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Dr Strum
post Jan 18 2006, 08:27 PM
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This thread is for discussion of books. Books you're reading, books you've read, books you're interested in, etc.
--Tom Clancy is lame--


But anyways. I'm currently reading Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's interesting, but I'm having difficulty getting into it, partially because of school, and partially because the month before I started it, I had just finished the Dark Tower series.


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I've stopped about a quarter of the way through Rushdie's Midnight's Children. It's really good and I plan to get back to it soon, but I've been blasted by a bunch of library holds and other distracting reading:

My Favorite Thing is Monsters was an amazing book I picked up ahead of the creator's appearance at the Olympia Comic Book Festival last month. She was a sweet lady and I eagerly await the continuation of this story.

Blueprint (Christakis) This one was about the evolutionary genetic basis for society. Discussed studies on phenomenon like animal culture, hippy communes and shipwrecked survivors. Examined potential inherited survival strategies like monogamy and paternal investment and capacity for non-familial affection (ie friends, homeland, pets, and so on) through the above phenomenon. Interesting but not especially valuable.

Conformity (Sunstein) Almost finished with this one - the first two thirds of the book examined sociological/economics experiments studying how people's behavior changes from individual to group experience. Now it's discussing the ramifications for governance and the judiciary. One interesting takeaway thus far has been the significant impact even a single dissenter can have: shattering delusions of group unanimity balances the discussion often resulting in better outcomes.

African Samurai (Lockley/Girard) Biography on Yasuke. Thus far has been an exploration of 16th century Japanese politics and the Jesuit influence thereupon.

May have to set aside Rushdie still longer though because I kinda need to plow through a Murakami novel I started in 2016 and never finished before seeing a friend in August...


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Dr Sturm   Books   Jan 18 2006, 08:27 PM
valkan   Pshaw. The writer who wrote the novelization of ...   Jan 18 2006, 08:39 PM
Dr Sturm   In case you didn't notice, "Other Enterta...   Jan 18 2006, 08:40 PM
valkan   They have AUDIO books you know. Books can be cons...   Jan 18 2006, 08:43 PM
Dr Sturm   Anyone who listens to Audio Books fails at life. T...   Jan 18 2006, 08:46 PM
valkan   Yes they do.   Jan 18 2006, 08:55 PM
fensti   Let's see, I don't read much, mainly when ...   Jan 18 2006, 09:10 PM
Marionette   I love Tamora Pierce. ._. And the Wyrd Trilogy sag...   Jan 19 2006, 01:31 AM
Malice   I like the Tamora Pierce books too~! I'm r...   Jan 19 2006, 02:28 AM
Marionette   Alanna?! You mean the Song of the Lioness Quar...   Jan 19 2006, 03:06 AM
Raijinili   I read audio books. Straight off the tape. With ...   Jan 19 2006, 06:36 AM
Swifty-chan   Lioness Quartet is one of mah fav series~! XD ...   Jan 19 2006, 01:47 PM
Rhiannon   I read a lot of books. Lately I've been intere...   Jan 19 2006, 03:05 PM
MeleMewChew   Harry Potter isn't good anymore ever since the...   Jan 19 2006, 06:15 PM
fensti   Harry Potter is one of the few series that I have ...   Jan 19 2006, 09:06 PM
MoloMowChow   wow...hardcore reading... I don't think it...   Jan 20 2006, 12:36 AM
Raijinili   I read The Da Vinci Code in about 3 hours and it s...   Jan 20 2006, 05:14 AM
Dr Sturm   Yes, the Da Vinci Code was lame. And quite a few o...   Jan 20 2006, 05:43 AM
Swifty-chan   I finished 'Half-Blooded Prince' in 3 days...   Jan 20 2006, 02:00 PM
MeleMewChew   that's why your must take it slowly, even if i...   Jan 20 2006, 02:03 PM
Swifty-chan   Ah well, doesn't really matter since I'd r...   Jan 20 2006, 02:05 PM
Marionette   I'm reading Trickster, its not bad at all...   Jan 20 2006, 06:13 PM
Malice   Hm.. a few friends are reading the Trickster ones ...   Jan 20 2006, 11:06 PM
Liger   Hmm.. My friend's making me read Lord Of The R...   Jan 30 2006, 08:14 PM
fensti   *sigh* I finally finished The Scarlet Letter. I ha...   Jan 30 2006, 09:34 PM
Dr Sturm   Why would you want to read a book about that fenst...   Jan 30 2006, 09:44 PM
fensti   Because I like Math, why else.   Jan 30 2006, 09:53 PM
Malice   Math... gack. Finished Immortal series, on to Prot...   Jan 31 2006, 01:33 AM
fensti   ANd I am bored. That's why i read books about ...   Jan 31 2006, 09:18 PM
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fensti   Yep. That's what it is. A guy figured it out, ...   Feb 2 2006, 12:57 PM
Swifty-chan   I'm stuck reading the chinese novels I bought ...   Feb 2 2006, 02:33 PM
Liger   I just finished Dragon Bones. It was... Interestin...   Feb 14 2006, 01:21 AM
Nanashi   Well I just finished reading "The Outsiders...   Feb 17 2006, 10:54 PM
Liger   I really liked The Outsiders but yeah, it does sta...   Feb 17 2006, 11:38 PM
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Swifty-chan   Narnia, eh? I read the first 2 books and got bored...   Mar 28 2006, 01:18 PM
lightningdude   I need to find a good book to read, lately I'v...   Mar 29 2006, 02:15 PM
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Dr Sturm   Ugh, this book is horrible. Well, not the book, th...   Apr 6 2006, 04:29 PM
Ultimaninja   Ok the list of books I am reading: 1. Night (Clas ...   Apr 7 2006, 11:04 PM
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