Do you like books?

[runescapeboy]

what kind of books do u read please do something like this....


Book Title:
Author:
Genre

and your comment

[beethoven2]

the series:on the run
Gordon Korman
fantasy

really good series, they are very addicting. i really recommend them.  there are 6 books in all.  once you start them, you can't stop.

[pies]

I'm trying to read Ulysses by James Joyce.  There is lots of impossible to understand stuff in it.

[pianistimo]

need you ask?  the bible.  but, then there's always reader's digest large print.  my bible is in large print too.  this is what happens when you play the piano too much.  or is it not enough?

oh. forgot author - God
genre - historical nonfiction

[lau]

this might sound kind of dumb but i like to read this science textbook that my brother forgot to return to school. But  don't like science class, but i like learning about science.

oh, and the boxcar children is still a good book   

[penguinlover]

The Bible's number one for me too.  You may find this odd, but I do enjoy reading the dictionary at times too (helps with Scrabble!) 

Left Behind Series, Janette Oak books,  Dee Henderson, Frank Peretti,  Brock and Brodie Thoene - some of my favorites

[Waldszenen]

I've recently finished reading the King James Bible (the New English and Good News versions are sh*t).

At the moment I'm reading Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), Unfinished Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Divine Comedy (Dante) and The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas). A lot at the same time.

[quantum]

I kind of like textbooks too, but I don't like reading them under the pressure of homework or class tests.  I just read for knowledge. 

I have quite a few books on composer biographies, history, and bits of music theory.  I like analysis, but I'm not much into the hardcore musicology that is written in such a complex manner you have to look up every other word in the dictionary. 

Reading random articles in an encyclopedia is something I also do. 

When I was at university and particularly bored and all the practice rooms were full, I would walk through the library in to some section I don't usually go and just pull out random books and see what is in them. 

Say, do any of you know how to search Law reports in the US?  What if you know it was The state vs. Mr X and the trial was in Idaho in 2002.  How do you find the law report? 

I was interested in law since my high school days, and we always used to study law reports.   Now I want to know how to find them for myself. 

[maul]

I like books which enhance my personal philosophy and help me increase my value in positive ways. Books which actually expand my mind.

[pianowolfi]

Rudolf Steiner: The Fifth Gospel. From the Acashic Record (lectures)
Genre: Anthroposophy
My favorite book for years now.

[thalbergmad]

Me loves books, my loft is straining under the wieght.

Currently reading "The Jesus Papers" by Michael Baigent.

Not interested in fiction though, like the Bible.

Thal

[preludium]

I like philosophical books, both pure philosophy and fictional stuff with a tendency to "what binds creation's inmost energies". There were two years in my life where I read Nietzsche's "Thus spake Zarathustra" almost daily and I still know large passages by heart. Then I got into Arthur Schopenhauer and read his complete works twice (about 5000 pages). I had heard that Wagner wrote his "Tristan" after having read Schopenhauer's main work "The world as will and representation", so this is how I bumped into that and it made me a different person. I had never found that much wisdom in any writing, apart from his rants against Hegel and his followers. But as a result I can say that the "Tristan" doesn't have much to do with Schopenhauer and the libretto is influenced by Novalis anyway.

I've read almost everything by Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, and several books by Hermann Hesse. Currently I read Nikos Kazantzakis' "The last temptation of Christ".

[pianowolfi]

I like philosophical books, both pure philosophy and fictional stuff with a tendency to "what binds creation's inmost energies". There were two years in my life where I read Nietzsche's "Thus spake Zarathustra" almost daily and I still know large passages by heart. Then I got into Arthur Schopenhauer and read his complete works twice (about 5000 pages). I had heard that Wagner wrote his "Tristan" after having read Schopenhauer's main work "The world as will and representation", so this is how I bumped into that and it made me a different person. I've never found that much wisdom in any writing, apart from his rants against Hegel and his followers. But as a result I can say that the "Tristan" doesn't have much to do with Schopenhauer and the libretto is influenced by Novalis anyway.

I've read almost everything from Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, and several books from Hermann Hesse. Currently I read Nikos Kazantzaki's "The last temptation of Christ".

Very interesting preferences. I used to love Hesse. My favorit was "Klein and Wagner" Then i had a phase where I read everything available book by Handke. Then I had a philosophist friend and started to read and discuss Heidegger with him. But I admit that I didn't get much of it.

[Mozartian]

I've recently finished reading the King James Bible (the New English and Good News versions are ***).

At the moment I'm reading Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), Unfinished Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Divine Comedy (Dante) and The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas). A lot at the same time.

Dude for real, you read awesome books. I heart your taste.

I like good solid books with a real plot and interesting characters. Also like a good history... there must be a real art to writing history- striking that fine line between being too dry and boring and being inaccurate, heh. A book or story that makes you think or moves you deepily in a perhaps life changing way is good, too (Flannery o'Conner's works, as well as Dostoevsky's, come to mind).

Currently reading The Aeneid (Virgil), The War with Hannibal (Livy), Helena (Waugh), and Great Expectations (Dickens).

[musik_man]

Right now I'm reading

The Forsyte Saga James Galsworthy- Pretty good, but nothing exceptional.  It chronicles the lives of the members of the rich Forsyte family.

The Ambassadors Henry James- Tough read for me.  He uses lots of appositives in almost every non-dialogue sentence.

Socialism Ludwig von Mises- Probably the best critique of socialism ever written.  It analyzes every aspect of socialism from political to economic to cultural.  The non-economic analysis can be weak, but is made up for in the economics.  Amazing that it was written in the 1920's when socialism was nearing the peak of its popularity.  Even more amazing are some of the quotes from Marx, Engels, Trotsky and Kautsky in the book.  Trotsky believed that men under socialism would be physically perfect, the average man would be as smart as Goethe or Aristotle, and that the socialist man would be able to control bodily functions like digestion.

The Weight of Glory C.S. Lewis- First non-Narnia Lewis I've read.  So far pretty good; although, I'm not far enough in to give a good summary of it.

Heretics G.K. Chesterton- Chesterton attacks the philosophies and ideas of his time (the early 20th century.)  He has a way of looking at ideas in a way that I never would have come to on my own.  He's sadly under-read by Christians(I heartily recommend Orthodoxy for anyone interested.)

[burstroman]

I'm re-reading Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust.

[prometheus]

I am looking for a free audiobook of Enoch.

[pianolist]

You'll think I'm being facetious, but I enjoy microprocessor data books, and teach yourself lathe work, and so on. I'm not at all good on fiction, be it the Bible (nice one, Thal), Agatha Christie or James Joyce. But I enjoy history, usually connected with the player piano, music roll catalogues, and general musicology. By the way, there's a pianola somewhere in Ulysses, and Joyce was at the first performance of George Antheil's Ballet Mécanique.

The title of this thread asks whether we like books. I would say that I like books very much. I like to be in their presence. I have reader's cards for the British Library and the Library of Congress, and I enjoy the atmosphere of concentration and quiet. It is, incidentally, remarkably easy to obtain an LoC card, and it's for life.

We have a book room at home, and I like knowing where I can find information if I need it. If I had lived in medieval times, I'd have liked to to have been a librarian monk. My bald head would have suited the calling.

[annoying_airhead]

Lol.
Currently I'm halfway through (more like a quarter) 'Night and Day' by Virginia Woolf.