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« Reply #775 on: June 28, 2013, 06:19:23 AM »

World War Z by Max Brooks
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« Reply #776 on: July 01, 2013, 09:54:33 PM »

Physics for Future Presidents by Richard Mueller
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« Reply #777 on: July 03, 2013, 06:57:10 AM »

American Caesars by Neil Hamilton - I've done FDR Truman and Eisenhower.
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« Reply #778 on: July 04, 2013, 11:07:15 AM »

"My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell. Entertaining enough, but I won't read the sequels.
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« Reply #779 on: July 04, 2013, 11:21:32 AM »

I just finished Tolstoy's The Law of Love and The Law of Violence, one of the lesser examples of his elucidation of his own anarcho-pacifist Christianity.  still reading his last full length novel Resurrection, about 3/5 of the way through that.  I checked out from the local library his 'translation' of the Gospels, as well the three volumes of Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology, but haven't really started either.
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« Reply #780 on: July 04, 2013, 01:07:58 PM »

Finally reading A Game of Thrones.
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« Reply #781 on: July 04, 2013, 09:44:09 PM »

I finished George W. Bush's book "Decision Points", about two weeks ago. I started a biography about Laura Bush, but I have not had time to complete it as of yet.
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« Reply #782 on: July 04, 2013, 09:52:03 PM »

I ended up on Miguel de Unamuno's Tragic Sense of Life, of all things. So far, I've found a lot in it that I really like and some that I really don't.
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« Reply #783 on: July 04, 2013, 09:59:19 PM »

Finished Quiverfull by Kathryn Joyce, Unorthodox, by Deborah Feldman, and Doomsday Cult by John Lofland.
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« Reply #784 on: July 04, 2013, 10:47:19 PM »

I finished George W. Bush's book "Decision Points", about two weeks ago. I started a biography about Laura Bush, but I have not had time to complete it as of yet.

I literally have no idea how you could stand to do this.
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« Reply #785 on: July 05, 2013, 03:55:12 AM »

I finished George W. Bush's book "Decision Points", about two weeks ago. I started a biography about Laura Bush, but I have not had time to complete it as of yet.

I literally have no idea how you could stand to do this.

Rare moment of agreement from me.

I finished the Barnes which I ended up quite liking. Now I'm reading Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates. Really liking it so far but I'm only like 10% in. It's looooong.
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« Reply #786 on: July 07, 2013, 05:23:07 AM »

Crossreading Karl Kraus essays (god, that man could write. Why am I only reading him now?) and the Godfather.
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« Reply #787 on: July 08, 2013, 10:37:50 PM »

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
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« Reply #788 on: July 09, 2013, 09:04:51 PM »

Down the Highway-The Life of Bob Dylan-Howard Sounes.
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« Reply #789 on: July 20, 2013, 07:59:34 AM »

Just finished "The Paradiso", meaning I've completed the entire Divine Comedy.
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« Reply #790 on: July 20, 2013, 09:58:40 AM »

I'm dealing with Paul Preston's "The coming of the Spanish Civil War: reform, reaction, and revolution in the Second Republic". Basically it's focused on the parallel evolution of the Spanish socialism (PSOE-UGT) and the catholic right (CEDA) during the II Republic (1931-1936).

http://books1.scholarsportal.info/viewdoc.html?id=552134
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« Reply #791 on: July 20, 2013, 09:32:43 PM »

I'm reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.  It's fairly interesting so far, and I need to read it before American Lit starts in the fall, so hopefully it will stay interesting. 
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« Reply #792 on: July 23, 2013, 12:21:13 PM »

it may come as a surprise to comrades here that I am reading Whittaker Chambers' Witness, and enjoying it.
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« Reply #793 on: July 23, 2013, 12:26:42 PM »

Marx: A Brief Insight by Peter Singer.
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« Reply #794 on: July 25, 2013, 11:14:55 AM »



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« Reply #795 on: July 31, 2013, 05:28:22 PM »

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« Reply #796 on: August 02, 2013, 07:46:16 AM »
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I finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn yesterday. I had it in my head that it was a children's book (probably because I was a child when I first read it), but it turned out to be a quite enjoyable (and, at times, quite mature) novel. I was also thrilled to be able to familiarize myself with some authentic Missouri dialect.
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« Reply #797 on: August 02, 2013, 08:19:21 AM »
« Edited: August 02, 2013, 09:42:44 AM by Scott »

I have to say, the more I read into this Zealot book, the less confidence I have in it.  It's not because of the author himself, who was given unfair treatment by Fox News (though he apparently has inflated his academic credentials somewhat), but his misinterpretations of scripture and the frequent errors he's apparently making make me question whether I should continue reading it.  I've been struggling to find a book about the historical Jesus that doesn't have all these 'ifs' and 'buts' attached to it, but this doesn't appear to be that book.  I ordered John Dominic Crossan's The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, which is viewed more favorably by the progressive Christian community, yet even that book has caused quite a stir and I'm left wondering if there is any text, other than the New Testament, that can give me a clear picture of Jesus' life.

Then again, I haven't delved much into Karen Armstrong's book yet, which I hope will give me some information about Jesus that the Bible does not.  But it probably won't.
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« Reply #798 on: August 03, 2013, 05:08:02 AM »

I'm left wondering if there is any text, other than the New Testament, that can give me a clear picture of Jesus' life.
How could there possibly be? He lived a life of perfect obscurity. (And you can quite leave the supplementary clause out. It is and must remain our primary source, but it's hardly an unbiased account or one that was written with modern audience's knowledge horizon in mind.)
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« Reply #799 on: August 03, 2013, 09:07:23 AM »

Scott maybe you'd like to try http://www.amazon.com/Familiar-Stranger-Introduction-Jesus-Nazareth/dp/0802826806
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