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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #870 - November 17, 2012, 06:22 PM


    Science Panorama are giving out three free e-books.
     
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  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #871 - November 17, 2012, 06:46 PM
    Thanks nesrin. I wish these and other books were widely and freely available to people in places without access to this forum, people who could most benefit from learning about the universe we inhabit...
    "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #872 - November 18, 2012, 07:25 PM
    http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/publications/thirty-six-arguments-existence-god-work-fiction

    Quote
    In 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein explores the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety. Hilarious, heartbreaking, and intellectually captivating, it is a luminous and intoxicating novel.


    Has some very long words! 
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #873 - November 18, 2012, 08:04 PM
    ^
    I have a signed copy of the above book signed by Rebecca Goldstein. I've not read it yet though. I'm currently reading "Wintersmith" by Terry Pratchett.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #874 - November 18, 2012, 11:27 PM
    ^ I actually have a couple of signed books by Terry Pratchett! He calls me ‘Seriously Wyrd’ in one of them Grin.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #875 - November 22, 2012, 07:45 AM
    1. Right Honourable Gentlemen: The life and times of Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa - A very huge biographical book of the Nigeria's First prime minister and best political leader that the nation ever has. A cool headed,calm,diplomatic and detribalized leader. He is a good orator and they call him a golden voice of Africa. It's unfortunate that this book is out of print and i was lucky enough to borrow it from a friend.

    2. Decision Points - It's a political memoir of George W. Bush, i'm interested to read this man's thoughts and why he made those controversial decisions.

    3. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

    4. The Second Sex - Simone de Beauviour : Guess where i found this book? From my father's library of all places Cheesy
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #876 - November 22, 2012, 08:01 AM
    1. Holland's book

    2. Shoemaker's book

    3. The Millionaire Next Door

    I read a lot of journal articles otherwise.
    FreeThought Wiki is looking for translators!

    Current projects: Faraj Foda's "al-Haqiqa al Ghaib" (Arabic) and Turan Dursun's "Din Bu I" (Turkish)
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #877 - November 22, 2012, 10:54 PM


    Paranormality (Why we see what isn’t there) by Professor Richard Wiseman.

    Extremely interesting, a little bit limited in places, but well worth reading. My favourite is a one page section on how to recognise the signs if someone is trying to brainwash you, and avoid that happening. I love it because he describes four stages, and they immediately sounded like Islam to me! Grin
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #878 - November 23, 2012, 09:36 PM
    I'm sticking to fiction at the moment. Reading "Feet of Clay".
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #879 - November 23, 2012, 09:54 PM
    Catcher in the Rye is the best to me.
    Religious people are so ignorant that they are ignorant of their own ignorance.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #880 - November 24, 2012, 07:59 AM
    Read that in school when I was about 12.  Each child read a line or so in turn.  How to wreck a book!  Few others wrecked like that!
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #881 - November 29, 2012, 08:16 AM
    I am awaiting this book: The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East  by Timur Khan.

    Should be interesting.
    The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

    William Arthur Ward
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #882 - December 02, 2012, 08:01 PM


    77p on Kindle for 20 classic Mummy horror stories!

    And I finally bought the complete Sherlock Holmes collection on Kindle too
    "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 #883 - December 02, 2012, 08:07 PM
    Wuthering heights.
    "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline toward the religion of solitude."


    "i used to steal my sisters barbies so i could take their clothes off and perv on them" - prince spinoza
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #884 - December 02, 2012, 08:12 PM
    You were reading that ages ago!
    "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 #885 - December 02, 2012, 08:22 PM

    I had to get it as soon as I saw it for 99p



    "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 #886 - December 03, 2012, 11:41 AM
    A collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #887 - December 03, 2012, 01:11 PM
    Quote from: Kodanshi on November 22, 2012, 10:54 PM
    (Clicky for piccy!)

    Paranormality (Why we see what isn’t there) by Professor Richard Wiseman.

    Extremely interesting, a little bit limited in places, but well worth reading. My favourite is a one page section on how to recognise the signs if someone is trying to brainwash you, and avoid that happening. I love it because he describes four stages, and they immediately sounded like Islam to me! Grin


    Really enjoying this!  I did not realise the ouija board was invented in 1891!
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #888 - December 03, 2012, 02:10 PM
    Reading right now "L'existentialiste est un humanisme " by Jean-Paul Sartre. Very good!
    Religious people are so ignorant that they are ignorant of their own ignorance.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #889 - December 03, 2012, 02:28 PM
    Quote from: FatimaBen on December 03, 2012, 02:10 PM
    Reading right now "L'existentialiste est un humanisme " by Jean-Paul Sartre. Very good!

    huh ! what?  
    Fatima  ..you are reading such books?
    then who will read school/class/ college books?
    who will finish home work/class work/projects?

    No kid should read such books., They read junk they learn junk they talk junk and they start questioning Allah/God/messenger  and end up becoming infidels  finmad finmad  ...bloody books ...bloody internet..  See what he says..

    I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. ......Jean-Paul Sartre

    I am sure such people as J.P.Sartre  are put back in to concentration camps by allah...god..zeeha....yeeha.....hooha.. whatever.....

    So Fatima stop reading such books UNLESS they are prescribed to you by your college course  ..
     
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #890 - December 03, 2012, 02:34 PM
    I really hope you're joking. XD I just love the stereotype you pulled on me by saying kids should read junk. XD I read it for my personal desire because I just love Jean-Paul Sartre and his way of thinking, just as Albert Camus too! :-) Why would I read it for school when I can read it whenever I want! Smiley
    Religious people are so ignorant that they are ignorant of their own ignorance.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #891 - December 03, 2012, 02:42 PM
    Quote from: FatimaBen on December 03, 2012, 02:34 PM
    I really hope you're joking. ..

     Cheesy  post is for you., it is for you to judge  Fatima
    Quote
    XD I just love the stereotype you pulled on me by saying kids should read junk. XD I read it for my personal desire because I just love Jean-Paul Sartre and his way of thinking, just as Albert Camus too! :-) Why would I read it for school when I can read it whenever I want! Smiley

     what?  read whatever you want.. think whatever you like?  Damn this world is gone mad.. gone case.. they are running away from allah.. hey allah do something man...

    That is a problem  with guys like you  always shout at the world .

    freedom..freedom..freedom...  
    I wan my freedom

    and allah/god joker books from cave ages  say to me  . no freedom.. no freedom  .. be a slave.., now you tell me Fatima,  Should I believe alalh/god or you?    

    with best wishes
    yeezevee
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #892 - December 03, 2012, 02:44 PM
    Fatima, Yeezeevee is hard to understand even for people who have been on the forum reading his posts for years. You will kind of get used to him - don't worry if you don't understand him  Smiley
    "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 #893 - December 03, 2012, 02:54 PM
    hahahaha you actually make me crack up yeezevee! I don't know... the way you talk, you remind me of my mom. She gets really serious when she says: " Ah kids of these days... access to everything and they forget religion like that. Pff... starfighallah! "
    I just think you're joking and if you aren't well you're damn funny  dance! Smiley

    Billy: Thanks! It's always nice though... different people with different personality. Last week I got accused to be 12 years old and today I'm called an infidel ... XD
    Religious people are so ignorant that they are ignorant of their own ignorance.
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #894 - December 03, 2012, 03:05 PM
     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 #895 - December 03, 2012, 04:24 PM
    Quote from: FatimaBen on December 03, 2012, 02:54 PM
    .................. my mom. .............
    "Pff... starfighallah! "  

    Huh! what??     "Pff... starfighallah! "  what does  that mean?

    that "starfighallah!"  sounds like startfightallah  .. or start fighting allah.. ..

    Anyways I think Your "Mom"is a wonderful person .. She just wants the best for her kid  "the best she understands"  . Anyway did you know your favorite author Jean-Paul Sartre was in HailHitler Concentration camp? .. I think that is only the guy who refused to take Noble Prize... apart from that Vietnamese guy (for different reason) ..

    So what else do you read Fatima.? I mean what kind of books apart from these heavily loaded  Jean-Paul Sartre type of books..
    Quote
    ast week I got accused to be 12 years old and today I'm called an infidel ... XD

    No.. I didn't accuse you being an infidel fatima ., I said there is potential chance that people like you become infidels
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Re: What book are you reading?
     Reply #896 - December 04, 2012, 07:31 PM
    Currently reading Metamaths by Gregory Chaitin. It's a good book if you can get past the occasional sexual reference.
    "I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure,
    Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests."
    [Kepler's epitaph]
  • What book are you reading?
     Reply #897 - December 07, 2012, 05:06 PM
    I just got myself a new philosophical novel and im starting to enjoy it


    Here are the reviews from amazon
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • What book are you reading?
     Reply #898 - December 07, 2012, 06:12 PM


    I got it signed yesterday.
    "I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure,
    Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests."
    [Kepler's epitaph]
  • What book are you reading?
     Reply #899 - December 07, 2012, 07:04 PM
    By Nick Griffin, I hope
    "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.

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