lagrevegenerale Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Hello, I come to this forum to inform myself of good reads and to become part of the community! About me: I only started having an interest in reading last year (at the age of 22). So that probably makes me a late starter. I do enjoy reading now and have had quite a bit of time to read. I have now read the following: Lynne Truss Eats, Shoots and Leaves Wodehouse The Empress Heavy Weather Something Fresh J Coetzee Boyhood Youth Summertime E Childers Riddle of the Sands R Dawkins The God Delusion Andrew Marr The Diamond Queen Richard Popkin, Avrum Stroll Philosophy Jeremy Paxman The English Evelyn Waugh The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Henry Miller The Colossus of Maroussi Wayne Ellwood The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization Homer The Iliad Rita Carter Mapping the Mind David Lambert The Solar System Bill Purves China on the Lam The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness: World War I Quite a mix. I particularly like the Wodehouse novels. I would like to share a quote from Prophet Muhammed: "Acquire knowledge, it guides us to happiness, it sustains us in misery, it is an ornament amongst friends and it is armour against enemies." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coryographies Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Good list! Love the God Delusion, enjoyed Eats Shoots and Leaves but think Lynne Truss is a looney. I'm new here too and have only been here for a shirt time and found lots I want to read, so I hope you find the same! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Napsack Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Homer The Iliad The Odyssey. Read it. Seriously. The Iliad is good and all, but the Odyssey is so much better. Well, in my opinion it is. After that, find Virgil's Aeneid. It's basically a fan fiction of the Homeric epics. Elements from both are there and some of the plot is directly lifted. But that's okay, it's still an enjoyable read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lagrevegenerale Posted July 12, 2012 Author Share Posted July 12, 2012 Thank you Coryographies I don't know particularly much about Lynne Truss but there we are! Lord Napsack Yes, I do intend to read the Odyssey. I started it but put it down after a few chapters. Will return to it at some point. I read the Aeneid in Latin classes I seem to remember. I'll read that too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lagrevegenerale Posted July 12, 2012 Author Share Posted July 12, 2012 Oh and the God Delusion contains good arguments. Shame about Dawkins's writing style, but it is only a distraction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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