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What book(s) are you reading now?
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Demonic Kitten
Active Member
Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt by James Henry Breasted. (Found on the Sacred Text web site)
StevieHummingbird
Singing, Dancing, Living
Magical Plants, by Susan Gregg.
Love this book it is like my 7th time reading it.
Love this book it is like my 7th time reading it.
Daemon Sophic
Avatar in flux
The Assault on Reason -- by Al Gore. So far I would have to consider this to be required reading for all sapients.
Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
So far I'm most way through Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker, Dawkins writes in an informative yet entertaining way. good read. nice book to get some of Darwin's revelations in a modern fashion. (the book was written in the 80s, but still Dawkin's wit fills the 20 year gap).
Vile Atheist
Loud and Obnoxious
I just finished reading that a few weeks ago. Good read.
Demonic Kitten
Active Member
Right now.... the Necronomicon
Smoke
Done here.
Robert S. McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.
McNamara says: "We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why."
This book has been out since 1995, but I haven't read it before.
McNamara says: "We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why."
This book has been out since 1995, but I haven't read it before.
monta
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So I seem to be having a reading binge 
read two more books yesterday.
The Mysteries Within- A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine and the Human Body, Sherwin B. NulandTerrible book, The writer a surgeon is dripping with disdain for his patients, his writing is arrogant and meandering, trailing off into dull anecdotes about his little victories over other doctors.
The most interesting parts of the book are his condescending notes which he parades in front of us like favoured children. In the opening chapter he recounts his case notes from a case where a child was born at 4 and 1/2 pounds, his lack of empathy for the parents,is remarkable, especially when you consider he was a junior doctor when the case presented. The child spent some time in the premie unit and then developed a lump in his stomach on returning home, this is how he describes the worried 18 year old mother of the infant, ''Mrs Greene is a bland, apparenatly intellectually limited young woman....................'' in the same chapter he describes her husband as ''Tall and ungainly'', and goes on to say ''he nevertheless he was not without a certain lackluster handsomeness''
He also devotes a tremendous amount of time to getting one up on the other doctors, who were unable to diagnose the problem, and spends some time to recount other incidents where he was called to diagnose things the other doctors couldn't.
Some of actual cases were interesting, but I suspect they would be more interesting to a medical person, to me an apendectomy is an apendectomy and to be honest I don't need to know the many ways they go wrong.
I also read Elephants on Acid, and Other Bizarre Experiments, Alex Boese, more to get the taste out of my mouth than anything. Interesting pop science factoids and some hilarious debacles regarding the progress of science, some of them are cringe worthy, (Head transplants and Vomit Imbibing) and not one for the PETA members, but overall an easy read with lots of fun facts.
read two more books yesterday.The Mysteries Within- A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine and the Human Body, Sherwin B. NulandTerrible book, The writer a surgeon is dripping with disdain for his patients, his writing is arrogant and meandering, trailing off into dull anecdotes about his little victories over other doctors.
The most interesting parts of the book are his condescending notes which he parades in front of us like favoured children. In the opening chapter he recounts his case notes from a case where a child was born at 4 and 1/2 pounds, his lack of empathy for the parents,is remarkable, especially when you consider he was a junior doctor when the case presented. The child spent some time in the premie unit and then developed a lump in his stomach on returning home, this is how he describes the worried 18 year old mother of the infant, ''Mrs Greene is a bland, apparenatly intellectually limited young woman....................'' in the same chapter he describes her husband as ''Tall and ungainly'', and goes on to say ''he nevertheless he was not without a certain lackluster handsomeness''
He also devotes a tremendous amount of time to getting one up on the other doctors, who were unable to diagnose the problem, and spends some time to recount other incidents where he was called to diagnose things the other doctors couldn't.
Some of actual cases were interesting, but I suspect they would be more interesting to a medical person, to me an apendectomy is an apendectomy and to be honest I don't need to know the many ways they go wrong.
I also read Elephants on Acid, and Other Bizarre Experiments, Alex Boese, more to get the taste out of my mouth than anything. Interesting pop science factoids and some hilarious debacles regarding the progress of science, some of them are cringe worthy, (Head transplants and Vomit Imbibing) and not one for the PETA members, but overall an easy read with lots of fun facts.
TurkeyOnRye
Well-Known Member
Tao Te Ching
by Lau Tzu
by Lau Tzu
Just read:
Evolutionary Archaeology- Patrice Teltser
A collection of essays from various anthropologists on the overlap between evolution and archeology.
The Triumph of Sociobiology- John Alcock
A great basic intro' to evolutionary psychology.
Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy
One of the best American authors of this century. And... The Road
Had to re-read it before seeing the film.
Evolutionary Archaeology- Patrice Teltser
A collection of essays from various anthropologists on the overlap between evolution and archeology.
The Triumph of Sociobiology- John Alcock
A great basic intro' to evolutionary psychology.
Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy
One of the best American authors of this century. And... The Road
Had to re-read it before seeing the film.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Sounds interesting - I've never read the book but I really enjoyed the movie.