What are you reading?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #390 on: July 27, 2011, 05:20:10 AM »
Got A Dance with Dragons yesterday.

I lost track of time and read through till sunrise, so I can't focus enough to read any more.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #391 on: July 28, 2011, 05:06:14 PM »
Got A Dance with Dragons yesterday.

I lost track of time and read through till sunrise, so I can't focus enough to read any more.

Winter is coming!
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #392 on: July 31, 2011, 01:27:30 PM »
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #393 on: August 01, 2011, 03:20:40 PM »
I don't see a united Africa as a remotely viable construct at the moment. It's too big, too many disparate tribes, religions and ways of life, too much inequality between the states, too many unresolved conflicts, too many centuries-old blood feuds. Not even the Sudan could remain united, what hope is there for a continent-wide unification?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #394 on: August 01, 2011, 04:33:10 PM »
Since DwD is too bulky to carry around I'm going with a more slender volume for travelling, The Computer and the Brain by von Neuman. I'm sort of understanding most of it.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #395 on: August 03, 2011, 07:22:42 AM »
I don't see a united Africa as a remotely viable construct at the moment. It's too big, too many disparate tribes, religions and ways of life, too much inequality between the states, too many unresolved conflicts, too many centuries-old blood feuds. Not even the Sudan could remain united, what hope is there for a continent-wide unification?

Looks like a good list of reasons why the present schemes (neo-colonialism or whatever you want to call it) don't work.

Not saying the current system 'works' but a 'United Africa' is nothing more than a pipe-dream.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #396 on: August 03, 2011, 11:11:56 AM »
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Martin Cruz Smith

I've read two or three of this guy's books and they're pretty entertaining, mostly intrigue plots in unfamiliar places.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #397 on: August 03, 2011, 06:41:59 PM »
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Martin Cruz Smith

I've read two or three of this guy's books and they're pretty entertaining, mostly intrigue plots in unfamiliar places.

I love Martin Cruz Smith.  I think Gorky Park is my favorite police procedural I've ever read.
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« Reply #398 on: August 03, 2011, 07:01:33 PM »
Yeah, that one and I've read Polar Star and Havana Bay.  All three good reads.  This one I'm reading now is set in Japan.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #399 on: August 03, 2011, 07:17:02 PM »
Yeah, that one and I've read Polar Star and Havana Bay.  All three good reads.  This one I'm reading now is set in Japan.

lol, yeah, I just realized that I bought it two years ago and never read it.  I think I actually lost it in my last move.

Red Square was also a good read.  It's another Arkady Renko book.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #400 on: August 03, 2011, 08:15:06 PM »
Now you've found that you lost it.  ;D   You sound like me.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #401 on: August 06, 2011, 10:00:59 AM »
For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #402 on: August 09, 2011, 12:33:36 PM »
The Name of the Wind.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #403 on: August 12, 2011, 04:44:02 PM »
Finished up A Game of Thrones after watching the show, now I'm working on A Clash of Kings
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #404 on: August 16, 2011, 05:16:21 PM »
I'm finally reading A Dance with Dragons.

I'm about to start reading a Game of Thrones.  I've had it for months but haven't had time to get into it.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #405 on: August 16, 2011, 06:29:14 PM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #406 on: August 17, 2011, 10:16:46 AM »
I'm finally reading A Dance with Dragons.

I'm about to start reading a Game of Thrones.  I've had it for months but haven't had time to get into it.

Winter is coming! I think you'll really enjoy it.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #407 on: August 18, 2011, 09:16:03 PM »
A Song of Ice and Fire is amazing. I finished A Dance With Dragons about two weeks ago, and though it was very good, I'm not sure it was up to the same (very high) standard as the other books.


I've just finished The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard, and I'm about to start Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomonology of Perception, along with Reading Merleau-Ponty (ed. Thomas Baldwin) and Merleau-Ponty by Taylor Carmen.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #408 on: August 18, 2011, 11:42:10 PM »
The FES collaboration book.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #409 on: August 19, 2011, 08:09:53 AM »
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Does your condemnation of a United Africa mean that you think that Africans are unfit to govern themselves?  Is it okay for europeans to have a United Europe but too advanced for Africans?  I especially disrespect racism that is too cowardly to declare itself openly, but attacks the legitimate dreams of the exploited and their true leaders.

Not at all, I think a United States of Europe is a pipe-dream for basically the same reasons. I don't want Africa to be a colonial power, I want the people of Africa to decide for themselves where their national and cultural boundaries are and to govern themselves as they see fit. If Sudan couldn't even remain as one country or South Africa and Namibia, is it likely that we'll see a large-scale unification?

A United Southern Africa would be hard enough to achieve but at least SA, namibia and Botswana are all at more or less equivalent economic levels and have similar cultures

the difference in culture between the North and South of Africa is startling

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #410 on: August 19, 2011, 11:42:21 PM »
Another Lovecraft short story: The Whisperer in Darkness. I'm enjoying this one more than some of his more famous works. Shadow Over Innsmouth was a good read, but nothing spectacular.

Also, can someone recommend me a really good fantasy series? It should be easier to get recommendations from this thread than from Google.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #411 on: August 20, 2011, 04:01:22 PM »
Just started Singularity Sky, by Charles Stross.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #412 on: August 20, 2011, 06:04:00 PM »
The last few posts of this thread.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #413 on: August 22, 2011, 05:36:44 PM »
Sex, Drugs, and DNA, by Michael Stebbins. It's a look into the world of science and a debunking of the misconceptions about some of the more controversial topics. As a future scientist, I've found it both useful and interesting so far.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #414 on: August 22, 2011, 09:09:39 PM »
Finally finished The Bear and the Dragon; I am now on Dune.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #415 on: August 23, 2011, 11:24:49 AM »
OMG! You just made me squee! :)  I hope you get as much out of Dune as I have, it is the one book I've read over and over again, and always get something new out of.

ALSO, I finished Singularity Sky (I love Charles Stross) and started The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #416 on: August 23, 2011, 01:55:11 PM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #417 on: August 23, 2011, 06:24:05 PM »
Finally finished The Bear and the Dragon; I am now on Dune.


Dune is awesome.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #418 on: August 23, 2011, 06:25:26 PM »
OMG! You just made me squee! :)  I hope you get as much out of Dune as I have, it is the one book I've read over and over again, and always get something new out of.

Dune is awesome.

These are the kinds of things I keep hearing about this book.

I haven't gotten too far yet but I'm enjoying it so far.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #419 on: August 24, 2011, 10:57:17 AM »
Just finished:
"Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism" by Kevin Phillips


Moving on to "Age of Reagan: A History" by Sean Wilentz
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