What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[Trinity]

Get Carter with Virginia Woolf next

[Clinton Huxley]

Get Carter with Virginia Woolf

Interesting mash-up....

"You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job.
Now behave yourself, you cannot find peace by avoiding life, you know".

[Rum]

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!

[JimC]

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!

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle!

Have read it!

Have you read the sequel, "The moat around Murcheson's eye"?

[Sean Hayden]

Just finished The Metamorphosis.

Also reading some Java nonsense and the Panda3d manual -oh, enthralling.

[En_Route]

Engleby- Sebastian Faulks. A scrumptiously written tease.

[Bruce Burleson]

Engleby- Sebastian Faulks. A scrumptiously written tease.

Are you the same En_Route who used to be on the Happy Atheist forum?

[Tero]

Field guide to Western trees.

[En_Route]

Engleby- Sebastian Faulks. A scrumptiously written tease.

Are you the same En_Route who used to be on the Happy Atheist forum?

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.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

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.

[Trinity]

Nearly finished Cloud Atlas; wanted to read the book before watching the film.

[Sean Hayden]

Republic

Xamonas Chegwé, I heard intelligibility is the enemy of philosophy...and I'm starting to suspect that a lot of philosophers agree.

[Svartalf]

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.

[JimC]

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.

I have that one by Brunner, plus quite a few others...

Interesting writer...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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.