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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Schneibster » Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:48 am

The Weapon Shops of Isher doesn't strike me as something that would translate well. You should check out The War With the Rull. You can try The World Of Null-A but I suspect it also won't (though you should still read it if you like van Vogt at all, it's the classic, really).
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Svartalf » Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:50 am

Bugger translation... if I can't read an English language author in the original, it's either bad or pre Marlowe.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by leo-rcc » Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:18 pm

I just finished "Hammered, the Iron druid chronicles book 3".
Pretty good, nothing memorable though.
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Post by Tero » Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:19 pm

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:43 pm

I'm on Darwin's Island by Steve Jones

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Darwins-Island- ... 140870000X

Good read, probably nothing I didn't already know in it but Jones writes well.

Have the Booker nominated The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills next on the conveyor belt.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by charlou » Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:08 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:Have the Booker nominated The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills next on the conveyor belt.
That looks like a good read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restraint_of_Beasts
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Schneibster » Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:12 am

Finished Slan. Casting around. Haven't made my mind up yet. Probably be a last-minute thing.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by apophenia » Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:13 am




Just finished reading and discussing The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D. An excellent read about brain plasticity, with one major caveat. The author slides from proven research to back-of-the-envelope spitballing conjecture without demarcation. He even at one point, in discussing the brain benefits of exercise, references a study without bothering to mention the study applied to mice, not humans, as he negligently implies.

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by JimC » Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:14 am

Re-reading various Tom Clancy novels...

I'm moving to the right...

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by JimC » Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:16 am

apophenia wrote:Just finished reading and discussing The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D. An excellent read about brain plasticity, with one major caveat. The author slides from proven research to back-of-the-envelope spitballing conjecture without demarcation. He even at one point, in discussing the brain benefits of exercise, references a study without bothering to mention the study applied to mice, not humans, as he negligently implies.

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I got that from the library, and thought it valuable, although somewhat one-sided...

However, the concept of plasticity has interesting implications...
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Azathoth » Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:51 am

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. It's quite an amusing read
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by leo-rcc » Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:12 am

Azathoth wrote:Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. It's quite an amusing read
Indeed, I've read it a couple of times. I read his blog as well.
http://www.badscience.net/
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Schneibster » Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:14 am

His blog is pretty good, if a bit repetitive.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Ronja » Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:51 pm

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Svartalf » Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:56 pm

Starting on Swords against Wizardry, vol 4 of Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar books.
I do ithink it's the very first time I'm reading it in the original English.
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