This is a work in progress. I will add them as I think of them (and as I read them.) Also, I would like to add that just because a book is listed here, doesn't mean I agree with it. I'm just presenting a list of what I've read. I'm happy to discuss my views on any and all books! Agiokyprianites, Archimandrite Cyprian - Orthodoxy and the Ecumenical Movement Aslanidis, Demetrios & Monk Damascene - Apostle to Zaire: The Life & Legacy of Blessed Fr. Cosmas of Grigoriou Bercott, Daniel - Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up? Berinstain, Valerie - India & the Mughal Dynasty Birchall, Jonathan - Ultra Nippon Bogolepov, Alexander - Towards an American Orthodox Church Bolshakoff, Serge - Elder Melchizidek: Hermit of the Roslavl Forest Boosalis, Harry - Orthodox Spirituality According to St. Silouan the Athonite Buford, Bill - Among the Thugs Caner, Ergun Mehmet & Emir Fethi Caner - Unveiling Islam Cao, Lan - Monkey Bridge Carlton, Clark - The Faith Cavarnos, Constantine - The Concept of Christian Love Cavarnos, Constantine - St. Cosmas Aitolos Cavarnos, Constantine - St. Nektarios of Aegina Chekhov, Anton - The Duel Chesterton, G.K. - The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare Cho, John (editor) - Spam-ku: Tranquil Reflections of Luncheon Loaf Chomsky, Noam - The New Military Humanism Chow, Claire S. - Leaving Deep Water: Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures Clement, Olivier Conversations with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Cleopa of Romania, Elder - The Truth of Our Faith Cyprian of Oropos and Fili, Metropolitan - The World Council of Churches and the Interfaith Movement Dalrymple, William - From the Holy Mountain Damascene, Hieromonk - Not of This World: The Life & Teachings of Fr. Seraphim Rose Davidson, Kathy - 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan Degyansky, Father Daniel - Orthodox Christianity and the Spirit of Contemporary Ecumenism de Tocqueville, Alexis - Democracy in America DeLillo, Don - The Body Artist Didion, Joan - Fixed Ideas: America Since 9/11 Dragnich, Alex - Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia Drew, Bettina - Crossing the Expendable Landscape Endo, Shusaku - Deep River Endo, Shusaku - The Samurai Franklin, Peter - The Life of Mahler Gehr, Richard - The Phish Book Goad, Jim - The Redneck Manifesto Golder, F.A. - Father Herman: Alaska's Saint Gorman, Dave & Wallace, Danny - Are You Dave Gorman? Greene, Graham - The Quiet American Greene, Graham - The Power & the Glory Ha, Jin - In the Pond Harris, Daniel - Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic Haydon, Jeffrey - John Tavener: Glimpses of Paradise Hillier, Paul - Arvo Part Hornby, Nick - High Fidelity Hornby, Nick - How to be Good Horowitz, David - Hating Whitey & Other Progressive Causes Horowitz, Tony - Baghdad Without a Map Ivashkin, Alexander - Alfred Schnittke Jacobsen, Bernard - A Polish Renaissance John Chrysostom, St. - On Marriage & Family Life John of Damascus, St. - On the Divine Images Joseph the Hesychast - Monastic Wisdom Kafetzopolou, Aliki - The Purple Mantle Kalsi, Sewa Singh – A Simple Guide to Sikhism Kapuscinski, Ryszard - Shah of Shahs Karahasan, Dzevad, Sarajevo, Exodus of a City Kerr, Alex - Lost Japan Knowles, John - A Separate Peace Kurspahic, Kemal - As Long As Sarajevo Exists Lan, Cao - Monkey Bridge Lederer, William J. & Eugene Burdik - The Ugly American Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Yuan-Yuan – Chinese Musical Instruments Lewis, C.S. – The Abolition of Man Lewis, C.S. - The Four Loves Lewis, C.S. – Mere Christianity Lewis, C.S. – The Screwtape Letters Mander, Jerry - Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television Mango, Cyril (editor) - The Oxford History of Byzantium Marler, John & Andrew Wermouth - Youth of the Apocalypse Marushchak, Archdeacon Vasiliy - The Blessed Surgeon Massie, Robert – The Romanovs: The Final Chapter Maxomovitch, St. John - Orthodox Veneration of Mary, the Birthgiver of God Mehta, Gita – Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystical East Meyendorff, John - Vision of Unity Mishima, Yukio - The Sound of Waves Mishima, Yukio - Patriotism Mishima, Yukio - Spring Snow Mishima, Yukio - Runaway Horses Mishima, Yukio - The Temple of the Dawn Mishima, Yukio - The Decay of the Angel Mishima, Yukio - Sun and Steel Morgenthau, Henry – Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story Murakami, Harumi - Underground Nathan, John - Mishima: A Biography Oe, Kenzaburo - A Personal Matter Omvedt, Gail - Violence Against Women: New Movements and New Theories in India Orwell, George - Animal Farm Papadakis, Aristeides - The Christian East & the Rise of the Papacy Parenti, Michael - To Kill A Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia Prendergast, Mark - The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance: The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age Rashid, Ahmed - The Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia Rollins, Henry - Smile, You're Travelling Rose, Eugene - Nihlism: The Roots of Revolution in the Modern Age Rose, Fr. Seraphim - Orthodoxy & the Religion of the Future Rushby, Kevin - Eating the Flowers of Paradise: A Journey Through the Drug Fields of Ethiopia and Yemen Sakharov, Nicholas - I Love, Therefore I Am: The Theological Legacy of Archimandrite Sophrony Salinger, J.D. – Franny & Zooey Schaeffer, Francis - Art & the Bible Scott, Cathy - Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters Sederholm, Fr. Clement - Elder Anthony of Optina Sederholm, Fr. Clement - Elder Leonid of Optina Smith, Richard - Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe Speake, Graham - Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise Theroux, Paul - The Great Railway Bazaar Thornton, Fr. James - Wealth & Poverty in the Teachings of the Church Fathers Thubron, Colin - The Lost Heart of Asia Trifkovic, Serge - The Sword of the Prophet Veal, Michael E. - Fela: The Life & Times of an African Musical Icon Wertz, Joachim - Blessed Euphemia of Serbia Whelton, Michael - False Gods Williams, Benjamin & Anstall, Harold - Orthodox Worship Yamazaki, James - Children of the Atomic Bomb Yan, Mo - The Garlic Ballads Yannaras, Christos - The Church in Post-Communist Europe Yannoulatos, Archbishop Anastasios - Facing the World Zacharias, Ravi - Deliver Us From Evil Zamyatin, Yevgeny - We Zervakos, Philotheos, Fr. - Paternal Counsels, volume 2 Zograf, Aleksander - Bulletins From Serbia: Emails and Cartoon Strips From Beyond the Front Line
I've actually got several Tolstoy novels I want to start soon, they're just so friggin' huge. No, I haven't read any Dickens, and I've read plenty of Greek philosophers (both ancient & modern), I just haven't gotten around to putting them up yet. It is a "work in progress" after all
Sounds like you are a big reader then. I'm posting here because you said (on skipshady's board) you are virtually the only one who does here, so I decided to help out
it is quite interesting. he was one messed up dude. he was the son of a preacher that eventually got into polygamy, sorcery, drugs & magic and stuff like that. i find his music fascinating but i think he would've been a difficult person to be around.
I'm actually working on Inferno, but haven't finished it yet...so it hasn't made the "books I've read list." plus like I said, that list is a work in progress. I've ready many many more books in my life.
3stripe and I checked out a concert video of his from the library and laughed when we read the desciption on the back of the box..."A great stage performer who performs provacative dances with 15 of his wives..."
cool, the more i read that book, the more i discover what a nutter that guy was. married 27 women in a communal wedding. i can barely handle one, much less 27! that's just the tip of the iceberg though, he was really crazy. my favorte though is when he started referring to himself as "Double Fela" because he felt his music had come twice as far from where it started!
"Double Fela" hahaha. That cracks me up. I should see if my library has that book. Does the book go into his politics alot?
yeah, it spends a lot of time on that. he had three attempts at running for president of nigeria. the election commission always found one reason or another to disqualify him though. he also was arrested over 100 times and spent several years in jail. longest time actually spent was 18 months straight. if they don't have the book, let me know and i will mail it to you when i'm done.
Man that would be great if you canm mail it. I'll check the library this weekend, first though. The only Fela Cd's I have are beasts of no nation and black man (something but i can't remember what, its six songs ************..ah well) but i like em both alot...i gotta get some more of his stuff once i get more income...
two fela cds you've got to get are 'opposite people' and 'noise for venor mouth.' very awesome. easily the best two i've heard. i've heard about 10 cds of his...he's got like 100, but still those two are awesome.
I see you've read Hornby's How To Be Good. Did you enjoy it? I wanted to like it, especially after reading About A Boy but it just didn't do anything for me. The main character seemed to be the female version of all Hornby protagonist - except she was neither all that likeable or over the top self consumed.
It wasn't the best book I ever read, but there were parts of it I enjoyed. I enjoyed it more as a point of philosophical departure rather than a piece of entertainment. "How to be good" is such a huge topic. DJ Goodnews is just downright annoying as is her husband after a while. She's not much better though. I thought there was too much ambivalence for it to really make a strong impression on me. Perhaps that's what he was going for, but I've certainly enjoyed his other books more.
Don't you hate it when you come across some super huge error in a book? I'm about 20 pages from being finished with the Fela book and what do I read but, "The Nigerian government was riding a wave of public euphoria after the Golden Eagles won the World Cup in 1996." This book was written by a professor at Yale, don't you think they'd have a fact checker comb over that book? It's just about ruined the book for me. I got to thinking, well what about all the crap in here that I don't know whether it's true or not. That type of thing just really makes a book so suspect to me. Two factual errors in the same sentence!
I agree. I didn't enjoy the story but it did get me thinking about the subject. Ugh, Goodnews. I suppose he was supposed to be some quirky loveable goof. Didn't work at all. Not trying to be sarcastic at all, but I did enjoy the very last page where the family was fixing something or other in the rain. I can't remember what exactly it was about, but I do remember thinking "Ok, I guess this makes sense."
I thought it was okay, but largely forgettable as a whole (I didn't even remember the ending you mentioned.) Definately not one I'm recommending to others. I'm glad I didn't buy it either, I borrowed it from my brother, pvan4.
There was a lot of stuff that I didn't like about this book, but thayt character just sent it over the top for me. I haven't reccomended that book to anyone, and I am glad that I wasworking at Borders where you could check-out books when it came out. If I bought it I woulda been even more frustrated.
I've decided that I could never work at a music store or a book store. My entire paycheck would be gone. I have a hard enough time not spending all my money on those two things without having to constantly surround myself with them. Or do you just get jaded and it isn't a big deal after a while? That's cool that they would let you check out books. How did that work?