what are you reading?

[ploverwing]

Just started Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury... I can't believe I've never read it before. Book censorship has been on my mind lately so I thought I'd give it a go...

I remember enjoying it in high school. It was a bit dated but the themes are still good and relevant. Same with Brave New World.

 

[Joyful Uke]

Just started Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury... I can't believe I've never read it before. Book censorship has been on my mind lately so I thought I'd give it a go..

I read it for the 1st time a couple years ago. I'm glad I did.

 

[Joyful Uke]

Books I currently have checked out from the library:
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner
London Fields by Martin Amis

I've started all 3, but need to settle in and focus on one at a time, I think.

 

[Tin Ear]

This forum ! LOL

 

[mikelz777]

I just finished This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti, a Christian novel I chose based on its reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. I was in the mood for some fiction and hoped that maybe I could possibly stir the soul at the same time. Sadly the book was just barely good enough to escape abandonment. I was doing a lot of skimming in the second half. Why does Christian fiction tend to be so bad? There was no subtlety or finesse but rather story elements that were delivered more like a hammer to the head. Things were so idealistic, simplistic, unrealistic and often awkward and clumsy. Things were so polar and black & white, lacking the many shades of gray in between. This book also contained the second book of what is a trilogy. As I barely made it through the first book so I won't be reading the second.

 

[bbkobabe]

Finished Fahrenheit 451... Yes it's a bit dated at times and feels like it was a rush job for sure. Bradbury talks about how, when writing it, he was too poor to afford a typewriter and so he rented one at the UCLA library to 10 cents per half hour. The book feels that way... as if he was running low on dimes. It races through the story to an improbable ending at a sprint.


He sure was right about the robot dogs though.


SO ironic: Today, a UU forum about offensive content was shut down for talking about: offensive content... How meta can you get!


Anyone care to join me for a toast and a shot of kerosene?

 

[joo]

I was reading The Noonday Demon - An Anatomy of Depression by Andrew Solomon 2 weeks ago.
Then I left it to read this book to my cat...

https://www.siajoohiang.com/2023/05/what-are-you-reading-today_25.html

 

[bbkobabe]

Read The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) by Howard Pyle. Pyle wrote and illustrated dozens of books with historical themes and some fiction as well. The language feels old but the stories are so good.

This was our state testing week here at my school, which leaves me free to sit around and read to two hours a day. Read both F451 and this book as my students labored.

 

[mikelz777]

I just finished In Good Faith by Scott Pratt. This is the 2nd book in the Joe Dillard series and my first book by author Pratt. This was a legal thriller and it was indeed thrilling from front to back and well written. I really enjoyed it! There are 10 books in the Joe Dillard series and I look forward to reading every one of them! Scott Pratt wrote other series and I will likely check them out as well. If you are into thrillers I recommend this book and this author.

 

[KevinV]

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Excellent book.

 

[mikelz777]

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Excellent book.

I want to get back to that book. I read it about half way through and then other things got in the way and I never finished it. I'll probably have to start it again from the beginning because it's been a while.

 

[kkimura]

Getting ready to put Jean Auel's "The Plains Of Passage" back on the book shelf. After two weeks I'm only 37 pages in which indicates that I have lost interest. Nothing I can point a finger at. Just not interested in reading more of it.
I'm thinking of donating it to a Free Library soon.

 

[KevinV]

I want to get back to that book. I read it about half way through and then other things got in the way and I never finished it. I'll probably have to start it again from the beginning because it's been a while.

I love the allegories in it. I had originally started reading it in a modern English version on my tablet and then bought the audio book to listen to in the shower. The audio was in the original English. I didn't realize it had been modernized and I much preferred what I was hearing over what I was reading so I found a used hard copy of the original English online and switched to reading that from the beginning. I'm close to the end now. There's a second book to that story that I'll read next.

 

[mikelz777]

I love the allegories in it. I had originally started reading it in a modern English version on my tablet and then bought the audio book to listen to in the shower. The audio was in the original English. I didn't realize it had been modernized and I much preferred what I was hearing over what I was reading so I found a used hard copy of the original English online and switched to reading that from the beginning. I'm close to the end now. There's a second book to that story that I'll read next.

I have a version in modern English, parts 1 & 2 and with the original illustrations. It also contains the Bible verses within the text rather than just the references. I too remember enjoying the allegories. It kind of reminded me of The Screwtape Letters, another one I'd like to re-read.

 

[KevinV]

I have a version in modern English, parts 1 & 2 and with the original illustrations. It also contains the Bible verses within the text rather than just the references. I too remember enjoying the allegories. It kind of reminded me of The Screwtape Letters, another one I'd like to re-read.

I've not read The Screwtape Letters but it's on my list. I saw a really good documentary on Lewis a little while back. I was just looking for the name of it and see Pure Flix has a movie about him called The Most Reluctant Convert that I need to watch.

 

[ploverwing]

Getting ready to put Jean Auel's "The Plains Of Passage" back on the book shelf. After two weeks I'm only 37 pages in which indicates that I have lost interest. Nothing I can point a finger at. Just not interested in reading more of it.
I'm thinking of donating it to a Free Library soon.

I really enjoyed The Clan of the Cave Bear, and The Valley of Horses, but then I found the stories just declined thereafter. I don't blame you for losing interest. I'm sure that someone else will enjoy it from the Free Library.

 

[Joyful Uke]

I'm almost done with The Beatles: The Authorized Biography by Hunter Davies. I bumped into via the library and realized I had never read it. It was more revealing that I expected from a book written in the 60s about The Beatles. Definitely more interesting that I thought it might be, for an older book, and a good light read for the holiday weekend.

 

[Nickie]

"Dorothy Must Die" by Danielle Page. Hard to put it down!

 

[Nickie]

Ploverwing,
I stopped after The Clan of the Cave Bear. Didn't see the need to go on. I did like it.

 

[ploverwing]

Ploverwing,
I stopped after The Clan of the Cave Bear. Didn't see the need to go on. I did like it.

You honestly didn't miss much. I liked a lot of the ethnobotany/primitive technologies stuff in both, but the first book was, in my opinion, the best story.