"Sometimes we don't present the Gospel well enough for the non-elect to reject it."
- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
- Dr. Joseph Ton, the exiled Romanian pastor (quoted by James Montgomery Boice)
"The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to condemn the whole world."
- John Bunyan
"If the Christian has lost sight of Calvary, that shows that he has lost his way."
- J.I. Packer[/SIZE]
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jon_jinn - Posts: 3261
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I finished Dune by Frank Herbert last week, it was great. I finished The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick on Wednesday. Fantastic novel.
Currently I have nothing to read. Come Christmas, I'll have a few dozen.
Currently I have nothing to read. Come Christmas, I'll have a few dozen.
Go young wildebeest
for you must gallop yonder
mayonaise amen
for you must gallop yonder
mayonaise amen
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Waste of $90. Especially when you can get a subscription for free.
Go young wildebeest
for you must gallop yonder
mayonaise amen
for you must gallop yonder
mayonaise amen
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Prayer: Does it Make a Difference? by Philip Yancy
I've read two fifths of the book (the first and fourth, due to interest) and so far it has been decent. "Decent" only because the subject is a difficult one. It has far more honesty than answers, which is perhaps good given the inherent mystery of prayer. Though I'm enjoying the candor with which it is written, especially hard facts that run up against the most grievous abuses of prayer, it doesn't discuss them quite enough for my liking.
I've read two fifths of the book (the first and fourth, due to interest) and so far it has been decent. "Decent" only because the subject is a difficult one. It has far more honesty than answers, which is perhaps good given the inherent mystery of prayer. Though I'm enjoying the candor with which it is written, especially hard facts that run up against the most grievous abuses of prayer, it doesn't discuss them quite enough for my liking.
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uc pseudonym - Posts: 15506
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Canto General by Pablo Neruda.
It's like a history of Latin America writtin in poetry.
It's like a history of Latin America writtin in poetry.
When I feel blue, I start breathing again.
Asdvadz hedut ullah! (W. Armenian, "May God bless you!")
It's cosplay, get used to it.
"A hero need not speak. For when he is gone, the world will speak for him."
"One of the nice things about diseases of the brain is they tend to slip your mind." Colbert
Asdvadz hedut ullah! (W. Armenian, "May God bless you!")
It's cosplay, get used to it.
"A hero need not speak. For when he is gone, the world will speak for him."
"One of the nice things about diseases of the brain is they tend to slip your mind." Colbert
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uc pseudonym wrote:Prayer: Does it Make a Difference? by Philip Yancy
Hehe thar guy is quite the character... our church did a Sunday evening study on his book titled "The Jesus I Never Knew" I think it was... Man, him and his giant fro and those wild close-ups with the camera on the video segment of it... It was an overall interesting study though, but yeah, just makes me laugh on the inside when I hear his name cause of those sessions^^
神 は、 その 独り 子 を お与え に なった ほど に 世 お愛 された。
独り 子 を 信じる 者 が 一人 も滅 ひない で, 永遠 の 命 お得る ため で ある。
ヨハネ 3:16
独り 子 を 信じる 者 が 一人 も滅 ひない で, 永遠 の 命 お得る ため で ある。
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Once I finish reading Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami one of my Aunt's and Uncle's gave me a copy of Next my Michael Crichton for Christmas.
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Best Beginning To A Review EVER: The fact that I watched this movie after eating poisonous mushrooms only went to enhance the realism
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Tenshi no Ai wrote:Hehe thar guy is quite the character... our church did a Sunday evening study on his book titled "The Jesus I Never Knew" I think it was... Man, him and his giant fro and those wild close-ups with the camera on the video segment of it... It was an overall interesting study though, but yeah, just makes me laugh on the inside when I hear his name cause of those sessions^^
Heh. I've only encountered him throuh his writing, never a video series. I respect him a fair bit as an author. He is intelligent and theological while remaining focused on the issues that really matter and approaching everything in a substantial way. If only more mainline evangelicals were like him...
Random story he shares in the book: no less than three times when he has been on a speaking engagement in Japan, he has had Japanese girls come up to him giggling and ask "Mr. Yancy, may we touch your hair?"
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uc pseudonym - Posts: 15506
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I read his book Soul Survivor,but I think his memory of his younger days were probably overexeggerated.Face it when people get older they tend to exggerate
what happened in the past.I think he still has to come to grips with his past in some respects though as from reading it I got the impression he was still trying to overcome the ghosts of the past.
what happened in the past.I think he still has to come to grips with his past in some respects though as from reading it I got the impression he was still trying to overcome the ghosts of the past.
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mitsuki lover - Posts: 8486
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Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan. This book has a very different feel from Tan's other novels.
Let others believe in the God who brings men to trial and judges them. I shall cling to the God who resurrects the dead.
-St. Nikolai Velimirovich
MAL
-St. Nikolai Velimirovich
MAL
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Kaori - Posts: 1463
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mitsuki lover wrote:I read his book Soul Survivor,but I think his memory of his younger days were probably overexeggerated.Face it when people get older they tend to exggerate
what happened in the past.I think he still has to come to grips with his past in some respects though as from reading it I got the impression he was still trying to overcome the ghosts of the past.
What struck you as overexaggerated? I only skimmed parts of that due to lack of interest, but nothing struck me as all that hard to believe.
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Boaz Brown, by Michelle Stimpson
I haven't finished More Than Human yet, though; I've been jumping around a bit between books.
I haven't finished More Than Human yet, though; I've been jumping around a bit between books.
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
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