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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #90 on: September 24, 2007, 12:26:02 PM »
Actually it is kind of cool revisiting all the stuff I used to like and had forgotten about. There has to be some compensation for losing your metabolic advantage and turning grey.  :eyebrows:

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #91 on: September 24, 2007, 02:17:16 PM »
there is - you get to entice innocent creatures into your den of wild sex by offering to show them your silver pubes.

well, it worked for me.   :eyelash:

anyone read "genome", by matt ridley?  sorry if this sounds pretentious, but someone who knows about scientific writing (even though it's only a popular science book).  i want to hear someone else's opinion before i start sighing on here.  :laugh:

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #92 on: September 24, 2007, 04:09:31 PM »
I always got pleasure rereading favorites.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #93 on: September 26, 2007, 05:55:02 AM »
Finished reading The Godfather. Who taught Mario Puzo grammar? I noticed quite a large number of grammar mistakes from that novel.
I found three spelling mistakes in The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman. I am not so good with grammar but I have noticed the misuse of a word in the book I am reading now; Deep Space Nine: The Left Hand of Destiny. It is about Klingons.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #94 on: September 30, 2007, 04:10:33 AM »
The brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky.

I like Dostoevsky. His characters remind me of lines in a painting, constantly colliding with each other and altering each other's courses and flying into the painting from all directions. Only thing that sucks is that he usually uses the patronymic when referring to each one so that you basically have to read each name twice to know who it is.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #95 on: October 20, 2007, 10:16:46 PM »
I just got a copy of 'My Lobotomy' by Howard Dully. NPR has a brief article here
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« Reply #96 on: October 21, 2007, 01:33:16 AM »
recently read "overtaken" by alexis sayle - had to finish it at one go, it was so good.  the first few pages were a bit odd, but i persevered, and am i glad i did, or what?  extremely well-written; great characters, plot, etc,; and even a touch of his surreal humour here and there.  it's not in his comedic style, btw, so don't expect ranting.  just fab.

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« Reply #97 on: October 21, 2007, 02:16:47 AM »
Michael Palin, Diaries 1969 - 1979 The Python years.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #98 on: October 21, 2007, 05:02:00 AM »
oooh, i'd be interested in your take on that book.  (i read it a while back).  do report back when you've finished it, won't you?

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« Reply #99 on: October 21, 2007, 05:05:17 AM »
I just got a copy of 'My Lobotomy' by Howard Dully. NPR has a brief article here

can someone who's had a lobotomy write a book?
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #100 on: October 21, 2007, 05:06:01 AM »
Calculus: One and several variables, by Salas Hille and Etgen.

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« Reply #101 on: October 21, 2007, 05:06:25 AM »
I just got a copy of 'My Lobotomy' by Howard Dully. NPR has a brief article here

can someone who's had a lobotomy write a book?

dan brown and jeffrey archer seem to have managed it.

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« Reply #102 on: October 21, 2007, 05:11:25 AM »
 :laugh:
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #103 on: October 21, 2007, 05:15:41 AM »
Calculus: One and several variables, by Salas Hille and Etgen.

Oh fucking joy.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #104 on: October 21, 2007, 07:52:09 AM »
Calculus: One and several variables, by Salas Hille and Etgen.

Salas and Hille's Calculus was my calculus book as well.

I think that it's a pretty good one.