What's The Last Book You've Read?

[Narada]

Republic of Thieves.

Third book in the Locke Lamora series.

[Narada]

Horns by Joe Hill.

[arep1632]

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

[Lord Superb]

Funny how reading great, memorable books can be both rewarding and problematic. On the one hand, it gives you a different sort of stimuli unlike any other and, in the process, raises your standards of what a superior book is like versus a mediocre or hyped-up one. On the other hand, it raises your standards so much that any other book might fail to satisfy you, and thus you miss out on what could be a great read in its own way.

The same trap almost happened to me a week ago in a bookstore, when I almost ignored a book I should have read a long time ago: Lord Foul's Bane, Book One in the trilogy The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Why did I almost not pick it up? Well, for one thing, the cover was predominated by an illustration of a gold ring, and it was first published in the '70s, and it is a fantasy book. It was easy to dismiss it as just another Tolkien copycat.

But, boy, was I wrong. I would include this in my list of some of the most original fantasy books ever written. It's an old book, yes, but originality will always stay fresh no matter where or what form you find it in.

The story centers around a writer who suddenly found himself afflicted with leprosy and who... Nope. I won't tell you more than what I just wrote because it's part of the story. One little caveat, though. The main protagonist is the most unlikely 'hero' to make a story around for.

Edited March 9, 2015 by Lord Superb

[shamrock8691]

idiots guide to kama sutra

[neville]

Meaning-based Translation by Mildred Larson

[Crassus]

Awkwards Moments
(Not Found on your Average) Children's Bible - By Horus Gilgamesh

[private_1st]

The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

Edited March 15, 2015 by private_1st

[FleurDeLune]

Re-reading AYN RAND's "The Virtue of Selfishness ( A New Concept of Egoism)"

(with additional articles by Nathaniel Branden)

 

The author discusses:

 

The ethics of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man’s life, the life proper to a rational being, as the standard of moral values – and regards altruism as incompatible with man’s nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.

 

The architect of this new ethics first expressed her challenging ideas in her bestselling novels “Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead”. In this collection of essays on ethics, she defines the Objectivist viewpoint on moral issues and on many problems such as: the validation of egoism; the evil of self-sacrifice; the nature of government; individual rights; racism; the psychology of socialism.

 

Objectivism has forged a revolution among today’s intellectuals. It stands in complete opposition to the political, social, and religious attitudes of our day. It is a challenging philosophy, a unique philosophy, a philosophy of and for our age.

Edited March 15, 2015 by FleurDeLune

[DyosangLigaw]

The Secret Life of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel... now on the last book of the series.

[dinibdib]

Think Rich Quick

[denimhead]

Communist Manifesto -Marx and Engels

[private_1st]

I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou

[Tenacious D]

Previously read: Kitchen Confidential (Anthony Bourdain)

Currently reading: It's not how GOOD you are, it's how GOOD you want to be. (Paul Arden)

[monsiflor]

Stardust by Neil Gaiman