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Old 07-10-2008, 10:50 AM
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What are you reading?
We've got a "What are you listening to?" thread, so I figured a similar thread on reading might be fun. Discussions aren't required. I'll start.

AUTHOR/EDITOR - TITLE (GENRE)

Voltaire - Candide (Novelette)
Christian George - Sex, Sushi, and Salvation (Christian Living)
David Edmond and John Eidinow - Bobby Fisher Goes to War (Non-fiction/History) - [soon to be a movie]
Robert J. Dean - How Can We Believe? (Christian Apologetics)
Holy Spirit - Holy Bible (Word of God)
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I'm reading...
I appreciate your Yes' infos, Yesspaz.

Anyway, my recent Bible is...

Jim Murray - Whiskey Bible (manual)

Exactly this is the Bible for me. :-)
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Old 07-10-2008, 01:15 PM
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Re: I'm reading...
I don't read books of fiction like 'spaz; however, I did read Voltaire's Candide in World Literature when in college.

Here's one of my latest non-fictional reads:

Einstein: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Works of the World's Greatest Physicist

Other than the above, I've been reading scores of First Amendment case law and SCOTUS opinions.
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Old 07-10-2008, 01:34 PM
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Re: What are you reading?
What is 'Christian Apologetics'??

Anyway.. I trying to read I Am Legend, but I made the mistake of seeing the movie first. Besides that, I'm pretty much getting all of my reading material on-line.
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Name: can-o-worms.gif Views: 675 Size: 37.6 KBYou couldn't have just googled it?
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Old 07-10-2008, 02:46 PM
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Aural Moon posts. What else?
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Attachment 337You couldn't have just googled it?
That's pretty dang funny.
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Old 07-10-2008, 03:17 PM
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Re: What are you reading?
John Adams by David McCullough
The newest American Heritage Magazine
Not as Good as the Book by Andy Tillsan from tangent
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Re: What are you reading?
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon
Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
and some how-to books on web development (Flash and Javascript)
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Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon
Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
and some how-to books on web development (Flash and Javascript)
Sharply contrasting themes, save for the web development, to those that started this thread!
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Old 07-10-2008, 04:17 PM
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Playboy volume XX Issue 8.
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Old 07-10-2008, 09:43 PM
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Playboy volume XX Issue 8.
That's the one with the male models, right?

Tonight I read some of Sports Illustrated and the newspaper. I also read the liner notes of the Fireballet free CD sampler I picked up at Nearfest. And then some reviews. Free is too expensive for the derivative garbage contained within the disc. I shouldn't be harsh, since I play no instrument, but what an embarassment.

I am slowly making my way through Stephen Colbert's book...it's a scream.
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Re: What are you reading?
Mostly cereal boxes, pc world and the job classified.

Read the rain gauge yesterday.

And if I actually break out a book, it's Patterson or Baldacci.
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Re: What are you reading?
I am in the middle of a sci-fi project...

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (sci-fi)
and Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (sci-fi)
at the moment...
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I am in the middle of a sci-fi project...

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (sci-fi)
and Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (sci-fi)
at the moment...
Neither of which are really Sci-Fi.
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Neither of which are really Sci-Fi.
Yaaah!

Could you be a bit more precise? No science or not fiction?!
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Re: What are you reading?
The last book I was reading but unfortunately didn't have time to finish was a biography of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers (if I remember correctly). I was visiting my grandmother (who doesn't really read books, but my late grandfather did), needed to kill some time during evenings, and thought that one could be an interesting read. The previous time I was there I read a book about Gorbachev, by some Indian author, methinks. It was a little dry to go through.

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Old 07-11-2008, 09:57 AM
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Yaaah!

Could you be a bit more precise? No science or not fiction?!
Yes.

Huxley's Brave New World is set in the future but is more a social commentary and satire of serious contemporary issues of Huxley's time. The book is a hyperbolical view of utopian socialism run amuck. Fahrenheit 451 too depicts a society -- again set in the future but rooted in issues of the day -- which has eroded.

Many of my favorite Sci-Fi movies (Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, Collosus: The Forbin Project, etc.) were deeply satirical of the issues of the cold war.

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." -- Sydney J. Harris
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:25 AM
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Re: What are you reading?
True, most science fiction is social commentary in a different time and place. Star Trek was one of my favorite shows because it never pretended to be sci-fi. They had episodes on the cold war, robotics, race issues, all kinds of things.

It helped to have a Vulcan who could have inner eyelids and things like that to get them out of impossible situations...

Sci-fi to me was never special effects, etc...
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Oprah's book of the month of course.
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