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Post by echoesofairplanes on Dec 16, 2008 22:10:31 GMT -5
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Post by sashwap on Dec 16, 2008 22:25:32 GMT -5
i read that. i actually read it in summer 2006 right around the time i first read the richard dawkins book that i am currently re-reading!
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Post by ashinyobject on Dec 16, 2008 22:29:49 GMT -5
Read everything H.G. Wells has written
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Post by sashwap on Dec 16, 2008 22:31:19 GMT -5
Read everything H.G. Wells has written i've read the time machine and war of the worlds. and i think i've read the invisible man too, but i can't be sure about that one.
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Post by ashinyobject on Dec 16, 2008 23:23:44 GMT -5
My favorite is
When the Sleeper Wakes
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Post by pushuppop on Dec 16, 2008 23:46:02 GMT -5
I just read The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. It's an interesting concept, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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Post by sashwap on Dec 16, 2008 23:53:25 GMT -5
i remember hearing good things about that one, but i never got around to it
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Post by echoesofairplanes on Dec 17, 2008 9:50:15 GMT -5
i read that. i actually read it in summer 2006 right around the time i first read the richard dawkins book that i am currently re-reading! I take it that Dawkins books is good then? I've read The God Delusion, which was enjoyable enough, but I think I'd like to try him out in a more specialized context.
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Post by thommmmm on Dec 17, 2008 9:57:23 GMT -5
'climbing mount improbable' is damn near essential reading. at the very least, sit down in one of those empty chairs in the bookstore and read the chapter about the evolution of the eye.
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Post by sashwap on Dec 17, 2008 10:01:18 GMT -5
the god delusion was nice enough... i thought his arguments were brilliant but his presentation was a bit off-putting even to a devout atheist such as myself (it didn't help that i actually listened to it in audio book form, read by the author and his kinda annoying wife). but it was outside his usual field, is the thing -- he's a great evolutionary biologist, and his writing on evolution will astound you. the ancestor's tale is epic. i had to read it again.
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Post by echoesofairplanes on Dec 17, 2008 23:02:40 GMT -5
Yeah, that's almost exactly how I felt about it. I'll have to dig in to his other stuff fo sho tho.
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Post by echoesofairplanes on Dec 18, 2008 21:04:15 GMT -5
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Post by echoesofairplanes on Dec 19, 2008 21:28:55 GMT -5
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Post by sashwap on Dec 19, 2008 21:39:16 GMT -5
what's that about?
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Post by thommmmm on Dec 19, 2008 22:14:27 GMT -5
it's cool that you can read a book or two a day.
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