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Fiction or non-fiction? What's on your bedside table?

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When You Are Engulfed In Flames

David Sedaris

By justintymeAugust 22, 2008 - 7:35pm

Fiction. I need escape from

Fiction. I need escape from the real world in order to get to sleep at night.
I like science fiction. CJ Cherryh, Orson Scott Card, Greg Bear among others.

Mysteries of all kinds except the ones written around a romance novel (Yuck. Formula writing).

This summer I read a lot of Amy Tan and Margaret Atwood. I read a couple of pretty good novels by Elizabeth Moon: The Speed of Darkness and Remnant Population.

I have a tendency to read several books at one time. I'll have a book going in the living room and one in the bedroom. In summer I'll have a book going in the kitchen too. Magazines in the bathroom.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower

By MichtouAugust 22, 2008 - 7:36pm

Bedside table??

Allow me to recommend a fictional tale by Dean Koontz. It's called "Dark Rivers Of The Heart".

A great thriller...could it happen today? Might it be happening now?

By roadgoddessAugust 22, 2008 - 7:39pm

My preference is fiction

but currently I'm reading The Innocent Man by John Grisham

I didn't realize it was nonfiction when I plucked it off the rack at the airport bookshop.

By gt6August 22, 2008 - 7:59pm

Bush = Vomit

Random non-sequiter...

During a 1992 state dinner, President George H. W. Bush, ill with the flu, lost his lunch in the lap of the Japanese prime minister. Oddly enough, Bush’s faux pas coined a slang word, bushusuru, which translates as “to do the Bush thing,” meaning “to vomit.”

http://www.mentalfloss.com/amazingfactgenerator/?p=109

-- McCain = Four more years of the same --

By dtaylo75August 22, 2008 - 8:58pm

The Holy Qur'an

I'm trying to figure out which it is.

By richaduAugust 22, 2008 - 10:41pm

It's like the Holy Bible. In

It's like the Holy Bible. In fact, many of the stories are the same.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower

By MichtouAugust 22, 2008 - 10:51pm

By MichtouAugust 22, 2008 - 10:51pm

Does the Qur'an have teachings about - many parts/ONE BODY?

Just a thought thats been on my mind lately.

By wmt62August 22, 2008 - 10:57pm

I don't remember anything

I don't remember anything like that, but it's been awhile since I've read it, and I don't know what translation you've got. Or perhaps that's how someone interpreted what was written.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower

By MichtouAugust 22, 2008 - 10:59pm

thanks

I don't have any translations but the appearance of many parts and the reality of ONE MIND is the spiritual awareness that i've been coming aware of that sparks this interest. I'll have to seek more.

It was the basis of my comment about EQUALITY that was made the other day.
Being created equal is a mental awareness we must be vigilance for in our hearts and minds and must always seek with all men.

http://www.acim.org/

By wmt62August 22, 2008 - 11:27pm

It depends on your definition of "same."

I just finished Chapter 28 "The Narrative" wherein I am now informed that the story of Moses was in fact a prophecy of Muhammad's (pbuh) coming.

By richaduAugust 23, 2008 - 12:14am

By richaduAugust 23, 2008 - 12:14am

What translation are you reading?

Support the Troops.
End the Occupation.

By Guy FawkesAugust 23, 2008 - 12:22am

On Barnes and Noble.com

If you search, it is number four, the green book by Maulana Muhhamad Ali. ISBN-13:9780913321010

By richaduAugust 23, 2008 - 1:47am

On the table

David Hedgecoe's Photographer's Handbook and O'Reilly's Programming in Perl.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

By nonexistent manAugust 23, 2008 - 4:02am

Non-Fiction!

There's always another history book to read. Sometimes I need a break and will read fiction to escape (about 5-10%).

Currently on my table?
"The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939" by Anthony Beevor.

On deck?
"Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001" by Steve Coll; and

"Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism" by Eric Hobsbawm.

By ExpatinEUAugust 23, 2008 - 4:53am

Good nonfiction

Ever read any of Jared Diamond's work? Guns, Germs and Steel was one of my Western Civ texts.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

By nonexistent manAugust 23, 2008 - 5:37am

Guns, Germs and Steel...

... I'm reading that now. I'm like Michtou; I have two or three books going at one time. I am also reading "Free Lunch" by David Cay Johnson. I just finished "The Wind Up Bird Chronicles" by Haruki Murakami ( this was a re-read, as I had read it a few years ago. It was that good! ).

Anything by E.L. Doctorow. It's artistry in words!

By othelloAugust 23, 2008 - 9:16am

Hey Expatin EU

Small world. I am currently reading "Revolution and Counter- Revolution in Spain" by Felix Morrow. Let me know how the Beevor book reads.
Bedside? " State and Revolution" by V.I. Lenin. " Beyond Good And Evil" by F. Nietzche. And of course " The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and F. Engels.

By thaelmann37August 23, 2008 - 11:26am

Ya gotta read it...

It's under sci-fi (a genre that I don't particularly like). It was written several years ago, but it very scarily parallels today's technology and government. Not only that, the story line is hella-entertaining.

Dark Rivers Of The Heart

Dean Koontz

By roadgoddessAugust 23, 2008 - 5:52am

What's on your bedside table?

My bed is by my sliding glass door which opens to the balcony overlooking some woods and the golf course. The woods have been littered by me with bird feeders. And right now the table beside the bed holds Birds of New Jersey Field Guide, paperback edition.

Boring, perhaps. But I just picked up birding.
____________________
"We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace."
"Power to the peaceful..." --Franti

By SJerseyIndyAugust 23, 2008 - 9:47am

"Boring, perhaps. But I just picked up birding".

NOT boring at all! I've been bird watching for years. It is a most enjoyable and relaxing pastime. Are you familiar with the backyard bird counts and feeder counts conducted through Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology?

Be a 'citizen scientist'
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/

By othelloAugust 23, 2008 - 10:13am

By othello August 23, 2008 - 10:13am

It is a most enjoyable and relaxing pastime.
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Agreed. It was something I had absolutely no interest in at all, until a friend turned me on to it.
I had gone on a hiking trip in the Catskills recently, and was woken every morning by the sound of a woodpecker going to town. Eventually, I decided to set out to see if I could locate it, and I did. Trying my best to snap pictures of it (I'm a beginning beginner, teehee), I managed to bring back a set of pics that my buddy was able to use to identify the bird: a pileated woodpecker.
He proceeded to tell me that pileated woodpeckers had been declining in population with deforestation, and my find was a rare one for someone entirely uninterested in birding.
I've been hooked since.

Are you familiar with the backyard bird counts and feeder counts conducted through Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology?
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Just getting into the whole briding thing, no. But thanks for the linky!
I'll be making myself more familiar with them in the coming day(s)!
:)=
____________________
"We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace."
"Power to the peaceful..." --Franti

By SJerseyIndyAugust 23, 2008 - 10:45am

By SJerseyIndy August 23, 2008 - 10:45am

"a pileated woodpecker".

I have yet to see a pileated woodpecker, they are quite rare. It is amazing how rapidly woodpeckers drill a tree, a beautiful sound! ( unless some woodpecker decides the wood siding on your house is a 'tree' :~) ) Enjoy yourself, I do.

Oh, by the way.... your glass bedroom door sounds like a good spot to put a hummingbird feeder or two... amazing acrobats!

By othelloAugust 23, 2008 - 2:51pm

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