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Zen is Eternal Life
but I stopped reading it...I love the philosophies of Buddhism but need something more relatable and fulfilling.

Trickle Up Poverty by Michael Savage
Theosophy: The Path of the Mystic by Katherine Tingley

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. God it's boring, I am sorely tempted to give it up.

That book is a showcase of all that is bad about serial writing. Dumas, or the conglomerate of hacks using the name, is dire.

I'm nearly finished Singularity Sky (interesting book - some odd ideas, but the writing isn't the best and the "Japanese torpedo boats!" bit made me wince.) Got a whole bunch of books rescued from a clear out at work to add to the pile of Le Carrés.

The Relic, Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child.

I wanted to re-read Machiavelli's The Prince (hadn't read it since Freshman College year in the sixties), and chose from the library catalog a Harvard Classics, The Five Foot Shelf of Books, vol. 36, which in addition to Machiavelli contains:

The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper

More's Utopia translated by Ralph Robinson

And several of Martin Luther's works:

The Ninety-Five Theses translated by R.S. Grignon.

Address To The Christian Nobility Of The German Nation Respecting The Reformation Of The Christian Estate translated by C. A. Bucheim.

and Concerning Christian Liberty translated by R. S. Grignon.

I am currently on p323 in Nobility; it runs from p276 to p352; only 74 more pages to go to finish reading the volume! Utopia gave the word to the English language, and it's very fanciful, pretty much a proposal for pure communism (the social, not the political variety).

I found More and Luther to be somewhat tedious reading, due primarily, I feel, to the era in which they were written (I found More more tedious than Luther). I suspect More and Luther were likely aspies, based on the attitudes and style revealed in their writing; religion would seem to have been one of the major professions for folks like ourselves in those times.

Regards, John

About to finally get around to reading The Trial by Kafka, and probably going to read Metamorphosis again with it.

To Hell and Back (autobiography of Audie Murphy)

Curious incident of a Dog in the Night. It's not bad. My first autism related book. The character is obviously much more autistic than I am. There's some things that I can relate to, and remind of problems I had as a child that I don't have anymore. It's a very quick read. I like the first half best. 3 Moogs out of 5.

"You Don't Look Like Anyone I know" by Heather Sellers
A Michio Kaku book, and books on maths and theoretical physics

"The Hidden Words" by Baha'u'llah - short poetic verses originally written in Persian and Arabic which express the universal spiritual truths uncovered by the mystics of all traditions

I love that book.


Currently reading: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. Historical novel about WW I. Not that great, only the Russian side is interesting and it gets the least attention. It's over 900 hundred pages and I already read 600 so might as well finish it.

Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett

Currently reading "The Greatest Show On Earth" by Richard Dawkins

well up to this point in my life, i wasn't a hardcore reader. but i think that is changing and i have found a desire now to read the classics. i have always been interested in the hype about Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. so im reading that ever so slowly when i have the time or make the time for it. i guess it means what has been working for me for my interests and distractions in life is starting to get old, and im getting old too. or im just maturing and want to become a reader now or something like that.