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What book are you reading?
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#41
RE: What book are you reading?
December 6, 2010 at 6:33 pm
The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason by Victor J Stenger, I will post a review when I have finished reading it.
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#42
RE: What book are you reading?
December 6, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Well, I'm between two books I've been wanting to read for a long time: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. After I did a paper back in 2008 on the history of Scientific Racism in America from Drapetomania to the Nuremberg Trials, she recommended that I read Uncle Tom's Cabin, and eventually, I went to the Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield and I got a copy. Now that I've finally gotten around to its place in my reading queue, I'm going to start reading it.
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#43
RE: What book are you reading?
December 7, 2010 at 7:49 am
(December 6, 2010 at 2:05 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: "I shall wear midnight" by Terry Pratchett.

Got it, read it, loved it.

Have 47 of his books( including a signed copy of the last hero)

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#44
RE: What book are you reading?
December 7, 2010 at 9:46 am
God is not great by Hitchens. Had it a while but keep putting off reading it for some reason.
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#45
RE: What book are you reading?
December 7, 2010 at 3:24 pm (This post was last modified: December 7, 2010 at 3:27 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Just read God is Great. Read the Portable Atheist sometime back. Both are good books. Currently reading John McPhee's Basin and Range. Next up is his Founding Fish.

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RE: What book are you reading?
December 7, 2010 at 3:28 pm
(December 6, 2010 at 2:42 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(December 6, 2010 at 2:05 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: "I shall wear midnight" by Terry Pratchett.

I expect to get this for christmas from my mum.
Its been the same every christams for at least a decade, the new pratchett thats what I get.

You are in for a treat, it is great.

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#47
RE: What book are you reading?
December 7, 2010 at 9:42 pm
I just read sam harris' Letter to a christian nation. Great book i wanna read his other ones. I also want to read god is not great, and god delusion all seem great! i also love fantasy but i havent read any in a while any recomendations!?
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#48
RE: What book are you reading?
December 8, 2010 at 9:22 am
(December 7, 2010 at 9:42 pm)HigherLvlofThinking Wrote: I just read sam harris' Letter to a christian nation. Great book i wanna read his other ones. I also want to read god is not great, and god delusion all seem great! i also love fantasy but i havent read any in a while any recomendations!?

If you haven't read Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" or GRR Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" or as it seems to be getting more popularly known as "The Game of Thrones." It should keep you busy through Groundhog's Day!
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#49
RE: What book are you reading?
December 8, 2010 at 9:06 pm
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

I truly recommend it!

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RE: What book are you reading?
December 9, 2010 at 3:12 pm (This post was last modified: December 9, 2010 at 3:24 pm by Marx.)
(December 8, 2010 at 9:06 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

I truly recommend it!

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I have always wanted to read this, and have only seen the film!
(December 5, 2010 at 11:29 am)Paul the Human Wrote: I'm into High Fantasy, too. Goodkind is one of my favorites. Right now, I am reading Elantris - by Brandon Sanderson. It was his first novel and it's very good. I've read everything by him since I heard he was taking over for the late Robert Jordan, and he is definitely worthy. I've read the first Wheel of Time book he wrote since taking it over and it was the best one in several of the previous ones by Jordan.

Hey Paul, I just took out Elantris from a library, just started the first few pages, and so far it's a page turner! Thanks for the recommendation.
(December 8, 2010 at 9:22 am)lilyannerose Wrote:
(December 7, 2010 at 9:42 pm)HigherLvlofThinking Wrote: I just read sam harris' Letter to a christian nation. Great book i wanna read his other ones. I also want to read god is not great, and god delusion all seem great! i also love fantasy but i havent read any in a while any recomendations!?

If you haven't read Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" or GRR Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" or as it seems to be getting more popularly known as "The Game of Thrones." It should keep you busy through Groundhog's Day!

My friend has read both of those series, I'm dying to read it! Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind is brilliant as well.
(December 7, 2010 at 9:46 am)Skipper Wrote: God is not great by Hitchens. Had it a while but keep putting off reading it for some reason.

I kept putting that book aside as well, but I'll get back to it someday.
(December 7, 2010 at 9:42 pm)HigherLvlofThinking Wrote: I just read sam harris' Letter to a christian nation. Great book i wanna read his other ones. I also want to read god is not great, and god delusion all seem great! i also love fantasy but i havent read any in a while any recomendations!?

The Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind. Once you read the series, you'll forget that J.K.Rowling exist. It is truly one of the best High Fantasy series of all time. You should also check out Maus, it's a comic book story about WW2 Holocaust, it's quite engaging.
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