Books, what are you reading right now?

From the amazon page to this book:

“In this book Dr. Dean shares solutions that she had to personally create for her own health and longevity that will keep her away from doctors and out of hospitals.”

I wish you luck!

Also:
More information in that regard can be found at RnA ReSet (www.rnareset.com)

And when you go to that page you find the authors online store selling minerals, vitamins, protein powder, etc.

Kudos to Dr. Dean: She found a good business case :wink:

I’m sad to say that when I studied Old Norse Philosophy at the University of Bergen, I found out that there is very little preserved that can be safely called Old Norse Religion, and a lot less is preserved of their magic traditions.

The magic that we find described in Icelandic manuscripts is very vague and often written down very late, as in 15th and 16th century.
The symbols such as Vegvísir fall under what is often called The Western Esoteric Tradition, and might have their provenance in jewish magic. I know very little about the Western Esoteric Tradition, but as far as I understand, it is very much influenced by platonism and jewish magic, but with a christian veneer.

Finding out that the sagas and Eddas have more in common with historical fiction than history and religion was very disheartening to me, but I did get to read some excellent fiction though, and I must say that my interest in what might be called the Germanic Heroic Epic Tradition has never waned.

I never knew that - as a youngster I tried to read translations, and thought there was some historic truth in them; one lives and learns, as they say.

Sadly no more accurate than a modern work of historical fiction about Anne Boleyn (Queen of England, beheaded by and wife of Henry VIII, and mother of Elizabeth I) and her family.

Some of the framework might be true, but given the lack of archives from the late pagan and early christan periods, the mainly Icelandic compilers had less secure knowledge about the period they were writing about than modern authors of historical fiction.

Even the timelines and sites of major battles might be wrong.

What we do know though, is that they had a very well developed storytelling tradition, and though the historical figures behind Theoderic, Gundahar, Attila, and Ermanaric are very hard to spot, the stories about their legendary counterparts are amazing, such that some know the historical persons better under the the names of Dietrich or Thidrik, Gunther or Gunnar, Etzel or Atli, and Jormunrek. The names depending on wether you’ve heard the Icelandic or German versions (which are quite different).

That’s a shame. I’m still enjoying the guesswork :smiley:

Reading the German version.

Also reading

Millon’s “Personality Disorders in Modern Life,” and “Neoplatonism” by Pauliina Remes.

Millon’s book is very readable, and it’s really about the structure of personality.

Read it as a preteen as a translation, now in the original language. Still holds up!

Really liked that book.

It’s also been turned in a radio play, which was quite gripping as well.

Wasnt there an attempt to turn “Rendezvous with Rama” into a movie or series?

I’m a huge fan of audio plays, so need to check it out.

I think this may have been the version that i listened to:

Thank!

From one genre classic to another.

Never read this one. It’s obviously known all over the world, but it’s not as mandatory a reading outside the US.

The same applies to me with my current reading :flushed_face:
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

I liked that much better than the Grapes of Wrath.

I watched the James Dean movie two nights ago and that is brilliant and poetic as the book. I prefer the movie.

But just by a hair. They were both poetic and brilliant, to repeat myself.

I found this today

the blurb:

“Neil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along “between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in the left lane, and the roaring, straining semis in the right,” he acted as his own DJ, lining up the CDs chronologically and according to his possible moods. “Not only did the music I listened to accompany my journey, but it also took me on sidetrips, through memory and fractals of associations, threads reaching back through my whole life in ways I had forgotten, or had never suspected… “

Haven’t read a single word yet but intro. Anyone who knows the desert southwest knows LA to Big Bend crosses AZ and NM and maybe two days drive at best; beautiful at times; undramatic. But as far as a life being saved by rock and roll (mine and his) he wrote 400 pages and I believe you can live a lifetime of triggered memories in 48HR. Drive through the desert at night and see.

A lot of my friends as a young man were fanatical Rush fans. Some still are. I wasn’t into that prog rock stuff too much, I was a straight up rocker and punk then. But this is an intelligent man, by what little I read of the intro and I love the premise.

edit/made a swear word not a swear word