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Just thought I'd start a new string...sooo, what is everybody reading these days?
Me? Ok, since you asked...
"Going To Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness" by Mark Epstein, MD
"Queer Dhamma: Voices of Gay Buddhism" edited by Winston Leyland
"We've had A Hundred years of Psychotherapy And The World's Getting Worse" by James Hillman and Michael Ventura (ANYTHING by Hillman is worth a read..."The Soul's Code" "Re-Visioning Psychology" etc. etc.
Vital Lies, Simple Truths: THe Psychology of Self-Deception" by Daniel Goleman (same guy who wrote "Emotional Intelligence"
More please...oh...btw, I'm also reading "Scout's Honor" about sexual abuse of boys in, obviously, the Boy Scouts...
and lest you think I don't relax when I read, also finishing up a Tom Clancey novel about President Jack Ryan helping Russia win a war against China...hehehe
Should I stop reading and start writing on one of my story projects now?? LOL
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Steve
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Location: London, England
Registered: November 2006
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One day recently I had a great need to relax - which means most urgently to cease reading for a while professional drivv... - er, literature. I picked up a book from my daughter's bookshelf. It was the first of the "Homecoming" saga by Orson Scott Card. In a short time I have read all five of that saga, progressed to "Ender's Game" and I have just finished "Speaker for the Dead". I'm raring to get on with the next one. It's not because it's SciFi (which doesn't usually stir my soul), but because it's good literature. And now, back to professional drivv... er, literature.
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If you want to read just ONE sci-fi book ever in your life, make sure it's this one. Really top-notch stuff. But don't peek on the cover, the copy I got gives away everything (almost), and that will ruin the sense of wonder for you. Fortunately, I had read the book before in my native language before getting the English version so I was immune to it.
I can also recommend the Night's Dawn Trilogy, by Peter F. Hamilton.
-Lenny
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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