July 2009 - What are you reading?

[Andrew D. Gable]

I've finished my reading of The Edda and now am onto The Mabinogion. Yes, I'm on somewhat of a mythology kick right now and decided to read the old books and epics that sum up the various traditions.

As an aside, does anyone know of a good, nonexpensive translation of The Mahabharata (actually, for that matter, is the Mahabharata a mythological epic or kind of the Bible of Hinduism)? The Ramayana is the one that has the war against Ravana and the rakshasas, right?

 

[Mercutio01]

Project Gutenberg has a free translation.

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[frankthedm]

The_Jennifer_Morgue by Charles Stross

 

[CCamfield]

I'm reading "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" by Michael Chabon - mystery novel set in alternate-history Alaska after the state of Israel failed in 1948 and a lot of Jews ended up settling in Alaska.

Just recently, I read "The Paladins" by Joel Rosenberg, for fun, which it was.

And "The Dead Man's Brother", the posthumously-published Roger Zelazny thriller!