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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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James Michener, Tales of the South Pacific; I was inspired to read it after seeing the revival of the musical, South Pacific, in New York. Interesting, and different; Americans in WW2 in the Pacific. Published 60 years ago...
 
The Music of Pythagoras by Kitty Ferguson. Sort of half-biography, half-historiography of Pythagorean thought, with a focus on figuring out what Pythagoras believed and what was glommed onto is philosophies by subsequent thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Cicero, Copernicus, et al.

I just finished the Romanizing of Pythagoras and we're heading into the Christianization of Pythagoras. So far it's a fun read, though the explanation of various mathematicians' proofs gets a bit tedious.
 
alysten said:
The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile & Translation of Europe's Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Ro Yal Armouries MS I.33
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i'm getting that! Do you practise?

I'm reading Money by Martin Amis and wondering why it took me so long. Why do i so like books about addiction?
 
The complete robot by Isaac Asimov

I just cant get enough of his stories, there are soo many. And after that it's off to the non-fiction.
 
The Sacketts by Louis Lamour. My father swore by Lamour, and I believe this particular book came from my grandfather's collection. I was out of reading material (without buying more) and figured what the heck.
 
Steve Mithen's After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC

Lots of pretty good information, but sometimes the read is a bit tiresome.
 
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

Non-fiction book combining a history of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago and the machinations of serial killer H.H. Holmes.
 
Journey to the west, by Wú Chéng'ēn (supposedly).

I'm reading the English translation, because my Chinese is nowhere near good enough yet.
 
Happy bday, Professor!!

I just started the newest (I think) Terry Pratchett, Nation
 
"God: The Failed Hypothesis" by Victor Stenger

Rereading the Merry Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton (there's a new one out in November).
 
2 on the go at the moment:

Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World by Stephen Oppenheimer.

The Evolution of Social Wasps by James H. Hunt.
 
Blindness by Jose Saramago. I wanted to read it before seeing the movie, and I must say that the first 100 pages flew by, and I almost couldn't put it down. The style seems like it should be awkward, but it actually flows quite well. There are no quotation marks or indicators of who is speaking except through context, and the format is very stream-of-consciousness. I highly recommend it.
 
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i'm getting that! Do you practise?
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Yes. At least once or twice a week. There is a group in Boston that practices weekly and I am hoping to either find one or start one in Philadelphia. Though translating 2 dimensional drawings into 3 dimensional combat gets interesting. Throw in medieval Latin and German... and woo-hoo we have a party!
 
Henryk Vogler's Holocaust memoir, Wstep do fizjologji strachu (Polish: Introduction to the Physiology of Fear, but published in English as "Lessons in Fear.") Re-reading it, in Polish. Terrifying, which is appropriate. Am now finishing the last chapter, with the tables turning in early 1945 -- fear is now on the German side. (He survived in Gross-Rosen, in a camp complex dedicated to industrial production for the Wehrmacht, and which had a relatively large number of survivors because of that).
 
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