What are you currently reading?

[timkona]

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Finished (finally) the Lombardi biography. Title of the book was "When Pride Still Mattered". What a fitting title in this day and age ala the St Louis thread, and the erosion of discipline as per a certain side of the political coin.

Now I'm going back to finishing the Belichek biography. Only 20 pages left.

[Albert]

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Meanwhile, I again would also like to know, What are you currently reading?

Grief. It has been so long since I last finished a book. There are six languishing on a table in my room right now with Garrison Keillor's "Pontoon" about half finished.

I blush to admit that I have become an utter addict of the Game Boy. [Yep, blush].

[salmoned]

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Just finished 'My Ishmael' by D. Quinn. Loads of fun. Quinn presents an interesting take on prehistory as guidance for the future.

[Leo Lakio]

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I'm halfway through "May It Please The Court" - transcripts of oral arguments in landmark cases before the Supreme Court. (I was doing post-production on the tapes that accompany the book, and got drawn in.)

[Adri]

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Just finished Her Last Death

http://www.amazon.com/Her-Last-Death...7359670&sr=1-1

Not a comfortable book to read but I think it was well written.

Now I am reading The Death of Vishnu

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Vishnu-N...7359732&sr=1-1

I enjoy the way people and events are described in this book. Not that everything is beautiful but the descriptions ring true and I can easily imagine what's being described in the book.

[T. M. Kawika]

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I'm currently reading Hawaii's Story By Hawaii's Queen

[achow]

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I am currently reading three books that I borrowed from Honolulu Community College, there are Hawaiian Folklores.

• One Paddle, Two Paddle: Hawaiian Teenage Mystery and Suspense Stories by Miriam E. Rappolt
• The Legend of Lai'eikawai by Dietrich Varez
• Talking Story with Nona Beamer: Stories of a Hawaiian Family by Winona Desha Beamer

[Jim75]

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Likewise. I doubted he(Murray) could pull it off. But as it turned out, I really liked what his comedic sensibility brought to the part.

Are you by chance a Herman Hesse fan as well?

I'm a huge Herman Hesse fan. Steppenwolf; Siddhartha; The Glass Bead Game; Narcissus and Goldmund; Beneath the Wheel; Damien

I've got a dvd of the movie Steppenwolf with Max Von Sydow as Haller. I think they did an exceptional job. I understand there's apparently a respectable film version of Siddhartha, too. I know it's a hair off-topic, but has anyone seen it?

[sinjin]

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I'm a huge Herman Hesse fan. Steppenwolf; Siddhartha; The Glass Bead Game; Narcissus and Goldmund; Beneath the Wheel; Damien

I've got a dvd of the movie Steppenwolf with Max Von Sydow as Haller. I think they did an exceptional job. I understand there's apparently a respectable film version of Siddhartha, too. I know it's a hair off-topic, but has anyone seen it?

I just finished "The Glass Bead Game" a couple of days ago. I think I saw "Siddhartha" some years ago. May have to rewatch. FWIW I think "Narcissus and Goldmund" to be his best novel.

While we're at it, do you know Kahlil Gibran?

http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Heart-.../dp/080650062X

This is one of my all-time favorite books.

[Jim75]

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I just finished "The Glass Bead Game" a couple of days ago. I think I saw "Siddhartha" some years ago. May have to rewatch. FWIW I think "Narcissus and Goldmund" to be his best novel.

While we're at it, do you know Kahlil Gibran?

http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Heart-.../dp/080650062X

This is one of my all-time favorite books.

I've read Gibran's 'The Prophet' about 3 times and it's one of my favorites. Amazingly, I hadn't even thought about what other books he might have written. I'll have to check it out.

[salmoned]

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I find 'Narcissus and Goldmund' to be among his least successful efforts. The storyline/message is good, but it drags in a repetitive fashion and has literary shortcomings (I thought better of it when teen-aged).

[Kleo]

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I am currently reading "The Other Boleyn Girl", I have watched a movie and I liked it so much-I decided to read a book! It's great! I love history based books!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467200/

[timkona]

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Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbook

A collection of snippets and quotes from his lifetime of reading condensed into a single book. I will start to use some of them in my signature.

[Sharilyn]

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I just started reading Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown.

[Pua'i Mana'o]

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A Nation of Wimps: the High Cost of Invasive Parenting

brilliant book.