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RE: Book Reviews
December 16, 2008 at 5:13 am
(December 15, 2008 at 2:36 pm)Tiberius Wrote: People suggest a number of books, and a vote is taken to decide which we should read. Votes are always 2 months ahead of the actual book reading (so people have time to order it off amazon, etc). Everyone gets a month to read the book, and at the end of the month we discuss it in the forums.

Good format though I'd like to see a single (cohesive?) review come out of each book chosen and posted somewhere as a resource (coz you know what these fundies are like).

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RE: Book Reviews
December 16, 2008 at 5:41 pm
We should have started this earlier in the month. Then we all could have asked for the book for christmas Tongue
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RE: Book Reviews
December 18, 2008 at 6:20 am
(December 16, 2008 at 5:13 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:
(December 15, 2008 at 2:36 pm)Tiberius Wrote: People suggest a number of books, and a vote is taken to decide which we should read. Votes are always 2 months ahead of the actual book reading (so people have time to order it off amazon, etc). Everyone gets a month to read the book, and at the end of the month we discuss it in the forums.

Good format though I'd like to see a single (cohesive?) review come out of each book chosen and posted somewhere as a resource (coz you know what these fundies are like).

Kyu
Well if we read the book, have the discussion, and someone volunteers to write a review of it, I will gladly place it on my blog for people to read.
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RE: Book Reviews
December 18, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I would be interested. I'm horribly lacking in my atheist reading list.
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RE: Book Reviews
December 18, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Have any books been proposed so far?
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
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RE: Book Reviews
December 18, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Well I already bought Godless by Dan Barker and God: The Failed Hypothesis by Victor Stenger, so I wouldn't be opposed to those two since I already have them. Big Grin
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RE: Book Reviews
December 18, 2008 at 3:18 pm
No. Shall we put it to the vote?
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RE: Book Reviews
December 18, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Let's make a list of candidate books and then vote about it (in a poll maybe).
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
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RE: Book Reviews
December 19, 2008 at 4:33 am (This post was last modified: December 19, 2008 at 4:37 am by puglover.)
YES!
I totally agree.
I am getting a book voucher for xmas and I don't know what on earth I went to get yet.
We should definately have an atheist book club!
I saw this really awesome book today.. I can't remember what it was called but it had something to do with the evolution of the moths.

Personally, I can't stand reading most fiction books.. I rather non-fiction.. I adore learning about the world, civilizations and our history... except for maybe some of those war books because they can be a bit depressing Tongue.

I say that we should start this straight away.

Maybe we can all pick some books and then Adrian call pull a name out of the hat to read.

I reckon it would be really awesome if the atheist forum had like its own book or zine..
or perhaps even like an online journal that we all contribute to?

[edit: Actually I like the idea of voting for a book that we want to read.. it is more democratic that way Big Grin]
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RE: Book Reviews
December 19, 2008 at 12:59 pm (This post was last modified: December 19, 2008 at 1:07 pm by Purple Rabbit.)
Well, some suggestions then:
- The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality by André Comte-Sponville
- Kluge, the haphazard construction of the human mind by Gary Marcus
- Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett (a reread for me)
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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