Official Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related (merged)

[egotisticalmoron]

started 'all the pretty horses' this morning. so far its awesome.

 

[therealUT]

I am 3/4 through Utopia by St. Thomas More. I has me thinking...why does everyone desire to live in an idealized "Utopian" society? Utopas' society, as first put forward by More, is interesting to say the least. Abundant slavery, forced euthanasia, death for adultery, curious marriage rites, etc., etc.

Can anyone else here, who has read this book, provide the apparent missing link between the original "Utopia" and the ideal it puts forth today?

 

[justingroves]

Also started on Dixieland Delight (five minutes ago, just finished the introduction). So far, pretty good. I enjoy this little gem:

It's a fun read.

Clay Travis is traveling with the UT football team now and writing a book about this season.

 

[MphsBlues]

I'm currently reading The Way of Innovation by Kaihan Krippendorf. He spoke at the same conference that I did in Orlando a few weeks ago and signed a copy for me. Very good read.

 

[egotisticalmoron]

havent had much time to read over the weekend, but i'm continuing all the pretty horses. it just keeps getting better.

 

[UTvol1fn]

havent had much time to read over the weekend, but i'm continuing all the pretty horses. it just keeps getting better.

Ego, quit trying to tell yourself that you can read

 

[egotisticalmoron]

i kan.

 

[BigPapaVol]

Just started the third and final book to Paolini's series that started with Eragon.

Interesting books. The final one is called Brisingr.

 

[vader]

I am just about to finish Faulkner's "Intruder in the Dust". I find his style of prose cumbersome and hard to follow. He is the king of the run on sentence.

 

[rexvol]

ever heard of "The God Code"?

 

[orangeblooded2]

ever heard of "The God Code"?

Yes, by Gregg Braden.

Kind of puts you in the mindset of a modern day
L Ron Hubbard.

 

[orangeblooded2]

1)The last days of Krypton.By Kevin J. Anderson


2)Star Trek Academy. by William Shatner

Where Kirk and Spock meet as teenagers.

 

[egotisticalmoron]

finished 'all the pretty horses'. starting 'no country for old men' today.

 

[7thgroupvolfan]

I'm reading "Flags of our Fathers"...good book

 

[Vol Mania 21]

I started reading "Living the Extraordinary Life" by Charles Stanley. it'll probably take me forever to get thru it bc i'll start it and quit for a month then pick it back up

 

[GASOUTHERNVOL]

I am 3/4 through Utopia by St. Thomas More. I has me thinking...why does everyone desire to live in an idealized "Utopian" society? Utopas' society, as first put forward by More, is interesting to say the least. Abundant slavery, forced euthanasia, death for adultery, curious marriage rites, etc., etc.

Can anyone else here, who has read this book, provide the apparent missing link between the original "Utopia" and the ideal it puts forth today?

did you know that uptopia means nowhere

 

[GASOUTHERNVOL]

I am reading the CRCT review guide

 

[therealUT]

did you know that uptopia means nowhere

Ou topas is Greek for "no place". Utopia did not exist in the English vernacular until St. (Sir at the time) Thomas More authored Utopia.

 

[TXA&M07]

"No Experience Required" by Coach Jackie Sherril.

 

[rexvol]

I started reading "Living the Extraordinary Life" by Charles Stanley. it'll probably take me forever to get thru it bc i'll start it and quit for a month then pick it back up

you should check out "The Life You Always Wanted" by Ortberg

 

[temat]

Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America

 

[Vol Mania 21]

you should check out "The Life You Always Wanted" by Ortberg

thanks, i'll check it out once i get done reading this

 

[tnvolsfan85]

I have read Something Borrowed and Something Blue by Emily Griffin... I have also read 90 minutes in Heaven. Best book besides my Bible I have ever read!

 

[egotisticalmoron]

just finished no country for old men. think i'm gonna go pick up 'child of God' tonight.

 

[utvolpj]

There is also a response to Nickel and Dimed in America. It is called Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the American Dream written by Adam Shepard. It will definitely be at the top of my list of books to read next.

read both Nickel & Dimed and Scratch Beginnings last week. Amazing how 2 people can view the same problem so differently. Also read 1984 again just because I had forgotten much of it from the last time (high school?)

I am now about halfway through John Adams by McCullough. So far it is an amazing book but I can't help but picture Paul Giamatti every time I think of Adams.