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RE: What book are you reading?
June 13, 2011 at 9:40 pm
(June 13, 2011 at 5:35 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: (June 13, 2011 at 12:35 pm)The Magic Pudding Wrote: Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals
Douglas Adams - And Another Thing, I don't know why I haven't already read it but when it's described as part six of three, it is confusing.
Just FYI, Eoin Colfer wrote And Another Thing, and it's described as the sixth part of a trilogy because, after the release of the third book, it was described as a "trilogy," and with the release of the fourth book, either Douglas Adams or his publishers decided to keep the moniker of trilogy as a joke.
Eoin Colfer, right you are.
That explains how a new Hitchhiker book has appeared without the author being alive to write it.
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RE: What book are you reading?
June 13, 2011 at 9:53 pm
Currently,
Moonwalking With Einstein, by Foer
and,
Life, Sex and Ideas, by Grayling.
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RE: What book are you reading?
June 14, 2011 at 2:17 am
Since I already ruined the series for myself, I'm going to go ahead and finish the Game of Thrones series.
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RE: What book are you reading?
June 16, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Currently, The Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson.
It presents a fairly thorough picture of Jefferson's various writings on religion and remarks to friends, that he was, indeed, a staunch believer in God, but not the trinity and certainly not Jesus as divine, although Jefferson held Jesus' teachings in very high regard.
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RE: What book are you reading?
June 16, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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RE: What book are you reading?
June 16, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Origin of the species, Darwin.
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RE: What book are you reading?
June 17, 2011 at 12:38 am
'The Greatest Show On Earth' by Dawkins
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: What book are you reading?
June 17, 2011 at 4:50 pm
(June 17, 2011 at 12:38 am)FaithNoMore Wrote: 'The Greatest Show On Earth' by Dawkins
Read the opening chapter of this in a B & N a couple weeks ago. I had already blown too much money on used books that day, so I couldn't pick it up but plan to eventually.
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RE: What book are you reading?
June 17, 2011 at 4:55 pm
The Bible... Lol jk
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RE: What book are you reading?
June 17, 2011 at 5:12 pm
'Hidden Reality' by Brian Greene. 'The Atlantic' by Simon Winchester next.
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