Recent Books You've Read
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Recent Books You've Read
I heart books a lot so thought i'd start a thread asking what books you all have read recently
for me:
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
End The Fed by Ron Paul
The Gathering Storm by Brandon Sanderson/Robert Jordan
currently reading:
Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
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Les Mis, The Age of Reason, Single-Handed Sailing, Kiwi Strike, Waterloo Creek, To Brave Every Danger and the Atheist's Bible among others, including Storey's Raising Chickens.
Unsurprisingly, they're not making a hell of a lot of sense.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
Just finished Slash's autobiography, as well as Scar Tissue the Anthony Kiedis autobiography. España Deci Alpiste by Hernan Casciari (if your an argie this one is fucking hilarious), Christopher Walken The Man, The movies the Legend, as well as Martin Fierro by Jose Hernandez (still reading this one) Have a few other books I am looking forward to reading, The Greatest Show on Earth, Peter Mansbridge One on One, and possibly a Julia Child cookbook that was given to me.
Recently Read:
God the Failed Hypothesis - by Victor Stenger
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - by Robert Heinlein
Currently Reading:
The God Delusion - by Richard Dawkins
Looking Forward to Reading:
Good Without God - by Greg Epstein
I Am a Strange Loop - by Douglas Hophstadler
The Gathering Storm - by Jordan/Sanderson (love the WoT series!)
the stenger book is fantastic
sanderson really does an amazing job with the WoT book, i couldn't put it down
I see a plethora of educational titles. I generally only read books for entertainment. For educational materials I utilise the net. So I kind of doubt most people care that I'm reading Balance Point by Kathy Tyers. About 1/5th of the way through a 19 novel saga by 12 different authors which takes place over a 5 year intragalactic war with an extragalactic enemy that starts 21 years after Return of the Jedi.
Enlightened Atheist, Gaming God.
Recently Finished:
A Good Keen Man by Barry Crump
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Next on the list:
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
just bought on B&N:
The Mistborn Trilogy Boxset by Brandon Sanderson
and a pre-order of Why Evolution Is True (paperback) by Jerry Coyne
Three different CompTIA Security + books in prep for the test.
I also have a stack of catch-up reading once the test has been passed and I have a moment to relax.
How can not believing in something that is backed up with no empirical evidence be less scientific than believing in something that not only has no empirical evidence but actually goes against the laws of the universe and in many cases actually contradicts itself? - Ricky Gervais
Harry Potter....
I recently read "Seven Theories of Religion," by Daniel Pals; "How We Believe," by Michael Shermer; "The Counter-Creationism Handbook," by Mark Isaak; "Evolution vs. Creationism," by Eugenie Scott; and "Deconstructing Jesus," by Robert Price. I'm currently working on "Ethics," by Spinoza.
Michael Shermer turned me on to skepticism in 2004 with his book "The Science of Good & Evil." Actually, it was his column in Scientific American that influenced me to buy his books in the first place.
I had to do a double take on this post, I thought I saw "Bible", .........same diff, except Harry Potter has better plot development and no one pretends the magic is real.
Anywho,
Highly recommended.
1984
Animal Farm
The God Delusion
Infidel
God The Failed Hypothesis
2000 Years Of Disbelief
Letter To A Christian Nation
Portable Atheist(Must have back brace to carry it)
Oedipus Trilogies (Greek plays)
Medea(Greek play)
(I have more, but this is all I can think of now)
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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let's see...i tend to read at least three books at once. just in the last few weeks i've read:
the usa trilogy (the 42nd parallel, 1919, and the big money) by john dos passos
khomeini: life of the ayatollah by baqer moin
mao: a reinterpretation by lee feigon
foucault's pendulum by umberto eco
major trends in jewish mysticism by gershom scholem (reread)
mao: a life by philip short
the death and resurrection of the beloved son: the transformation of child sacrifice in judaism and christianity by jon d. levenson (reread: it was one of my senior seminar texts in college)
taking care of business: samuel gompers, george meany, lane kirkland, and the tragedy of american labor by paul buhle
plus i'm about to go on an arthur c. clarke and isaac asimov binge, as soon as i tie up a few loose ends in my current reading. i might even give frank herbert's dune series another try, since the last time i tried i was in high school.
oh, and i'm looking to pick up nick cave's new novel, the death of bunny munro, since i loved and the ass saw the angel so much.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Verdict: meh.
It was an unfulfilling read.
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawkings
"The Universe in a Nutshell" by Stephen Hawkings
"On the Origin of Species" (a very early edition) by Charles Darwin
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
"God is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens
"The Bible" King James version by many bronze-age men that believed in fairy tales to explain the natural world they perceived
My god has a hammer, jesus was nailed to a cross. Any questions?
A Confederacy of Dunces by O'Toole
One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest by Kesey
The Mad Trapper of Rat River
Into the Wild by Krakauer
A Plea for Capt. John Brown by H.D. Thoreau