I love books!
Books!
by dynamiterose77 24 Replies latest social entertainment
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bemused
Some of my favourite books:
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Have fun!
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Band on the Run
I am pleasantly surprised by all the members here who enjoy the classics.
I am reading a new book about Michael Rockefeller and the head hunter cannibals. Nightmares expected.
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Terry
First, read this. You'll thank me later! :)
http://keck.ucsf.edu/~craig/Mortimer_Adler_How_to_Read_a_Book.pdf
You know how medical and psychological research in pediatric medicine has demonstrated
a child who is not held, cuddled, spoken to and cherished will grow into a sullen, isolated and cold personality unable to express affection?
Well, something similar is true when you don't nourish your intellect by reading the great Literature.
Why?
Literature is the repository of the greatest minds who ever lived sharing profound insights into humanity.
We are nourished by the vast experience empathetically absorbed and sense of style, art and self-expression take root within us.
People who don't read can't spell or articulate a thought cogently.
Why do you think the NUMBER ONE FEAR is public speaking? Unless you've been exposed from an early age to organized thoughts
logically present with sense of purpose HOW WOULD YOU be able to get up and speak?
You are doing yourself a great favor.
One word of . . .well, not caution . . . but, friendly advice perhaps.
If you eat junk food you get obese and unhealthy. The same is true of your mind if you read junk.
GREAT WRITING doesn't have to be boring, but reading above your comfort level IS THE ONLY THING which will raise your bar of awareness and intelligence in understanding BIGGER THOUGHTS!
My I humbly suggest this?
Each great nation of the world has a master classic that everybody agrees is the epitome of all their literature.
Why not read each one of those?
In France it is LES MISERABLES, in Spain it is DON QUIXOTE, in Russia it is WAR AND PEACE, in England it is SHAKESPEARE
I have found these books to be READABLE by a modern person with but a little effort.
Have a dictionary handy and a pencil and paper to make notes.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
First Folio by William Shakespeare
The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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keyser soze
I just finished the Dark Tower series from Stephen King, and I'm almost finished with Wind Through the Keyhole.
I'm starting to get into a couple of other horror writers, namely Jack Ketchum and Peter Straub. I would've stayed away from this type of literature when I was a believing JW.
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James Brown
I've read most of Dawkins except his latest childrens book. I wait until they are used and cheap on Amazon.
Not just Dawkns but all books.
I read every day as part of my existtence.
Currently I am reading American sniper. Not a ladies book. Or really a good book. But its the autobiography
of the most lethal sniper in US military history. It is a little over a year old and I got it for 2$ on Amazon.
I have about 50 books lined up and waiting to be read with the list growning daily.
Next in line is Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara.
Then Transformer a biography of Lou Reed.
I have read a lot if not all Jack Kerouac.
He lived and died close to where I live here in St. Petersburgh Florida. I have driven by his home. Which is not a shrine.
Just a Florida bick ranch house in a 1950's florida neighborhood. He would walk to the St. Pete bars every night where
he got beat up and died in a downtown St. Pete hospital, St Anthonys, where my Daughter in law is a RN to this day.
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zebagain
'The Thief Fleet' x Talbot.
'Sherlock Holmes' x Conan Doyle
"The Odessa File"
and the Psalms.
In my early days in the 'truth' i was curious that some jw I visted never had any books in their homes. Some, no magazines not even a newspaper.
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new hope and happiness
Zeb .glad you like Holmes/ Doyle...interesting Professor Moriaty i believe was only ever mentiond by name twise. Doyle was more than a writter he was responsible for sailors and not only pilots wearing life jackets during the second world war.
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Nice_Dream
I always loved magical books, which of course were considered "bad." So the first books I really enjoyed after leaving the JWs was the Harry Potter series. They are fantastic! Next on my list is The Lord of the Ring trilogy.
I also like Kate Morton, Sarah Addison Allen, and Hugh Howey.
Hugh Howey has a cool series called "Wool" which is about a community of people who live in a silo underground. They have all these rules and one day someone tries to escape. It's really good!
I used to feel guilty about reading books instead of the JW literature...and now I just enjoy reading whatever I like!
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