What book are you reading? #3

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shawnbm said:
It was my feeling Angels & Demons (which was written first and re-released to great fanfare after the success of The Da Vinci Code) was the better written of those two Dan Brown novels.
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It was a good book,i really liked it,but im disappointing with Dan cause he wrote his 3rd book (The Da Vinci Code) which was just a big lie. Otherwise i like his style.
 
on_the_hill said:
I just finished it. My daughter read Divergent and Insurgent. My wife read all three, (including Allegiant).

I didn’t care much for it. Suspension of disbelief can only go so far. I’m willing to believe in the dystopic world. The characters, however, don’t have superpowers, and without superpowers there’s no believable way they could survive jumping from trains, or the brutally way they beat each other. They’d all be dead within the first few chapters.

WARNING: The third book completely wrecks the story. For whatever reason, the author chose to crash the whole thing. 🤷 :mad: (my wife told me what happens, but only after I promised her that I really, really wanted to know).
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I’m reading the third book now and unless something changes significantly, I’m going to agree. I realize that the plodding along should be leading up to a “big finish” but I think I’ve figured out something about the end. I feel like the author delivered the spoiler. Meh.

And I agree with what you said about the physical stuff. Unrealistic. I just want to finish it before the film is released.

I also hope to get through it quickly so I can continue “We Need New Names” by NoViolet Bulawayo.
 
on_the_hill said:
I just finished it. My daughter read Divergent and Insurgent. My wife read all three, (including Allegiant).

I didn’t care much for it. Suspension of disbelief can only go so far. I’m willing to believe in the dystopic world. The characters, however, don’t have superpowers, and without superpowers there’s no believable way they could survive jumping from trains, or the brutally way they beat each other. They’d all be dead within the first few chapters.

WARNING: The third book completely wrecks the story. For whatever reason, the author chose to crash the whole thing. 🤷 :mad: (my wife told me what happens, but only after I promised her that I really, really wanted to know).
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Interesting perspective. I kind of liked it. I thought all the serums were a little much; however, I don’t think it is outside the realm of possibility in a post-apocalyptic world where people are recovering from catastrophic war.

That seems to be the main theme of the dystopia type books. A society emerges after a huge war. The society tries to control everyone. Young people rebel.

I just assumed the trains were not going that fast when the people jumped.

I agree that the third book was a let down.
 
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Just finished (for the third time!) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and have just started In Spite of the Gods - The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce.
 
I have been reading through The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Graehme to try and convince my children to give it a go. It is still a great read after all these years … Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger. Y’all remember? :rolleyes:
 
Aristotle’s Physics and Thomas Aquinas’ Commentary on the Physics.

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True Light (A Restoration Novel) by Terri Blackstock - it’s the third in a 4 book series. Gripping reading, all of them, so far.
 
just finished 2 books by o’reilly - Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy. i have Killing Jesus on hold for me at the library.

right now i am reading dan brown’s Inferno.
 
I just started reading: ‘33 Days to Morning Glory: A Do-It-Yourself Retreat In Preparation for Marian Consecration’ by Michael E. Gaitley:thumbsup:
 
‘The Lost Hero’ by Rick Riordan. I want to get ‘Planet of the Apes’ as well.
 
i am read Inferno by Dan Brown. so far i think it is his best one yet. hard to put down.

i finished the 2 o’reilly books killing lincoln and killing kennedy and am waiting for killing jesus to become available at the library.

i might have to read the divine comedy by dante after reading Inferno.
 
I’m reading The Fulfillment of All Desire by Ralph Martin at the moment. I saw it recommended on these forums a lot so finally bought it, and I’m very pleased so far.

I have been reading Lord of the Rings and the collected writings of Kierkegaard too, but they have been put on the backburner for now in favour of the above.

I’ve been thinking about Flannery O’Connor a lot recently too so I will revisit her soon, I feel.

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I started Henri Nouwen’s “The Only Necessary Thing” a couple days ago. It was a retirement gift from a dear friend, who is Protestant, and whose recently deceased husband was a minister. She is a dear and wonderful woman, and I love and value her friendship. So I’m really trying to get into this book. But I’m having a really hard time…can’t put my finger on the problem, but I can’t read more than a couple of pages and then realize my mind is “glazing” over.

I do a lot of spiritual reading…am confused why this is giving me such a hard time!! Maybe I just have a hard time with his style.

Oh well, I’ll keep plugging a few pages at a time and see if I get more open to it!

Two days ago I finished “Leonie, A Difficult Life” which was about one of the sisters of St. Therese. It was an interesting read.
 
shawnbm said:
I have been reading through The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Graehme to try and convince my children to give it a go. It is still a great read after all these years … Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger. Y’all remember? :rolleyes:
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I love that book! Have a beautiful old copy my sister gave me for Christmas several years ago. This would be good weather to pull it out again…it’s a cozy story!!
 
Pax2u said:
I started Henri Nouwen’s “The Only Necessary Thing” a couple days ago. It was a retirement gift from a dear friend, who is Protestant, and whose recently deceased husband was a minister. She is a dear and wonderful woman, and I love and value her friendship. So I’m really trying to get into this book. But I’m having a really hard time…can’t put my finger on the problem, but I can’t read more than a couple of pages and then realize my mind is “glazing” over.

I do a lot of spiritual reading…am confused why this is giving me such a hard time!! Maybe I just have a hard time with his style.

Oh well, I’ll keep plugging a few pages at a time and see if I get more open to it!

Two days ago I finished “Leonie, A Difficult Life” which was about one of the sisters of St. Therese. It was an interesting read.
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I priest I worked for 12 years ago (an Anglican one) thought highly of Henri Nouwen, I tried him, on this priest’s recommendation, and found it really tough going - I’m not sure, but I think I did not finish the book. Hope you have more success.

Currently reading “The Forgotten Child” by Lorhainne Eckhart - it sounded very different in the description and reviews on Amazon when I bought it. I’m disappointed in it and am really only finishing it so I can add my review, fortunately I have less than a quarter left to read; this is one time when I don’t mind seeing that the book is getting near to the end. 😉
 
Right now I’m reading Mary of Magdala by Margaret George. Obviously heavily fictional as we know so little about this Mary, but good so far. Enjoying the depictions of everyday life in those times, as well as the gathering of Jesus’ disciples at the beginning of his ministry (that’s as far as I’ve gotten in the story although it’s taken over a third of the book to get to that point).
 
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