What are you reading tonight?

[Gary the Enfield]

I'm not really sure what you are trying to prove GtE!! slow day at work??

Yup.

So if Methodists go to temples and Moslems and Jews do too, is it too far a stretch to say they are of the same Abrahamic House (or church) and that their secular deviations could also be defined as denominations of monotheism?

Methodists that I know usually talking of "church" or "chapel" rather than temple.

I'm not sure why you would want to stretch language like that... you COULD, I suppose - but people who live these faiths don't (in my experience)... you've lost me with the bit about "secular deviations".

monotheism isn't an organisation - it's a concept - I'm not at all what sense it makes sense to speak of different "denominations" of a concept.

Just for shits and giggles. Oh well.

[Il Pirate]

this evening...

245 pages of Safeguarding good-practice and policy information in preparation for a day's training tomorrow (in addition to the training i have already done) to clear me for a leadership role in another church denomination...

deep joy...

Muslim ?? Jewish ??

Methodist.. (I doubt that either the Muslims or the Jews would welcome being described as church denominations..)

and - no, Pirate, before you ask - it didn't have any tits in it!

Then I'll keep to my own church................

[thebish]

this evening...

245 pages of Safeguarding good-practice and policy information in preparation for a day's training tomorrow (in addition to the training i have already done) to clear me for a leadership role in another church denomination...

deep joy...

Muslim ?? Jewish ??

Methodist.. (I doubt that either the Muslims or the Jews would welcome being described as church denominations..)

and - no, Pirate, before you ask - it didn't have any tits in it!

Then I'll keep to my own church................

is that the Boobtists?

[Il Pirate]

I've just finished ' The Book Thief '. At first I though it was a little fractured, but turned into a superb story. Love, longing, life and death. With a lot of nazi's thrown in. Can recommend.

[clapton is god]

I've just finished ' The Book Thief '. At first I though it was a little fractured, but turned into a superb story. Love, longing, life and death. With a lot of nazi's thrown in. Can recommend.

Thats been on the 'shelf of shame' for over a year now. Might get around to reading it soon.

[William the White]

I've just finished ' The Book Thief '. At first I though it was a little fractured, but turned into a superb story. Love, longing, life and death. With a lot of nazi's thrown in. Can recommend.

Thats been on the 'shelf of shame' for over a year now. Might get around to reading it soon.

Really good... Get it off that shelf!

[Prufrock]

Just finished Hemingway's Boat by Paul Hendrickson. A biography of Hemingway woven around the central relationship he had with his boat, Pilar. Uses it to link fishing, showing off, machismo in general, suicide ('the family exit'), Cuba and his family, among other things.

I liked it. It isn't serious biography, there is a lot of conjecture, he flits about, with a couple of fairly massive tangents, but a good read, and a labour of love. Also made me want to take up fishing (I think sea-fishing might be out of the question!) despite having not one day ever had the slightest urge before! It isn't really about his books, the main themes are his troubled family and his love of outdoor pursuits, particularly fishing. Where his books re discussed it is the writing process rather than content (unless the content is fishing). Time certainly not wasted.

Now, into the unknown. Been reco-ed, and lent, by a mate. The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. Never heard of him or it. Looking at it, it's somewhat different than my normal fayre, but I go in with an open mind.

[General Mannerheim]

ive got that Kenny Jackett Millwall Family book that has been discussed here - trying to save it for my hols but struggling to put it down... im already convinced he should be a our next manager!

[Harry Genshaw]

ive got that Kenny Jackett Millwall Family book that has been discussed here - trying to save it for my hols but struggling to put it down... im already convinced he should be a our next manager!

That's 3 converts now. I'm going to post a copy to Phil

Just in the early part of Errol Flynns autobiography. Wild & funny with lots of deflowering of young ladies - pretty much as expected really!

[CAPSLOCK]

Polished off Bookseller

Just going to slip in One Day in The Life

[TANGODANCER]

Just finished The Collaborator by Gerald Seymour. Starts off as an intruiging tale then slowly over-details itself to death. Disappointed.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus actually.

You can too... here's a copy http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5740/5740-pdf.pdf

[TANGODANCER]

Just started a novel, The Shakespeare Curse by J.L.Carrell, based around McBeth. Not sure what to make of it so far. Probably turn out to be rubbish and I won't finish it.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus actually.

You can too... here's a copy http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5740/5740-pdf.pdf

OK. I read it. It doesn't take that long. What I'm not sure about is did I understand it?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Missus just bought me the latest Lee Child "A Wanted Man". Didn't even know his latest was due out yet, only seems a couple f months since his previous "The Affair". Anyway, I've launched straight into it and I guarantee I'm going to enjoy it a whole lot more than I did Wittgenstein.

[clapton is god]

Missus just bought me the latest Lee Child "A Wanted Man". Didn't even know his latest was due out yet, only seems a couple f months since his previous "The Affair". Anyway, I've launched straight into it and I guarantee I'm going to enjoy it a whole lot more than I did Wittgenstein.

just reading this now, spotty. In fact almost finished it. One of Childs better Reacher books and I'm enjoying it very much

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Missus just bought me the latest Lee Child "A Wanted Man". Didn't even know his latest was due out yet, only seems a couple f months since his previous "The Affair". Anyway, I've launched straight into it and I guarantee I'm going to enjoy it a whole lot more than I did Wittgenstein.

just reading this now, spotty. In fact almost finished it. One of Childs better Reacher books and I'm enjoying it very much

Yes. 4 hours in, and I'm having to take a break otherwise I'm going to finish it before nightfall. Good stuff.

[Prufrock]

Now, into the unknown. Been reco-ed, and lent, by a mate. The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. Never heard of him or it. Looking at it, it's somewhat different than my normal fayre, but I go in with an open mind.

It was quite enjoyable, in a daft sort of way. I'm told it's kind of like the Game of Thrones stuff, a cultural phenomenon I've somehow missed entirely. Anyway, if you like fatasy noir kind of things it's probably worth a read. Fast-paced, vividly descriptive, imaginative, certainly not time wasted anyway.

I finished that yesterday morning, then in the rest of the day I read 'Keeping up with the Germans' by Philip Ostermann, a german who moved here with his parents in his teens. I really enjoyed it. It's a sort of compare-and-contrast viewed through various cultural exchanges and meetings. I really enjoyed it. It's Bryson-esque (or Notes From a Small Island-esque anyway), although, despite being engagingly written, it does quite have his charm and twinkle. Definitely worth a look though. Finished it over the afternoon.

Then started on The Road by Cormac McCarthy which has been staring at my for almost two years now! About 100 in. It's good, but not what I was expecting.

[Sponge]

I've been reading The Art of the Commonplace, a collection of essays by Wendell Berry. A life-changing book.

[bobo the clown]

I've been reading The Art of the Commonplace, a collection of essays by Wendell Berry. A life-changing book.

Yet .... you're still on here ???