What are you currently reading?

[Ken B]

Thar last book says it has a foreword by Victor Davis Hanson, who used to be a good classical scholar but has turned into a right wing hack. I would therefore Ibrahim's book is heavily biased against Islam, because Hanson certainly is.

Ibrahim is an apostate from Islam, and a convert to Christianity.  I have read a couple of his articles. They are indeed harsh in tone, and polemical, though seemed well researched. He criticizes Mohammed for his murder of Jews, which many Islamic apologists do not do.

I confess I dislike hearing criticism of a religion described as bias against it. All religions are demonstrably false.

[JBS]

Ibrahim is an apostate from Islam, and a convert to Christianity.  I have read a couple of his articles. They are indeed harsh in tone, and polemical, though seemed well researched. He criticizes Mohammed for his murder of Jews, which many Islamic apologists do not do.

I confess I dislike hearing criticism of a religion described as bias against it. All religions are demonstrably false.

Religions may be false, but God is very real. Dogmatic atheism is as false as dogmatic Christianity or dogmatic Islam.
I know about Muhammad's penchant for killing others, including Jews. Interestingly, he fits very well into Jewish teaching about prophecy, which takes into account that even valid prophets can be misled by their egos into becoming false prophets.

[Ken B]

Religions may be false, but God is very real. Dogmatic atheism is as false as dogmatic Christianity or dogmatic Islam.
I know about Muhammad's penchant for killing others, including Jews. Interestingly, he fits very well into Jewish teaching about prophecy, which takes into account that even valid prophets can be misled by their egos into becoming false prophets.

God is false too, but I just want to point out that is not what I claimed. I can prove all extant monotheistic religions are false. God is a different question. I freely confess I cannot prove Bal and Thor do not exist, only that there is no reason to believe they do. The only god who canbe proven not to exist is an all all knowing, all powerful, all good god. You know the kind I mean. 

[Daverz]

I'm not 100% certain Klingons actually get the concept of political correctness .

Trying telling a Klingon, oh, say "Kahless wasn't such a great warrior."  You may find out what is politically incorrect for a Klingon.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

More Sherlock Holmes. Blue Carbuncle.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

[Jo498]

More Sherlock Holmes. Blue Carbuncle.

you are a little early, that's a Christmas story, isn't it?

[Jaakko Keskinen]

You're right, it is. I just didn't know it before I started reading.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Religions may be false, but God is very real. Dogmatic atheism is as false as dogmatic Christianity or dogmatic Islam.
I know about Muhammad's penchant for killing others, including Jews. Interestingly, he fits very well into Jewish teaching about prophecy, which takes into account that even valid prophets can be misled by their egos into becoming false prophets.

Religions are true, all of them, they are a manifestation of biology. God is an invention.

[steve ridgway]

Religions are true, all of them, they are a manifestation of biology. God is an invention.

It's amazing what the clouds of hydrogen and helium atoms resulting from the Big Bang have produced over 13 billion years, so much diversity, complexity and beauty and even into the immaterial realms of music and ideas such as those religions with all their commentaries and embellishments .

[Artem]

In the last couple of months it's been mostly rereading for me. Finished Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and planning to finish rereading all the W.G.Sebald's books that I have. So far I'd finished After Nature, Vertigo and The Emigrants. He's one of my favourite writers and it's been a real pleasure to read him again.

[bwv 1080]

In the last couple of months it's been mostly rereading for me. Finished Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and planning to finish rereading all the W.G.Sebald's books that I have. So far I'd finished After Nature, Vertigo and The Emigrants. He's one of my favourite writers and it's been a real pleasure to read him again.

Been doing the same on the two audiobooks that are on audible - Austerlitz and The Emigrants

[bwv 1080]

nice collection of short stories focused on China in the 80s and 90s and the transition to the current state capitalist system and focused on ordinary people trying to make the best of their opportunities

[SimonNZ]

Finished:



Various things on the go:

[Ken B]

Finished:



Various things on the go:

Game, Set, Match are on my shelf, hoping to be re read soon. I read Jardine's Ingenious Pursuits, and it was pretty interesting.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

[Florestan]

Your literary taste is impeccable, good sir!

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Thanks! Enjoying the book so far.

[SimonNZ]

Game, Set, Match are on my shelf, hoping to be re read soon. I read Jardine's Ingenious Pursuits, and it was pretty interesting.

Berlin Game was even better than The Ipcress File, so I'll happily do all three of Game, Set and Match - and I learn that there are three trilogies involving this group of characters. Also that there was a tv series of GSM made in the 80s with Ian Holm that I was unaware of and want to track down.

[Ken B]

Berlin Game was even better than The Ipcress File, so I'll happily do all three of Game, Set and Match - and I learn that there are three trilogies involving this group of characters. Also that there was a tv series of GSM made in the 80s with Ian Holm that I was unaware of and want to track down.

Yes, a trilogy of trilogies. LD says they can be read in any order — which cost him much effort — but I read them long ago in order. There is also Winter, a family saga of WW2, in which earlier generations of Samsons and Renssalears appear.