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 Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:26 pm
Yay! It's a book chat thread! Books talked about here don't have to be related to your Path at all... it can be just whatever you happen to be reading right now! So what ARE you reading right now? If you hear about something that sounds interesting, why not ask the person who brought up the book for some more details? You might find something you want to check out too!
I'll start off. One of the books I've been reading right now is one that called to me from the shelves many times, but I ignored it up until now. It's entitled "Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science" by Connie Barlow. The premise of the book is interesting. It takes a radical step (though Connie does not claim at all to be the first with this idea) towards creating meaningfulness through what science teaches us. Now, as we all should now, science itself does not encourage 'reading things into' theories and such in a more mystical and religious sense. Connie tackles that head on. Science can give new meaning to our lives and act as the base for a universal mythos common to humanity regardless of religion. Rather interesting ideas, ne?
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:22 am
That does sound interesting. I'm not really reading anything at the moment..
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:30 pm
I'm being FORCED to read Jane Austen and hating every moment of it. stare Stupid Pride and Prejudice....
For fun, however, I've just finished reading Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams and Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (both I highly recommend). I'm currently debating on a new "fun" read, but have tons of research I should be doing for my major research paper, so I suppose I really should be reading on the mechanics of fantasy literature and children's fantasy... sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:57 pm
I'm being forced to read Frankenstein. It's OK but boring none the less. >D I've also recently just finished a Sherlock Home short story. xD
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DragonicFlames Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:07 pm
Hmm... if I recall right, Frankenstein was the first major literary work to call attention to the dangers of science.
Looking at the world today it appears that call wasn't heard to well. sweatdrop
As a curious mind, I understand wanting to do neat stuff like engineer a bacterial genome from scratch, but I also understand the need to question the consequences that will come out of such research. Imagine of the developers of the H-bomb had done that?
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:17 am
Yeah, it did. But from what I understand about Science now, to make a Frankenstein monster would require an immediately dead body. And not a mixture of pieces. Due to blood type, skin type, and general rotting the body would have to be perfectly prestine.
I think the "frankenstein"'s of our day mixed in with chemical reaction is in the movies/games Resident Evil.
I personally would like to make a flying car/hover craft/hover board that eats away at the smog/runs on smog in the air.
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DragonicFlames Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:06 am
I've got a few books on the go:
Sense and Sensibility for school, as well as a few DH Lawrence short stories
Earth Power (or is it Path?) by Starhawk as well as the final novel in a trilogy I started years ago, The Dragon Nimbus.
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:27 pm
OMG EARTH PATH! I read one chapter, skimmed the rest, and it is among the few books in the New Age section I bought on the spot. But that book really speaks to me because it really hits close to what my own Path is: a real mix of the science and the mysticism of Nature. Good thing I didn't descriminate based on the author alone. I didn't really like her Spiral Dance, but this one... heart
So another book I'm reading right now is the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Practical Magic. I picked this one up at Half Price Books because of the names of one of the authors. Greenwood is a scholar in the field so I knew her material on the history would be a good reference. Good, thorough intro to all the major areas one should look into for the history of Witchcraft. And a heck of a lot more accessible than Hutton.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:22 am
Never heard of Earth Path before...
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:04 pm
Now I'm reading Eclipse by Ms. Meyer, I think it's written for pre-teen girls though. Because of the way it's written it just feels like it was made for a younger crowd, or at least a crowd who had a hard time comprehending what they were reading. Though I like the drama and action that occur in the book, I don't particularly like the not being on my mental level, you know?
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DragonicFlames Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:38 pm
I know what you mean about the mental level thing. I decided to download another one of those 'magical girl' shows and this one is just... bad. It's so bad I just have to make fun of it. There was an episode where one of the guys who is supposed to be the 'genius cliche' character made a comment about how in the swamp, what was attacking them couldn't be an animal because no animal could live out here since there was nothing to eat. All I could do was smack my forehead and point to the extremely rich vegetation everywhere on the screen. Because animals never eat plants you know. Never never! xd
New book. "Don't know much about: Mythology" the author is escaping me, but it should be searchable enough. Been very interesting so far. One thought that occured to me while looking at it was how much mythos of a culture is shaped by the land. Not surpising, really, given the Pagan Gods were primarily expressions of Nature in some form or another. But it was just very interesting to consider how the strong life-death mythos in Egypt likely originated from the very strong life-death boundary between the fertile nile valley and the lifeless desert further beyond it. Cultures without that stark landscape divide of life-death seem to have a bit less of an emphasis on this theme. The Egyptians were practically obsessed with it. whee
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 3:37 am
I loved Frankenstein (gothic romance = win). My favourite part was the Monster's first words: "You know, I anticipated this reaction."
But it's gotta be said, Lovecraft did it better. "Herbert West: Reanimator" is one of his best, in my opinion. Not strictly mythos, and mythos tends to be his most popular, but it's one of his creepiest.
I'm reading Wuthering Heights. I keep forgetting about it so it's buried under some clothing or something at the moment.
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Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:08 pm
I've been reading a number of things thanks to my English classes.
But, my "pleasure" reading right now is Timepiece by Richard Paul Evans.
I have also been slowly working through Essential Wicca by Paul Tuitean and Estelle Daniels.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:41 pm
As far as for school goes, I'm reading Frankenstein (by Mary Shelley). Its pretty good. Poe was definately inspired by her, but I think he's better.
As far as on my own goes, I'm reading, Wicca For Beginners (by Thea Sabin).
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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:53 pm
Wuthering Heights was hell. I hated that book too. It was annoyingly dry for a book with such a "dramatic" revenge story. It was boring and sucked out my soul. xD <3
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