What is everyone reading?

[Cyrillic]

An abomination is something that leads one to eternal damnation in hell.

[hyperdox] And what did you think pews do? [/hyperdox]

 

[stanley123]

An abomination is something that leads one to eternal damnation in hell.

[hyperdox] And what did you think pews do? [/hyperdox]

Pews enable one to sit down.

 

[Santagranddad]

An abomination is something that leads one to eternal damnation in hell.

[hyperdox] And what did you think pews do? [/hyperdox]

Pews enable one to sit down.

True, but they hinder movement, prostrations and are alien, rather like that other abomination the organ, surely?

 

[Cyrillic]

An abomination is something that leads one to eternal damnation in hell.

[hyperdox] And what did you think pews do? [/hyperdox]

Pews enable one to sit down.

But uncomfortably so. Anathema to uncomfortable seating.

 

[stanley123]

An abomination is something that leads one to eternal damnation in hell.

[hyperdox] And what did you think pews do? [/hyperdox]

Pews enable one to sit down.

True, but they hinder movement, prostrations and are alien, rather like that other abomination the organ, surely?

You have an argument with some of your Orthodox Churches which have both pews and organs. I asked the wife of the priest at the local Orthodox Church as to why they use the organ in Church and she said that it was only to insure that people were singing on the correct key.

 

[Arachne]

Eh. When a church is 'inherited', ripping out the pews (and replacing them with chairs and stasidia) and organ can be too much of a bother and/or expense.

OT: Deciphering the libretto of Il Trovatore. My Italian sure is rusty. :-\

 

[Cyrillic]

OT: Deciphering the libretto of Il Trovatore. My Italian sure is rusty. :-\

Verdi is good. Puccini is better, though.

 

[Arachne]

OT: Deciphering the libretto of Il Trovatore. My Italian sure is rusty. :-\

Verdi is good. Puccini is better, though;.

My mother-in-law would cry anathema.

 

[Cyrillic]

OT: Deciphering the libretto of Il Trovatore. My Italian sure is rusty. :-\

Verdi is good. Puccini is better, though;.

My mother-in-law would cry anathema.

Anathematising the truth is tricky business 

 

[Cyrillic]

Plutarch - On the Malice of Herodotus.

 

[Arachne]

OT: Deciphering the libretto of Il Trovatore. My Italian sure is rusty. :-\

Verdi is good. Puccini is better, though;.

My mother-in-law would cry anathema.

Anathematising the truth is tricky business 

There's no accounting for tastes... else we of the rum 'n' raisin brigade are doomed.

 

[Papist]

"On the Genealogy of Morality" - Freidrick Nietzche

 

[Achronos]

Roland Barthes - Mythologies

 

[DuxI]

Princess Sultana's Daughters - Jean Sasson

 

[biro]

'Sacrifice,' S.J. Bolton

 

[Jibrail Almuhajir]

Eh. When a church is 'inherited', ripping out the pews (and replacing them with chairs and stasidia) and organ can be too much of a bother and/or expense.

Our church did it in a few hours. 

 

[Jibrail Almuhajir]

In addition to the book on the Jesus Prayer, I just picked up

1. R. E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman.  It's supposedly the definitive single-volume biography out there.

2. American Sphinx- The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis.  If David McCullough likes it, it should be good.

3. The Life of Johnny Reb- The Common Soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley.  He's also got a companion book about the common Union soldier that I'd like to get sometime. 

 

[Cyrillic]

Plato - Gorgias and Protagoras

 

[Papist]

Plato - Gorgias and Protagoras

Cool. I'm reading Plato too: Apology and Republic.

 

[augustin717]

A nice manual-style book on shamanism published by the university of Oklahoma. Although I also leafed through Eliade's book on the subject it seems dated.

 

[Arachne]

Courtesy of the 'damaged stock' shelf of my local independent bookstore, an omnibus edition of Diamond Brothers adventures no 4-7, by Anthony Horowitz (The Blurred Man, The French Confection, I Know What You Did Last Wednesday, The Greek Who Stole Christmas). Much giggling is ensuing already.

 

[Gebre Menfes Kidus]

In addition to the book on the Jesus Prayer, I just picked up

1. R. E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman.  It's supposedly the definitive single-volume biography out there.

2. American Sphinx- The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis.  If David McCullough likes it, it should be good.

3. The Life of Johnny Reb- The Common Soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley.  He's also got a companion book about the common Union soldier that I'd like to get sometime.   

Interesting. I'm currently reading a 900 page tome entitled: "The Monk, the Forest, and Nathan Bedford Forrest."

OK, not really. My silliness comes out after Pascha. Sorry.



Selam

 

[Cyrillic]

Plato - Gorgias and Protagoras

Cool. I'm reading Plato too: Apology and Republic.

Awesome. Those two are Plato's masterworks. The Apology is brilliant in its audacity. You might want to read Xenophon's version of Socrates' Apology alongside with it.

 

[Cyrillic]

Philostratus - Lives of the Sophists

 

[DuxI]

Princess Sultana's circle.

 

[Cyrillic]

Demosthenes - On the Crown

 

[Severian]

To my great shame, I still haven't finished "Fundamentals of Classical Arabic: Volume I." Memorizing all the various verb tenses is a serious pain.

 

[biro]

To my great shame, I still haven't finished "Fundamentals of Classical Arabic: Volume I." Memorizing all the various verb tenses is a serious pain.

Then stop.

 

[Severian]

To my great shame, I still haven't finished "Fundamentals of Classical Arabic: Volume I." Memorizing all the various verb tenses is a serious pain.

Then stop.

I am not saying I want to stop. I love Arabic, it's one of my passions. It may be hard, but it is rewarding. I guess I just need to be a bit more disciplined and focused. I knew very well learning Classical Arabic (especially outside a classroom setting) would be difficult. When I start to university I'll get an opportunity to study the language in a more structured environment.

 

[augustin717]

Morris Rossabi, Voyager from Xanadu-Rabban Sauma and the first Journey from China to the West

 

[Orthodox11]

Not something I'm reading, but I just saw this was due for release next month and thought I should share since it's bound to be a good one:

Andrew Louth - Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology

 

[Cyrillic]

To my great shame, I still haven't finished "Fundamentals of Classical Arabic: Volume I." Memorizing all the various verb tenses is a serious pain.

Then stop.

That's not a winner's mentality.

 

[Papist]

Plato - Gorgias and Protagoras

Cool. I'm reading Plato too: Apology and Republic.

Awesome. Those two are Plato's masterworks. The Apology is brilliant in its audacity. You might want to read Xenophon's version of Socrates' Apology alongside with it.

Great idea. This is my last semester of course work, and I'm taking a course on Plato.

 

[Tommelomsky]

Reading some notes about the next things to happen in my parish and just finished reading a thread where being accused of two different things.

Seems like welcome and many years has been substituted with insults and accusations.

 

[Cyrillic]

Sophocles - Philoctetes
Lucian of Samosata - A True History

 

[Cyrillic]

Plato - Gorgias and Protagoras

Cool. I'm reading Plato too: Apology and Republic.

Awesome. Those two are Plato's masterworks. The Apology is brilliant in its audacity. You might want to read Xenophon's version of Socrates' Apology alongside with it.

Great idea. This is my last semester of course work, and I'm taking a course on Plato.

Impressive. A few months ago I was allowed to follow an entire semester on Plato. Before students of classical languages I had to translate parts of the Symposium on the spot. Great fun.

 

[Papist]

Plato - Gorgias and Protagoras

Cool. I'm reading Plato too: Apology and Republic.

Awesome. Those two are Plato's masterworks. The Apology is brilliant in its audacity. You might want to read Xenophon's version of Socrates' Apology alongside with it.

Great idea. This is my last semester of course work, and I'm taking a course on Plato.

Impressive. A few months ago I was allowed to follow an entire semester on Plato. Before students of classical languages I had to translate parts of the Symposium on the spot. Great fun.

Now that is impressive. I suppose I'll have to learn Greek eventually.

 

[Adela]

just finished:
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.  It's about Louis Zamperini, an Olympian who was a POW in WWII. He and his fellow POWs were treated with the utmost of brutality. (30% of POWs in Japanese hands died as compared to only 1% dying under the Nazis.)  He managed to find peace and forgiveness through becoming a Christian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0pulc6kDsk


just started:
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog by Borin Akunin.    About a Russian Orthodox nun who solves mysteries.   Hopefully it will be good.....

http://www.boris-akunin.com/bk_white_buldog.html

 

[Cyrillic]

Lucian of Samosata - Philopseudes

 

[W.A.Mozart]

cracking the monastic theology