What are you reading?

[Dee Dee Warren]

I am right now listening to "A Dangerous Mourning" a murder mystery by Anne Perry.

[AVmetro]

The White book is excellent. The Morey book is excellent in some points and weak in others. He makes some bad arguments for the Trinity and some very good ones. It is a mixed bag. I have only posiitve things to say about the God Crucified book, it revolutionized my Christology.

You're right about Morey. Some of the arguments are good and some are pretty bad IMHO. I have White's book but just haven't gotten around to it.

[Dee Dee Warren]

White has some AWESOME arguments....

[Patroclus]

I've just finished reading Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare. Before that, I read Hedda Gabler by Heinrick Ibsen.

[geebob]

Would anyone recommend N.T. Wright's Climax of the Covenant?

I have it though I haven't read it. It's considered an important work for understanding the New Perspective on Paul.

[AVmetro]

Thanks. I believe I've had it recommended before, so I'll probably check it out. ;)

[DanielleJoy]

I'm reading The World According to Garp by John Irving until I can get my hands on some dystopia (yummy).

Rubens- THHGTTG is AWESOME!!! One of my good friends came up with the theory that 42 is the answer to the meaning of life because 7 is a prime number, other than 3 it's the first one, there are other special math concepts behind it that don't come to mind right now... and 6 is a ''perfect number,'' that is, 1,2, and 3 can be both added and multiplied to equal 6, and they are it's only divisors.

[Patroclus]

Actually, 2 is the first prime number.

I am reading C.S. Lewis' space trilogy right now. It is pretty good. Although, at this point I have read so much Lewis that I pretty much know what to expect. In one way, it is good because I get to focus on the story. On the other hand, it is bad because I find myself frustrated when he elaborates on the philisophical aspect because I have already read it all several times over.

[DanielleJoy]

When I was in elementary school, every time I pointed out to a teacher that 2 was the first prime number, or that there was an even number that was prime, b/c of 2, they just kind of shrugged me off... just like they did when I told them that there were numbers lower than zero and that you could subtract a larger number from a smaller number. So there ya go, lol.

[GrayPilgrim]

Yesterday @ 09:37 PM post located here
Patroclus:

Actually, 2 is the first prime number.

I am reading C.S. Lewis' space trilogy right now. It is pretty good. Although, at this point I have read so much Lewis that I pretty much know what to expect. In one way, it is good because I get to focus on the story. On the other hand, it is bad because I find myself frustrated when he elaborates on the philisophical aspect because I have already read it all several times over.

I've long been an oddball (well that went without saying but...) amongst readers of the Science Fiction Trilogy Perelandra is genreally people's favorite book, I liked it but That Hideous Strength is by far my favorite even though most people hate it (heck I'm the guy who likes to read Leviticus). All three of them took me a while to get into, but once I got into Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength I thought they were much better (probably more in Lewis' realm.

I read somewhere that it was part of a bet between Lewis and Tolkien. Leiws was supposed to tell the Gospel using science fiction and Tolkien was supposed to tell the Gospel as a western. However, Tolkien never got to the western as he was working on his History of Middle Earth and so it was a project that he never was able to finish. That would have been an interesting and wonderful read if Tolkien had applied his story telling to that format. I wonder if he would have thought it bordered to closely on allegory?

GP

[Blake Reas]

I have been reading a lot of Donald Bloesch lately. I have read his Doctrine of God God the Almighty, essentials of evangelical theology, and ground of certainty which is an awesome book on apologetics.

Besides that I am reading Luther's sermons on the Passion of Christ. Along with that I am reading Here I Stand a biography of Luther. Really good stuff. I read more than that but just in spurts nothing real constructive till the summer when I do nto have to worry about Finals!

By His Grace For His Glory,
Blake

[djnoz]

At the moment I am reading lots and lots of Iain M Banks.
I'm also working my way through Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

[The Curtmudgeon]

Today @ 09:20 AM djnoz:
I'm also working my way through Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

Has Jordan gotten around to deciding what his plot is going to be yet? (That's Jordan, not djnoz, being hammered, BTW.) If he ever winds his way around enough to come up with a way of ending that durn thing, I might get the last few books and go through the whole thing to see if it makes any better sense that way, but after reading the first eight I've decided that what he really wanted to do was create the world's first grand fantasy soap opera, with no overriding plan or goal in sight.

Sorry if I've trod on toes (yours or others) with that--and just because I don't like it is no reason why you can't enjoy it--but I started that series with such high hopes that when disappointment set in, it set in hard.

The (I actually enjoyed it for the first two or three volumes) Curtmudgeon

[The Curtmudgeon]

By the way, I've just updated my on-line TW Journal on the books I'm reading, so if you're interested click the 'Journal' button at the top of the forum and check it out. I started the Journal before I knew about this Library thread, and anyway I can be more expansive in my comments there, which might be seen as too prolix if I did it in this general thread.

The ("Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he reads too much--such men are dangerous" [Bill Shakespeare, slightly re-worded]) Curtmudgeon

[Dee Dee Warren]

I am reading posts in a certain addictive online theology forum.