Books!

[featherynscale]

Because it appeals to me to assist agrnmn in being instigative:

What to read? What to read? Annoy your friends! Feel guilty for not keeping up with all the knowledge and art in the world! Suggest two, one fiction, one non fiction! Give them a short tag.

(F) Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown - Pagans like it and Christians too. (from agrnmn)
(F) The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho - A pleasant little fairy tale about connecting to the divine. (from featherynscale)

(NF) Full House, Stephen Jay Gould - Life ain't about Humans, baby! (from agrnmn)
(NF) Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson - Break your brain. It's fun. (from featherynscale)

Comments

[skynock.livejournal.com]

(F)Good Omens- Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchet
(NF)The Art of War- by Samuel B. Griffith (Translator)and Sun-Tzu

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Good choices. Hey, skynock, I've pasted yours onto my iteration of the meme. You can visit if you like. -- Saff

[skynock.livejournal.com]

I just finished up Good Omens a week or so ago, that is just an amazing book.

Sure no problem. always good to meet someone new.

[agrnmn.livejournal.com]

Fine, fine choices!

[skynock.livejournal.com]

Had to go with some classics.

[delascabezas.livejournal.com]

(f)Foucalt's Pendulum, Umberto Eco - it is like Da Vinci code, but about 100x better
(n)Guns Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond - there is a reason it won so many bloody awards!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Foucalt's Pendulum, Umberto Eco

Oooh - yeah! That's a favorite of mine. I need to get around to reading some more Eco some time...

"baudolino" is his newest

[delascabezas.livejournal.com]

and a worthwhile read - there is always the classic "name of the rose" as well.

Re: "baudolino" is his newest

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I liked Name of the Rose a lot as well. Somewhere around the house there's a copy of The Island of the Day Before that belongs to one of the other house-denizens that I haven't gotten around to cracking yet, but someday.

Foucault's Pendulum

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I need to get around to finishing that book... after Illuminatus!, I think it'll be much easier.

Re: Foucault's Pendulum

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sure. After Illuminatus!, you won't even need a program to tell the players - you'll already know most of them, at least by name. ;)

Oh well that's disappointing.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Or are you speaking of organizations, rather than characters?

I just got through the "History of Atlantis" movie last night before bed; which of course required about 17 flip-backs to earlier comments...*sigh*

Re: Oh well that's disappointing.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

No, organizations, of course. I should have been more precise, but typing was interfering with my enjoyment of my hot and sour soup. Anyway, both are as much about the movements of organizations as the movements of individual characters, so *shrug*.

Anyway, don't get too involved with the history of Atlantis, you'll get several different versions of it before the end of the ride. (Yay!)

[digibri.livejournal.com]

I like that the ideas in "The DaVinci Code" are becoming mainstream, and I admit that there was a compelling nature to the book but frankly, I thought the plot and characters were flat. It felt much like a master's thesus wrapped in a quick plot. However, I'm glad I read it and I do recommend it to others.

I just read "The Alchemist" and bough about 3 copies as gifts this holiday season. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

I also recomment both "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn and "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior", two other books I've recently read.

I'm currently reading Foucalt's Pendulum, so far it's keen!

B.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It felt much like a master's thesus wrapped in a quick plot.
Not too many months ago, I read The Parrot's Theorem, which was very much the same - a lot of very interesting information on mathematical history, couched in a really really goofy story. I've heard a lot of good things about The DaVinci Code but haven't managed to pick it up yet.

Ishmael is also a fine book, although I liked The Story of B better. Quinn is fun for riffing on.

[digibri.livejournal.com]

Yeppers, I'm planning on reading all four in the series.

B.

Here's mine:

[hotokegi.livejournal.com]

(F) Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card - Coming of age and saving the world from aliens all at the same time. Kick ass.

(NF) The Moral Animal, Robert Wright - Evolutionary psychology is a *HELL* of a lot more interesting than one would think.

Re: Here's mine:

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Good calls. Ender's Game was my favorite at one time, and while I haven't read The Moral Animal yet, I really enjoyed his Non-Zero.