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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #600 - April 21, 2012, 02:08 AM
    Finally finished Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950.  This one took me longer than it normally would but it was a very good read. Though in the US the Civil Rights movement is portrayed as something that happened in the 1960's, this book reminded me that resistance to oppression had always been occuring by the every day man as well as highly moral and intelligent people whose words and statements amazed me.  Though the book isn't about her, one woman particularly impressed me, Pauli Murray ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_Murray ). There are so many little tidbits of bright moments of clarity in this book to list, and I would recommend it for anyone.

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    The civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history of that early movement introduces us to a contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals who employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down. In a dramatic narrative Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore deftly shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights.


    http://www.amazon.com/Defying-Dixie-Radical-Rights-1919-1950/dp/0393335321/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1334973813&sr=1-1-catcorr
    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTgvK6LQqA
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #601 - April 21, 2012, 02:12 AM
    Next up is

    Arguing about Gods

    http://www.amazon.com/Arguing-about-Gods-Graham-Oppy/dp/0521122643/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334974266&sr=1-1-spell

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    In this book, Graham Oppy examines arguments for and against the existence of God. He shows that none of these arguments is powerful enough to change the minds of reasonable participants in debates on the question of the existence of God. His conclusion is supported by detailed analyses of the arguments as well as by the development of a theory about the purpose of arguments and the criteria that should be used in judging whether or not arguments are successful. Oppy discusses the work of a wide array of philosophers, including Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Kant, Hume and, more recently, Plantinga, Dembski, White, Dawkins, Bergman, Gale and Pruss.

    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTgvK6LQqA
  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu;
     Reply #602 - April 22, 2012, 12:00 PM


    The world’s first novel. At the moment I am on chapter 5 out of 54. So far it’s pretty flat, emotionally unengaging (apparently that is simply this particular translator’s style), but even in terms of events it’s just filled with people weeping uncontrollably at every opportunity.

    I really hope it picks up.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #603 - May 12, 2012, 05:02 AM
    Decided to go back and complete some of the books I started. Currently reading The Labyrinth - Kate Mosse

    Promised myself to refrain from buying any more books until I finish reading at least 1 book XD

    I'm so tempted to buy some books on gender inequality that still exists in western society!
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #604 - May 12, 2012, 07:52 AM
    Finished reading the Hunger Games, it is an amazing series with well-defined characters! I absolutely love it.
    ~My story~
    ~Collection of unethical hadiths/surahs~
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #605 - May 12, 2012, 07:55 AM
    Hey I just got back from seeing the movie. Pretty good. Smiley
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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #606 - May 12, 2012, 07:59 AM
    I got into the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #607 - May 12, 2012, 08:13 AM
    I want to read those. Smiley
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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #608 - May 12, 2012, 08:37 AM
    Quote from: PeruvianSkies on May 12, 2012, 07:52 AM
    Finished reading the Hunger Games, it is an amazing series with well-defined characters! I absolutely love it.


    I just recently finished reading it too (wanted to read the books before I watched the movie) and I was pleasantly surprised.

    Didn't think I would love it as much as I did  dance
    井の中の蛙大海を知らず。
    (I no naka no kawazu taikai wo shirazu)
    A frog in a well does not know the great sea.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #609 - May 12, 2012, 06:40 PM
    Quote from: PeruvianSkies on May 12, 2012, 07:52 AM
    Finished reading the Hunger Games, it is an amazing series with well-defined characters! I absolutely love it.


    What did you think of the end? Cry


    @thread.... currently reading this:

    Incognito  by David Eagleman

    "If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #610 - May 12, 2012, 09:32 PM
    Quote from: Stardust on May 12, 2012, 05:02 AM
    Decided to go back and complete some of the books I started. Currently reading The Labyrinth - Kate Mosse


    FUCK YES! Magnificent book! Afro
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #611 - May 12, 2012, 09:42 PM
    Quote from: Ephemeral on May 12, 2012, 06:40 PM
    What did you think of the end? Cry

    Loved it. Have you finished the 3rd book?
    ~My story~
    ~Collection of unethical hadiths/surahs~
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #612 - May 12, 2012, 09:45 PM


    Ever since I got my Kindle my reading has increased exponentially.

    I think I just got book lethargy or something and have been in a book reading lull for the last year.

    Then I got this damn thing and even though I don't like it for what it means for the romance of books, I haven't been off it. Reading books, downloading, finishing a book at midnight and being so into this writer and not wanting to sleep I just went online bought another one of his books and 60 seconds later I'm back on it.

    The ease of it is so futuristic its blowing my mind back when I was a 12 year old. Yes one day there'll be a tablet computer lighter than a paperback which you can download books into as easy as tapping one button. Yeah right I'm never going to believe that.

    Carrying it around its so light, every spare second you can just whip it out and read. The convenience is madness.

    So yeah, currently reading an Elmore Leonard novel called Freaky Deaky, American crime fiction. He's the one I was reading past midnight and had to get on the next one of his. Great writer, his books are addictive.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


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    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #613 - May 12, 2012, 09:52 PM
    Agree with you about the Kindle billy. It is an amazing piece of tech and so well thought out by Amazon. They have done a brilliant job, especially with WhispaSync.

    I don't use it as much as I'd like, I go through phases. It's difficult finding a book that actually pulls me in, it doesn't happen very often unfortunately. The Hunger Games did a fantastic job pulling me in however, I couldn't put it down! Could do with finding more similar-ish writing styles.
    ~My story~
    ~Collection of unethical hadiths/surahs~
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #614 - May 12, 2012, 09:53 PM
     
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #615 - May 12, 2012, 10:01 PM


    Yeah Peru, maybe its just the novelty and convenience of it that has got me reading a lot all of a sudden, either way its a great piece of kit. Took me a few days to work out how to work my way around it, including all the highlighting, adding notes, finding stuff, but it comes to be second nature quickly. Now when I go on Amazon to look up a book and I see its not available on Kindle I get pissed off! Then I feel a little guilty, because books still need love too.

    I've got a few serious, heavy books on there but at the moment I'm just on a fiction spree, got Drive by James Sallis on which the movie was based, and the sequel to that called Driven on there too. One of the books I've got on there and only just been through the first couple of chapters is 'The True Believer' by Eric Hoffer - examines mass movements of religious and political fanaticism. Very good.



    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #616 - May 12, 2012, 10:07 PM
    Quote from: PeruvianSkies on May 12, 2012, 09:52 PM
    It's difficult finding a book that actually pulls me in, it doesn't happen very often unfortunately.


    Thats the thing. Maybe I'm just jaded, but I seem to have been much easier to impress with books in the past than I am now. I really only want to spend my time reading something that is going to reward me immediately now. I won't persevere with anything if it doesn't take me out of my head space and into another place immediately any more. I just want escapism into fictional worlds now. I still do read non-fiction, but the same applies really - I just want to read stuff that is going to grab me by the collar and divert me completely.

    Tom Holland's history book Persian Fire, I read the first chapter of that after I downloaded it and thats a great example of what I mean.

    Fiction wise I'm just into stuff that lets me be some place else than where I am.
     
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #617 - May 12, 2012, 10:10 PM
    Quote from: Kodanshi on May 12, 2012, 09:53 PM
    I dunno. Every single thing I’ve seen on Kindle (I have the Kindle to PC application) has had bugger–all in the way of editing. Everything I’ve read seems to be filled with atrocious typos. I mean SERIOUSLY bad.

    Convenience is the most important factor for me.
    ~My story~
    ~Collection of unethical hadiths/surahs~
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #618 - May 12, 2012, 11:13 PM
    Quote from: billy on May 12, 2012, 10:07 PM
    Tom Holland's history book Persian Fire, I read the first chapter of that after I downloaded it and thats a great example of what I mean.


    god how I hated that book. I remember buying it a few years ago and reading it. Bleh. I came away with an impression of Persians as Eastern scum and the Greeks as the Western bastion of all that is Good & Righteous. Fucking prick.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #619 - May 12, 2012, 11:50 PM
    Quote from: PeruvianSkies on May 12, 2012, 09:42 PM
    Loved it. Have you finished the 3rd book?


    I finished all of the books in 3 days lol. It was good therapy in a difficult time. I thought the ending was rather bittersweet, bordering more on bitter. But a good social commentary I think.

    "If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #620 - May 12, 2012, 11:51 PM
    Fair enough grin12
    ~My story~
    ~Collection of unethical hadiths/surahs~
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #621 - May 12, 2012, 11:59 PM
    Two Books:  1) Nelson Advanced Functions Textbook 
                           
                          2) Nelson Calculus and Vectors.   

    FML
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #622 - May 13, 2012, 12:02 AM
    Cheesy

    You must be Canadian.
    "If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #623 - May 13, 2012, 12:14 AM
    Quote from: Kodanshi on May 12, 2012, 11:13 PM
    god how I hated that book. I remember buying it a few years ago and reading it. Bleh. I came away with an impression of Persians as Eastern scum and the Greeks as the Western bastion of all that is Good & Righteous. Fucking prick.


    Makes me even more excited to read it! Thanks  Afro
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #624 - May 13, 2012, 04:04 AM
    Quote from: Ephemeral on May 13, 2012, 12:02 AM
    Cheesy

    You must be Canadian.

       

    Are you Canadian too ?
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #625 - May 13, 2012, 04:12 AM
    Quote from: TheDarkRebel on May 12, 2012, 11:59 PM
    Two Books:  1) Nelson Advanced Functions Textbook 
                           
                          2) Nelson Calculus and Vectors.   

    FML


    OMG I LOVE NELSON'S CALC BOOK!!!!

    I hated Advanced functions though, but the Calc book is AWESOME.
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    Expect me to come back a Muslim. Cool Tongue j/k we'll see..
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #626 - May 13, 2012, 04:17 AM
    ^ Now I see why ur jester of the month  Afro
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #627 - May 13, 2012, 04:20 AM
    I'm not kidding! I actually love the Calc book (the green one right?). I have it next to me right now.

    I've even written Facebook statuses about how much I adore this textbook. Tongue
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    Expect me to come back a Muslim. Cool Tongue j/k we'll see..
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #628 - May 13, 2012, 04:28 AM
    ^ Aah so I take it that Calc is not fucking up your grades. I am getting high 80's and low 90's in all of my courses except math and calc. Can't wait for this hell of a school year to be over.
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #629 - May 13, 2012, 04:30 AM
    Good job!! Smiley That's really good marks, and if you're not going into Maths, who cares about Calc/Advanced Functions (especially the latter. I really hated that course).

    No, Calc is my highest mark. Tongue My Calc teacher rocks, that's why.

    Good luck! Smiley OMG if you're in grade 12, I am totally messaging you right now about uni. Smiley
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