What book are you reading now?

[1and1]

LOTR cause once a year you just gotta do that sh*t!

I'd love to read that because I love fantasy.

Currently reading...

[Jay]

I do remember him, it is really sad to wonder what happens to him. And interesting to think of their bond, and what the descriptions of food must have been like for Shin. It's really hits me to think of people being born and raised in those camps, never knowing about life on the outside, never knowing how different their existence is from other people... It just is so heavy to think that people are raised thinking that is what life is...

Which holocaust book are you going to read? What about these terrible things interest you?

I always visit this one bookstore during lunch break on every Friday. I love to read fiction but have tendency to read history and myths.

Last week I browsed the History section in the bookstore and found many books on Holocaust/Nazi/alike. I was attracted to one book in particular; a Jewish who was also a doctor found his way to Nazi camp. He didn't tell anyone that he was Jewish, I think. But he witnessed a lot of gruesome things happened there. His wife and daughter were captured and sent to a camp too.

I read few pages on spot (in the bookstore) but haven't purchased it yet. I've reached my money-spent quota for this month. So I will buy it once I get my salary.

What attracts me to these horrible things? Good question. I don't think I can narrow down to one answer.

A sense of pity and sympathy; these people went through horrid stuff in the past for our comfort today. A sense of acknowledgement so their deaths are not wasted, reminder to us (present) and respect to them.

Additionally, we in Malaysia are not exposed to holocaust, Nazi and its history for an example; because it's an Islamic country. Holocaust is related to Jewish so anything relates to Jewish, Israel and alike are seen as our enemies. We were taught this way since we were kids. It continues until you become adult.

Few weeks ago before Friday's pray, a preacher gave a preach on how Jewish and Christians are (insert not good words) and Muslims are good people. Basically Muslims are the superior beings; the innocent and right ones. Go figure.

[Insertnamehere]

I'd love to read that because I love fantasy.

Currently reading...

One does not usually regret reading LOTR, I can say that much

[azulai]

Just finished the fourth book in the Percy Jackson series: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan. Starting Book 5, The Last Olympian.

Also reading:
The Crusades through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
and
On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee

[thawoods]

I used to read a book called, "Into the Inferno" by Earl Emerson, it sucked.

[Insertnamehere]

I'm a complete failure lately in trying to finish books...gawd.

I'm reading:

"Andean Tragedy. Fighting the War of the Pacific 1879-1884" William F. Sater
"LOTR 1" for the billlionth time. Has taken me quite some time this time around. Tolkien
"Unfinished tales of Numenor and Middle Earth" Tolkien again
"The Military and the State in Latin America" Alaine Rouquié


I think that's it.

[Emiliano]

I just finished The Hot Zone, which really is a terrifying book. I haven't picked what my next read will be yet.

[Jay]

We Die Alone by David Howarth and Andy McNab.

Synopsis:

In March 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from the Shetland Islands - the most northerly part of Britain - for Nazi-occupied Norway.Their mission was to organise and support the Norwegian resistance. They were betrayed and only one man survived the ambush by the Nazis. Crippled by frostbite and snow-blind, hunted by the Nazis, Jan Baalstrud managed to find a tiny arctic village. There - delirious, near death - he found villagers willing to risk their own lives to save him. David Howarth narrates his incredible escape in this gripping tale of courage and the resilience of the human spirit.

[BlueStar]

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

[ToddYoung]

I'm reading Being Henry David by Cal Armistead. It's a book for teenagers about a young guy who loses his memory. I'm finding it pretty slow going. It's written in the present tense and I hate that.