I go to the Library and scan the shelves....I stand and look side to side, up and down and back......I check my watch and realize that I've been here ''too long'' and I still don't have a book.....so I pick one that 'looks good.' Some are great reads. Most, I get into and realise that I don't want to read them.......too this or too that.......never jude a book by it's cover....or, as I have found, by it's title. Some good suggestions have been The Stand by Stephen King.... it could happen....lol.... The Celestine Prophecy.... A Catcher in the Rye....(Rings way too true.......hey, i am what i am......)
So anyway... all genres are good.
My question is Have you read any good books lately??
Hey Mist,
I have a short book for you, available online
http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/RBACH/seagullengl.txt
Johnaton Livingston Seagull.......
One of my all time fav's, I think you would like it,
Jez
Great book. I love Stephen King's short stories, too. He wrote Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption, and also a wonderful novel called Bag Of Bones that I'd love to see made into a movie.
I love reading the improbable adventures of Dirk Pitt in the Clive Cussler novels.
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lol....two of my favorites.
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Lately I've also been rereading the Quaker writings, especially the journals of John Woolman. This last year I've been taking a new look at Joseph Campbell's wonderful set, The Masks of God; browsed through the Apostolic Fathers (IClement, the Shepherd of Hermas, etc); the Memoirs of Pius II; and most of all my books on cosmetic ingredients and herbal medicines.
So I do read serious stuff. Right now I'm in the middle of two Clive Cussler novels and a couple of trashy police novels.
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Great forum topic ... so I'd like to add Richard Bach's 'One' and 'Illusions'. Also a book written in the 70's(?) called Tracks by Robyn Davidson, about her solo trek across the Australian desert with her camels. Anything by Robert Fulgham is easy but interesting reading.
Hmmm, I'll have to check the bookshelf!
I've wanted to read Catcher in the Rye but havent as yet, has anyone else and if so what did you think of it?
love and joy
Debbie
i liked catcher in the rye. it's pretty pessemistic but there is something very ''real'' about it. i find that i am a catcher in the rye.....lost.....
when i was in highschool there was an uproar because it had been banned from high schools. supposedly because of homosexuality......but really it's because he says g/d every breath.....but if that was taken out of the book then it would dim the character developement. it's not an uplifting book......no great spirituality.....but it's a good one.
i liked it. lol
Catcher In The Rye came out when I was in Jr. High School (they call it Middle School now)...it was banned of course, so just having a copy in our locker was one of those delicious juvenile thrills....contraband!
I read it five times over the course of a year, because I hated it. Eh? I thought it was dumb, and I was trying to discover what everyone saw in it. I never did figure it out. That was 45 years ago...maybe I should reread it sometime.
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like i said.....no deep spirituality or inspiration......but i do like it....lol
How's about Nick Cook's "The Hunt for Zero Point - Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology" http://www.americanantigravity.com/nick-cook.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3975546396136405829
Chris
Oh, and "Journey into Nature" by Michael Roads http://www.amazon.com/Journey-into-Nature-Spiritual-Adventure/dp/0915811197
And for an electronic copy of "Peace Pilgrim" to read at your computer
http://www.peacepilgrim.com/book/index.htm
neat, thanks for adding links. i'm glad for all of the great suggestions and am looking foward to more.
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The Small Book of the Shadow by Bly and Booth
Ask and It Is Given by Abraham-Hicks
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey
Full Catastrophe Living and Coming to Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Parables of Kryon and The Journey Home by Lee Carroll
and more and more and more ......
Books - I can't get enough of them - I love them! I can't travel anywhere without at least 3 of them in my suitcase.
Thank you for starting this topic and everyone for sharing.
with love and light
Marian
www.leftydave.com
Greetings TT members
Here is a great place to read free ...most of the important literature on different religious texts...as well as many others...my two favorites are
Life and it's Mysteries
The Eternal Career
both by Frank Hammer....both located under New Thought catagory at Sacred-Texts....
if children were allowed to read these two books, their lives would be changed forever, as they give guidance about life...and death...and solves the mysteries related to same...or at least they give a novel approach that should be considered
I found them to be the best books I read last year...hope you do too....they only take a day to read....a day well spent !!!!
Blessings
lefty-dave