"Sign Talker" by James Alexander Thom

logics of history: social theory and social transformation by william h. sewell, jr.

The Keep by F. Paul Wilson. I think all his books are great.

Two books-- Mystics, Mavericks and Merrymakers and Common Nonsense on and off.

Vikuach al Chachmas HaKaballah by Shmuel David Luria.

i am not reading a book i am writing one

We all are...we all are..If Rowling can, why not us?

I just finished that a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't impressed.

yea exactly. my writing is far superior to rowlings, by the way want my autograph.? my book is highly informative and contains short storries about terrible walking mugs and automatic toxic stretchers that carry diseases to evi people etc

the historian and all the arkady renko books by cruz-smith

Two Harlan Cobens and one Joseph Heller.

Ah, sounds like a dream date to me....

"The Lysander Spooner Reader".

Speaking of which, reading catch 22...or should I say just finished it.
(Did you know he wanted to call it Catch 18, but since Leon Uris put out Mila 18 at the same time, he couldn't use the number 18 as well, so he called it Catch 22 instead....so the phrase would have been catch 18 then.)
Also reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
and Holy Days (Lis Harris)

and a bunch of text books for fun on the side.

(Also recently read Harlan Cobens new book...pleasant read, though not all that much substance or weight to it...good for a plane ride though)

Yes, I am reading the Vintage Publishing edition with the BBC's Big Read Top 100 intro, full of his self-praise.
Took him about a decade to complete a set of paradoxes, and gloatin'.
I liked his 'God Knows', funny and crude.

Coben is a recent hit in Israel, and I'm reading the translated version, 'הנעלמים' for practice. Apparently, he is Jewish, too, and that just shot his rating here skywards.

Recently read The Tipping Point. Very interesting.

mosheshmeal
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Actually, mine's a 1990 edition published by Corgi books...
That fact I picked up watching who wants to be a millionaire a few weeks ago...which then reminded me that I wanted to read the book, and thus got me to read it.

I just finished reading this book. Facinating.

I just finished reading Lovely Bones. It was pretty good, but you have to be attentive to follow each story line.

Inside, Outside by Herman Wouk

For work or for fun?

That's one of my favorite books!
I can't count how many times I've read it.

It was a really good book, I just read it each night before I went to sleep, when I wasn't as attentive, so a few of the storylines got a little confused. It's excellent, though. I really enjoyed it.

I just finished the latest Harry Potter and
Divided Highways which is about the history of the US interstate highway system.

Another Roadside Attraction, by Tom Robbins.

I'm reading a book by gershon Sholom on Shabtasi Tzvi and a book about how rabbonim paskened shaylos during the Hopllocaust.
Then for college I'm reading tons of books.

I'm not either. On bus down to a wedding in Baltimore a few weeks ago a few weeks ago I told a few people that I had it and they read for a while-- also unimpressed. I agree. Highlights that there are old light Lubavitcher families with yichus and BT families and the differences in family structure and life.

If you want a totally rosy view of Chabad and how the world is perfect, try Lis Harris' Holy Days.

In terms of Mystics, my main complaint is that (which the author freely admits) she isn't profiling a representative sample of Lubavitch girls in CH. My opinion is that she was trying to copy Harris (note the opening scene, which is a bit misleading given that her "Rebbe viewing" wasn't in 770 since the Rebbe's been dead for a while) and also try to find vindication for her own ambiguity with regard to Jewish religious practice.

work is fun.

Class reading:
Latin: Petronius' "Satyricon"
Greek: Xeonphon's "Anabasis"
20th Cent Phil: Jurgen Habermas' essay "Theory and Praxis in our Scientific Civilization." Coming up are the Basic Writings of Martin Heidegger, which should be an interesting time.
Hebrew: Sefer Yirmiah

On my own: "No Exit and Three Other Plays" JP Sartre; "Critique of Pure Reason" I. Kant; "All Quiet on the Western Front" Eric Maria Remarque; "Critique of Religion and Philosophy," Walter Kaufmann

"Kol ha Tor" by Rabbi Hillel Shaklover for the 3rd time.

I am in middle of reading

The da vinci Code

Grapes of Wrath

and

Eldest

Let us know how da Vinci Code goes.

so far so good.

*Pukes*

bavli brochos
sefer haaruch
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speaking in tongues - deaver

He's a philosophy buff. He actually LIKES to think. Pretty novel idea, huh.

Crime and Punishment

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Oh, and a bunch of other chick-lit books.

darn right, baby!

Doestoevsky doesn't translate too well.

But it does sit well on the coffee table.

If you need to leave books you don't read around to make you look intelligent that says something about you.

quickly runs to coffee table to remove In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality and Chidushei R. Chaim Ha-Levi al Ha-Rambam

I hope you have her letters as well.

Crime and Punishment, maybe, But I loved "The Idiot".

you read his work in both original and translation?

No, I don't actually. The book is only poetry. Do you recommend the letters? I'm a big Dickinson fan, and I'm interested! Any good compilations? (I had to search a while online to find the latest book of her poetry which wasn't in volumes...)



Ya, telling me! Reading that book is grueling. The only translated story I ever enjoyed was The Bet by Chekov, probably because it was short. I was thinking of reading Anna Katrina, but the amazon reviews said it wasn't translated well, so I skipped it. I guess I have to learn Russian before I can read any of these classics.

Dasvedanya.

sry abt the double post

Whats that?

The Death of Ivan Ilych works well in translation. I've never tried either War and Peace or Anna Karenina, though.

Currently reading The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: And Ninety Nine Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini, after reading an excerpt in the Guardian a few weeks ago.