A book thread! Excellent.
Just finished the latest Philip Pullman "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ". As expected I found it well written, with simple but very effective prose. I do worry Pullman is going to end up with half the extremist Christians in the world hounding him, but it was an interesting take on a core element of modern Christianity and a useful examination of how time does have the ability to change facts into myths and expand on what happened to what is remembered.
Also reading Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs & Steel". A non-fiction examination of the last 15,000 or so years of human history seeking to unravel why the world is the way it is now, why certain Western countries dominated as they did and what were the underlying causal effects.
I think I'm going to move onto something a little lighter for my next read - perhaps a thriller or something of the like.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jesus-Scoundrel-Christ-Canongate-Myths/dp/1847678297/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1314224268&sr=8-3
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
