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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2010, 11:12:17 AM »
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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2010, 01:08:12 PM »
1) Matter - Iain M. Banks
2) Pale blue Dot - Carl Sagan
3) Innumeracy - John Allen Paulos
4) On Deception - Harry Houdini
5) Dust of Dreams  -  Steven Erikson
6) Why people believe weird things - Michael Shermer
7) How to be idle - Tom Hodgkinson
8 ) Soldier Five - Michael Coburn
9) Harens år - Arto Paasilinna
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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2010, 06:37:43 PM »
1. Shadow Puppets - Orson Scott Card 1/1/2010
2. The Last Theorum - Arthur C. Clarke <11/1/2010
3. Ender in Exile - Orson Scott Card 11/1/2010
4. The men who stare at goats - Jon Ronson 19/1/2010
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle 23/01/2010
6. Shadow Of the Giant - Orson Scott Card 24/01/2010
7. Nation - Terry Pratchett 29/01/2010
8. Death from the skies - Phil Plait 5/02/2010
9. Quirkology - Richard Wiseman 18/02/2010
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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2010, 11:00:04 PM »
Read so far:

1. Penguin history of New Zealand, Michael King
2. World War Z, Max Brooks
3. Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks
4. Death from the Skies!, Phil Plait
5. South, Ernest Shackleton
6. Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan (reading)

To be read:
7. Philosophy: The Classics, Nigel Warbourton
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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2010, 11:45:55 AM »
Read in 2010 -
01. Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
02. Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
03. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
04. Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
05. The Weird of the White Wolf by Michael Moorcock
06. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
07. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
08. The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock
09. Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
10. The Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock
11. Charlatan by Pope Brock
12. Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
13. The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan
14. The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
15. Quirkology by Richard Wiseman
16. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
17. America (The Book) by Jon Stewart, etc.
18. The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
19. River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
20. A Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins
21. Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer
22. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
23. Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
24. Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
25. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2010, 02:21:18 PM »
My List (Hopefully I'll be good at updating this :P ):

01-The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
02-Does God Hate Women by Ophelia Benson (almost finished)
03-The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes (starting next)
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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2010, 11:23:21 PM »
So far in '10:

Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson  (excellent)
Greatest Show on Earth - Dawkins (currently reading.  Important book, but meh.)
In Defense of Food - Pollan  (excellent)
Omnivore's Dilemma - Pollan (just started it)
Making Sense of Statistics - Pryczak (can't wait for the movie)
The Punch - John Feinstein  (great sports book)
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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2010, 01:48:22 PM »
Saw the thread last year and I think this is an awesome way of sharing book recomendation and of getting some readin' done. Here I go:

Read:
1. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne | good
2. All Around the Moon by Jules Verne | very boring
3. Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson | excellent
4. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman | excellent

Reading:
1. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman

To be read in 2010:
1. The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
2. God: The Failed Hypothesis by Victor Stenger
3. Contact by Carl "the man" Sagan
4. Broca's Brain by Carl "the turtle neck sweater wearing" Sagan
5. The Sky is Not the Limit by Neil deGrasse Tyson
6. Classic Feynman by Richard Feynman
7. Dune by Frank Herbert
8. Ringworld by Larry Niven
9. The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
10. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
11. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #23 on: February 08, 2010, 05:49:07 PM »
I did bad last year.  Hopefully, it will be a little better this year.

1.  The Ancestor's Tale - Dawkins
2.  Who Wrote the Bible
3.  A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
4.  Manic: A Memoir
5.  A Year of Living Biblically - AJ Jacobs
6.  The Unlikely Disciple - Kevin Roose

Working on:
You Suck (A Love Story) - Christopher Moore
The Paperback Apocalypse - Robert Price  (This book is going to take me forever because I keep having to reference passages in the bible.  It's taken me about 12 hours of reading to get to page 80.)
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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2010, 07:39:34 AM »
For 2010

Read
01. Lord Peter Views The Body - Dorothy L Sayers
02. Smile or Die - Barbara Ehrenreich
03. The Trial of Henry Kissenger - Christopher Hitchens
04. 59 Seconds - Prof Richard Wiseman
05. The Hell Of It All - Charlie Brooker

Reading
01. The Missionary Position - Christopher Hitchens
02. This Sentence Is False - Peter Cave

To Be Read
01. Why People Believe Weird Things - Michael Shermer
02. The Beautiful and Damned - F Scott Fitzgerald
03. An Essay on the Principle of Population - Malthus
04. Colossus - Neil Ferguson
05. The Blackpool High Flyer - Andrew Martin
06. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
07. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
08. The Railway Viaduct - Edward Marston
09. Essays - George Orwell
10. Lost Luggage Porter - Andrew Martin
11. Seeing Further - ed Bill Bryson
12. The 2nd Rumpole Omnibus - John Mortimer
13. The White Lioness - Henning Mankell
14. Sceptical Essays - Bertrand Russell
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
17. Wolf Winter - Clare Francis
18. The Naming of the Dead - Ian Rankin
19. The Blind Assassin - Margret Atwood
20. Logic, A very Short Introduction - Graham Priest
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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #25 on: February 28, 2010, 08:00:47 AM »
Read
1. The Times Going Underground - Paris by Metro
2. The Rough Guide to Paris
(I'm going to Paris for the second time this weekend, I love the city)

3. The God Delusion - Dawkins
4. European City Breaks (Footprint)
5. Arnold-The Education of a Bodybuilder - Arnold Schwarzenegger
6. Most of the New Scientist and British Medical Journal, bits that interest me out of The Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine

Reading

7. Politics - a very short introduction - Kenneth Minogue
8. Quirkology

I would also love a fun and interesting read on quantum mechanics if anyone can recommend one.

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Re: 50 Books for 2010 - List Thread
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2010, 08:31:33 PM »
Read:

1. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
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