Whatcha reading at the moment?

[Prolescum]

The Walking Dead #104.

Fuckin' 'ell, Carl!

 

[he_who_is_nobody]

I have to put Wilson's book on hiatus. My library just allowed me to check out God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens.

 

[australopithecus]

Fantastic book.

 

[Darkprophet232]

I have to put Wilson's book on hiatus. My library just allowed me to check out God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens.

I can not speak highly enough of this book. It was what moved me from being an apathetic agnostic (as I saw at the time), to actually research atheism and the voices in movement. I have since realized that I am an agnostic atheist, and had been one the entire time.

The man was brilliant, I just wish he had researched WLC better before their debate. Oh, that was awful.

For myself, I'm reading Inside Reporting by Tim Harrower for a journalism class. Very well done book so far.

Edit: Now that I think about it, it was really the one-two punch of reading God is not Great... and Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris back to back that did it. Both excellent works.

 

[Frenger]

After a big big reading gap, I'm now reading The end of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas

About half way through. Pretty easy reading, but rather good. A bit Matrix so far.

 

[Frenger]

Reading American Gods - Neil Gaiman

 

[Daealis]

I just finished Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb and started the second book in that series. Assassin characters have been my cup of tea ever since I discovered R.A. Salvatore with Drizzt dabbling in this stealthy endeavor somewhat and Jarlaxle in particular weaving a web of deceit and myster in the courts. Similarily the Farseer trilogy of Hobb creates an interesting detail into a world of an assassin in a fantasy world.

After the two books left in Farseer trilogy I think I'll grab the Penn Jillette book God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales and his latter one, Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Author of God, No!

 

[Frenger]

China Mieville - The city and the city

 

[australopithecus]

I can make you hate - Charlie Brooker.

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

Mort by Terry Pratchet

 

[theyounghistorian77]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/historyboy77/status/293429651450232832[/tweet]

Obviously i need to see how good it is before some of you start ordering your copies of it

 

[Frenger]

Francis Collins - The language of god.

 

[Your Funny Uncle]

I got a Kindle for Christmas that has caused me to start reading more than I had been. I've decided to have one fiction and one non-fiction book on the go at any one time.

After watching and enjoying the Game of Thrones TV show I deccided to start reading George R R Martin's A Song of ice and Fire series. I'm nearing the end of the first book at the moment and I'm pleasantly surprised at how true to the source material the TV show was.

My current non-fiction is Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma. It's a very sobering book. Forget the crazy hokum that alt-med peddlers cook up about the pharmaceutical industry. The truth is quite bad enough.

 

[Frenger]

Carl Sagan - Varieties of scientific experience.

 

[The Felonius Pope]

Francis Collins - The language of god.

I started reading this book a couple of weeks ago but I couldn't finish it. Collins's nonsense about the 'Moral Law", combined with his denial of animal altruism, forced me to put down the book.

 

[Prolescum]

Slaine: The Books of Invasions.

 

[Frenger]

Francis Collins - The language of god.

I started reading this book a couple of weeks ago but I couldn't finish it. Collins's nonsense about the 'Moral Law", combined with his denial of animal altruism, forced me to put down the book.

It was full of nonsense yeah. I got through it but was just left with the feeling that he believes it, he just doesn't know why. This was his attempt to justify it. Fail.

Now reading Nessa Carey - The epigenetic revolution.

 

[Laurens]

The Expert At The Card Table - S.W. Erdnase

 

[Lallapalalable]

Re-reading "Ocean of Words" It's a collections of short stories based around the Chinese-Russian border war in the 70s, by Ha Jin, a Chinese born English scholar who has a firmer grasp on the language than most people who speak English exclusively. Its a great read, even the dryer stories give some depth to the situation and the communist Chinese culture in general. The grass is always browner on the other side, I guess.

 

[Visaki]

Just finished Dawkins' The Ancestors Tale. Not too bad, following the human lineage to the dawn of time.

Next, an biography of Emperor Hirohito, or The Bible.