What Are You Currently Reading?

[Manwë Súlimo]

I just got done re-reading "The Hunt for Red October" for the bazillionth time. Never knew OBP used to drive those things.

[One Bad Pig]

I just got done re-reading "The Hunt for Red October" for the bazillionth time. Never knew OBP used to drive those things.

I didn't drive. I pushed.

[One Bad Pig]

On the Theophany by Eusebius Pamphilius
The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay by John Buchan (4 novels in one)
Yvgenie by C. J. Cherryh

[One Bad Pig]

Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History by Kalee Thompson
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World - and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero
Life After Death: The Evidence by Dinesh D'Souza
History of the Monks of Syria by Theodoret of Cyrrhus

[Teluog]

I forgot to mention that at the beginning of the year I began Chuck Colson and Anne Morse's daily devotional The One Year Devotions for People of Purpose. It's fantastic because it's meaty and not your typical over-spiritualized. Topics for each day range from eugenics to homosexuality to psychology to marriage/divorce to apologetics.

I also started reading The Five Love Languages with my girlfriend.

[ObamaAntichrist]

I just got done reading Petrus Romerus by Tom Horn and Cris Putnam. Great book, lots of wonderful information. Not fully accurate though on a few points.

[Manwë Súlimo]

Your troll briefs are showing.

[keith]

I have two books on the go at the moment. More by Simon Ponsonby and The Prodigal Spirit by Graham Tomlin. The subtitle of More is 'How you can have more of the Spirit when you already have everything in Christ'. I saw our local Baptist pastor quote from it (without giving it a namecheck) and wanted to check it out for myself. The guy who wrote it is a chaplain to students at Oxford but he wears his learning lightly and it is clear he has a genuine passion for Christians to have more of the Spirit. The Prodigal Spirit is a more challenging read and assumes the reader already has quite a good grounding in theology and church history. It is thought provoking and I may have to come back to it again later once the ideas have had time to bed in. Tomlin also used to teach at Oxford but I did not know this before I got the book.

[Rushing Jaws]

The Momentous Event - W. J. Grier (1970 edition)

The Iliad, Books 1-12, in the revised Loeb Classical Library translation: I'm about half-way through Book 8

The Two Towers - 308 pages out of 352 to go

Studies in the Apocalypse - R. H. Charles (1913)

[sylas]

Just finished reading the Queen of the Orcs triology, by Morgan Howell. The one sentence book proposal that launched the trilogy was:

A young woman, enslaved to serve the king’s orc army, discovers the orcs’ nobility and leads them in revolt.

Really interesting read for someone at all into fantasy literature or Lord of the Rings in particular. One of her goals was to recast Orcs as sympathetic characters.

[Teluog]

Starting on Daniel B. Wallace's New Testament Syntax which is an abridgment of his much larger Exegetical Syntax.

[GlobalWolf]

Right now, I'm reading through Apollo 13. After that, I have a copy of Dan Brown's Digital Fortress lying around somewhere that I probably need to get through at some point.

[One Bad Pig]

Eighteen centuries of the Orthodox Greek Church by Alexander H. Hore
Lives of the Cambro British saints, of the fifth and immediate succeeding centuries, from ancient Welsh & Latin mss. in the British Museum and elsewhere, with English translations and explanatory notes by William J. Rees
From Darkness to Light: How to Become a Christian in the Early Church by Anne Field
The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith

[arnoldo]

Conflict at Rome: Social Order and Hierarchy in Early Christianity by James S. Jeffers. (This book would be of interest to anyone researching Clement and the Shepherd of Hermas.)

Clement and the Early Church of Rome: On the Dating of Clement's First Epistle to the Corinthians by Rev. Thomas Herron.

[Rational Gaze]

Just about done with a collection of three Judge Dredd novelisations, simply entitled Dredd. In the first novella, Dredd vs Death, Dredd must team up with Judge Anderson to face the Dark Judges, inter-dimensional spirit beings inhabiting reanimated corpses hell-bent on annihilating every living thing in existence, led by the titular character Judge Death. In the second novella, Kingdom of the Blind, Dredd has to stop a notorious crime lord from using a still-functioning museum exhibit to activate old weapons platforms still in orbit over the earth. The last one, The Final Cut, involves Dredd investigating a grisly series of murder that seemingly have a connection with someone in a high position within Mega City One.