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What are you Reading?

What book or books are you reading?

I am currently reading Blowback by Chalmers Johnson

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Permalink Reply by lohenry on July 10, 2009 at 8:34pm

I just started reading Dying to win by Robert A. Pape

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Permalink Reply by Dan Johnson on August 28, 2009 at 9:54pm

This book's title entrigued me and I immediately looked it up on B&N. Sounds very interesting. I wonder...if it weren't for the short lifespans and lack of need for history education, would suicide bombers hail Samson as their idol?

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/says_about/suicide.html

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Permalink Reply by Sixfeetunderthegun on July 11, 2009 at 1:19am

Right now, I'm reading the Captain America Omnibus which is a huge ass comic collected edition. Also, I'm reading The God Delusion a second time. Win!

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Permalink Reply by Louis on July 11, 2009 at 1:45am

An assortment of comic books (particularly the new Batwoman) and some Warhammer rule books -- WHY AM I SUCH A NERD?!

Also, The General Theory of Love was a great read. Wonderful breakdown of the biochemical and evolutionary development of love as a mechanism for survival. Just don't bother reading the conclusion, it feels way too much like reading the conclusion of Galileo's Dialogo sapra to be worth reading.

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Permalink Reply by LeaT on July 11, 2009 at 2:13pm

Because rulebooks are fun? Honestly though, when I still used to play pen and paper too, I could nerd myself down completely with addons and rulebooks as well. That was almost more fun getting immersed in the universe that way than actually playing it.

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Permalink Reply by Louis Davout on August 14, 2009 at 7:58am

Dungeon maps, out door maps, or campaign maps. I also enjoyed making campaign maps.

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Permalink Reply by Rorelle on July 11, 2009 at 2:01pm

Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoevsky (for school)
The Tipping Point -Malcolm Gladwell
Pride and Prejudice -Jane Austen

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Permalink Reply by Kristi Leitholt on July 11, 2009 at 3:40pm

I just went to the library and checked out Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby, The End of Faith by Sam Harris, and Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett. I also have The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Infidel, and Why I am Not a Christian on order. Woo! I started reading Jacoby and Harris last year but never got through the books completely. I'm hoping I can do it now. Dennett sounds interesting, and I don't think my education would be complete without reading at least one book by all four "Horsemen" and Dennett is the only one I haven't read.

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Permalink Reply by Langston on August 14, 2009 at 7:07am

Dennett is also the one that is consistently left out of some accounts of who the Four Horsemen are......

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Permalink Reply by Dan Johnson on August 28, 2009 at 9:44pm

With the exception of Jacoby, I have read (or am reading, in the case of Bertrand Russell) all of these and found them all very interesting. Hitchhiker's Guide series is just ingenious and throughly engrossing. Infidel is probably the most riveting as it is a personal tale...heartbreaking but inspiring at the some time. Enjoy!