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Whatcha readin'
Me?? Benjamin Franklin by a Yale professor named Edmund S. Morgan. It was a Christmas present.
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January 5, 2003, 23:19
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I'm just finishing up The Tragedy of Great Power Politics and about to start on The Paradox of American Power.
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If government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is also big enough to take everything you have. - Gerald Ford
Blackwidow24 and FemmeAdonis fan club
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January 5, 2003, 23:34
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besides Apolyton?  Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers
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"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
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January 5, 2003, 23:56
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Man from La Mancha by Cervantes. I normally like classical books but this one is proving to be a tough slog even for me. I may drop it and go back to rereading Shogun.
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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January 6, 2003, 00:53
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Currently reading The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century, edited by Turtledove. Next on the reading list is Consciousness and Emotion in Cognitive Science, edited by Toribio and Clark. (The latter is for school. The former is for shits and giggles.)
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January 6, 2003, 01:15
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Re: Whatcha readin'
Apolyton.net by MarkG.
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January 6, 2003, 01:27
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Civilization V News Editor
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Codex: tyranids, by gav thorpe, andy chambers & co.
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Civ V Civilization V Civ5 CivV Civilization 5 Civ 5 - Do your part!
I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
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January 6, 2003, 01:41
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An Ihop menu
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January 6, 2003, 01:45
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
and I'm enjoying it!!
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January 6, 2003, 01:52
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Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov
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January 6, 2003, 01:53
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The Harry Potter series is quite good. I read the first one to my neice and nephew and then bought the other three just so I could read them. 
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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January 6, 2003, 02:59
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Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad
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January 6, 2003, 03:16
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Niall Fergusons "The House of Rothschild Vol. II. The Worlds Bankers 1848-1999".
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Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
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Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.
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January 6, 2003, 03:29
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"The Rasputin File" - nonfiction
"The Innocents Abroad" - nonfiction
"The Naked Lunch" - fiction (I'm assuming!)
Just finished up two books, "Thief Of Time" and "Interview With The Vampire, the former of which rocked, the latter of which sucked. (har har)
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January 6, 2003, 04:10
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The Reptile Room, book 2 of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket
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—Orson Welles as Harry Lime
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January 6, 2003, 04:13
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Anyone here a fan of Asimov's "I, Robot"?
Always writing about robots that Asimov is.
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January 6, 2003, 05:13
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The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett.
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January 6, 2003, 06:27
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Unfinished Tales by JRR Tolkien - specifically, the chapter on the Istari...
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January 6, 2003, 06:58
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Richard J. Evans "In Defence of History"
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In GAIS we trust!
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January 6, 2003, 07:03
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"Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe" by Peter Spufford
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"Golf is a Game of Confidence" by Bob Rotella
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January 6, 2003, 07:07
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Nothing in dead-tree format lately, but I intend to spend some time today at http://www.edge.org/q2003/question03_index.html .
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January 6, 2003, 07:21
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"Timequake" by Vonnegut
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January 6, 2003, 08:31
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Dubliners by James Joyce, regressing to Asimov's Robot Novels and some stories from his old monthly SF magazine when my head starts to explode. Which is most of the time.
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January 6, 2003, 09:44
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Originally posted by Ramo
"Timequake" by Vonnegut
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Living the early 90s once was bad enough. 
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January 6, 2003, 09:52
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Island of the Day Before - umberto eco
The Discoverers - Daniel Boorstin.
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January 6, 2003, 09:53
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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
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January 6, 2003, 10:10
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I just finished "Ship of destiny" by Robin Hobb. Outstanding fantasy 
I´m currently re-reading "The shadow of the torturer" by Gene Wolfe. I tried to read his "Book of the new sun" in the mid 80-s but lost interest somewhere in book two. I think it was the flowery and somewhat stilted language that tired me that time. We´ll see if I can plough through it this time
An interesting book I found at the library is "The renaissance of the city" by Jerker Söderlind - a book on architecture and the problem of modern city planning. It asks the question: "Why don´t we build the city of our dreams - the good city?"
Also when I ride the tram I read "The Hippopoptamus" by Stephen Fry.
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January 6, 2003, 10:42
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Extremely funny book!
Just finished "To Catch a Thief" by Mercedes Lackey.
Currently reading the new short story collection from deLint, "Tapping the Dream Tree."
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January 6, 2003, 11:13
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Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time--the new one comes out this week. The middle books were painfully slow at times but I think he's moving faster as he gets towards the end.
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January 6, 2003, 11:51
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My Dark Places - James Ellroy It got very heavy and I had to stop reading for a bit... then never picked it up again... those are some dark places.
The Ticket That Exploded - William Burroughs Xmas pressie, looking forward to this one
The Idiot - Dostoevsky Another one I stopped halfway through for no reason. Silly person I am.
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"The Naked Lunch" - fiction (I'm assuming!)
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Heheheheh. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this one
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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I loved the whole series... read them in 4 successive days, each book is better than the last. Can't wait for the 5th.
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Anyone here a fan of Asimov's "I, Robot"?
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Lots of Asimov fans here 
I read pretty much everything Asimov published in paperback in my teens... just sink into a comfortable Asimov hole for days at a time
Must reread the foundation books though...
Has anyone read Nightfall? Asimov's most famous short story - I love it.
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The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett.
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Hehe Pratchett rules... a friend of mine was telling me it is advertised in the US as a satire of British culture, is that true? Here it's just sold as straight fantasy.
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"Timequake" by Vonnegut
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I've got that, but never got round to reading it after I'd read the first 20 pages... just didn't appeal. Any good?
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