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To go along with the other book topics...when I pull myself away from this board, I'm reading about my ancestors that came across the plains, first by boat and then by handcart. My ancestor was in the Martin handcart company. The family that find the freshly baked pie in the road when they're nearing starvation.

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volgadon Grand Master

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Murder in the Cathedral, a play by T. S. Eliot treating the myth of Thomas a Becket. Too many themes to mention here, so I'll limit myself to a few words. This is definitely a play that has to be read with different voices in mind. Eliot was a masterful poet (to say the least), so his characters are revealed in patterns of speech. At times it jars; jangles; clashes, then soars, hitting you right between the eyes. The way voices weave in and out of unison really drives home the feeling of peril and iminent disaster. Personally, I think the scenes involving the tempters and the knights are particularly good (Priest! You have spoken in peril of your life. Priest! You have spoken in danger of the knife.), but the entire play is very moving.

This is a seminal (audio) performance.

I'm also reading David Assaf's Untold Tales of the Hasidism, which looks into some of the apostasies, violence, and dissent which have been all but excised from Hasidic history.

Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov is a remarkable story about finding the patterns which repeat themselves in one's life. Nabokov has a sharp eye matched only by his sharper wit.

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Scott Lloyd Grand Master

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I'm a relatively slow reader, but I'm also curious, eager and somewhat impatient.

That means at any given time, I'm apt to be reading a dozen or more books simultaneously.

Just now, I'm trying to get through the Count of Monte Cristo. I started it because my 15-year-old was assigned to read it in his Language Arts class. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was given the abridged version. I acquired an unabridged copy. That means he's already done with the book and passed the test on it, while I'm scarcely a third of the way through it.

I'm also reading the Old Testament, Crime and Punishment, the Odyssey, the House of the Seven Gables, Dante's Inferno, one of the published Joseph Smith Papers volumes, and the book I got for Christmas, Doctrine and Covenants Reference Companion. And I'm back into the collected works of Charles D I c kens. I just finished the Chimes and I'm into the Cricket on the Hearth now.

During the Christmas season, I re-read A Christmas Carol to our kids. We finished it in time for me to read them a pre-quel to it that was published last year, Jacob T. Marley. It was written by a local (Alpine, Utah) author and published on one of the Deseret Book imprints, I think Shadow Mountain. It is wonderful!

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Duncan Grand Master

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I'm a relatively slow reader, but I'm also curious, eager and somewhat impatient.

That means at any given time, I'm apt to be reading a dozen or more books simultaneously.

Just now, I'm trying to get through the Count of Monte Cristo. I started it because my 15-year-old was assigned to read it in his Language Arts class. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was given the abridged version. I acquired an unabridged copy. That means he's already done with the book and passed the test on it, while I'm scarcely a third of the way through it.

I'm also reading the Old Testament, Crime and Punishment, the Odyssey, the House of the Seven Gables, Dante's Inferno, one of the published Joseph Smith Papers volumes, and the book I got for Christmas, Doctrine and Covenants Reference Companion. And I'm back into the collected works of Charles ****ens. I just finished the Chimes and I'm into the Cricket on the Hearth now.

During the Christmas season, I re-read A Christmas Carol to our kids. We finished it in time for me to read them a pre-quel to it that was published last year, Jacob T. Marley. It was written by a local (Alpine, Utah) author and published on one of the Deseret Book imprints, I think Shadow Mountain. It is wonderful!

quite busy I say!

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oh Volgadon, you've got an eagle-eye for things out of the ordinary!

Thanks for sharing this... I sincerely hope to find them at amazon.com.

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Stargazer Grand Master

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"War and the Rise of the State" by Bruce D. Porter. (1994)

Before he was a General Authority, Elder Porter was an academic.

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Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Discourses in Mormon Theology edited by McLachlan and Ericson.

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Just started "Quantum Enigma" by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner. Promising but slow read on Quantum Physics. It's out of my league but still very interesting.

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altersteve Grand Master

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The Lord of the Rings. I read it and watch all the movies every year around Christmas time.

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I am currently reading an english translation of An Unknown War, The Secret History of the USA which is a very interesing Russian perspective of the US Civil War. I was quite surprised to find that the book details a fair bit about the early Church and quotes from the Book of Mormon.

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The following are all nearly complete:

Charles ****ens, A Christmas Carol

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

April D. DeConick, Holy Misogyny: Why the Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter

Elaine Pagels, Revelations: Visions, Prophecies, and Politics in the Book of Revelation

John Tierney, Roy F. Baumeister, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

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Constantine and the Bishops - The Politics of Intolerance by Drake, The European Dream by Rifkin, Voting about god in the Early Church Councils by MacMullen, and The God Who Weeps by Givens.

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The following are all nearly complete:

Charles ****ens, A Christmas Carol

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

April D. DeConick, Holy Misogyny: Why the Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter

Elaine Pagels, Revelations: Visions, Prophecies, and Politics in the Book of Revelation

John Tierney, Roy F. Baumeister, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

How is the Pagels book? I've thought about picking that up.

volgadon Grand Master

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Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe in Arabic.

How long ago was it translated? I'm wondering if it is as plodding as the old Hebrew translation.

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Debra Weyermann, Answer Them Nothing, Bringing Down the Polygamous Empire of Warren Jeffs.

One of the most frustrating books I have ever read, so I am reading Turner's Brigham Young Pioneer Prophet at the same time.

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volgadon Grand Master

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I am currently reading an english translation of An Unknown War, The Secret History of the USA which is a very interesing Russian perspective of the US Civil War. I was quite surprised to find that the book details a fair bit about the early Church and quotes from the Book of Mormon.

Thanks for the heads up. Tracked down a Russian copy. It'll be interesting to read, as Bushkov is a bit ofa loose cannon.

Tacenda Grand Master

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Debra Weyermann, Answer Them Nothing, Bringing Down the Polygamous Empire of Warren Jeffs.

One of the most frustrating books I have ever read, so I am reading Turner's Brigham Young Pioneer Prophet at the same time.

I'm very interested in all things polygamy and anything that might be abusive to women and children (or men, for that matter). The Warren Jeffs group is a very sad situation, and it seems like the law have their hands tied until the people themselves want to get help. I'm gonna check this book out. Thanks!

ETA: I read the "Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and The Fundamentialist Church of Latter-Day Saints" by Sam Bower.

Sam is the detective who investigated Warren Jeffs. His work was a big factor in bringing Warren Jeffs back into the courts and tried on sexual abuse of children. Where before it was only known that he was an accomplice to underage marriage.

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I just finished The Swiss Account by Paul Erdman. I am currently reading The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter and The Second Comforter by Denver C. Snuffer, Jr.

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Duncan Grand Master

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I just finished The Swiss Account by Paul Erdman. I am currently reading The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter and The Second Comforter by Denver C. Snuffer, Jr.

how do you find Snuffer's book? all I know about him is he claims to have seen Christ

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