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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #45 - Sep 27^th, 2013 at 4:13pm
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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #46 - Oct 6^th, 2013 at 1:08am Re-reading The Jeeves Omnibus. P.G. Wodehouse. Worth learning by heart.
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Vuk11 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1797 QLD Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #47 - Oct 6^th, 2013 at 1:16am The magician series - Raymond E. Feist (the final is out after 31 years) Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
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Reply #48 - Oct 8^th, 2013 at 5:39pm

Vuk11 wrote on Oct 6^th, 2013 at 1:16am:

The magician series - Raymond E. Feist (the final is out after 31 years)
Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman
Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell

One of my all time favorite books is: Faerie Tale - Raymond E Feist.

Currently I'm reading: The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking

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... Gold Member Offline Posts: 23673 WA Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #49 - Oct 8^th, 2013 at 5:45pm Game of thrones I haven't even seen the TV show, but when I do get around to it, I want to be one of those koonts who interjects every 5 minutes to say "in the book it happens like blah blah blah"
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Reply #50 - Oct 8^th, 2013 at 5:47pm

... wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 5:45pm:

Game of thrones

I haven't even seen the TV show, but when I do get around to it, I want to be one of those koonts who interjects every 5 minutes to say "in the book it happens like blah blah blah"

hahaha Love it! Anyway books are always so much better than the movie or tv shows. IMO.

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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #51 - Oct 8^th, 2013 at 6:05pm Jaqs wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 5:39pm: Currently I'm reading: The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking Does he change his mind again in this book? There is a God ~ or there isn't a God? Maybe he'll tell us for sure in his next book.
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Reply #52 - Oct 9^th, 2013 at 6:04am

Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 6:05pm:

Jaqs wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 5:39pm:

Currently I'm reading: The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking

Does he change his mind again in this book?

There is a God ~ or there isn't a God?

Maybe he'll tell us for sure in his next book.

He appears to be speaking from an agnostic point of view - so far. But only just started the book. In the very first page he writes: "Philosophy is dead!!!" I find that arrogant and blunt approach enjoyable reading!

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Reply #53 - Oct 9^th, 2013 at 10:28am

Jaqs wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 6:04am:

Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 6:05pm:

Jaqs wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 5:39pm:

Currently I'm reading: The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking

Does he change his mind again in this book?

There is a God ~ or there isn't a God?

Maybe he'll tell us for sure in his next book.

He appears to be speaking from an agnostic point of view - so far. But only just started the book. In the very first page he writes: "Philosophy is dead!!!" I find that arrogant and blunt approach enjoyable reading!

He's a great scientist, but I must say it annoys me a little when scientists presume to be experts on subjects outside of their official qualifications.

Take Tim Flannery, the Climate Warming alarmist. He has absolutely no training whatsoever in Climatology. He's totally unqualified to assume the mantle of 'expert' on the subject of climate change.

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Reply #54 - Oct 10^th, 2013 at 10:16am

Karnal wrote on Sep 18^th, 2013 at 8:58pm:

Postmodern Trendoid wrote on Jul 18^th, 2013 at 5:52pm:

Currently reading (again) The Prince by Machiavelli.

Advice on how to maintain the control of territories after seizing them. The rules differ for seizing principalities compared to republics. Then, he has numerous different strategies for maintaining control of principalities, all depending on how they were seized.

Me too, Mistie. I’m still getting through the forward - in this case longer than the book itself.

Please tell me - do you think Machiavelli intended it as satire?

That's what I was taught, however, I believe he's showcasing his knowledge to the prince to show him what he's missing out on by not employing him. The Medici banished and punished him. So, I am guessing the book is a: "stuff you, pal, look at the knowledge you're missing out on by getting rid of me".

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #55 - Dec 15^th, 2013 at 1:45pm The Birth of Venus: Love & Death in Florence, Sarah Dunant. Just finished actually. A novel set in Florence in the time of the Medici and the fundamentalist Savonarola.
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 76100 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #56 - Dec 15^th, 2013 at 6:03pm I'm going throguh the 'Jack Reacher' series by Lee Child ... currently on 'The Persuader'.
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Reply #57 - Dec 19^th, 2013 at 9:58am

Jeffery Deaver's 'Vanished Man'.

It's all junk-reading, if I'm honest. Helps me get to sleep.

I've grown (groan?) a little tired of these detective authors inventing silly novelties to take their books out of the ordinary.

We've got Jeffery Deaver's main hero being a forensic specialist who is a quadriplegic who can't even scratch himself.

And then there's (white) author James Patterson who thought it would be cute to make his detective hero a Negro.

And then (I can't remember the author now) ~ the hero is a middle aged homosexual detective.

And then there's Steven King ... who came off the rails quite some books ago when he began to depart from good story-telling to dope-smoking introspective meanderings that had me tossing away the books after 100 pages or so.

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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #58 - Dec 19^th, 2013 at 10:10am The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #59 - Dec 19^th, 2013 at 10:14am Letters: Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh. It's going to be a while, every letter has about a dozen footnotes re the people mentioned.
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