So, watcha' reading?

[Scatter]

I agree with you Scatter, the Theology is at best, a little shaky.  And that is giving it a lot of credit.  Kind of like the theology contained in Dan Burnstien's "The Da Vinci Code".  I think that is what makes the study of Theology so interesting.  Trying to see where the other person is comming from.

Agreed. I went all Augustine vs Pelagius (or was it Luther vs Erasmus??) with a few folks on a theology site I used to frequent a few years back concerning this book.


   

I almost forgot, I am also reading "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer".

Now THAT one has me intrigued!!

[Uncula]

Now THAT one has me intrigued!!

I like it, especially because it starts when Lincoln as a boy in the Great "Hoosier" State, Indiana!

[Moonshadow]

Yeah, it's really cool - my daughter picked it up for a couple of bucks & knew I'd be into it.  It was published in '64 or somewhere around then.  There are references to UFO's, ghosts, premonitions, bigfoot, etc. long before such topics were so mainstream.

I had this copy - the cover alone freaked me out!



Edwards also wrote another good UFO book called "Flying Saucers Serious Business". Read it many times as a youngster. I bet you'd like that one too UP.

Another author you might dig is John Keel. He wrote the Mothman Prophecies (way better than that movie with Richard Gere), and my favorite, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse. He had some really different ideas about the UFO phenomenon.

[Unknown Primate]

I've been wanting to read some Keel (1930-2009) for a few years now.  Might have to pick up a book or two.  Love this stuff!  My Strange World book cover (actually, my daughter's) doesn't have any cool images, just lettering .

[Elisabeth]

The Biography of Irving Thalberg, by Mark Viera.

Very nice.
Elisabeth 

[Scatter]

The Biography of Irving Thalberg, by Mark Viera.

Very nice.
Elisabeth 

Elisabeth, I'm going to have to pick that one up. Have you read the Bio of Louis B Mayer "Lion Of Hollywood"?? It gives a better view into the complex relationship between Mayer and Thalberg than anything else I've read thusfar.

[Jscareshock]

The RIchard SHarpe series by Bernard Cornwall.

[typhooforme]

Aldous Huxley's short stories and THE SCARLET TREE by Sir Osbert Sitwell.  I'm vacationing in the early 20th Century for the holidays.

[Street Worm]

Rereading every Silver Surfer comic
in chronological order~

[Monster Kid]

Ohm, I have that John Edwards book!  I was one of those nutty little kids who liked scary and supposedly true stories of ghosts and mysteries.  They would creep me out every time but I re-read them anyway.  One of my favorites was the one about the sailors who drowned and yet turned up on photographs taken much later at sea.

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

Max Brand "Sawdust & Sixguns"

[Moonshadow]

I'm trying to get interested in Boneshaker by Cherie Priest but I'm a third of the way in and it just isn't doing much for me. It was well reviewed- and even has zombies - but I'm not feeling it. 

I'm also reading Apocalypse Movies by Kim Newman, which I'm enjoying, but it doesn't have a lot of depth to it.

[Unknown Primate]

Just finishing up Strange World and plan to continue the "high strangeness" with John Keel's The Eighth Tower later tonight.  The wind-chill outside right now is around minus 5 and I can hear it howling like a tortured banshee.  Perfect night for some weird reading.  Special thanks to Moonshadow herself - that's you, Karen!

[Fester]

A little while ago, I finished The Burning Land By Bernard Cornwell.  Part 5 of his Saxon Tales series.  Pretty good.  Recently read Agincourt by the same author.  I liked his Sharpe series, but I'm more of a maile and broadsword kinda guy.

[Moonshadow]

Just finishing up Strange World and plan to continue the "high strangeness" with John Keel's The Eighth Tower later tonight.  The wind-chill outside right now is around minus 5 and I can hear it howling like a tortured banshee.  Perfect night for some weird reading.  Special thanks to Moonshadow herself - that's you, Karen!

My pleasure, UP. Just watch out - when you start reading this stuff, you may find strange things begin happening...