What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Angels and Demons

What a hunk of junk. The "history", the "information about art", the "science", the "math", the "information about religion" and the "theology" are laughable to anyone who knows the first, second and third thing about these subjects.

Now, I make no pretense to being a scholar on history, art, religion, math, linguistics and science but know a few things about these areas and found enough howlers to...well, roll my eyes every few pages.
 
I totally wanted to see Angels and Demons in the theater, just to make fun of it, but I am worried it is too bad even for that, and I hate Tom Hanks.
 
I actually enjoyed Angels and Demons - I thought it was better than the Da Vinci Code. Perhaps it's just me.

Anyway. I'm rereading some HP Lovecraft - again - for reasons surpassing understanding.
 
Actually, the novel AaD is better than the novel The DaVinci Code...but "better" here means "less preposterous, less unbelievably silly, less full of eyerubbingly inaccurate howlers, containing less amazingly bad writing and less misshapen as a novel".

AaD is at least great trash (in parts) and very entertaining (in parts). The DaVinci Code is pretty much just potboiler trash with one heck of an anticlimax. And don't get me started on the descriptions of art, architecture, religion, linguistics and history in that...speaking as someone who once considered majoring in Art History, that Dan Brown claims he studied art in college and that his information is accurate and taken from that is just hilarious. The sad thing is, a "layman" would actually believe him and swallow it all whole.

As for the movies, The DaVinci Code is actually a terrific thriller. It's a solid 3 star movie but no one seems to have liked it but me.

Same for Angels and Demons- mild thumbs up.

Edit: Tom Hanks is, however, miscast as the hero. Maybe it's that he's too old but he never seems right. And what's with that hair? He never has that hair in any of his movies.
 
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Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett

Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History by Patrick Hunt

Mindfield by Lone Frank

and just started the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. My dad is buying the books one at a time as I finish them, and he's reading them a second time. Said these are his all-time favorite sci-fi books.

I'm having a hard time finding fiction I like these days. Do we have a thread somewhere on atheist/agnostic non-woo fiction recommendations?
 
Marine Salvage, Joseph N. Gores, 1971. Endless stories about guys with names like John Iron doing clearly impossible things with thousands of tons of foundered ships. Fascinating. Needs an update, of course. And more pictures. And diagrams. And a glossary.

I'm getting so I never read fiction. Why would that be?
 
Moby Dick. Still.

I have been spending time outdoors...

:)
 
U Boat. Weapons Book No. 1 in the old Balantine series, 1968 -- before the Ultra truth came out, no less.

Odd how the author, David Mason, is so admiring of Doenitz.

Old Doughnuts has a lot of scenes in The World at War, squeaking away like a stage German from back in the days when they were funny.
 
I'm not reading a book, I'm reading a Kindle. I was.... uh.... skeptical, but I love it now!!

What I'm reading on it is the new Christopher Moore, "Fool".
 
"The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch


...and "The Han Solo Adventures" by Brian Daley :boxedin:
 
I'm a teacher in my first nonworking summer, so I'm feeling like the protagonist in the Twilight Zone's "Time Enough at Last"

With that in mind, I'm alternating between
Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait
Death From the Skies by Phil Plait
Trick or Treatment by Simon Singh
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin (Reread)
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins (Reread)
Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King

I should have those ll finished in a week or two. Tomorrow's my library/park day.
 
Got home from the library last night with 'No Country For Old Men'; returned it today.

Yes, I finished it.
 
Having got an eBook reader with my iPhone, I'm now taking the opportunity to read Flatland at last.

Looking for other free eBooks to read too.
 
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