What are you currently reading?

[maryslittlegarden]

Dune

[Acolyte]

I have a bunch of things going...

The Ways of Mental Prayer by Vitalis Lehodey O.C.R.

St. Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle

The Naked Communist, by L. Cleon Skousen (Audible)

The Bible in a year.

That Lehodey is a good one !  I may read Interior Castle after I finish Lehodey's

[Kaesekopf]

Dune

I just finished Dune a week or so ago!

What do you think of it?  I had never read it before, and really enjoyed it. 

[BlueInGreen]

Audio book of Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

I'll then transition to Dietrich von Hildebrand's In Defense of Purity immediately. I hope to finish both by the end of October. For the month of November, St. Augustine's Confessions is waiting alongside Brenda Maddox's Rosalind Franklin: The Dark of Lady of DNA. 

[maryslittlegarden]

Dune

I just finished Dune a week or so ago!

What do you think of it?  I had never read it before, and really enjoyed it.

That was what prompted me to start it.  It's been on my "list" for a long long time. Good so far.

[red solo cup]

Audio book of Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

I'll then transition to Dietrich von Hildebrand's In Defense of Purity immediately. I hope to finish both by the end of October. For the month of November, St. Augustine's Confessions is waiting alongside Brenda Maddox's Rosalind Franklin: The Dark of Lady of DNA.

I like Larson. Dead Wake, Garden of the Beasts and Thunderstruck are all very good.

[Kaesekopf]

Dune

I just finished Dune a week or so ago!

What do you think of it?  I had never read it before, and really enjoyed it.

That was what prompted me to start it.  It's been on my "list" for a long long time. Good so far.

Oh, that's awesome.   I briefly scrolled to see if I mentioned it, I thought I didnt , then saw that I did. [emoji38].  I hope you enjoy it!  I don't really know what I expected from it, because I didn't know much about it, just that I kept running into it for whatever reason.  But yeah, I didn't find it a waste, I generally enjoyed the whole thing.  The main character was fun to watch develop from where he was to where he went. 

[Kaesekopf]

Audio book of Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

I'll then transition to Dietrich von Hildebrand's In Defense of Purity immediately. I hope to finish both by the end of October. For the month of November, St. Augustine's Confessions is waiting alongside Brenda Maddox's Rosalind Franklin: The Dark of Lady of DNA.

Read Devil in the White City ages ago, but I really liked it.  Drew me to pick up the Nazi Germany book, but I haven't read that one yet. 

[Bonaventure]

Little Sister, by Patricia Walsh Chadwick

[Kaesekopf]

I picked up "Starship Troopers" for $1 at a nearby library sale Friday.  About 160 pages into it.  Interesting book.  I'm not good at reviewing literature.  It has a nice way of telling the story.  Both matter-of-fact, but also somewhat personal. 

[red solo cup]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In high school English class, 1968, they gave us a choice. Gatsby, Return of the Native or Lord Jim. I chose Native. Been carrying around my sisters copy of Gatsby for 54 years and finally got around to reading it. A very good read but not what I would call great literature. All the main characters were shallow, selfish and ignorant. The only people with any decency or morality were bit players with no face or name.

[Bernadette]

The Story of a Soul, translated by John Clarke. It's my favorite translation, because it has more material than the others.

[Christina_S]

Just finished Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of An American Family by Robert Kolker. A fascinating look at a Catholic family of 12 kids in which 6 of the 10 boys had some form of schizophrenia.
Now on to Videocracy: How YouTube Is Changing the World . . . with Double Rainbows, Singing Foxes, and Other Trends We Can't Stop Watching by Kevin Alloca.

[Michael Wilson]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In high school English class, 1968, they gave us a choice. Gatsby, Return of the Native or Lord Jim. I chose Native. Been carrying around my sisters copy of Gatsby for 54 years and finally got around to reading it. A very good read but not what I would call great literature. All the main characters were shallow, selfish and ignorant. The only people with any decency or morality were bit players with no face or name.

I couldn't find any people with decency or morality in the book: Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Tom's girlfriend, her husband, the gambler, daisy's friend (the cheater). Who else? Mr. Fitzgerald's "hero" presumably is Nick; he is just as shallow as the people that he admires or criticizes; Gatsby is a crook who supposedly loves Daisy. Why does anybody love Daisy? Much less two people? I didn't like the story at all, and why Fitzgerald is considered a "great" writer is beyond me; maybe he wrote other stories?

[maryslittlegarden]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In high school English class, 1968, they gave us a choice. Gatsby, Return of the Native or Lord Jim. I chose Native. Been carrying around my sisters copy of Gatsby for 54 years and finally got around to reading it. A very good read but not what I would call great literature. All the main characters were shallow, selfish and ignorant. The only people with any decency or morality were bit players with no face or name.

I couldn't find any people with decency or morality in the book: Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Tom's girlfriend, her husband, the gambler, daisy's friend (the cheater). Who else? Mr. Fitzgerald's "hero" presumably is Nick; he is just as shallow as the people that he admires or criticizes; Gatsby is a crook who supposedly loves Daisy. Why does anybody love Daisy? Much less two people? I didn't like the story at all, and why Fitzgerald is considered a "great" writer is beyond me; maybe he wrote other stories?

Fitzgerald and Hemingway are both overrated authors in my opinion.  Which along with a $10 bill will get you a cup of coffee