Reading anything?

[indianasmith]

That is my favorite Dean Koontz book!   

"OUR ANCIENT ENEMY" - Timothy Flyte

[Allhallowsday]

Continuing on in our Short Story Unit in English class, we have justed finished reading A Rose for Emily.  It was rather interesting and I see it as a story that had another hidden story within it with how it is all set up.  Also, I have just dived into The Birds as well.  I finished reading it and I thought it was pretty good, though a couple of my friends said it was too long for a short story.  Anyways, we might be able to even watch the movie once the whole class is all done reading it.

A Rose For Emily is quite a fine story.  What do you suppose FAULKNER meant when he described her face as being "like an old flag"? 

[lester1/2jr]

I downloaded "the sacredness of questioning everything" by david dark.  it's about spirituality and how to overcome the sort of fear based image of God to see the loving sort of God, if that makes any sense.  He calls the former "uncle Ben" for some reason

http://bit.ly/ii7mu

[Psycho Circus]

[InformationGeek]

I am currently rereading Congo.  It was a pretty interesting story the first time around so I am giving it another shot.  My English class just finish reading Teenage Wasteland and The Old Man with Enormous Wings.  As for my manga collection, I am still reading through Black Lagoon and Oishinbo.

[Sleepyskull]

I am reading "Thank You For Smoking" by Christopher Buckley and I am almost finished.  It's pretty good. The movie that is based on it is pretty good too but they are vastly different.

[Fausto]

[indianasmith]

I just finished reading BECAUSE THEY HATE by Brigitte Gabriel.  A Lebanese Christian, Gabriel was 12 years old when the Lebanese Civil War began . . . she saw many of her country's Christians slaughtered by Islamic radicals before finally fleeing to sanctuary with her aged parents to Israel.   She had been raised to hate the Israelis, as all Lebanese, both Christian and Muslim, had been.  But when she saw what that country was like as opposed to the nightmare that Lebanon had become, she threw off her blinders and rejected Islamic propaganda forever.   She wrote this book after 9/11 to warn Americans of the very real danger she sees coming from the Middle East - not that a few fanatics have hijacked a noble, peaceful faith and turned it into an excuse for mass murder, but a rather more unpleasant truth - that Islam is, by its very nature, hateful and intolerant of all other faiths, bent on the forcible conversion of the whole world, and that the command to wage jihad is taken very seriously by most of its adherents. 

Obviously, the author is exceedingly biased.  But she backs every assertion she makes with quotations from the Q'uran and from leading Islamic clerics, as well as the words of the most dangerous radicals themselves.  For example, did you know that Hamas' charter dedicates the organization not only to the desctruction of Israel and the overthrow of the U.S. government, but also singles out Freemasons, Kiwanis, and Lions Club members as "agents of Zionist oppression" that must be rooted out and destroyed?  This is a VERY disturbing book.  I don't agree with all Gabriel's assertions or her proposed solutions, but at the same time, ignoring what she has to say may be a dangerous alternative.

[Jack]

I read the newsletter from my golf course today.  They're having lots of end-of-the-season deals on golf clubs and stuff.  Other than that, not much of interest.

[3mnkids]

The Devil you know~ Mike Carey~ It took a little bit to really get going but im enjoying it.

[Joe the Destroyer]

Finished Phantoms.  It was pretty good, especially towards the end. 

I recently bought a huge book of HP Lovecraft stuff called "Necronomicon."  Because of this, the two small Lovecraft books I have are pretty much obsolete, save for about five or so stories between the two that aren't in Necro.  So, I'm planning on read Celephais, The Temple, and The Moon Bog before plowing into anything else. 

[lester1/2jr]

indiansmith-  the christians of lebanon aren't so innocent either

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre


reading "The Jesus Myth" http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=1286423

it's a misleading title, it's not saying Jesus is myth but its about how the image of Jesus was created by the people of his time using whatever symbols were available.

[InformationGeek]

Reading through Congo like I said before, but I am also started on Frankenstien.  With my manga, I am still reading through Black Lagoon, Oishinbo, Children of the Sea, and Vagabond.

[SkullBat308]

[Rev. Powell]

My English class just finish reading Teenage Wasteland and The Old Man with Enormous Wings. 

AN OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS was made into a movie that has been recommended to me, but it's out of print and unavailable.  It would be cool if your English teacher showed you a copy. 

As for me, I am reading THE ANNOTATED WIZARD OF OZ and 1,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE.