Currently reading...

[roydechavez]

the graveyard book - neil gaiman

in time for halloween

[Wanda]

Im reading 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper after jacky posted about it here! I started reading at 11pm last night and was still reading at 2am! A grippig true story! Ill write about it when i finish! Hehehe

[jquin3]

The Best Things in Life: A 2oth Century Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth and the Good Life by Peter Kreeft. Very hard to find but if you're fortunate enough to get a copy, its a treasure. I read this about 10 years ago and I'm reading it again.

[Wanda]

Hi jquin3! which book is is? Btw i like your avatar!

[jquin3]

Thanks. That's a studio shot btw. I don't understand your question. You mean the title of the book?

[Wanda]

Thanks. That's a studio shot btw. I don't understand your question. You mean the title of the book?

Yes, the title! Oh there it is hehehe, thought i didnt see it kanina... Looks interesting!

[jquin3]

Yes, it is. Its about what might happen if Socrates comes back to life in our time and examines our contemporary values. And he does this through his famous Socratic dialogue style. This is a short description of what the book is about:

What are the best things in life? Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University. With him come the same mind-opening and spirit-stretching challenge that disrupted ancient Athens.

* What is the purpose of education?
* Why do we make love?
* What good is money?
* Can computers think like people?
* Is there a difference between Capitalism and Communism?
* What is the greatest good?
* Is belief in God like belief in Santa Claus?

In twelve short, Socratic dialogues Peter Kreeft explodes contemporary values like success, power and pleasure. And he bursts the modern bubbles of agnosticism and subjectivism. He leaves you richer, wiser and more able to discern what the best things in life actually are.

[malounavarro]

Hmm sounds really interesting... Mga practical questions...

Yes, it is. Its about what might happen if Socrates comes back to life in our time and examines our contemporary values. And he does this through his famous Socratic dialogue style. This is a short description of what the book is about:

What are the best things in life? Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University. With him come the same mind-opening and spirit-stretching challenge that disrupted ancient Athens.

* What is the purpose of education?
* Why do we make love?
* What good is money?
* Can computers think like people?
* Is there a difference between Capitalism and Communism?
* What is the greatest good?
* Is belief in God like belief in Santa Claus?

In twelve short, Socratic dialogues Peter Kreeft explodes contemporary values like success, power and pleasure. And he bursts the modern bubbles of agnosticism and subjectivism. He leaves you richer, wiser and more able to discern what the best things in life actually are.

[techieagent]

the alchemist by Paolo Coelho. I love the author and this book.

[rabbitin88]

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. Loving the book so far. Imagine being able to actually enter a literary work and meet the characters in it; like it's another world in itself. Lots of references to classic novels, poems,writers, playwrights. This is a book for book lovers.