What are you reading now ?

[Badlun]

This is really an eye opener book. Great reading

THE AGE OF REASON
by Thomas Paine

I PUT the following work under your protection. It contains my
opinions upon Religion. You will do me the justice to remember, that I
have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own
opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who
denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his
present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing
it.
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason.
I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.

[Afgun]

This was one of the stupidest novels I've ever read!

Here are the main points of the book:
1. The Taliban are ass-raping, Pashtun Nazis
2. It's ok to be a coward, the forces of good will save you in the form of a little boy with a sling shot.

What annoyed me the most was that this book did not feature:
1. Any background on the Afghan civil war
2. Cultural hardships faced by refugees from civil war
3. Background of Taliban
4. Pashtunwali

My recollection of the story might be slightly blurred since I read it four years ago while waiting to go home from Iraq.

It also lies about how the Sunnis tortured the Shia

[Badlun]

Great great great book I am reading these days

THE ANTICHRIST
by Friedrich Nietzsche


This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. It is possible that they may be among those who understand my "Zarathustra": how could I confound myself with those who are now sprouting ears?‐‐First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.

The conditions under which any one understands me, and necessarily understands me‐‐I know them only too well. Even to endure my seriousness, my passion, he must carry intellectual integrity to the verge of hardness. He must be accustomed to living on mountain tops‐‐and to looking upon the wretched gabble of politics and nationalism as
beneath him. He must have become indifferent; he must never ask of the truth whether it brings profit to him or a fatality to him... He must have an inclination, born of strength, for questions that no one has the courage for; the courage for the forbidden;

predestination for the labyrinth. The experience of seven solitudes. New ears for new music. New eyes for what is most distant. A new conscience for truths that have hitherto remained unheard. And the will to economize in the grand manner‐‐to hold together his strength, his enthusiasm...Reverence for self; love of self; absolute freedom
of self.....

Very well, then! of that sort only are my readers, my true readers, my readers foreordained: of what account are the rest?‐‐The rest are merely humanity.‐‐One must make one's self superior to humanity, in power, in loftiness of soul,‐‐in contempt.

FRIEDRICH W. NIETZSCHE.

[badmash_khel]

Found Nietzsche extremely hard to read but I still want to read his other book "Beyond good and evil"

Reading Alchemy of happiness by Al Ghazali for the umpteenth time.

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[Haris]

Really nice historical fiction.
Started reading the series of books by Simon Scarrow around five years ago.
Highly recommend it.



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Bought it last year but didn't find the time to read it.
Very interesting stuff.

[کیش]

1) Origins and Early Development in Shi'a Islam (Arab Background Series)*[Hardcover]
By; Hussein Jafri

2)Title The legacy of Jihad : Islamic Holy war and the fate of non-Muslims / edited by Andrew G. Bostom with a foreword by Ibn Warraq.

ImprintAmherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2005.Descriptionxiv, 759 p. ; 24 cm.

Just finished:

Author; Pasha, Kamran.

Title: Mother of the believers : a novel of the birth of Islam / Kamran Pasha.

ImprintNew York : Washington Square Press, c2009.Descriptionxiv, 527 p. ; 23 cm.



If you cant tell by the latest books I've beem reading, I'm working on a novel about the history of the Islamic leadership after the death of the Nabi.

[کیش]

That's not even funny. It will be a historical fiction mixed with a Game of Thrones. Inshallah

[کیش]

It's not an islamic book persay. I'm planning to start right when the Prophet dies, so basically the Nabi will not be in the book.

Major characters are"
Ali ibn abi Talib, Fatima, Hassan and Hussein.
Aisha, Talha and Zubayr
Abu Bakr, and the war of the apostasy.
Umar' brutal and peacefull conquest of Sham
Uthmans Khilafah with his Ummayad influences.


Don't wanna give away anymore. I haven't started yet, but I've been reading, studying this timelines from every book that is available.

BTW

Game of Thrones took the idea of Englands War of the Roses, where families united with other families to control the throne of England.

Westeros=== England.

The North === Irish and Scottish.

Beyond the wall == The artic circlr and greenland.

[DaZahroJaam.]

^ i don't think the prophet's life and fiction mix together that well.

[DaZahroJaam.]

it's a little book with less than hundred pages. it took me about an hour to finish reading it. it's the most meaningful children's book you will ever read...

[SiiNii]

How to simplify your life by Küstenmacher