what are you reading these days?

[paris]

recently i've became very fond of reading in public transport, you know when is taffic jam, i'm sitting comfortably, there's snow outside and i'm reading in warm bus... i'm really turning into nerd 
these days is dostoievsky ''crime and punishment'' on repertoire...i'm curious what's everyone else reading?

[thalbergmad]

The Loch Ness Monster by Nicholas Witchell.

Also reading VIZ and Playboy girls in lingerie.

[Kassaa]

I can't read when I'm in a bus/car. I get nauseaus (spelling?).

However, I'm listening to an audiobook of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

[arensky]

Playboy girls in lingerie.

Uh, that is not reading. It does have artistic merit, though....

[zheer]

 You can imagin what it is like using public transport in a big city, a little lonly, so i read a book called solitude, it has a collection of poetry, i know boring.

[brahmsian]

Heidegger- Being and Time

[cfortunato]

I am reading stuff I should have read long ago, but never got around to.  Just finished "Don Quixote."  I'm probably going to start cracking some books on Eastern Orthodox theology.

[pianistimo]

the book in Job where God says 'where were you when...' and then lists a lot of stuff that would be hard to know unless one was around when it happened.  i tried to read it carefully to sort of coordinate with Genesis, but it's beyond me to know if the earth could be 6000+ - years or more.  i do know it says 'in six days God created the heavens and the earth' but for all we know - it could be a sort of recreation since He was hovering over the waters and only in chapter 9 of Genesis made the boundaries for the sea.  I'm curious what He says about the hail in Job, too, because it says it's reserved for the 'day of distress.'  is that our times?  We are having massive wildfires in the south  (texas and oklahoma), and flooding in northern california on a level hardly seen before.  we live in trying times.  just want to know what's coming next!  the january deadline of hotel living for the homeless katrina victims is being extended thankfully. 

I don't think God is merciless, but the bible does say some things about how He will bring it all to a close and usher in a new age. 

musical reading?  well, i've been trying to understand Dr. Widmer's views on what makes an expressive pianist (ala analyzing Horowitz's playing and many other pianists).

www.cp.jku.at/research/papers/Goebl_S2S2_2005.pdf
www.cp.jku.at/research/papers/Widmer_Journal_of_New_Music_Research.pdf

[pianistimo]

not to scare anyone, but was watching a pbs documentary (i think it was pbs) on the likelihood of another tsunami possibly around the vancouver/seattle area and calif. coast.  of course, the east coast isn't immune to stuff, too.  these hurricanes are getting mean.  each of the past few years seems to bring out stiffer winds and flooding.

don't know if rebuilding louisiana will be a good idea or not.  maybe they'll have to build farther inland - so the structures will remain sound?  i'm glad my husband likes hurricane ties.  most houses don't put them in the garage, but he, being an amateur strength factor measurer - bought a box of hurricane ties and screwed them all over the place in the garage.  i thought he was nuts at first.  but, you never know!

[Tash]

currently reading a book on pianists from mozart to now by harold schoenberg and plan on finishing it sometime soon! was reading a book called the virgin's lover by someone...about queen elizabeth I except i've found that after spending the past year or so reading non-fiction books (minus harry potter) i can't get into reading fiction. so abandoned that, and hope to start a biography on karajan or one on stravinsky and balanchine soon...

[arensky]

I usually read 4 or 5 books at the same time, a little of everything so I don't get bored. Right now it's "The Autobiography of Malcom X " (rereading, last read in high school) "Ruled Britannia" by Harry Turtledove (alternate history, in this case set in 1597, 9 years after the Spanish conquest of Britain, centering on guerilla rebel William Shakespeare) "The Teaching of Buddha", Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, and to fall asleep various "Archie" comics digests...

[mosis]

"The Quantum and the Lotus," English translation of "L'infini dans la Paume en la Main," by Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan. It's a book detailing the conversations of a Buddhist philosopher and an astrophysicist on the findings of modern science and the comparisons to Buddhism. It's absolutely fascinating, but it's pretty heavy.

[gilad]

em, steven kings dark tower - the wolve of calla.
i havent been managing much lately, very dissappointed in myself.

[Torp]

Just finished The Dark Tower series from Steven king.  Not sure what my next literary Mount Everest will be.

[lisztisforkids]

Narcisis and Goldmund.

[Tash]

i used to be obsessed with stephen king, then got bored of him. i remember the first book i read was 'it' in yr6 or 7 i think and everyone was like WOW that's a fat book! that one was kinda freaky...the movie was kinda freaky too...

[gilad]

jeez, the movie "it" gave me the heeby-jeebies

[Tash]

yeah we watched it at a sleepover in yr 8, along with the shining, i think some people were a little freaked out!! and can probably never look at clowns the same way again!

[rc]

these days is dostoievsky ''crime and punishment'' on repertoire...i'm curious what's everyone else reading?

That was probably the most intense book I've read, I think I read the last 150 pgs in one sitting, couldn't put it down. Read any other Dostoyevsky?

I got bored of King as well, the last one of his novels I'd read was like a chore. I still like his writing style, very colorful, but the plotlines start to seem a little pointless. My favorite of the Dark Tower series was the 4th book, Wizard and Glass.

I haven't had a whole lotta time for literature the past few months. I'll bet unplugging the internet would free up a lotta time I've been gradually chipping away at Rosen's - The Classical Style. Pretty thick stuff, but I'm finding it very interesting, and useful

[klavierkonzerte]

i'm reading principles of auditing because my finals are near.

and next week i'll start reading my advaced accounting book, i need to have 35 out of 50 in my final to pass.


what i'm really looking forword to readong is da vinci's code i bought it months ago but i didn't have time to read it.

[jas]

currently reading a book on pianists from mozart to now by harold schoenberg and plan on finishing it sometime soon! was reading a book called the virgin's lover by someone...about queen elizabeth

Interestingly, I've recently finished both of those. The Virgin's Lover is by Philippa Gregory. Have you read anything else by her? The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen's Fool are great books. And the Schonberg is fascinating.

I used to be obsessed with stephen king, then got bored of him.

Read Bag of Bones. It's unputdownable.

I'm currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings. I'm making the most of being able to read fiction before I go back to uni!

Jas

[lisztisforkids]

I'm currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings.

Jas

The Silmarillion is so much better than Lord of the Rings (I know it hard to beleive). If you like LOTR than you will really like the Silmarillion.

[jas]

The Silmarillion is so much better than Lord of the Rings (I know it hard to beleive). If you like LOTR than you will really like the Silmarillion.

I keep meaning to buy that, I'd love to read it. But I have so little time for fiction at the moment I'm avoiding starting anything new. But it's definitely on my list of things to read!

Jas

[Lebenssturme]

      " When Nietzsche wept" by Irvin D. Yalom.

       Very, very interesting!

       Until today, mine favourite was " The unberable lightness of being" by Milan Kundera.

 

[paris]

That was probably the most intense book I've read, I think I read the last 150 pgs in one sitting, couldn't put it down. Read any other Dostoyevsky?

its really great book, pity i've somehow lost the track, i like to sit and read whole in once, but i don't have time these days cos of masterclass. russian dudes are cool hehe

[BoliverAllmon]

purpose driven church-rick warren
the annointing-benny hinn
the blood-benny hinn
leading your church to growth-peter wagner

[cfortunato]

[[The Silmarillion is so much better than Lord of the Rings (I know it hard to beleive). If you like LOTR than you will really like the Silmarillion.]]

I believe you are the only person I have ever heard say that.  I have read both several times, and I like both, but I certainly prefer LOTR, and most people I know don't care for the Silmarillion.  You have to REALLY like old Norse Sagas and a long-dead style of writing to get into it.  I do, so I did.  Most don't though.

[lisztisforkids]

[[The Silmarillion is so much better than Lord of the Rings (I know it hard to beleive). If you like LOTR than you will really like the Silmarillion.]]

I believe you are the only person I have ever heard say that. I have read both several times, and I like both, but I certainly prefer LOTR, and most people I know don't care for the Silmarillion. You have to REALLY like old Norse Sagas and a long-dead style of writing to get into it. I do, so I did. Most don't though.

I find the that the Silmarillion is perhaps one of the best books I have read. It has everything that LOTR does and then more... I find that the language that it is written in makes it much the more better, the stlye fits the themes...

[contrapunctus]

Faust by Goethe.

[mycrabface]

Physics Bio and chem textbooks.. do you know how heavy they are?? everyday is like Heavy Book Day... and every week is like Test Week.. after school is like.. Study Study Study.. Haiz,, no time for anything... We got like 8 projects too..

[Tash]

Interestingly, I've recently finished both of those. The Virgin's Lover is by Philippa Gregory. Have you read anything else by her? The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen's Fool are great books. And the Schonberg is fascinating.

Jas

no i haven't read any of her other books, i randomly borrowed that one off a friend when i'd read my other 2 books in nz and had nothing else to read! but i've heard the others are better. but i didn't finish reading it, i somehow can't read fiction anymore.... yeah the schonberg is good i'm learning a lot from it!!

bought a book on glen gould yesterday to add to my list so that should be interesting

[arensky]

Just finished "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" by Kurt Vonnegut and randomly started rereading "Breakfast of Champions" by the same author this morning. I am enjoying his cynical, tragic yet ultimately funny view of existence. Next is the CS Lewis Space Trilogy. In non--fiction I'm reading "They All Played Ragtime" by Rudi Blesh.

[jesuslovesthischick]

Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides
Lullaby- Carl Palahniuk
Twilight- Stephenie Meyer
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky

[rc]

Been working through Paradise Lost by Milton.  First epic poem I've picked up, took a bit to get used but I'm enjoying it.  Interesting story so far, there are a lot of allusions that I'm unfamiliar with, but most of all I like the rich imagery.

Also been chopping through a Bach bio, by Wolff.  Very detailed, and inspiring.

I've been low on time for reading, it's taking pretty long to get through these.  The flow is choppy.

[pianogeek_cz]

When I have time and tranquility to do some real reading...

currently Chaim Potok - Book of Lights, Anthony DeMello, SJ - One Minute Wisdom, Moshe ben Maimon - Guide for the Perplexed.

When I want just to relax with a book, it's the Terry Pratchett shelf 

[thalbergmad]

Fingerprints of the Gods - Graham Hancock

[ramseytheii]

Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.  normally his style is too cartoonish for me to bear (I get sick of Vineland after 100 pages, and Gravity's Rainbow is enough to drive one mad), but I keep coming back to his writing time and time again, and this is in my opinion his best by far (haven't read the new one).  I think the 18th century American-Romance style reins in his cartoonish-ness at least a little bit, and he masters it so completely that he can even translate modern slang into that idiom.  Highly recommended!

Walter Ramsey

[sharon_f]

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

[sassafras]

Harlen Coben, The Woods
White, Jesus to Christianity
Graham Hancock, Underworld
Fritz Stern, Gold and Iron

and lots more mysteries and histories

[m1469]

piano street's piano forum    oh... and a little bit of "Tonal Harmony" by Kostka

[soliloquy]

this thread is a bit lol  Apparently half the people on this forum are currently working on their doctoral theses for a PhD in modern lit and philosophy.


Libra- Don DeLillo

[pianogeek_cz]

*raises an eyebrow* What, you don't think Maimonides is worth reading unless for a philosophy thesis?

Anyway, finished the Chaim Potok thingy, Book of Lights, and I'm just SO LOST, I need to do some studying and then re-read... Does anyone know where to find some synopsis of Zohar online? And some commentaries/essays/papers about the Zohar? There are so many references, I'm pretty sure I missed at least half of the message in the Potok book...

I forgot to mention, Marcus Aurelius: Meditations.

[sassafras]

Maimonides? Does anyone still read him?
 I listen to Collins' The Language of God after finishing The Devil Wears Prada on CD as I practiced piano yestrday and today.
I am reading at Green, The Mastery of Music Ten Pathways... as I listen to TV and in between Soduku puzzles.

[thalbergmad]

I is reading the Beano today.

Thal

[mcgillcomposer]

I just started Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" and I am half way through Daniel Heartz's "Music in European Capitals" woot woot

[ganymed]

i just started reading "In Cold Blood" by  Truman Capote, which my english teacher gave me as a gift at my graduation ceremony

[chidi]

The Master-Key to Riches
The Bible

-Chidi

[the lugal]

Ted Dekker is the best author i've ever read.....and i've read ALOT

Thr3e is awesome and the series black, red, and white are awesomer.......

JP

[klavierkonzerte]

the general guide of auditing principals

the principals of preparing budgets and balance sheets for institutions with independant bugdets.

and alot of auditing, accounting crap for i have just got a job as an assistant auditor at the state audit bureau, which isn't as exiting as i thought it would be.

[burstroman]

Taras Bulba by Nicolai Gogol
Flatland by Edwin Abbott