What book are you reading at the moment - revisited

Invader Zim wrote:

Demelza wrote:I'm nearly at the end now of the fourth Harry Potter book - The Goblet of Fire, and have to say that I'm hooked!

Working your way up to 'The Cat in the Hat'?

Are there lots of pics?

Yeah, but I only read it for the articles.

Yeah, and you only access porn for the corporate advertising.

I've just re-read 'Angela's Ashes'. McCourt overcomes the serious obstacle of frequent use of that notoriously wanky abbreviation 'Tis' through his vivid descriptions of dental decay, furtive copulation, stolen mouldy apples, copious snot, everlasting diarrhoea, an alcoholic father, violent Redemptorist priests, and pallid young things dying of consumption on the sofa. It's a cracking read all round.

Just reread "Hold my hand I'm Dying"

Still relevant although it is 40 years old.

I can read and am currently reading Anthony Beevor's History of the Spanish Civil War.

Just finished Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos- I would seriously recommend it, great book on evolution, the human condition and chance with an innovative narative structure.

I'm reading The God Delusion by Professor Richard Dawkins. Form a logical/scientific perspective, he demolishes the reasons for belief in God. His rationalism is merciless.

God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens might float your boat too, Robby.

Dello wrote:God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens might float your boat too, Robby.

Perhaps, but I don't think moderate religion poisons everything. It does some good too. Fundamentalism is what poisons everything IMO.

I haven't read it, so I can't really comment - but I did catch some of Hitchens' hilariously combative interviews on American television as he went around promoting the book.

Nothing quite as entertaining as Americans getting their panties in a bunch while a sarcastic self-important Brit gives them the run-around.

PMSL Hannity owned.

Final line he squeezes in is a classic: "if you gave Falwell an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox."

More Hannity/Hitchens:

So out of his depth all he's got left to offer is 'Snob'

Rob I wrote:I'm reading The God Delusion by Professor Richard Dawkins. Form a logical/scientific perspective, he demolishes the reasons for belief in God. His rationalism is merciless.

Still - I started reading and got bored because he was basically telling me what I already know/ think.

What I would be interested in is a book/article in response from an intelligent believer.

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Hitchens looks and sounds worse everytime I see him. Alcoholism is slowly turning his brilliant mind into a shambles.


Hannity, on the other hand, is an utter idiot. Not many people get on my nerves as much as he does.

And back on topic, I've finished Salmon fishing in the Yemen. T'was original and very good. Am now quarter of the way through 'Snow' by Orhan Pamuk. Quality so far.

I also went to Waterstones today and finally bought One Hundred Years of Solitude (along with Suite Francaise). Will probably read that next, when I have the time.

'Mind Wars - brain research and national defence' - by Professor Jonathan D. Moreno, informs on what innovations, in brain science (such as sleep research), have caught the attention of national defence agencies and considers how such research may change the way future wars are fought.

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:And back on topic, I've finished Salmon fishing in the Yemen. T'was original and very good. Am now quarter of the way through 'Snow' by Orhan Pamuk. Quality so far.

I also went to Waterstones today and finally bought One Hundred Years of Solitude (along with Suite Francaise). Will probably read that next, when I have the time.

Snow is brilliant. And sad.

Averell Harriman's memoirs of WW2 as Roosevelt's envoy to the UK and USSR in WW2.

A fascinating insight into the characters of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. It highlights the unlikeliness of the alliance of these three with their contrasting and incompatible ambitions for the post war world.

The legacy of all this became all to apparent ion 1945.

doremi wrote:

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:And back on topic, I've finished Salmon fishing in the Yemen. T'was original and very good. Am now quarter of the way through 'Snow' by Orhan Pamuk. Quality so far.

I also went to Waterstones today and finally bought One Hundred Years of Solitude (along with Suite Francaise). Will probably read that next, when I have the time.

Snow is brilliant. And sad.

They wrote a book about my father's favourite horse? How nice . . .

Started rereading Thucydides today . . . rollicking good stuff, but fark my greek is getting rusty . ..

Read The Story of A Shipwrecked Sailor (who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food and water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time) yesterday. Currently on The Double.

doremi wrote:Read The Story of A Shipwrecked Sailor (who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food and water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time) yesterday. Currently on The Double.

Shit, would've taken me two days just to read the title, do-boy . . .