What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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Get Carter with Virginia Woolf next
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Interesting mash-up....Trinity wrote:Get Carter with Virginia Woolf
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Re-reading The Mote in God's Eye - a science fiction novel about 'first contact' which I first read in the 1970s (I think) when it came out. A classic!
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Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle!Rum wrote:Re-reading The Mote in God's Eye - a science fiction novel about 'first contact' which I first read in the 1970s (I think) when it came out. A classic!
Have read it!
Have you read the sequel, "The moat around Murcheson's eye"?
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Just finished The Metamorphosis.
Also reading some Java nonsense and the Panda3d manual -oh, enthralling.
Also reading some Java nonsense and the Panda3d manual -oh, enthralling.
“The Turkey Trot, Grizzly Bear and Other Naughty Diversions”
“Starting as if in the good old-fashioned Two-Step, the dancers suddenly let go hands, the man slipping behind his fair companion, there is a little step and a hop, something like a turkey might be expected to do, then a fresh grip around the waist of the young lady, the man snuggles up ever so closely behind her and they hop, skip and jump and half run along.”
“Starting as if in the good old-fashioned Two-Step, the dancers suddenly let go hands, the man slipping behind his fair companion, there is a little step and a hop, something like a turkey might be expected to do, then a fresh grip around the waist of the young lady, the man snuggles up ever so closely behind her and they hop, skip and jump and half run along.”
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Engleby- Sebastian Faulks. A scrumptiously written tease.
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Are you the same En_Route who used to be on the Happy Atheist forum?En_Route wrote:Engleby- Sebastian Faulks. A scrumptiously written tease.
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Field guide to Western trees.
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You have me bang to rights. I almost didn't recognise you the right way round. Hopefully, you might be moved to air your wit here more often.Bruce Burleson wrote:Are you the same En_Route who used to be on the Happy Atheist forum?En_Route wrote:Engleby- Sebastian Faulks. A scrumptiously written tease.
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstances (Hume).
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Just got this.
Only a chapter or so in but I'm already gripped. Dennett is such an interesting, easy-to-follow writer that it's hard to believe he's a real philostopher!
It's a book about how to think! More specifically, it's a book of handy tricks to help you think intuitively but still rigorously. And it's funny, and it's warm, and it is completely non-technical while still not treating you like any kind of an idiot.
In short, it is Daniel Dennett owning up. "Here, folks! This is how I did it. This is how I think - or rather, how I have come to think after decades of slowly getting it less and less wrong!"
Off to read a couple of chapters before crashing for the day. Night, folks.
Only a chapter or so in but I'm already gripped. Dennett is such an interesting, easy-to-follow writer that it's hard to believe he's a real philostopher!
It's a book about how to think! More specifically, it's a book of handy tricks to help you think intuitively but still rigorously. And it's funny, and it's warm, and it is completely non-technical while still not treating you like any kind of an idiot.
In short, it is Daniel Dennett owning up. "Here, folks! This is how I did it. This is how I think - or rather, how I have come to think after decades of slowly getting it less and less wrong!"
Off to read a couple of chapters before crashing for the day. Night, folks.
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
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Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
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I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
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Nearly finished Cloud Atlas; wanted to read the book before watching the film.
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Xamonas Chegwé, I heard intelligibility is the enemy of philosophy...and I'm starting to suspect that a lot of philosophers agree.
Xamonas Chegwé, I heard intelligibility is the enemy of philosophy...and I'm starting to suspect that a lot of philosophers agree.
“The Turkey Trot, Grizzly Bear and Other Naughty Diversions”
“Starting as if in the good old-fashioned Two-Step, the dancers suddenly let go hands, the man slipping behind his fair companion, there is a little step and a hop, something like a turkey might be expected to do, then a fresh grip around the waist of the young lady, the man snuggles up ever so closely behind her and they hop, skip and jump and half run along.”
“Starting as if in the good old-fashioned Two-Step, the dancers suddenly let go hands, the man slipping behind his fair companion, there is a little step and a hop, something like a turkey might be expected to do, then a fresh grip around the waist of the young lady, the man snuggles up ever so closely behind her and they hop, skip and jump and half run along.”
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Bunch of comic books (the near complete series of Yoko Tsuno books by Roger Leloup)
Plus Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, when I can concentrate on long text.
Plus Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, when I can concentrate on long text.
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I have that one by Brunner, plus quite a few others...Svartalf wrote:Bunch of comic books (the near complete series of Yoko Tsuno books by Roger Leloup)
Plus Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, when I can concentrate on long text.
Interesting writer...
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Truman and the Hiroshima Cult by Paul Newmann. Point by point refutation of all the anti-bomb themes. Cruel, absolutely cruel to them. Great for debates.
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