Member: ColumbusLee

Have you read Lost in the Sacred: Why the MUslim World Stood Still, by Dan Diner?

posted by johnlilburnfreemason at 11:16 pm (EST) on Oct 22, 2009

I haven't read "Fools Gold" yet, but plan on getting it from the library. I requested it from the San Francisco Library, but it came just as we were moving from Daly City to Lincoln (CA), and so I never picked it up.

Lost in the Sacred is very much worth reading. I read a copy last January before adding it to my library (a frequent practice so as to avoid buying books that I don't want to add permanently to my library. The original was written in German, and this is an English translation. Nevertheless it does not read much like a translation (only occasionally do you spot the German syntax coming through). More about the content in a subsequent message.

As for Dan Brown, I haven't started it yet. I will probably read it this coming weekend - after I finish John Spong's "Eternal Life". You latest additions to your library look intriguing. I assume that the "Teaching Company" book is an audio lecture (?). You seem to have some of the same eclectic interests that I do. I noted that you have a book on the Civil War, but didn't give it much of a positive rating. "Aristotle's Children" also looks interesting. I am interested in the history of ideas, and that looks like one I would want to read.

posted by johnlilburnfreemason at 11:45 pm (EST) on Sep 26, 2009

I see you like U.S. Grant. My freelance job as a copy editor brought me a book written by a man named Perry, which focused on Grant writing his memoirs and recalling the war, while dying of throat cancer and being visited by Mark Twain. A sweet book, I thought. It might interest you.

posted by copyedit52 at 5:27 pm (EST) on May 18, 2009