What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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Get Carter with Virginia Woolf next
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Interesting mash-up....Trinity wrote:Get Carter with Virginia Woolf
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Re-reading The Mote in God's Eye - a science fiction novel about 'first contact' which I first read in the 1970s (I think) when it came out. A classic!
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Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle!Rum wrote:Re-reading The Mote in God's Eye - a science fiction novel about 'first contact' which I first read in the 1970s (I think) when it came out. A classic!
Have read it!
Have you read the sequel, "The moat around Murcheson's eye"?
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Just finished The Metamorphosis.
Also reading some Java nonsense and the Panda3d manual -oh, enthralling.
Also reading some Java nonsense and the Panda3d manual -oh, enthralling.
Imagine that. I guess it's only coincidental that you'd already be the perfect citizen in the ideal world you're selling.
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Engleby- Sebastian Faulks. A scrumptiously written tease.
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Are you the same En_Route who used to be on the Happy Atheist forum?En_Route wrote:Engleby- Sebastian Faulks. A scrumptiously written tease.
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Field guide to Western trees.
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You have me bang to rights. I almost didn't recognise you the right way round. Hopefully, you might be moved to air your wit here more often.Bruce Burleson wrote:Are you the same En_Route who used to be on the Happy Atheist forum?En_Route wrote:Engleby- Sebastian Faulks. A scrumptiously written tease.
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstances (Hume).
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Just got this.
Only a chapter or so in but I'm already gripped. Dennett is such an interesting, easy-to-follow writer that it's hard to believe he's a real philostopher!
It's a book about how to think! More specifically, it's a book of handy tricks to help you think intuitively but still rigorously. And it's funny, and it's warm, and it is completely non-technical while still not treating you like any kind of an idiot.
In short, it is Daniel Dennett owning up. "Here, folks! This is how I did it. This is how I think - or rather, how I have come to think after decades of slowly getting it less and less wrong!"
Off to read a couple of chapters before crashing for the day. Night, folks.
Only a chapter or so in but I'm already gripped. Dennett is such an interesting, easy-to-follow writer that it's hard to believe he's a real philostopher!
It's a book about how to think! More specifically, it's a book of handy tricks to help you think intuitively but still rigorously. And it's funny, and it's warm, and it is completely non-technical while still not treating you like any kind of an idiot.
In short, it is Daniel Dennett owning up. "Here, folks! This is how I did it. This is how I think - or rather, how I have come to think after decades of slowly getting it less and less wrong!"
Off to read a couple of chapters before crashing for the day. Night, folks.
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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
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This is the wrong forum for bluffing
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Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
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I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
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Nearly finished Cloud Atlas; wanted to read the book before watching the film.
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Xamonas Chegwé, I heard intelligibility is the enemy of philosophy...and I'm starting to suspect that a lot of philosophers agree.
Xamonas Chegwé, I heard intelligibility is the enemy of philosophy...and I'm starting to suspect that a lot of philosophers agree.
Imagine that. I guess it's only coincidental that you'd already be the perfect citizen in the ideal world you're selling.
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Bunch of comic books (the near complete series of Yoko Tsuno books by Roger Leloup)
Plus Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, when I can concentrate on long text.
Plus Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, when I can concentrate on long text.
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I have that one by Brunner, plus quite a few others...Svartalf wrote:Bunch of comic books (the near complete series of Yoko Tsuno books by Roger Leloup)
Plus Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, when I can concentrate on long text.
Interesting writer...
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Truman and the Hiroshima Cult by Paul Newmann. Point by point refutation of all the anti-bomb themes. Cruel, absolutely cruel to them. Great for debates.
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