SHHH!!! Can you read? Want to prove it? Meet fellow book worms and discuss the literary brilliance of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:36 am

Wow... what a coincidence! I was going to go check that book out this week! That's crazy!

Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:25 pm

Igg wrote:Medea; The Bacchae and Hippolytus all by Euripides.


I am also reading

Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn
The Butterfly House by Marcia Preston
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:03 pm

Christopher wrote:I know the bhagavad gita, I tried to read it once but after 50 pages of 'You will not even be able to comprehend the smallest molecule of the sublime truth contained within these pages as a mortal human and een less so if you have not converted and devoted your life to Krishna' I stopped.


Christopher, I believe what you were reading was an interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita. That is, not just a translation of the exact words, but the author is adding his own words.

Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:04 pm

yvonne_l_d wrote:
Christopher wrote:I know the bhagavad gita, I tried to read it once but after 50 pages of 'You will not even be able to comprehend the smallest molecule of the sublime truth contained within these pages as a mortal human and een less so if you have not converted and devoted your life to Krishna' I stopped.


Christopher, I believe what you were reading was an interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita. That is, not just a translation of the exact words, but the author is adding his own words.


Oh, is that so? Then it isn't a coincidence... I was going to go get a translation.

Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:39 pm

yvonne_l_d wrote:
Christopher wrote:I know the bhagavad gita, I tried to read it once but after 50 pages of 'You will not even be able to comprehend the smallest molecule of the sublime truth contained within these pages as a mortal human and een less so if you have not converted and devoted your life to Krishna' I stopped.


Christopher, I believe what you were reading was an interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita. That is, not just a translation of the exact words, but the author is adding his own words.


Unfortunately I probably lack the ability to read Hindu or sanskrit or whatever it was originally written in and thus translations are necessary.

Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:38 pm

Vox by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. It's not as good as the other Edge Chronicles books so far, but then again, I'm not finished, so... :)

Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:26 am

Just started Shards, by Bruce Baugh, the first book of the Vampire: the Masquerade: Lasombra Trilogy. Pretty good so far.

Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:41 am

Introductry Quantum Mechanics - Fourth Edition by Liboff

A little of a tough read and some the pictures are to gruesome for human eyes. I am about a quarter of the way done.

Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:28 am

Skynetmain wrote:Introductry Quantum Mechanics - Fourth Edition by Liboff

A little of a tough read and some the pictures are to gruesome for human eyes. I am about a quarter of the way done.

I think I may have read that one... I can't be too sure, though...

Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:06 pm

Lets Get lost - Sarah Manning

This is like the.....4th time I've read it...

Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:08 pm

i do not read unless i am forced to... sorry, reading and me just dont mesh

Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:41 pm

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree by Peter Ackroyd

Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:44 pm

Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel.
For the third time. One chapter at a time, this time

Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:06 pm

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:11 pm

Brushing up on the Alex Rider books before Stormbreaker comes stateside.
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