What Book(s) Are You Reading?

[Kropotkin]

So what is the conspiracy anyway? that their mission is to protect the decendant of Jesus or what?

[Kassiopeia]

In a nutshell,

Spoiler:

yes, the Priory of Sion is supposed to be a secret organization that guards the offspring of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. It also holds the documents that can prove this. The documents include the family tree of the royal bloodline of the two, the "sang real", a diary of Mary Magdalene telling of her time in what's nowadays France, and a gospel written by Jesus himself, the "Q document". The Priory is just waiting for the right moment to reveal all this to the world - that Jesus intended for Mary to become the rock he'd build his church on instead of Peter. Which in turn would pull out the rug under the RCC's feet.

[Kropotkin]

Yeah, what I suspected.

[molly bloom]

Jack McDevitt's 'The Engines of God'

Jan Morris's 'The Venetian Empire'

'Boswell's Clap', by William B. Ober

[Ben Kenobi]

No wonder my mom got the Da Vinci Code for my dad.

[Gibsie]

I finished my previous book, and the current book I'm reading is so abysmal that I can't bring myself to state its name. Here's an idea of the quality though: about halfway through the book, the love interest of the main character has been revealed as being terminally ill.

[MarkG]

i read both the da vinci code as well as the earlier angels & domans (those 1200 pages helped fill lots of computerless army service hours )

[Zkribbler]

Small Gods by Terry Prachett.

Also, I stopped by the library, and they had an audiobook of the newest novel by Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Escape, so I'm listening to it in the car.

(If a book takes place after a previous book, it's a sequel; if before, it's a prequel...but in the middle of a series like Cornwell is doing here...is it a midquel?? It's nice to have Lt. Knowles and Maj. Hogan back; Sgt Obediah Hakewell isn't due for his appearance yet, but I'm sure he'll be along--says so in the Scriptures.)

[Saras]

The complete works by William Shakespeare.
By Sea and Land - a Story of the Royal Marine Commandos
The Sixth Great Power - the history of the House of Barings
London: the Biography, by Peter Ackroyd

Oh, and I bought the complete DVD box set of The Fawlty Towers

[Immortal Wombat]

The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

[Pekka]

I'm reading two books:

Kick Him In The Teeth by Ulrich Weissenmueller
Next Run by Tito Esposito

[Sandman]

-- Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men

It's good.

I just finished Under the Skin by Michel Faber. Horrifying, grisly stuff.

[VetLegion]

Nothing.

[Patroklos]

Da Vinci code was a fun book if you ignore the gross inaccuracies. Would have enjoyed it alot more if it didn't have that stupid note just before it started about everything contained within bieng true, and the author's blind insistance that it is still so after all the critisism. Angels and Demons was the same way.

Reading Guderian's biography right now, facinating for those who like that era and alot of detail. Pre war stuff in especially interesting.

Also re-reading David Brin's Earth, I think you UN junkies would get a kick out of it. If you need an none right wing referance GePaP is a Brin fan if I remember correctly.

[Theseus]

David Brin ROCKS!! The Uplift series was one of the best in SF of the last twenty years. Too bad that Costner mangled "The Postman" though.

Currently reading through my 'Ancient Historical Fiction' list.