The Fatal Avenue by Richard Holmes...
About the wars traversing flanders since 1300
Just getting to WWI. So depressing how cynical it all was.
What are you reading now?
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Re: What are you reading now?
I have a well balanced personality. I've got chips on both shoulders
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Two Oliver Sacks books, I got the whole set for my birthday! I like him a great deal, partly because he isn't a hard line scientist, he does enter the world of feeling readily and will interpret qualitative data; he's also an accomplished neurologist, the mix makes for reading that pushes me to think and consider things more carefully.
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Re: What are you reading now?
Questo:
Anche se, per lo più, sto guardando le foto, perché è in italiano e non capisco italiano.
Anche se, per lo più, sto guardando le foto, perché è in italiano e non capisco italiano.
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I'm reading Supersense by Bruce Hood. It's all about our natural bias toward the super-natural and how we project and infer the super -natural from the natural.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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Just finished Conrad's The Secret Sharer and Joyce's Portrait of the Artist, am working on The Historian's Toolbox and The Pursuit of History, but all of those are required for my classes.
In what little reading time I have left over, I'm working on:
In what little reading time I have left over, I'm working on:
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"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."
"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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Bought, read and finished Good Omens in about two and a half hours-ish.
What can I say? Not that great, not that bad. Gave me a bit of a chuckle, but a death who isn't Death is just no fun.
What can I say? Not that great, not that bad. Gave me a bit of a chuckle, but a death who isn't Death is just no fun.
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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got a book today called "china: a history" by john keay detailing 3000 years of china.
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I've seen it. They skipped over a few details.Animavore wrote:got a book today called "china: a history" by john keay detailing 3000 years of china.
"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."
"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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they? it is only 500 pages.FBM wrote:I've seen it. They skipped over a few details.Animavore wrote:got a book today called "china: a history" by john keay detailing 3000 years of china.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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OK, you got me. I've never seen the book.Animavore wrote:they?FBM wrote:I've seen it. They skipped over a few details.Animavore wrote:got a book today called "china: a history" by john keay detailing 3000 years of china.
According to my calculations, that's...wait...several...years per page. Surely they skipped over something, eh? Like Mr. Liu's first blowjob?it is only 500 pages.
"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."
"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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Re: What are you reading now?
The Sum of Our Days, by Isabel Allende.
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OPLAN 5027
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Is that the one where you guys provide air cover for an Australian invasion of New Zealand?Ian wrote:OPLAN 5027
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
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Horus Rising.
No brownie points from the sci-fi crew, don't care. Book was awesome.
No brownie points from the sci-fi crew, don't care. Book was awesome.
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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A Game of Thrones
and the new verison of The Dream Hunters (turned from illustrated book to comic form, story by Neil Gaiman)
and the new verison of The Dream Hunters (turned from illustrated book to comic form, story by Neil Gaiman)
All around me darkness gathers, fading is the sun that shone; We must speak of other matters: You can be me when I'm gone...
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