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Keesa · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 682 Location: Faerie

Oooh, I love these kinds of threads!

Unfortunately, I don't have much to add at this time...I'm mainly "reading" schoolbooks. One of my textbooks is good, though; it's The Shape of Sola Scriptura, by Keith Mathison. I'm less than a third of the way through it, due to its arriving late, but so far I've had a very good, in-depth look at the views that the early church and the apostolic fathers had on the relation of Scripture to Tradition, and even their definition of Tradition. I find it especially fascinating because one of my best friends is Eastern Orthodox, and so many of her beliefs on the canon are spoken of in this book, and in the studies I've been doing in the Doctrine of the Bible class that this book is part of.
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PaulMc · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 165 Location: Massachusetts, USA

I am currently reading another Warhammer book, Trollslayer by William King. It is a collection of the early tales of the dwarf Gotrek and his human companion, Felix the bard. I'm enjoying it a lot so far. Unlike the last Warhammer I read (The Konrad Saga) these stories don't feature alot of angst or mystery or manipulations by gods. Gotrek wants to die a heroic death, therefore he seeks out glorious battles. Dwarf arrives, dwarf kicks some goblin/troll/whatever butt. It does not read as formulaic as it sounds, actually, and I'm enjoying the direct nature of the tales.

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AlexP · Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 141 Location: Nashville, TN

I just finished reading The club of strange Trades, by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton is always delightful, so I can heartily recommend that one. I'm now reading The Face, by Jack Vance, which is the fourth book in the Demon Princes series. The society that Vance describes is distrubingly fascinating and the plot is less formulaic than the first three books in the series.

I'm also reading the second volume of a three-volume history of the Crusades by Steven Runciman. I must say that it's as good an adventure story as any work of fiction that was ever written. Heroes, villains, a heroic quest in the name of God, battles, betrayals, surprise plot twists...

Loriendil · Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 1788 Location: Dela-where USA

I just finished Bujold's Civil Campaign. Excellent writing, as always. Note -- although I recommend her writing, her ah, moral points of view are definitely not Scriptural and I wouldn't recommend them for children.

I'm currently reading Kathy Tyer's Firebird trilogy and also Zahn's Angelmass.
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Keesa · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 682 Location: Faerie

The Firebird Trilogy was pretty good, but I wasn't completely satisfied with the ending, myself...and her ideas seemed to come straight out of Star Wars! (She did write some Star Wars, so...)
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AmyR · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:08 am Post subject:

I LOVE the Firebird trilogy! I fell in love with Brennen way before Firebird did. Smile

She's a writer I would love to meet and just talk to and learn from. I have the first and third book; I got so excited when I saw them in Borders for the first time after being out of print for a few years.
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Loriendil · Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 1788 Location: Dela-where USA

terryweide · Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 373

I am rereading Stephen King's non-fiction book on the horror genre, Danse Macbre, as a Halloween reading for a local book discussion group. I've read it before, and along with The Stand, I find it to be one of King's best works. He does a good job of analyzing horror archetypes and why they scare us. Terry
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Raph · Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 55 Location: Minnesota

Right now I'm reading "Cold Fire" by Dean Koontz. It's a frustrating read for me, because while I like the storyline, his writing style drives me crazy (at least on this book, I've never read any of his other work). He's padded the prose with so much useless description that I find myself skimming some parts to get to the action.
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Keesa · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 682 Location: Faerie

Right now, I'm reading a collection of short stories to review for TSR. And, of course, my next project for Tangent (that would be the current issue of Deep Magic). But as soon as I finish the short stories, I get to start reading The Traveler. I'm really looking forward to that!
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Wade Ogletree · Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 40

I'm reading Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner.

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AlexP · Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 141 Location: Nashville, TN

I've just started reading Tristam Shandy, by Laurence Sterne. My mother recommended it as the best English-language novel of the seventeenth century. There's a movie version coming out soon, which has gotten very good reviews. Of course the movie Tristam Shandy isn't really about the book Tristam Shandy, for reasons that will be obvious to people who have read the book. Still, I figured l'd better read up on the literary side so that I'd understand what the movie fails to be about.
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Pixydust · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject:

I'm now reading book two of The Tawney Man trilogy Golden Fool, by Robin Hobb. Oh, she's one of my favorites! If any of you haven't read the Farseer Trilogy (Assassins Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and Assassin's Quest), it is a MUST. Fitz is one of my favorite characters. And Hobb continues his story in The Tawney Man books.
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