What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I recently finished reading God is not Great for the first time.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
What did you think?
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"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Oh, it was great. His rambling tangents can occasionally send me a bit sleepy, but more often than not they delight me with the impressive way he brings them back to the main point with a surprising connection. I can't really get tired of the endless specific examples he trots out of the evil of religion.Brian Peacock wrote:What did you think?
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Now I'm reading, "The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win".
It's funny so far.
It's funny so far.
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Sounds like a barrel of laughs...
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
The Secret War: Spies, Codes And Guerrillas, 1939-45 by the prolific Max Hastings 
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Kim Stanley Robinson's 60 Days And Counting.
S'alright I guess. Can't say I'm gripped by it though.
S'alright I guess. Can't say I'm gripped by it though.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Haven't found anything to hold my attention for months now. Currently reading a Photoshop how to manual thingy. Sad, I know.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Geek.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Does it have a good plot? 
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
reading it for a philosophy group. oh bother.
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Mastering The High Dive in Your 40s
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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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I just finished reading The Bickford Fuse by Andrei Kurkov. It was quite challenging, and I didn't understand a lot of the metaphorical aspects, but the characters and their bizarre and pointless lives were interesting and funny.
I'm now reading A Matter of Life and Death by Andrei Kurkov. It's about a guy who takes out a contract on his own life. I've read it before, a few years ago. It's simpler than I remember it being, but a good read nonetheless.
I'm now reading A Matter of Life and Death by Andrei Kurkov. It's about a guy who takes out a contract on his own life. I've read it before, a few years ago. It's simpler than I remember it being, but a good read nonetheless.
Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Reading The Big Picture, by Sean Carroll, a cosmologist who I first heard of last year when he destroyed William Lane Craig in a debate by actually being well versed in philosophy and theology as well as science. Indeed, TBP is a philosophical work, drawing on science, he talks about things like how the idea of a 'soul' and afterlife violate scientific laws, like conservation of energy and momentum, and how entropy suffices to explain complexity. Best argument for naturalism I've come across yet.
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