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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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"The Greatest Show on Earth", Richard Dawkins. Just started it. It's working so far.
 
AvalonXQ said:
Do you often find that your books stop functioning sometime during the process of reading them?
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Yeah, I do. For instance, at the moment, I am reading "The Greatest Show on Earth" - but not at this specific moment. Therefore, at the moment, it isn't working.

It was a few moments ago, though.
 
For any UK readers - WH Smith1 are doing a special offer this week on the 2nd edition of Bad Science2 by Ben Goldacre - £2.993 when you buy a copy of the Times4 at 90p.

1 a major newsagent
2 the edition with the chapter on Matthias Rath and his activities
3 cover price £7.99
4 a formerly reputable newspaper
 
That Old Ace in the Hole, Annie Proulx. Annie P. is too old. She's never been good at novel-length plots, and now she's turned out a shapeless wad of nothing in particular, featuring a gaggle of rural grotesques (you can't call them a cast of characters when there's no story) as imagined by a New Yorker author for a New Yorker audience. She gives them names like Coolbroth Fronk, Tater Crouch, and Dick Head, and jerks them around through sordid, violent, and ludicrous antics for her own amusement if nobody else's.

This book is supposed to be set in the Texas Panhandle, but, funny thing, it reads exactly like her Wyoming stories, which I alternately resented and laughed at for their under-the-top inaccuracies.

And why & the hell can't the woman write with connectives?
 
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Millennium: The end of the world and the forging of Christendom by Tom Holland.

Not very far through it yet, but it's looking quite interesting.
 
Makers by Cory Doctorow. Interesting after the cyberpunk and the steam machine sf to see a technogeek peek at the near future. And some homages to other favorite authors. "Yeth, Mathter..."
 
Coming Up for Air, Orwell. A re-read after many years.

Before that, To the Great Ocean, Harmon Tupper, 1965. A popular history of the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Quite a page-turner at times. Also, a historical artifact in itself, given all that's happened in 45 years. Makes me almost nostalgic for the good old Cold War, when everything was simple.
 
I'm looking at one called "The Protestant Mind in the English Reformation" and it's pretty interesting although a little far into the technical/historical for my needs. I wasn't aware how much really beautiful writing went in to some of these 17th century sermons, I guess it was the age of Shakespeare and all!
 
currently rereading George rr martin. Hoping the next book comes soon.
 
Aldous Huxley

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Anyone reading Huxley, Carl Jung, Stanislav Grof, Robert Anton Wilson?
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I searched for Huxley and nothing. :rolleyes:

I just finished 'The Consciousness Revolution' by Stanislav Grof, Ervin Laszlo, and Peter Russell.

I am currently reading 'The Art of Seeing' by Aldous Huxley.
 
I have two books on the go right now: The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins, and Swing Brother Swing by Ngaio Marsh.
 
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