What aren't you reading?

[Patroclus]

I wonder how many people are like me. I go out for a day on the town every so often. If I happen to walk into the bookstore, I will come out with a brand new or used book, knowing that I will note get around to reading it for a while. That being the trend of my life, I have dozens of books that I have not read, yet take space in my library. Here are a few from my bottom shelf:

1. Brendon - Fredrick Buechner
2. Whistling In The Dark - Fredrick Buechner
3. Wishful Thinking - Fredrick Buechner
4. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
5. Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
6. If I forget Thee Jerusalem - William Faulkner
7. Light In August - William Faulkner
8. The American - Henry James
9. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest - Ken Keesey
10. That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis
11. The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis
12. The Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis
13. Merrick - Anne Rice
14. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
15. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (please don't laugh)
16. Purgatorio - Dante
17. Metamorphoses - Ovid
18. The Fairie Queen - Edmund Spencer
19. The Book of Lost Tales: Part I - J.R.R. Tolkien
20. Beowulf And The Critics - J.R.R. Tolkien
21. Anti-Story - Various
22. Rhinoceros and Other Plays - Eugene Ionesco

What kind of books are piling-up on your shelves? What books will become brand-new inheritence items for your grandkids?

Excellent! Quality points baby!

[dizzle]

Farrell Till's Joke Book

[Em7add11]

Programming Perl
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Those the only two I can think of that have been sitting around for a while.

[Patroclus]

My Dad used to work with the guy, or at least one of the guys, who was the initial devolper of PERL. My dad has been around.

[GrayPilgrim]

Here's my list I've started all of them but well they are on hte back burner for now.

1. Bellinger Reading the Psalms
2. Motyer Isaiah
3. Zimmerli I am Yahweh
4. Schriner Paul: Apostle of GOd's GLory in Christ
5. Dunn The Christ & The Spirit 2 vols.
6. Morris The Cross in the New Testament
7. _____ The Apostolic PReaching of hte Cross
8. Brown The Ethos of the Cosmos
9. Bavinck In the Beginning
10.Gestrich The Return of Splendor to teh World
11. Pohl Making Room
12. Sternberg The Potics of Biblical Narrative
13. Watson Text, Church andWorld
14. Rendtorff Canon and Theology
15. Perdue The Collapse of History
16. Edwards Thje Religious Affections
17. Dalimore Spurgeon
18. _______George Whitefield
19. Gibson Language and Imagery in the Old Testament
20. Shaara Gods and Genreals
21. ______Gone for Soldiers
22. _______The LAst Full Measure

[luv1another]

well whenever I go to the Christian bookshop I usually come out with a book LOL and don't get around to reading them to often so here are a few of the ones sitting waiting :lol:

1.Blessing or curse ... you can choose by Derek Prince

2. Worship his majesty By Jack Hayford

3. Empowered by praise By Dr Michael Youssef

4.I praise you o God By Dr michael Youssef

5.Speechless by Steven Curtis Chapman and Scotty Smith

6.The Love Languages of God By Gary Chapman

7. Up where you belong By Tommy Tenney

8.through Blood and fire by Trevor Yaxley

9. Incense and thunder by Dudley Hall

10. Judging When? Why? How? by Derek Prince

11.Gods Psychiatry by Charles L. Allen

12. A Divine Revelation of the Spirit Realm by Mary Baxter

[Hitch]

I fell in to a coma 1/10 the way through a bio of the Dulles family.

[Lizard]

I also have [i]The Fountainhead[i] by Ayn Rand on my shelf as well as [i]Escape to the Moon[i] by Homer Hickam (The movie October Sky was his autobiography).

I have found myself reading more non-fiction recently, and my guess is that those books will stay unread for quite a while.

[Solly]

Ten off the top of my head

Karl Barth Reformed Confessions
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Kenneth Cragg The Call of the Minaret
Kenneth Leech True God
Hans Küng On Being a Christian
William Cunningham Theology of the Reformers
Natan Scharansky Fear No Evil
A Cohen-Solal Sartre: A Life
Kevin Vanhoozer Is there a meaning in this text?
John Flavel The Fountain of Life

[The Curtmudgeon]

Well, I changed apartments a couple years back and have never unboxed all the library, so I still have some buried treasures in there I'm sure that I hadn't read before moving. No telling which of the fifty-eleven boxes they're in, of course.

Just looking around the place:


Mark Twain A-Z, R. Kent Rasmussen
Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
Tales, Speeches, Essays and Sketches, Mark Twain
The Mound Builders, Robert Silverberg
Kensington Rune Stone: Its Place in History, Thomas E. Reiersgord


All the above were purchased as souvenirs various places on my vacation last August, and haven't yet been cracked.


On Another Man's Wound, Ernie O'Malley
The Jews of Islam, Bernard Lewis
The Little Ice Age, Brian Fagan
The Argonautika, Apollonios Rhodios (trans. Peter Green)
The Sagas of the Icelanders
Scotland, The Story of a Nation, Magnus Magnusson
From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury


These have all accumulated over the past year or two; I've started at least the last four of that group only to stop them for some reason or another.


A Wild People, Hugh Leonard
The Outer Edge of Ulster, Hugh Dorian
Seeds of Doubt, James Ryan
Faces, Pat Reid
Republican Internment and the Prison Ship Argenta 1922, Denise Kleinrichert
Galway on the Bay, Peadar O'Dowd, Derek Biddulph & Dick Byrne
Seatown, Conor O'Callaghan
Selected and New Poems, Eamon Grennan
The End of Liberal Ulster, Frank Thompson
Annie Dunne, Sebastian Barry
St. Anne's: The Story of a Guinness Estate, John Ussher Sharkey
When Hope and History Rhyme, ed. Ruth Curtis
Roger Casement in Death, or Haunting the Free State, W. J. McCormack


For years, I've had a running account with Kenny's of Galway whereby they send me quarterly shipments of books "on spec" (all books either about Ireland or Irish subjects, or else by Irish writers); I never send a book back unless I already have it. The above are the last two shipments' worth (I had to put the orders on hold when I lost my job, but Desi Kenny is still holding my account open, ready to send the next box-load when I get a paycheck again!).

The (that was from just a five-minute cruise through the apartment's stacks of books) Curtmudgeon

PS to Patroclus: Don't worry about Tom Sawyer, Pat; when I was in Hannibal MO on my August vacation, besides the books listed above I also picked up new copies of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn just to have "meaningful" copies (i.e., picked up in Twain's home town) as well as re-read them again for the first time in a couple of geological aeons.

[Pilgrim]

right now I have waiting:

The Island of the Day before by Umberto eco
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzon
Hitler: A Study in Tyrrany
The works of Sir. A. Conan Doyle
The Living Reed by Pearl Buck
Remembered Voice by Douglas John Hall
Christian Doctrine by Shirlie Guthrie


But by and large, I read what I buy.

[djnoz]

Assembly Step by Step - written by nerdy people
Delphi Unleashed - as above
Unfinished Tales - Tolkien
Gavin Maxwell - A Reed Shaken by the Wind (to do with Iraq's history)
Aeons - Martin Gorst

[jstaples4jc]

The PHP script book I have on my shelf is collecting dust. Others:

The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church by Beckwith
(I tell myself daily that today is the day I start reading it! lol)
The Apostolic Fathers by Holmes
And there's my poor, neglected UBS4 Greek New Testament

Not to mention the seemingly endless list of books I have yet to get.
:read:

Julie <><

[Solly]

Some more, which I checked when I got home:

J Denney The Christian Doctrine of Reconciliation
S McFague Speaking in Parables
A Schlatter Erläuterung zur NT Must learn German first!!
W Neuer Adolf Schlatter: Ein Leben für Theologie und Kirche Ditto
Hoskyns/Davey Crucifixion and Resurrection
L Feuerbach The Essence of Christianity
A Hanson The People Called
S Grenz/J Francke Beyond Foundationalism
W Breuggerman The Land
A Purves Pastoral Theology in the Classical Tradition
H Küng Does God Exist? / Justification

[Bill the Cat]

G. Fee- God's empowering Presence. I got thru half of it a year ago

[Entropic Gnosis]

Mason and Dixon Thomas Pynchon
The Magus John Fowles
The Brothes Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rough Crossing and On the Razzle Tom Stoppard
Epiphany of the Long Sun Gene Wolfe
Infinite in all Directions Freman Dyson
A Theory of Semiotics Umberto Eco

These are just some of the books i have yet to read that are stitting in my dorm room here

[Patroclus]

Today @ 03:08 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=96667#post96667)
Entropic Gnosis:

A Theory of Semiotics Umberto Eco



It is possible to like Eco too much.

/ot I wish you had not used that byline. Now I will look like a poser if I use the byline that I have been considering for weeks: "Symantics Man."

[Entropic Gnosis]

Sorry about the byline thing . . .but its also a bit eerie as well :shocked:

[Patroclus]

Sorry about the byline thing . . .but its also a bit eerie as well

No problem

[AcousticJS]

Just a few off the top of my head...


1. Bible Doctrine - Wayne Grudem
2. Pray In The Spirit - Arthur Wallis (Though that's technically my Dad's!)
3. The Normal Christian Birth - David Pawson
4. Enjoying God's Grace - Terry Virgo
5. Breakthrough - Derek J. Morphew
6. The Endless Knot - Stephen Lawhead

But there are loads more - I've got an un-scheduled reading list for the books I really want/need to go through. I figure I should probably at least read the whole of the Bible first though - just gotta do it one book at a time...

God bless
Jon

[Aravis]

And I thought I was the only one!

I did have Don Quixote lying around for the longest time, but now I'm halfway through it. What is currently sitting on my shelves unread:

War and Peace
Ovid's Metamorphoses
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Le Morte D'Arthur
Ethan Frome
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
Wheelock's Latin

How depressing is that?

[Patroclus]

It isn't that bad, Aravis.

I keep acquiring more and more books. The list will grow. You are young in your college career.

[Em7add11]

I just got a bunch of Ayn Rand books that will sit on the back burner for a while:

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Philosophy: Who Needs It
Anthem
The Virtue of Selfishness
For the New Intellectual

I would get to them sooner but I finally started on A New Kind of Science and that's gonna take me a while.

[Feet Of Clay]

I currently powering through Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton.

sitting around are
1-The Stranger~ Albert Camus
2-Robinson Crusoe~ Daniel Defoe
3-Invisible Man~ Ralph Ellison
4-Sophie's World~ Jostein Gaarder
5-Brave New World~ Aldous Huxley
6-Visions of Cody~ Jack Kerouac
7-All My Road Before Me~ C.S. Lewis
8-Ariel~ Sylvia Plath
9-Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters~ J.D. Salinger
10-East of Eden~ John Steinbeck
11-War and Peace~ Tolstoy
12- The Art of War~ Sun Tzu

Man... I've got alot of reading to do...
:read: :whip:

Zm

[Elf-Child]

I'm currently away from home so with me the only unread book is Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.

Before the school library asked me to return them I also had:

Sonrise - I forget his name . . . father of a recovered autistic child
Future Shock - Alvin Toffler
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television - Jerry Mander?
HTML for Dummies - people who apparently aren't dummies

[Aravis]

06-16-2003 @ 02:24 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=124244#post124244)
Patroclus:

It isn't that bad, Aravis.

I keep acquiring more and more books. The list will grow. You are young in your college career.

Yeah, it has multiplied in the last few days, since I discovered a nice site with thousands of free eBooks--all kinds of classic, good stuff, since tons of older works are available for free... I love my Pocket PC...

[Peter Kirby]

I've been meaning to read the Kurt Vonnegut that my sister lent to me: Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano, and Welcome to the Monkey House. And it's no secret that I have scads of religion and history books yet to be read.

best,
Peter Kirby

[gnosis]

Interesting thread.

I find myself picking up a book reading a chapter here and there and then never finish it. Here are a few of my not-yet-finished books.

Phoenix: The dawn and twilight of Zoroastrianism - Zaehner
Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg
The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for personal transformation - Hauck
The Greek Hermes - ?


I'm sure there are plenty more but those comes to mind.

Sincerely,

gnosis

[a_Mister_Smith]

An Unwritten Novel by Virgina Woolf


mr smith

[kawaika]

Oh, I have tons of books I still need to get to someday...

I picked up about 20 Asimov books at a thrift shop a long time ago, but I only managed to read the first two foundation books...

I have several memoirs of wwii that I still need to read. They don't take very long to read, but I just haven't had the time yet...

I also have various books about Catholicism and the Holocaust that I need to read pretty soon.