Gobbled up Anne Perry's "The Whitechapel Conspiracy" at top speed just to relax my brain after Hitchens, and realized I have found yet another detective story author to like.
What are you reading now?
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Finally finished "Hitch 22" a couple of days ago - a really worthwhile and enjoyable read.
Gobbled up Anne Perry's "The Whitechapel Conspiracy" at top speed just to relax my brain after Hitchens, and realized I have found yet another detective story author to like.
Gobbled up Anne Perry's "The Whitechapel Conspiracy" at top speed just to relax my brain after Hitchens, and realized I have found yet another detective story author to like.
"The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people—talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if it seems stupid. Do it because it’s good and feels important. Put up more cat pictures. Make more songs. Show your doodles. Give things away and take things that are free." - Maureen J
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I started reading The Spellman Files, about the family of dysfunctional private investigators. I thought it was awful at first, very poorly written. But then I really got into it. And then it got stupid and boring. But then it got interesting again. But then I started playing a new video game and forgot about it. It's on my bedside table. I should finish it 
People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
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Re: What are you reading now?
Henri Matisse by Volkmar Essers
The Essential John James Audubon (an Amazon purchase)
The Essential John James Audubon (an Amazon purchase)
But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights. ~Rachel Maddow August 2010
The Second Amendment forms a fourth branch of government (an armed citizenry) in case the government goes mad. ~Larry Nutter
The Second Amendment forms a fourth branch of government (an armed citizenry) in case the government goes mad. ~Larry Nutter
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William C. Dietz, When all seems lost.
A SF novel of the legion of the Damned series.
A SF novel of the legion of the Damned series.
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I finished I, Claudius this weekend and I absolutely loved it. I also read Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov which was pretty solid. Then I started Claudius The God by Robert Graves which is the sequel and picks up where I, Claudius leaves off. It's more of the same and quite good as well. Although it's lost it's amazing incredulity and excitement that I had in the first book, it's still a great story so far.
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^^^^^ Ooh, nice pile right there! 
I'm reading some lesbo lit I mistakenly picked up in the library.... it's really boring and will probably be only the thrid novel I never finished reading...
I'm reading some lesbo lit I mistakenly picked up in the library.... it's really boring and will probably be only the thrid novel I never finished reading...
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"Radical Honesty" by Brad Blanton
I'm into self-help right now.
I'm into self-help right now.
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I hope you know I'm gonna steal back anything you bring overEvabot wrote:Where to start? I think I'll save junky for my plane ride next month.
lordpasternack wrote:Yeah - I fuckin' love oppressin' ma wimmin, like I love chowin' on ma bacon and tuggin' on ma ol' cock…
Pappa wrote:God is a cunt! I wank over pictures of Jesus! I love Darwin so much I'd have sex with his bones!!!!
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Hunter S. Thompson interviewed our Rum?Evabot wrote:Where to start? I think I'll save junky for my plane ride next month.
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
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Still working on Hume's Treatise, or pretending to do so.
I have a tendency to read a chapter or two in a book and pick up another, so often I'm in the middle of 8-9 books.
I just finished a marathon speed read for book clubs, reading 3 books in two weeks, when it usually takes me a month on just one. The books so consumed were, Sam Harris' "The Moral Landscape" (worth a read, but I felt it failed in critically necessary areas), Andre Comte-Sponville's "The Little Atheist Book Of Spirituality" (French intellectualist garbage in the post-modernist vein of talking much and saying little), and Christopher Hitchens' "God Is Not Great" (an enjoyable enough read, but, intellectually speaking, it was long on rhetoric, and comparatively light on actual arguments).
Anyway, what else.
Still have a lot of books on dialetheism and epistemology on the list, and try to preferentially sample library books before I have to return them.
Hottest on my list are:
Pascal Boyer's "Religion Explained", Bart Ehrman's "Forged", and a book on a new take on the meaning of the Tao in ancient Chinese philosophy ("A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought" by Chad Hansen).
What I'm reading tends to be rather chaotic and volatile.
I have a tendency to read a chapter or two in a book and pick up another, so often I'm in the middle of 8-9 books.
I just finished a marathon speed read for book clubs, reading 3 books in two weeks, when it usually takes me a month on just one. The books so consumed were, Sam Harris' "The Moral Landscape" (worth a read, but I felt it failed in critically necessary areas), Andre Comte-Sponville's "The Little Atheist Book Of Spirituality" (French intellectualist garbage in the post-modernist vein of talking much and saying little), and Christopher Hitchens' "God Is Not Great" (an enjoyable enough read, but, intellectually speaking, it was long on rhetoric, and comparatively light on actual arguments).
Anyway, what else.
Still have a lot of books on dialetheism and epistemology on the list, and try to preferentially sample library books before I have to return them.
Hottest on my list are:
Pascal Boyer's "Religion Explained", Bart Ehrman's "Forged", and a book on a new take on the meaning of the Tao in ancient Chinese philosophy ("A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought" by Chad Hansen).
What I'm reading tends to be rather chaotic and volatile.
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Helsiki Homicide 3. Its not CSI, in fact the suspects are repeat offeders mostly, easy to keep track of in some ways but they have their ways.
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Just finished Orson Scott Card's "Seventh Son" - found a Swedish translation in a library on Monday, while I was waiting for the kids. Seeing as the girls have recently gone bonkers for Maite Carranza's "The War of the Witches" (and pretty much everything else magic-related during the last 3-4 years), I wanted to check this one out. I was pleasantly surprised, mostly.
The only thing I really can't make sense of is how an apparently devout mormon (source: Wikipedia) could write that book, but maybe he can hold one set of beliefs while writing and another at other times.
The only thing I really can't make sense of is how an apparently devout mormon (source: Wikipedia) could write that book, but maybe he can hold one set of beliefs while writing and another at other times.
"The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people—talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if it seems stupid. Do it because it’s good and feels important. Put up more cat pictures. Make more songs. Show your doodles. Give things away and take things that are free." - Maureen J
"...anyone who says it’s “just the Internet” can . And then when they come back, they can again." - Tigger
"...anyone who says it’s “just the Internet” can
. And then when they come back, they can again." - TiggerRe: What are you reading now?
Just discovered Terry Brooks! And now have loads and loads of happy reading in store!
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"Pandora's Star" arrived today (bought on zilla's recommendation). Only read the first few pages so far, but it's looking like a good one!
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