posted on February 27, 2001 08:39:25 PM new
Snowyegret,
That Heinberg book sounds fascinating. I've always felt that if I were to choose a religion based on its description of heaven, I'd have to go Islamic. I'm curious if an even better vision of the afterlife may exist. I'll get that book.
posted on February 27, 2001 08:52:48 PM new
Just finished a biography of Abigail Adams by Phyllis Lee Levin and Snow Falling On Cedars. Rereading King Jesus by Robert Graves right now, and just started The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Also, I am perpetually rereading Robert Graves The White Goddess - I seem to find something new every time.
posted on February 27, 2001 10:12:54 PM new
Next to my bed is a copy of "The Neanderthal Enigma" by James Shreeve
It looks at the current discussion of the evidence that the Neanderthal's were ancestors to modern man or a dead end line replaced by Modern Homo Sapiens.
Especially interesting in that there is some evidence that their times and ranges overlapped for many thousands of years.
Good dense reading - interesting topic. (at least to me) LOL
posted on February 27, 2001 11:37:26 PM new
femme: You must read Dracula! I finally got around to reading it and really enjoyed it. Then I tried Mary Shelley's Frankenstein....sorry, that didn't grab me. Didn't finish it.
nutspec: There was a show on the Discovery channel where they compared the DNA of Neanderthal to Homo Sapiens.....apparently we are no relation! Have to do further research on that one.
I love a good western. Elmer Kelton has some good ones.
posted on February 28, 2001 12:37:06 AM new
I'm reading:
The Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye (religious; based on the book of Revelations - excellent series, by the way!)
And as soon as it comes out, I'll be reading the next book in Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear series.
And now I'm going to show my weirdness (LOL!) by telling what else I'm reading!
The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything: What We Know and How We Know It by Richard Morris (deals with quantum mechanics / Einstein and the unified field theory, the origin of the universe according to science / etc.)
Chariots of the Gods by Erick Von Daniken (various mysteries such as the UFO phenomenon, mysteries of ancient cultures, etc.)
The Philadelphia Experiment (deals with Einstein's unified field theory and the ship that was supposedly made to disappear and reappear miles away)
Told you I was weird!!! I can't help it -- I gobble this stuff up.
I also like most science fiction, most thrillers (especially medical thrillers), and that sort of thing. But I generally don't like Stephen King's books; seems to me that if you've read one, you've read them all. For example, I've tried several times to read it, but got so bored with The Stand that I couldn't finish it.
posted on February 28, 2001 05:11:32 AM new
WoW! Our local library had a booksale yesterday. $2 for Readers Digest Condensed Books made me laugh since I never could even give them away free!
Then they said all paperbacks and magazines were a dime so I went hogwild on them,Grisham, King, Auel,Anne Rice, etc.etc.
I don't usually buy paperbacks for resale but for those of you who do, have you noticed that the production quality has gone down as the prices have gone up? I consider myself very gentle on books but just one reading seems to put them in the well used category, lines in the spine, spine off kilter, etc.
