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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/2/2008 6:59:50 PM
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I thought it might be interesting to share what we are reading.
Textbooks for COMM 702 (Quantitative research).
Science fiction (I keep my stash in the bathroom, grab a few minutes of fun reading a few times a day ... )
incil -- the Turkish New Testament. I downloaded it from the web, decanted the text into a Word document with a W - I - D - E left margin, read it with dictionary in hand, and am filling up that margin with definitions. A chapter / page a day is strenuous work, but helps me keep pushing vocabulary in faster than entropy causes it to leak out!
HLDs -- "high level designs" -- for the computer-related stuff I document in my day job.
Web sites on current events, especially lewrockwell.com
Wikipedia -- sometimes I'll try a foreign language version to see how much I've forgotten, or perhaps never learned.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/2/2008 7:04:15 PM
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Just started reading Les Miserables. I'm only 20 pages in and I am having to make myself keep reading. Doesn't bode well for me as the book is over 1000 pages!
I'm about to assign Farhenheit 451 to my 12 y.o. daughter, to explain in vivid, unforgettable, terms, why the undiminished books are the best. They have pores, you can revisit them time after time, each is a "time capsule" of a forgotten world. Hang in there. The sewers of Paris can be seen as a metaphor for the French underworld ...
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/3/2008 11:12:46 PM
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I read Farenheit 451 recently and enjoyed it! I know it was required reading for a number of high school students; however, it wasn't on the reading list for me waaaay back then. I just finished 90 Minutes In Heaven/Don Piper and 23 Minutes in Hell/Bill Wiese. It took me a couple of weeks to finish 23 Minutes in Hell because I would read a few pages and have to put it down. I literally avoided reading it until I made myself finish it. Then, my pastor loaned me 90 Minutes in Heaven which, in turn, I finished in a couple of days. Right now, I have House/Frank Peretti and 3:16/Max Lucado lined up.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/4/2008 8:02:12 AM
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lexie
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"Morality for Beautiful Girls" by Alexander McCall Smith (book #3 in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series)
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/4/2008 9:23:00 AM
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I just started to read 'The Covenant' by Beverly Lewis ... I'm enjoying it, so I may just have to collect the series.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/4/2008 9:23:11 AM
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"Changing Your World One Diaper at a Time" by Marla Taviano. It was just released. She's written a couple of other books on marriage, then this one on parenting, and they are all EXCELLENT!
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/4/2008 5:06:03 PM
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I am reading 'Images of the Church' by Avery Dulles as part of a pastor seeking project.
I just finished reading 'Death of the Grown Up' by Diana West. Wow, this is something. Do you believe people are actually being stymied by having 'so many choices that they don't commit to 'one thing? Ambivelence is childish, Focused effort is maturity.'
If you happen to be looking for a great book group book to share for your church outreach, may I suggest 'The Moses Probe,'
by yours truly, Ted Magnuson? It's the story of a young career couple in the 22nd century who journey to the center of the Universe where the Bib Bang meets The Garden of Eden. For more information, follow the link in the signature line. I hope you like it and if you do, please invite me to visit your group!
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/5/2008 11:57:33 AM
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I'm reading Pearl by Lauraine Snelling.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/5/2008 1:14:12 PM
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How to Become a Millionaire God's way by Rev. Tom Anderson
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/6/2008 6:24:46 PM
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Wolf's Brother by Megan Lindholm
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/6/2008 6:49:59 PM
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A distant mirror by Barbara Tuchman. If you enjoy reading history books, this one is very good. France in the middle ages during the hundred years war; the book is centered around one of history's less well-known characters, but through him, the author manages to bring the past to life.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/6/2008 8:25:52 PM
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Tuchman can be very interesting.
Have you read CV Wedgwood's The Thirty Years War?
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/7/2008 10:34:34 AM
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Opal by Lauraine Snelling.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/7/2008 6:54:26 PM
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Just started reading Les Miserables. I'm only 20 pages in and I am having to make myself keep reading. Doesn't bode well for me as the book is over 1000 pages!
I'm about to assign Farhenheit 451 to my 12 y.o. daughter, to explain in vivid, unforgettable, terms, why the undiminished books are the best. They have pores, you can revisit them time after time, each is a "time capsule" of a forgotten world. Hang in there. The sewers of Paris can be seen as a metaphor for the French underworld ...
That is very true. I have put Les Miserables aside for the moment (Not permanently! One of these days....). I am currently reading:
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield - a very gripping story
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - was surprised how engrossed I became with this book, his words come alive (I had to pause and remember, "Wait a sec, this author has been dead over 2,000 years! ")
Mistborn: Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson - very solid sequel to the first book
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/8/2008 4:42:00 PM
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Merciful God of Prophecy by Tim LaHaye
The Wonderful Spirit-Filled Life by Dr. Charles Stanley and
Judaism for Everyone by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/8/2008 10:20:26 PM
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lexie
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"Plan B" by Emily Barr.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/9/2008 12:57:08 PM
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Has nayone read any of the books by Anne Rice? They are suppose to biblical but I was wondering how factual they were.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/9/2008 4:00:26 PM
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Anne Rice books are neither biblical or factual.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/9/2008 9:29:12 PM
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ORIGINAL: krazyxsinner
Her newest ones are Biblically inspired. She claims to have come to faith albeit Catholicism but with prayer she could draw closer to the truth. She has lamented writing her earlier works.
Oh cool! I didn't know that. I always just identify her with the vampire books.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 3/10/2008 1:11:19 AM
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I'm reading:
How To Read A Book - Mortimer Adler
Success God's Way - Charles Stanley
Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel to the Whole Person - Will Metzger
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
I, II, and III John - Precept Upon Precept and Group Inductive Bible Study
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..I just cant put this little book down! I keep saying to myself, hey save some of it to read before bed tonight! hahahahaha 
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