OT: What Are You Reading?

I have just finished reading Preston&Child’s Cold Vengeance and am starting XO by Jeffery Deaver. I have many favorite authors but these are at the top of my list.

I see what you mean, and you said a mouthful, shikitohno. I don’t want to go into politcal discourse here, but just one thing I want to mention is that I thought Pol Pot was Cambodian.

You are absolutely correct.

Rereading: _ Aesop’s Fables _.

@Citra47 I remember that conversation. That was years ago! Shiki and I were both newbies here then. This thread has real staying power it seems.

Right now it’s Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian.  We’ll see if I can finish it this time.  In a few weeks I should have some vintage Dark Shadows reads to complete before fall semester begins.

Alhazred by Donald Tyson. Some people think that Tyson sugarcoated The Mad Arab and made him a (anti)hero in this book…I think they must be reading a different book.

@harlequin Book? they are talking about his personal life.

@bob sorry, but what do you mean exactly?

sugar coating mad arabs. That’s what he does with his free time. Now that I’am explaining it it ruins the joke. Oh well. :slight_smile:

The yoga sutras of Patanjali And also The shack

Rereading some of Sir Richard Burton’s translation of “The Arabian Nights.” In Victorian England, Burton’s translation was viewed as pornographic in some circles, but it’s the closest to the originals.

@bob ah, sorry. I can be a little slow when it comes to jokes sometimes. Also, reading over the Principia Discordia, or How I Found The Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her. By Malaclypse the Younger.

I finished up _A Game of Thrones_the Barned and Noble slipcase edition. I was hoping A Clash of Kings would be out soon in the same format, but I guess I have to keep waiting. So I went to the library to just get a temporary reader copy, but not suprisingly they are all checked out. So I picked up and began Democracy Matters by Cornel West instead.

Also, reading over the Principia Discordia, or How I Found The Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her. By Malaclypse the Younger.

Hail Eris!

My grandson insisted I read The Hunger Games…Not at all bad.

Terry Patchett’s Snuff

Robert Harris… Pompeii

Rereading some of Sir Richard Burton’s translation of “The Arabian Nights.” In Victorian England, Burton’s translation was viewed as pornographic in some circles, but it’s the closest to the originals.

He also translated the Kama Sutra. The man was the hero of heroes! Presently reading “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,” which sadly is confirming my opinion that we’ll never find his like again, or Captain SIr Richard’s; and also Stephen Jay Gould’s “Full House. The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin.”

Jerry Fodor, The Language of Thought

Rereading some of Sir Richard Burton’s translation of “The Arabian Nights.” In Victorian England, Burton’s translation was viewed as pornographic in some circles, but it’s the closest to the originals.

He also translated the Kama Sutra. The man was the hero of heroes! Presently reading “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,” which sadly is confirming my opinion that we’ll never find his like again, or Captain SIr Richard’s; and also Stephen Jay Gould’s “Full House. The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin.”

I love his translation of the Kama Sutra. It’s probably the best as far as I’ve seen. He definatily understood the tone. If you read his translation it’s obvious how scholarly the orginal was and how straight forward as well. Good read not really something that will teach an experienced person much, but the view point and tone is really what’s special about the Kama Sutra.