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Bella Fortuna
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by Bella Fortuna » Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:58 pm
Geoff wrote:
That looks like fun...mixed reviews though - let us know if you enjoy it?
Made it about a third of the way through this, and it was thin gruel written by someone with a minimal story who was desperate to impress with his extensive vocabulary.
Very disappointing but I have to recommend a pass on it!
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apophenia
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by apophenia » Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:57 am
I, sadly, am a slow reader too -- and have the attention span of a gnat who has been repeatedly dipped in espresso.
That said, I am working my way through:
Hume's Treatise Of Human Understanding, Graham Priest's "In Contradiction" (about Dialetheism), and Jack McDevitt's "The Engines Of God" (SF)
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Minimaul
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by Minimaul » Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:45 pm
I'm currently reading Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (this is one of the books that is tied to the Wire) and Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.
Homicide is amazing and before I started that I had just read The Corner by the same author, and that was also great. I highly suggest them to pretty much everybody for a serious look into drugs, ghetto life and a world which most of us will never know or understand yet see all the time.
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surreptitious57
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by surreptitious57 » Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:53 am
Just finished :
Mammoth Book Of SF Novels :
Ian McLeod
James Kelly
Ursula Guin
Jon Williams
Nancy Krauss
Joe Haldeman
Ian MacDonald
Alistair Reynolds
Robert Silverberg
Next up :
Helen Of Troy : Goddess, Princess, Whore : Brittany Hughes
To those who lament their reading speed : please don't. Some things are best taken slowly. This is one of them.
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN
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by surreptitious57 » Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:57 am
apophenia wrote:I, sadly, am a slow reader too -- and have the attention span of a gnat who has been repeatedly dipped in espresso.
That said, I am working my way through:
Hume's Treatise Of Human Understanding, Graham Priest's "In Contradiction" (about Dialetheism), and Jack McDevitt's "The Engines Of God" (SF)
Has anyone ever told you that you are beautiful ?
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN
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Clinton Huxley
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by Clinton Huxley » Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:03 pm
Just started The Creature In The Map by Charles Nicholl, about Sir Walter Raleigh's search for El Dorado. Jolly good so far
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Callan
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by Callan » Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:32 pm
Lonely Planet's Aboriginal Australia
Having marched diligently around several carefully-put-together Aboriginal exhibits in assorted Aussie museums and art galleries, where I experienced nothing more earth-shaking than a polite and dutiful interest, I figured I should do a little reading up in the hope that it all means a bit more next time!
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DRSB
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by DRSB » Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:19 pm
Ronja wrote:The Autobiography of Mark Twain, vol 1. MiM gave it to me for my birthday.
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Must be an amazing read, I keep hearing about it from all sides, must get hold of it myself.
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Animavore
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by Animavore » Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:40 pm
I'm reading this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/God-Debates-Ath ... 535&sr=8-1
Quite good so far. Details all the latest in theology and goes on to dismantle it. Though I'm not at the dismantling yet. He's right up to date and not still fighting Aquina's 5 "proofs" like Dawkins. This is the guy who nailed William Lane Craig in debate after all
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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by Cormac » Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:44 pm
Capital Taxation for Solicitors.
FUCKERPUNKERSHIT!
Wanna buy some pegs Dave, I've got some pegs here...
You're my wife now!
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Callan
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by Callan » Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:10 pm
Cormac wrote:Capital Taxation for Solicitors.
Insomnia?
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FBM
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by FBM » Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:35 pm
The Divine Proportion, by H. E. Huntley. Good stuff. Now I'm seeing the golden rectangle almost everywhere I look.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Minimaul
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by Minimaul » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:08 pm
I finished Homicide and it was beautiful. Also read A Time to Love and a Time to Die which was great as well. Similar to All Quiet on the Western Front, but still excellent. Now I'm reading I, Claudius by Robert Graves which I'm loving.
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Animavore
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by Animavore » Fri Jul 08, 2011 6:59 pm
I'm readin' this book about a Southside Dub coming into the collapse of the Celtic Tiger.
The blurbs on the back assure me this is hilarious stuff but after one chapter I'm finding it as 'bout as funny as juggling mackerel. I checked Amazon to make sure it wasn't just me but no. More praise than Kate Middleton's sycophants.
I mean ok - the prologue made me Pirates of Penzance and I harnessed my gut ready for more eruptions but like Obama's promises of change they were not forthcoming.
I'll give chapter 2 a shot tomorrow and if things don't improve it's getting abandoned like last Christmas's puppies.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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by Mac_Guffin » Sat Jul 09, 2011 6:59 pm
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