The Book You Haven't Read!

the whole bible, i mean what's available is a very enjoyable read, but i keep thinking there's more, like the middle bit from the new testament, 13 to 30, come on give us the rest of the story

i'd like to read all the stuff the church took out of the bible over the centuries!

absolutly! that would be a great read.

I have read the bible 3 times and i read it just as literature.. not a life outline.
As djjd said - it is a cool STORY.. but nothing else


A book i would like to read but have not War and Peace

mostly because it is a HUGE book..

Mine. :wink:

The Arabian Nights: I have started it, but couldn't get past the archaic english.

The Satanic Verses in one book that i wanna read but i couldnt get

hmmm, don't know why, it's not like it's rare or anything.

unless...do you live in Iraq?

I have yet to read "The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne" which has been sitting quietly awaiting me for many years. Every once in a while I will take it down and read the first line For reasons which will be given later, I sit down here, in Verona, to write the history of my extravagant adventure.

Then, for some inexplicable reason, I stop. I want to know of the adventure, I really do, but so far that sentence hasn't compelled me to read further. But..... one day.

I had wanted to read all of the "Lord of the Rings" books. I began with "The Hobbit". The description of the characters made them seem like furry animals who could talk. This made me feel like I was reading "Winnie the Pooh", so I gave up completely.

Max Havelaar, 'the book that killed colonialism in Indonesia directly, and colonialism worldwide indirectly' (although this "fact" is arguable), thanks for this topic, I'm placing the order right now ... well, not right now, right now ... but I will ... soon!

'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess.

I would like to read the book that gives the definitive
answer to one of life's enduring questions.
What happens next?
We already know that this part, this particular part
of our experience is quite temporary. Unfortunately
that is the width, the breadth and the height of
all we know. Thank goodness for what we DO know.
At least this knowledge impels us to act in a manner
befitting the brevity of our experience here as we
know it. No more "wasting time". No more putting
off those things we deeply want to do - but are waiting
for "someday". A someday that will probably never
come unless we approach it now, right now, and make
it happen. Life IS short.

The bible in it's original text. I mean the one that first came out, before it got changed. Dat's pretty hard to come by now??!!

As for modern stuff, a good fiction book out called 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini. Yeah, I wanna get round to read that soon.

Kind of curious as to what "church" you are referring to. Of all the accounts that I have read, it's been "churches and religions" that have added to the bible.

Californiadreamin--

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Read the Upanishads. Their sole purpose is to answer questions like this. In the Katha Upanishad the whole of the Upanishad is devoted to the question of what happens after we die.

Joyce's Finnigan's Wake.

Hey, my wife and I are READERS. Between the two of us I would guess that we average 6 books a week and have done for the forty years we've been married. Thats over 12 thousand books, not counting those we each read in the 25 years before we got together. The wife brought an unread copy of Finnigan's Wake to the marriage. It still sits unfinished on our library shelf. The library currently contains probably 5,000 vol., and very few haven't been read at least once ... except Finnigan's Wake. Over the years we've both read "at it". I think I've read less than 100 of the 600+ pages in our edition. I don't believe we've ever met anyone who has actually read the whole book, much less understood it. This is a tough book to read!

Giles Goat Boy kept us constantly at our reference books, but I don't think we have enough reference sources to do Finnigan justice. It is a challenge to adopt the thinking of some authors using the stream of consciousness style as in Rememberance of Things Past, and Kerouac. Joyce's mind as expressed in this book is almost unfathomable to me. I've read longer scholarly works written by learned, but untalented writers, running twice as long in a month ... and been informed, but bored stiff. With Finnigan, I'm never bored, but am absolutely at a loss to truly understand Joyce's point of view.

A reader made a deal with the devil shortly after Finnigan's Wake was published. The deal was that the reader would live to finish Finnigan's Wake, but must read it every day. That reader still lives, confined to an insane assylum where its reported that he has just completed the first third of the book. No one has a clue if he has understood a bit of it. Oh well, at least we hope to someday get this book "under our belt".

I'm sure the secret to conquering Finnigan's Wake is NOT to read it, but to get someone with a good, strong, rich brogue to read it out loud, while you just relax in your favourite chair, close your eyes and enjoy!