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[yetanotherSarah]

Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Joseph Campbell's the Masks of God

[Gopher]

[twg]

Cosmos- Carl Sagan.

The beauty of his writing style is that you can hear in your mind his dulcet tones, and hypnotic delivery.

I have couple of other books to work on after that. The Salmon of Doubt, and The Elegant Universe.... But I think I'll go for Lord Of The Flies next. I never had to read it in school, so I figured I'd have to get around to it one day.

[Czarjorge]

A collection of "dark" writings by Mark Twain. All the anti-Christians would do well to regularly quote Twain. He got bitter about religion later in life.

[igotthisguitar]

DRAGON IN THE LAND OF SNOWS



Dragon in the Land of Snows: a History of Modern Tibet Since 1947.
Author: Tsering Shakya
Published in 2000, Category: Political Historical, ISBN: 0140196153/978-0140196153

Synopsis: Drawing on unpublished primary sources, a history of modern Tibet from 1947 provides both Chinese and Tibetan perspectives on events, describes Chinese depredations of Tibet, critiques Tibet's leadership strategy as well as that of China, and documents the country's ongoing struggle to maintain it.

[TML1976]

Three books right now, two I have to for my PhD thesis and one for personal enjoyment.

PhD:

Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and Be Able to Do by Linda Darling-Hammond and John Bransford. Very interesting read.

Reform of Teacher Education in the Asia-Pacific in the New Millennium: Trends and Challenges (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects) by Yin C. Cheng, King W. Chow, and Magdalena M.C. Mok. A set of scholarly articles, two of which deal with Malaysia which is the country where my research is based.

Personal:

The Persian Empire by Lindsay Allen. Pretty good book considering it covers the ancient world and the previous books I have read on it were very difficult to stay awake through.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[caniff]

I bumped this to ask where you peeps get your books from. I guess amazon is a common source, but maybe some of you have different sources/shopping venues.

Cheers.

[stevemcgarrett]

Quite the erudite one, there, Gopher.

Must be a real "study in contrasts" with those undergrad essays, eh?

I'm engrossed in a terrific, almost overlooked recent bestseller by John Updike, The Terrorist.

I highly recommend it. Involves a misguided Arab American youth who is contemptuous of American pop culture, which he finds degrading, and falls under the influence of a local imam in a New Jersey city who fills his mind with jihad and other venom. Along the way he is counseled at school by a Jewish American who's shed his religious upbringing for a secular life but who believes in the basic goodness of American democracy. Tossed into this odd mix is a African American girl, one of the boy's classmates, who likes him but is offended by his anti-Christian remarks, especially since she herself sings in a Black Baptist choir.

I'm halfway through it and I can't put it down. These aren't stock characters so there's no stereotyping going on here; lots of nuances and complications and the outcome isn't at all certain. It's also well researched, providing insights into the Quran and the madrassahs, Egyptian radicalism, Jewish Zionism, and American schooling.

Highly recommended--Updike's best book in two decades, in my view. And did I mention that it is masterfully written, as one would expect of a true contemporary master of literature.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I get books at Whatthebook in Itaewon, at Kyobo Bookstore downtown or Jamshil and I order through Amazon. Both What and Kyobo also order books.

[caniff]

[igotthisguitar]

[greedy_bones]

I usually shop at whatthebook or bandi and luni's near Insadong.

[Ya-ta Boy]