What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[Gandalf]

I have never been keen on Capote either. In fact I don't really see the point in fiction anymore. I am acutely aware of the limits of my time here on earth and I am desperately trying to read up on the lives of people that have always interested me, but didn't get around to reading about them properly. I'm looking for knowledge and connection. I am a very limited and disconnected person. I am looking for threads and all there are are broken strings.

I'm not big on reading fiction. In fact I'm not big on reading at all. I prefer to have someone sum up a book to me in a couple of sentences, that's good enough for me usually.

I understand its value and read a lot of fiction as a youth, but for instance having read the fiction of Satre as a young man I find that I want to know more about Satre the man as I get older. It's all well and good hearing fantasy stories in the Bible, but I want to know about the life of Jesus from a historical perspective. I want to understand the tortured lives of people like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. The reality is often far more intriguing than the stories, music or film that they were involved with. The life becomes the ultimate story. The people I read about are usually quite tragic people who didn't work out how to have a happy life. Jesus, bless him, was likely a bit of a terrorist who ended up on a cross, so he didn't have all the answers either.