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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Animavore » Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:17 pm

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Animavore wrote:My friend asked me to get Cosmos for him while I was in town yesterday. I was reading it on the way home on the bus and I had a mind to keep it. It is pure poetry.

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I strongly recommend the hardback version if you can get hold of it. :tup:
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Post by Trolldor » Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:23 pm

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Ronja wrote:Sense and Sensibility, again. Just finished Pride and Prejudice (again). Jane Austen was a genius.
You should try Pride and Prejudice and Zombies...

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Z ... 1594743347
It gets a little boring after a while though...
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Mr P » Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:29 pm

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Mr P wrote:
Animavore wrote:My friend asked me to get Cosmos for him while I was in town yesterday. I was reading it on the way home on the bus and I had a mind to keep it. It is pure poetry.

Want :(
I strongly recommend the hardback version if you can get hold of it. :tup:
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Lots of pretty pictures :ab:

I'm not being facetious either, the illustrations really add to the book.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:35 pm

Reading Oliver Morton's "Mapping Mars". Absolutely fascinating.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Animavore » Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:33 pm

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This is a brilliant book about coral reefs and how they have thought us about our Earth's natural history in far wide fields as stem-cell biology and plate tectonics.

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Post by JimC » Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:41 pm

Just finished "Descent" by Brad Matsen, about Beebe & Barton and their descents deep in the ocean in the Bathysphere. Very good! :tup:
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Ronja » Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:46 pm

The Jeeves Omnibus - a quite heavy yet not large enough collection of the genius of P.G. Wodehouse. :mrgreen:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:48 pm

Feet In The Clouds: A Tale Of Fell-Running And Obsession by Richard Askwith
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by DRSB » Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:38 pm

A great and funny novel about religion by Rebecca Goldstein (Steven Pinker's lovely wife) ""36 Arguments for the Existence of God"

http://www.thebookstudio.com/blog/betha ... -goldstein
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Mr P » Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:02 am

Failure is not an option, Gene Krantz autobiography of his days at NASA from the Mercury days right through to Apollo and beyond. It gets off to a bit of a slow start but it's picking up a bit now I'm up to the Gemini missions :tup:
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Re: What are you reading now?

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I read that last year. The king of page-turning sci-fi. :tup:
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Re: What are you reading now?

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Re: What are you reading now?

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