What Book Are You Reading?

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 23 April 2007

My Thread has gone, so here is the second part.

Currently in the "Lonely Planet Polish Phrasebook."

ATB from Fredrik

[Edited for typos!]
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by acad tsunami
Quantum Enigma



This is an important book, not because the authors say anything new (Buddhists have known the role consciousness plays in reality for 2,500 years)but because this is the first time that non-Buddhist physicists have realised this and published in such detail (although they only scratch the surface). The authors are a physics Professor and university lecturer. About time too says I. Science can no longer avoid the embarrassing “skeleton in the closet” that is consciousness.
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by u5227470736789439
All trace of the original Thread has gone. What a shame! It was turning in a real cornucopea of worthwhile and ecclectic reading. I know what the original post was about, and a search reveals that there is no trace of it.

Perhaps someone had a barney on there, but surely the roughness could be removed so as to allow it to return and continue?

Kindest frgards from Fredrik
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by glenda
Currently reading - Last King of Scotland - bears little relationship to the film . Quite enjoying it .
Just finished - Gary Imlach - My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes - an account of his dad who played for Scotland but was never awarded a cap .A truly excellent book and and a real kick in the spuds for today's over paid football prima donnas.Left me feeling angry about the "suits" in football at the end - which is strange as I don't really follow the game any more.
Also just read the Kurt Vonnegut autobiography
just after his death - another angry but whimsical book.

Would recommend all three

Cheers
Glenda
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by Chillkram
quote:
Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Quantum Enigma


I'll chalk that one up for the future, Acad, looks interesting. I guess you finished my current read, then!



Mark
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by acad tsunami
Yes, Mark. Finished it and bought the t shirt. A bit dodgy in places - I don't think Tollers would have written 'Having gathered at length all the strength that he could Maedhros appointed a day, the morning of midsummer' page 52. There is quite alot of stuff like this - sentences that are not quite right - not quite JRR. Do you know what I mean or am I imagining it? (maybe my example above is not a good one - its just that it is the first one I found having decided to dip back into the book to find you an example)The style is not quite LotR nor is it quite Silmarillion but a hybrid that somehow lacks authority? I can't quite put my finger on it so I will shut up. Overall I loved it.
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by Chillkram
I'll let you know my thoughts when I've finished it, although I don't finish books in a few days any more. Should be around Christmas!
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by BigH47
Just finished the latest Dick Francis. Conclusion more of the same.
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by fidelio
"the end of faith," harris. previous was something about fidelma of cashel, tremayne.
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by ryan_d
'Who Moved my Cheese' by Dr Spencer johnson.
A self help book on how to deal with and intiate change. Very good actually and can be read in under an hour.

RYan
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by Jim Lawson


Written by a fellow Canadian. Hilarious and terrifying. Demographics as they relate to our grandchildren...

Cheers
Jim
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by Melnobone


Bloomon' brilliant so far. History the way it should be told. Absolutely enthralling.
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by Rasher


Oh my goodness...this is unputdownable. Blimmin' brilliant.
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by Marti-C
I must admit, I like real life adventures. This is one of the best. Great story written by somebody who knows what he is talking about.
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by Deane F
quote:
Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:

My Thread has gone,


Another one!

Is there some kind of mysterious literary wasting disease afflicting the Groupee servers?
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by Cyrene
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by Frank Abela
imey, you lot are such bookwroms. I'm always reading a book but it's invariably escapism laced with humour. Currently reading Kim Harrison's The Good, The Bad and the Undead.

Fan of most things fantasy, sci-fi and occasionally just fiction.
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by JoeH
I'm about two-thirds of the way through 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot, quite possibly the best novel ever written in the English language.
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by acad tsunami
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Lawson:


Written by a fellow Canadian. Hilarious and terrifying. Demographics as they relate to our grandchildren...

Cheers
Jim


Hilarious? There is nothing hilarious about raw unbridled racism, hatred and unsupported fear-mongering. This is a despicable book written by an unprincipled despicable author. Hitler would have approved.
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by Mr Underhill
Read 'The Historian' a couple of weeks ago.



Vampires, librarians, Istanbul & The Balkans. I found it to be a light page turner. Entertaining.


Currently re-working my way the Churchill's 'History of the English Speaking Peoples'.

Recommend Roy Jenkins Biog of Churchill.

M
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by Haim Ronen
God Is My Copilot by Robert L. Scott.

A 1944 edition which I rescued from a flooded basement of my in-laws.

Posted on: 27 April 2007 by Alan Paterson
Iain M Banks - Inversions
Posted on: 27 April 2007 by JoeH
Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
Posted on: 27 April 2007 by Earwicker
The Mayor of Casterbridge. (for the 3rd time!)
Posted on: 27 April 2007 by BigH47
About to try Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs.

Howard
Posted on: 03 May 2007 by Big Brother



I've been so busy reading non-fiction. Just finished an account of the 94 Republican Congress called 'The Freshmen'.

Anyway, out pops this from the from a pile of stuff I was throwing out. Read 'Pride and Prejudice' as a HS senior. Somehow never got around to her other masterpiece.

Now I know where Proust learned to write dialog. What a testament!


BB