What are you reading?

[Words]

The Camel Club David Baldacci

 

[JennyFleck]

Against Interpretation, and Other Essays by Susan Sontag

 

[Words]

You read alot jenny i only read at night time or on holiday

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

'The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature'

author - Edward Brooke-Hitching

 

[Moriarty]

Against Interpretation, and Other Essays by Susan Sontag

So what was she to you, a put down or a power source

 

[JennyFleck]

So what was she to you, a put down or a power source

There are no facts, only interpretations.
She has a Voice with a capital V.

 

[Moriarty]

There are no facts, only interpretations.
She has a Voice with a capital V.

She also had an Opinion with a capital O

If there are no facts only interpretations, please tell me if I am, or you are alive.
Or are we simply Schrodinger's cats in a chat bubble.

Science is the study of knowledge, life is the study of the perceived world around us.
Many times they meet, but with regards to faith, belief and spirituality science denies it.
How can one disprove a faith be it spiritual, religious or ideological?

Well for my first point of call I would simply look at the death count these beliefs caused.
Which has taken more lives because people believe different things?
Spirituality.
Religion.
Ideology.
or Science.

Answer that and perhaps we can interpret what is good or not, or don't and realise that interpretation of those 4 beliefs have caused all the above suffering.

Faith is the word, faith in ideas, god, religion and even science.
How does one interpret that everything you think you know is wrong on some level according to someone else.

You cannot.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence.
I haven't actually started this famous book yet, It's sat on top of my writing desk waiting to be picked up. I've only read the publisher's dedication. -
'Penguin Books were prosecuted under the obscene publications act in 1960 at the Old Bailey for publishing this book written in 1928. The dedication is to the jurors who returned a Not Guilty verdict'.
I can't wait to get round to reading it...
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*Was heavy going at times but enjoyable for the most part. How innocent the world must have been in 1960 for this book to have been considered obscene...

 

[JennyFleck]

Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Kill Someone by Luke Smitherd

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Her Ladyship's Girl by Anwyn Moyle
A maid's life in 1930's London. It's supposed to be an autobiography, but after reading it I suspect some embellishment has been going on.
Whether fact or fiction, this book is fun to read and i would recommend it to anyone.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Saturday night and Sunday morning by Alan Sillitoe
I like Sillitoe's genuine, unromanticised stories of working-class life, but I was a little disappointed in this one that I've just finished. For me, this is one of those ones where the movie version is better than the book.

 

[JennyFleck]

The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

 

[Wren]

My ban with no reason but fuk off

 

[casiquaire]

My ban with no reason but fuk off

Whos that by? Can i get it from Waterstones or Amazon?

 

[casiquaire]

Not that im a god botherer but im really enjoying "Wild At Heart" Field Manual by John Eldredge

 

[BronzeSquirrel]

Joe Hill - N0S4A2 A cracking read that I didn't expect from the son of Stephen King.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga If you liked slumdog millionaire you will love this...

 

[JennyFleck]

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga If you liked slumdog millionaire you will love this...

I read this a few years ago and kept the book, so it must've been good! Haha

 

[JennyFleck]

Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury

The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies by Jared Diamond