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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Perfect Figures: The Lore of Numbers and How We Learned to Count by Bunny Crumpacker.
 
Just finished Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, the story of one person's spiritual journey. It was well written, and full of interesting things, but also very woo-ish. That being said, I lost count of the number of times I thought that I'd gotten to much the same spiritual and emotional places without undertaking the deprivations and path that she found necessary and enlightening, and without the need to buy into an entire belief system.
 
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A Well-Paid Slave - biography of Curt Flood
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Who wrote it? I'm a big baseball fan and interested in the era when baseball began changing to what it is today.

I'm currently reading "Superman vs Hollywood: How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded and American Icon" by Jake Rossen.
Gives the history of Superman outside of the Comic Books, from the Radio show to Superman Returns.
 
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Digging in the Yucatan by Ann Axtell Morris. About the excavation/study/reconcstuctions of parts of Chichen Itza (especially the Temple of the Warriors) during the time her husband (and she) went there working under the guy thought to be who Indiana Jones was based on. She was cool!!! (and cute!!) (and very intelligent!!!) First read this as library book in the 60s, just recently got a copy for me! (next up, the 2 vol. book her husband and she wrote/produced about the Tof the W. icluding (v.2) the many wall paintings they (w/ help) restored from crushed/broken walls in the temple. (It is $1500.00 in reasonable condition - I'm kind of hoping for the signed, limited to 600 copy edition but that is unlikely - none on market).
 
"Unweaving the Rainbow" by Richard Dawkins. I have ordered from the library the audio book "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (I read it in high school but had heard that his reading was excellent).
 
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison. She has bipolar disorder and is also an authority on bipolar disorder. The book is her memoir, and gives insights as both a doctor and a patient. Very facinating.

In between textbooks; Inter-Act, 11th edition, by Verderber, et.al., Art Since 1900 Vol. 2: 1945 to present, by Foster and Krauss, and Statistics for People who (Think they) Hate Statistics, 2nd edition, by Salkind.
 
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An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison. She has bipolar disorder and is also an authority on bipolar disorder. The book is her memoir, and gives insights as both a doctor and a patient. Very facinating.

In between textbooks; Inter-Act, 11th edition, by Verderber, et.al., Art Since 1900 Vol. 2: 1945 to present, by Foster and Krauss, and Statistics for People who (Think they) Hate Statistics, 2nd edition, by Salkind.
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She's great.

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The whole episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxRLap9xLag&feature=related
 
Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial, by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
Dedicated to Prince Charles............ :D:D:D
 
Frauen und die Scharia: Die Menschenrechte im Islam (Women and the sharia: Human rights in Islam; with an emphasis on the rights for women) by Christine Schirrmacher and Ursula Spuler-Stegemann and The Life of Muhammad by I. Ishaq and A. Guillaume.

Still need to start Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft by Philip D. Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice!
 
I just finished reading Jack Whyte's The Eagle which is the last of nine books in his Arthurian series. I personally feel it's the most authentic retelling of a very familiar story I've ever read. He does pathos very well.
 
"Bud And Lou" - The biography of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. It's very interesting and hard to put down. Lou Costello became a real stinker and demanding once he felt secured that the studios would do anything to keep him under contract.
 
"The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea". A collection of weird fiction by William Hope Hodgson. He was one of the authors that H.P. Lovercraft praised in his "Supernatural Horror in Literature" treatise.
 
The two main ones I'm reading at the moment are:
  • If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
  • Modern Humanism: Living without Religion by Alfred Hobson and Neil Jenkins
The former because I've been a fan of Campbell since I first saw Army of Darkness and the latter because I'm new into this whole humanism/freethinking/scepticism malarky... well new in recognising it as something with form and like-minded people, anyway.

Oh, and I'm "reading" The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan (5th Wheel of Time novel), by audiobook during my daily commute. Just finished god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens in the same manner. Nothing better when you're stuck in traffic than a car stereo-connected iPod. :D And it helps me consume silly amounts of podcasts.
 
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