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Postby Brig » Mar 27, 2006 @ 8:51am

Blindness by Jose Saramago.

Read it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/015600 ... oding=UTF8
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Postby chuck » Mar 27, 2006 @ 3:21pm

It's amazing. I read it about a month before Katrina, which, probably, was the best time I could have ever chosen to read it.
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Postby Caesar » Mar 27, 2006 @ 3:22pm

Meh, I'm busy with The Brothers Karamazov.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037452 ... oding=UTF8
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Postby Brig » Mar 27, 2006 @ 7:51pm

That's the same edition I have. I picked up The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment; I'm looking forward to reading them after I'm done with Collapse.
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Postby sandmann » Mar 28, 2006 @ 1:56am

I only got halfway through "Collapse," though it was interesting. I still far prefer "Guns, Germs and Steel."

I'm about to read "The Intelligent Investor" by Ben Graham, and "Naked Economics" after that.

I recently read "The Sea," by John Banville. It was good, but not great.
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Him who won't, they drag.

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Postby Mechcommander » Mar 28, 2006 @ 6:13am

Anyone read '' by Jerome Corsi and CraigSmith?

Thinking about requesting it at my Uni. Doing some research on Peak Oil and the like. Creepy stuff, if anything.
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Postby Caesar » Mar 29, 2006 @ 3:48am

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Postby sponge » Mar 29, 2006 @ 5:55am

I recently read Curious George

I couldn't make it to the end without help.
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Postby Brig » May 30, 2006 @ 2:31am

Reading The Human Stain by Philip Roth. I can see why he's so widely acclaimed.

I recently finished Ender's Game and Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. Children of the Mind is dopey and I'm only bothering to finish it because it's so stupid. I've never been a huge fan of sci-fi, but these were okay. It seems the better sci-fi takes advantage of fantastic settings to analyze moral and philosophical issues without the burden of having to suspend disbelief in the way a story in a realistic setting would. Bad science fiction is an excuse for moronic Mormon metaphysical theoretics.
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Postby David Horn » May 30, 2006 @ 5:27pm

Crosswind technique: "Using your peripheral vision, react to body movements, gasps, groans, and shouts from the other side of the cockpit, and always remember that it's better to be lucky than good."
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Postby chuck » May 30, 2006 @ 6:46pm

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Postby Presto » May 30, 2006 @ 7:48pm

Just finished The Bonehunters (book 6 of Malazan Book of the Fallen) yesterday. Best fantasy series I've ever read, and that's saying something. :)

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Postby James S » May 30, 2006 @ 8:12pm

There's good Orwellian? :shrug:

The best book I've recently read is Ann Coulter's How to Talk to a Liberal. It's funny.
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Postby Maf54 » May 30, 2006 @ 9:39pm

World of Warcraft has significantly taken a chunk out of my reading time, however, the best book as of late I've read is Jim Wallis's
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Postby Caesar » May 31, 2006 @ 1:43am

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