What are you reading now?

[charlou]

Heya Thurston ... sounds good.


I'm reading Simon Winchester's The Meaning of Everything, The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.

A good read ... not at all stodgy as the title might suggest.

[Bella Fortuna]

^^^ That's a great book!

I just started "The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time" by Jeff Deck.

A book after my own pedantic heart!

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Typo-Hunt-C ... ALHTMGNZ47

[Geoff]

^^^ That's a great book!

I just started "The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time" by Jeff Deck.

A book after my own pedantic heart!

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Typo-Hunt-C ... ALHTMGNZ47

That looks like fun...mixed reviews though - let us know if you enjoy it?

Have you read this?
http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leave ... 988&sr=1-1

[Bella Fortuna]

Yes, that's a fun book.

[Ian]

[Rob]

I just read Brave new world for the first time. An interesting alternative for 1984.

[Ronja]

The Autobiography of Mark Twain, vol 1. MiM gave it to me for my birthday.

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[charlou]

I just read Brave new world for the first time. An interesting alternative for 1984.

"Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us." Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

[Ronja]

I just read Brave new world for the first time. An interesting alternative for 1984.

"Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us." Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

*shiver*

My first thought after I read that was "And the US is molding their society according to both fear and desire - and all the other governments and markets apparently want to follow like crazy lemmings."

[Rob]

The Autobiography of Mark Twain, vol 1. MiM gave it to me for my birthday.

book_twain-autob_image.jpg

:Nazi:

...I want. I love Mark Twain.

[Rob]

ALso I am reading catch-22. I haven't read it since I was in Middle school. I found it at a garage sell for 50 centers. :>

[Rum]

I am a slow reader these days as I only ever read sitting on the toilet or just occasionally if I have a rest on the bed in the afternoon. So I am still reading Hitch 22 (Christopher Hitchens memoires) after about three weeks and I am about 2/3 of the way through.

His account of moving his allegiance, thinking and politics from the far left to the libertarian/democratic centre, away from people as a 'resource' to the importance of individual liberty and freedom as encapsulated in the American Constitution, which he adores, is fascinating, even if at times, it is coloured and perhaps slightly reduced by the fact of his seduction by the glamour of New York and the power politics of Washington.

Wonderfully though, you can hear his wonderful voice in all he writes. A very entertaining and enlightening read.

[Gallstones]

This


And this

[Coito ergo sum]

Still with the flying car....

...I'll believe it when I see it...

We can't trust the average Mo with a flying car, especially those after postmortem virginal tete-a-72's.

[leo-rcc]

The Daily Show with John Stewart Presents Earth, A Visitors Guide to the Human Race.