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What are you reading?

last week I read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Al Franken's Lies and Lying Liars who tell them. Two quick reads.

I'm currently reading Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins and Atheism: the Case against God by George Smith. Loving both of them,especially the latter because it is exposing me to some excellent philosophical concepts that I was pretty clueless about.
 
Latest issue of "The Atlantic" and Economist.

I'm also reading a book on Aglie software developement.
 
bug_girl what do you think about that book?

This is what I am reading anyway and I find it great

"DR. TATIANA'S
SEX ADVICE
TO ALL CREATION
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex "
 
Reading: "Reading Lolita in Terhan" -- a very interesting and depressing story of life under the Iranian revolution.
 
Texas Govt.

The American Pageant (US History)

Beginning Programming for Dummies

DOT guide for EMS Instructor Training Program

This summer I get a piece of paper that says I'm a recognized liberal artist!

And I just finished Stossel's book "Give Me A Break"
 
I just finished reading Arabian Nights. I couldn't believe how bawdy it was at first, I suppose I was used to the "rated-G" Disney versions of the tales.
 
TriangleMan said:
I just finished reading Arabian Nights. I couldn't believe how bawdy it was at first, I suppose I was used to the "rated-G" Disney versions of the tales.
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Yep, it is a bawdy read...Osama and his crew would ban it for being indecent (as would Pat and Jerry and the Xian crew here, I suspect), but it is a fun read, some wonderful stories.

Just finished "Touching the Void." Another very good read...along the lines of the Pefect Storm and Into Thin Air. Wow, what the human body can survive, it is truly amazing.
 
rikzilla said:
I just finished Sharon Kay Penman's: "The Sunne in Splendour" A wonderfully intricate novel of the wars of the Roses. She effectively skewers the old Tudor libels of Richard III, and shows how the Duke of Buckingham was likely the culprit responsible for the deaths of Richard's nephews in the Tower.

Now reading: "Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam"

-z
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Z -- if you enjoyed the Sunne in Splendour, try the Nicolo novels (starts with Nicolo Rising) of the late Scotish author Dorthy Donnet, also her book "And King Hereafter" a retelling/revisionist history novel of MacBeth, great fun.

And, also, see my recommendation above -- Reading Lolita in Terhan -- an excellent book about the toll of fundumentalist Islam in Iran on freedom (women especially -- kind of reminds me of a real life version of the HandMaiden's Tale).
 
At the moment I'm unable to concentrate on any single book for more than thirty or so pages so as a result I am currently reading:

Ghostwritten by David Mitchell; it's the first novel by the author of The Cloud Atlas (an absolutely astonishing book, imo) and Ghostwritten reads as a dry run for it; it's ostensibly a collection of stories from across the world, albeit linked together by co-incidence, recurring characters and common themes.

Reefer Madness: ...and Other Tales from the American Underground by Eric Schlosser which is not, as a number of people discovered to their dismay in the record shop where I bought it, a DIY manual for soft drug use but an investigation into the relationship between drugs, pornography and migrant labour with US society and its economy (and by extension, the global economy).

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, which is about a 15 year old boy called Christopher who decides to investigate the death of his neighbour's dog, and documents his adventures in the form of a journal. The twist is that Christopher has a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome; he has an amazing understanding of maths but no idea how to read facial expressions or hold a conversation, and as a result we get to see a view of the world which is radically different from that which we're used to.
 
headscratcher4 said:


Z -- if you enjoyed the Sunne in Splendour, try the Nicolo novels (starts with Nicolo Rising) of the late Scotish author Dorthy Donnet, also her book "And King Hereafter" a retelling/revisionist history novel of MacBeth, great fun.

And, also, see my recommendation above -- Reading Lolita in Terhan -- an excellent book about the toll of fundumentalist Islam in Iran on freedom (women especially -- kind of reminds me of a real life version of the HandMaiden's Tale).
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Thanks Grady I'll try and find a copy at the library. I've just about read all of SKP's historical novels..the Welsh trilogy was her best.

Thanks for the suggestions.

-z
 
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen, by Jacques Pépin.
 
Just finished "The Knight" by Gene Wolfe. First in the series....The Wizard Knight.

Wolfe's first venture into pure fantasy, as far as I know. Quite good, Wolfe takes many of the standard fantasy elements and gives them his unique twist, resulting in an interesting read.
 
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