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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:34 pm

Nothing currently.Then again it is nearly Christmas so I don't really want to check anything out of the library this late in the year and also I don't feel like reading any of the books I own right now,outside of manga.
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Postby Scribs » Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:01 pm

I will probably end up reading some of Hans Zeiger's book Get Off My Honor I got it for my father for christmas, but I plan to read it myself. It is a book about how the Boy Scouts of America are under attack in america today. This is a topic on interest to me. Also I am friends with the author. ;)
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Postby Dante » Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:32 pm

David J. Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamisc 2nd Edition. Why is every college textbook start with "Introduction to" even in the more advanced courses. When will they get done introducing the subject and actually get into something of a little more depth.
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Postby Ssjjvash » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:02 am

I am currently reading The Negotiator by Dee Henderson.
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Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' ...you'll be a Man, my son!

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Postby Scribs » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:15 am

I read a bit of the 6th harry potter book again last night.
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Postby uc pseudonym » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:47 pm

I finished 3001 The Final Oddyssy rather quickly, and was pleased to note there was a section at the end in which the scientific concepts behind many of the ideas explored in the novel were discussed at varying lengths. It was a very interesting, if brief, look at what went into making the novel.

Overall, I would recommend the book to some. It is not good fiction (not even close, really), but it is good science. The author also apparently realized this enough that the former rarely intrudes upon the latter.
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Postby Myoti » Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:46 pm

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Postby Rogie » Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:25 pm

Actually, now that school's over, I'm reading again, but it's obviously that I've been dying to read since the summer. I'm reading three books, plus one manga. I just finished the first Harry Potter book and immediately started on the second one, plus I'm reading Socrates in Love (the novel, not the manga), and Heaven's Wager by Ted Dekker. (I'm reading Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne, btw, in manga.)

I hate how school makes me want to quit reading for fun until later on. :sweat:
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Postby Kaori » Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:39 pm

God in the Dock, by C. S. Lewis. This book was not unlike a box of chocolates: I didn't always get what I expected, but the overall experience was good.

I reread George Orwell's Animal Farm. The book is one of the few satires I really enjoy; other than that, I have little to say about it.

Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller. I have mixed thoughts about this book; while the writer definitely has some good things to say, and he sometimes says them very well, some of his anecdotes grated on me (*sexy carrot*), and I felt that his writing style succeeds in some places but not in others.

Rogie-san wrote:I'm reading Socrates in Love (the novel, not the manga),

I've heard of that. How is it?
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Postby Rogie » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:18 am

Kaori wrote:I've heard of that. How is it?


Well, Socrates in Love is very slow thus far, and there's some troublesome religious discussions (belief in God but not the afterlife, e.g.). I can't really say, actually. It has yet to captivate me, and I'm several chapters in. I'm going to keep going, but I may end up dropping it if there's no hook coming up soon. It has a great premise, but the execution is quite stale thus far.
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Postby Scribs » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:20 am

I am still rereading bits of harry potter 6, but may start a jeeves and wooster book soon.
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Postby uc pseudonym » Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:59 pm

[quote="Kaori"]Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller. I have mixed thoughts about this book]
For whatever it is worth, based on your comments here I wouldn't particularly recommend Searching For God Knows What to you. The anecdotes are essentially gone (outside of a highly obnoxious one that opens the book), but while his writing has improved I feel it is less successful (I have not analyzed exactly why I think this). Also, I felt as though he had fewer ideas on which to write his second book.
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Postby Technomancer » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:09 pm

Sir Martin Rees- 'Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others'

"...draws together up-to-the-minute research on black holes, dark matter,, and how cosmic evolution led from simple atoms to the complexity of life....Rees argues that there exists a multiverse- an infinity of universes of which ours is only one."
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

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Postby Locke » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:04 pm

In my on going quest to read the Ender series in non-chronological order (By accident really) I finnally got Speaker For The Dead.
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Postby Puritan » Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:41 pm

Just finished reading Asimov's "Foundation" Trilogy, the books are just classic. Very little sci-fi has reached the trilogy's level. Still trying to read through John Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion," but I end up needing to stop and just think for a while every two or three pages.
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Postby Locke » Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:42 pm

Shadow of The Hegemon came today! whoot!
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Postby Kaori » Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:49 pm

uc pseudonym wrote:For whatever it is worth, based on your comments here I wouldn't particularly recommend Searching For God Knows What to you. The anecdotes are essentially gone (outside of a highly obnoxious one that opens the book), but while his writing has improved I feel it is less successful (I have not analyzed exactly why I think this). Also, I felt as though he had fewer ideas on which to write his second book.

I wouldn't have been likely to read it anyways]Coraline[/I], which I enjoyed, and was going to follow that with American Gods, but I disliked the first chapter and decided to read Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde instead.

I also just finished reading Patricia McKillip's The Throme of the Erril of Sherill and "The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath," both very good stories.
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Postby Kaede » Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:31 pm

Ooo I want to read Shadow of the Hegemon, too!!
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Postby Scribs » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:05 am

just finished re-reading Jurrasic Park
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Postby SnoringFrog » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:32 pm

I'm reading a copy of Treausure Island printed in 1961.
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Postby Bunny » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:45 pm

Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits. Controversial to say the least, but interesting all the same.
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Postby Lady Macbeth » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:39 pm

I'm currently reading Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. (The link takes you to the Amazon.com page for the book for more information.)

It's a fascinating analysis of the Book of Enoch and documentation of the fallen angels spoken of in that book and referenced in other books of the Bible.
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Postby Technomancer » Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:00 pm

"The Galilieo Affair" by Eric Flint and "Invitation to Contemporary Physics" by Kim, Kumar and Lam
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

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Postby uc pseudonym » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:29 am

I am not entirely certain why I am reading Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book, considering that obesity is not something that concerns me. However, it has been a moderately interesting read thus far. His writing style is exceedingly informal and hence is a distraction for me. However, I have discovered the best fact I have learned in recent history: at any given point, there are approximately 90 billion chickens in the United States.

One other annoyance: footnotes. There are plenty, as is fitting given the number of claims he makes. However, these are only listed at the end of the book, and not actually marked in the chapters. I presume this is to make the book more idiot-friendly, but it is inconvenient.
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Postby rocklobster » Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:06 pm

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Working on book 4 at the moment. Also finished The War on Christmas by John Gibson and The Criminalization of Christianity.
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Postby Kaori » Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:29 pm

Don Quixote. This one, at least, should take me a few days to finish.
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Postby spiritusvult » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:48 pm

"Eon" by Greg Bear.
“Passion without form consumes itself.â€
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Postby VashTheStampede » Sat Dec 24, 2005 2:22 pm

Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel, also the author of Case for Christ and Case for Faith. Good books
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Postby bigsleepj » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:40 pm

I'm reading your thoughts! You must be ashamed of yourself!! ;)
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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:07 am

[quote="bigsleepj"]I'm reading your thoughts! You must be ashamed of yourself!! ]


Meep! ::Quickly blocks his own thoughts::

Anyway, I'm currently reading "The United States of Wal-Mart" by John Dicker.

It's a great book about Wal-Mart's impact (good or bad) on the economy. Quite funny, very informative. I never realized that Wal-Mart was this evil!

That settles it: from now on, when I go in to buy blank disks for my computer, and the cashier says "Have a nice day", instead of saying "Thanks! You too." I'll just say "You too." That'll show 'em! :rock:
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