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Barry Unsworth - After Hannibal

Picked it up for $.10 at the library. Have no clue what to expect.

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Hilbert Cheesecake

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The Selfish Gene, it's really a remarkable book so far! What took me so long?

This book is 30 years old! WHY didn't I read this in high school?? Why didn't I discover Dawkins until I was well into my 30's and he was utterly ubiquitous?!! This ought to be required reading!!! Carry on...

Beware, for The Selfish Gene is known to be one of Jeffrey Skilling's favorite books.
Dawkins addresses what he considers to be a bastardization of his philosophies towards another perverse "survival of hte fittest" argument for taking advantage of weaker people. I think he does this in The God Delusion... maybe in the updated Selfish Gene... i forget

Yes, and it was this bastardized "suvival of the fittest" mentality that Jeffrey Skilling adopted as corporate ethic and philosophy.

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There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Anthony Flew

I'll be honest, I never heard of Anthony Flew. I read the introduction to the book hoping to gain an understanding as to why he was so "notorious;" apparently he wrote a piece in the late 50s regarding atheism that was oft-quoted afterward. I never heard or read of him and this doc.

Anyway, the book was a gift from my philosophy instructor. He mentioned how every now and then he'd have a student that would make him think about the world at large ina new way. Seems I was that student this year. Hence the gift.

He's now in the Phillipines studying to become a priest. I look forward to his follow-up email, as we had many spirited conversations.

But what about the book?

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There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Anthony Flew

I'll be honest, I never heard of Anthony Flew. I read the introduction to the book hoping to gain an understanding as to why he was so "notorious;" apparently he wrote a piece in the late 50s regarding atheism that was oft-quoted afterward. I never heard or read of him and this doc.

Anyway, the book was a gift from my philosophy instructor. He mentioned how every now and then he'd have a student that would make him think about the world at large ina new way. Seems I was that student this year. Hence the gift.

He's now in the Phillipines studying to become a priest. I look forward to his follow-up email, as we had many spirited conversations.

But what about the book?

I'm only thirty pages in. All that has been revealed so far regards Flew's avowed atheism at a young age. I've yet to get into his conversion to deism.

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I just started Rama Revealed by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee.

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I just finished B Is For Beer by Tom Robbins. A friend of mine turned me onto him years ago and I've been a fan ever since. I was told I should look at this "A Children's Book for Adults/An Adult's Book for Children" in the same vein as The Tales of Beedle the Bard was to the Harry Potter series.

I quite enjoyed it more than that. I think Tom should start writing more books like this.

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Hilbert Cheesecake

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I'm only 60 pages into Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated and already in love with it.

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George Pelecanos - The Way Home

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How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by John Muir

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I'm only 60 pages into Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated and already in love with it.

I really, really enjoyed that book, as well as "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". There's just something about his writing style I really like.

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Nelson Algren- The Devils Stocking

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Im about a third into 'Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth' by Chris Ware. Its quite odd, like a slow depressing indie film in a comic book form. Im quite enjoying it though.

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Into The Wild. Just finished Blink a few days ago. I think I'm gonna try to always be reading a book from now on.

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Into The Wild. Just finished Blink a few days ago. I think I'm gonna try to always be reading a book from now on.

I really enjoyed Into the Wild!

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Yeah, my brother told me to see the movie, so I did. I really liked it, so now he says I need to read the book. About halfway through, good stuff!

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I read 'The Timewaster Letters' by Robin Cooper yesterday. Would be a good book to have next to your toilet.

I am starting 'Naked Lunch' by William S. Burroughs today.

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Yeah, my brother told me to see the movie, so I did. I really liked it, so now he says I need to read the book. About halfway through, good stuff!

I recommend all of Krakauer's other books as well. 'Under the Banner of Heaven' was great, in a 'In Cold Blood' sort of way. Into This Air was also a fantastic mountain climbign book. Eiger Dreams was also a fun short read about mountan climbers.

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I have decided to reread all the Philip K. Dick books that I own so I started with "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" last night.

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I finished 'Naked Lunch' last night. I found it quite hard going except a couple of chapters near the end that were written 'normally'. I found the introduction and appendix more interesting than the actual book.

Ive just started 'The Crow Road' by Iain Banks

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Lionel Dahmer - A Father's Story

It is very creepy reading a father talkign about having a son who grows up to be one of the worst killers ever. What a horrible thing to have happen to your kid!

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