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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by JimC » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:13 am

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An excellent book! :tup:
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Pappa » Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:45 pm

This one. I've read it before, great book. Non-technical, but with enough depth to keep me satisfied.

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Post by Chinaski » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:49 pm

I am very happily reading Marquis De Sade's "Philosophy in the Boudoir", of which it was my good fortune to find an entire transcript available online. I have already decided that a few of my female friends with more prudish inclinations shall receive other works of the Marquis as gifts on my behalf. I do hope to reach someone with a message of libertinage.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Animavore » Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:20 am

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This book is mega awesome. The writer, Ben Goldacre, simply ridicules the peddlers and merchants of every bullshit nutritionist fad, every practitioner of bogus alternative medicine and every journalist hack looking for a scare story. I laughed from start to near finish (not finished yet). Yer one Gillian McKeith has a whole chapter dedicated to her. It was delicious.
This book also is highly educational in the field of medicine an pharmaceuticals.

Oh look. Smug floppy haired posh twat from Kent has his own website http://www.badscience.net

[No seriously, he does have one of those Hugh Grant type heads' but, I'll let it pass in this case]
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Don't Panic » Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:56 am

Re-reading this, haven't read it since I was 11 or 12, interesting to go through it again with a more cynical perspective.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Red Katie » Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:20 pm

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry.

I'm on a restaurant writing kick. I've already read The Fortune Cookie Chronicles and Service Included.

I especially recommend The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. The history of Chinese restaurants, all over the world. Jennifer 8. Lee is the author.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Shaker » Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:53 pm

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An old favourite - classic.
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Re: What are you reading now?

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An old favourite - classic.
I can't read it. The language and style sends me off to sleep.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:54 am

The Great Stink by Clare Clark. Atmospheric but don't read just before lunch...
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:50 pm

Japanese Monograph No. 145
OUTLINE OF NAVAL ARMAMENT AND PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
Part I
PREPARED BY MILITARY HISTORY SECTION HEADQUARTERS, ARMY FORCES FAR EAST
DISTRIBUTED BY OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Pappa » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:08 pm

The Guardian.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:11 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:The Great Stink by Clare Clark. Atmospheric but don't read just before lunch...
I have that but haven't got to it yet...

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Re: What are you reading now?

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Shaker » Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:15 pm

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Layla and Majnun by Nizami: originally an epic poem in Persian literature, best known (if known at all) as the book that partially inspired Eric Clapton to write Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - possibly the greatest album ever, IMHO.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Don't Panic » Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:23 pm

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas,

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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And those Zumwalts are already useless, they can be taken out with an ICBM.
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.
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