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Date: 2010-04-23 12:24 pm (UTC)I bought Cyberiad from the internet -- it's on my pile of books you can ransack whenever you like :)
I am put off Nehemiah because it's one of those books that are half in Aramaic
:) I'm not yet a sophisticated enough reader to know or notice. (I obviously read it in English, indeed, in the questionable Good News Bible translation.)
Maybe "exciting" is too strong, it's more that I expected everything from Esther[1] to Malachi to be completely and utterly unreadable so I was very pleasantly surprised to have a reasonably interesting story at the book where I opened it.
After failing at Becky's quiz to recognise half of the books of the bible I made a concerted effort to at least read the list of the books IN the old testament, and can at least recite the first half in order, even if I can't do the minor prophets and so on.
I think it's time I rec'd some biology books;
Ooh, good idea. I think I probably started it once as a teenager but didn't read all of it, I'm not sure. I should certainly ACTUALLY read it. xx.
[1] Did I say? It does NOT mention spiderman. ANYWHERE.