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What book are you currently reading?

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I've been reading a few poems from Ariel by Sylvia Plath (the version released by her daughter, not her husband).
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But I think I'm gonna have to sit down indoors and devote my time to it as it's one of those kinda books. I may start reading Generation A by Douglas Coupland instead in the meantime.
 
there is such a rush on steig larson's trilogy at my teeny library that every copy has holds on them .
the guy died just after handing in the manuscripts ! such a loss to Sweden and the whole world. salander, his protagonist is the toughest, smartest, baddest femme, dyke, survivor that i can remember in decades of my fiction addiction.
 
Loving this - loved all Iain Banks :)
 

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Literary Outlaw: The life and times of William S. Burroughs
by Ted Morgan.
Im about half way through it, damn good read so far, author tends to go off on tangents regarding the multiple aquaintences of Burroghs, but he allways brings it back and relates it to the subject. Very indepth to say the least.

Got a couple hundered in gift cards for the holidays, gona drop it all on books. So far ive got Burrough's The Western Lands, and Place of Dead Roads, ive allready read Cities of the Red Night, so it should be interesting to wrap up the trilogy. Oh and Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, ive heard good things.
 
pinkpapaver said:
;);)

that looks abit dirty. is it suitable for ladies? isn't he your man wote war and peace?
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yeah, tolstoy is a masterful author. war and peace is over 1500 pages but its about as epic a book as you can get, wonderful perceptive writing from epic battle scenes to family intrigue and back again. plus its got one of my fave atheist-refuting quotes in it, i'll see if i can drag it up.. though i kinda think anna karenina is an easier book to read and possibly even contains superior characters/storylines. thats all subjective though. check out dostoyovsky's crime & punishment if you like tolstoy.. russian authors rule

or maybe one of the h threads
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the tv guide would be most likely be more interesting
 
Who art thou? What art thou? Thou dost consider thyself a wise man because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words, while thou art more foolish and artless than a little babe playing with the parts of a cunningly fashioned watch, and because he does not understand its use, dares to say he does not believe in the master who made it.
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there we go.
 
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Took me about 3 hours to read, it's basically just a novella. Very good book, tells the story of a Pakistani student's relationship with America and Americans, before and after 9/11.
 
neilios said:
Recently finished reading a few of Irvine Welsh's new-er books -

Reheated Cabbage - not a bad little collection of stories (I think mostly republished short stories) with an excellent return to "Juice" Terry & Carl Ewart at the end (from Glue) featuring Blacky, the old school headmaster - very amusing..

If You Liked School You'll Love Work - collection of new short stories - some pretty good ones in there - the highlight is the last novella "The Kingdom of Fife" an incredibly witty new character with an amusing catch phrase - some lovely dark wit lies within.

Crime - his new novel - a follow on from Filth - definitely a step away from his other work, this book is more plot driven and based in America. A definite page turner and I think worth reading if you are a fan... not so much of the dark wit and in depth exploration of the main characters though...

So a summary of each for anyone who is interested... now reading Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut), seems good so far...
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read 3 of the 4 books you have mentioned there, everything but 'If you love school', just finished Crime, a good read but not on par with Filth, my fave by him was the Marabou Stork Nightmares, that was class

and Slaughterhouse 5, well that's one of the best books I have ever read, led me to read several more of his works and their all incredible, can't pretend to be a massive reader but from what I have read I think Vonnegut is my number one author :)

currently reading Childhoods End by Arthur C Clarke, not read any sci-fi for a while really getting into it, bit odd after just finishing Crime but there are some good ideas shaping up already.. hopefully I'll finish it anyway, its easy to read out here but in Leeds I get so distracted
 
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Who art thou? What art thou? Thou dost consider thyself a wise man because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words, while thou art more foolish and artless than a little babe playing with the parts of a cunningly fashioned watch, and because he does not understand its use, dares to say he does not believe in the master who made it.
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If that is your favorite of the atheist refuting arguments, the rest must be truely terrible;*

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There are three main arguments against the Watchmaker analogy. The first is that complex artifacts do not, in fact, require a designer, but can and do arise from "mindless" natural processes (as in the "Infinite Monkey Theorem"). The second argument is that the watch is a faulty analogy. The third argument is that the watchmaker is arguably a far more complex organism than the watch, and if complexity proves intelligent design, then the question arises: who designed such a complex designer?
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The watchmaker argument is old, easily refuted and as such has been discredited pretty thoroughly. Whenever it is mentioned in theological debate by deists, they are doing atheists a favour.

Back on topic, at the moment i am mostly reading;

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http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/surface-detail/

which, without ruining it too much, is about a war over virtual heavens and hells running on sophisticated computer mainframes storing the dead of a multitude of technologically advanced societies, some of which think eternal damnation is a good idea and create virtual hells to punish those of their kind they think deserve it and others who think this the worst kind of torture and so go to war to prevent such attrocities from taking place even though it might not be any of their business.

*May have got the wrong end of the stick here. Perhaps you are an atheist? That would explain why this is your favorite atheism-refuting argument. Thinking about it now, it could well be mine too :)
 
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MrM said:
which, without ruining it too much, is about a war over virtual heavens and hells running on sophisticated computer mainframes storing the dead of a multitude of technologically advanced societies, some of which think eternal damnation is a good idea and create virtual hells to punish those of their kind they think deserve it and others who think this the worst kind of torture and so go to war to prevent such attrocities from taking place even though it might not be any of their business.

*May have got the wrong end of the stick here. Perhaps you are an atheist? That would explain why this is your favorite atheism-refuting argument. Thinking about it now, it could well be mine too :)
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gay
 
oh btw

MrM said:
If that is your favorite of the atheist refuting arguments, the rest must be truely terrible;*
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truly.



The watchmaker argument is old, easily refuted and as such has been discredited pretty thoroughly. Whenever it is mentioned in theological debate by deists, they are doing atheists a favour
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i dont really pay attention to wikipedia, its full of errors - like your post.


met·a·phor
–noun

a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.




one of my fave atheist-refuting quotes in it
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who mentioned arguments?

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lol what have spelling mistakes got to do with anything?

that iain m banks book sounds sick. will have to get that :)

ive just started reading the art of happiness - dalai lama. seems pretty good so far..
 
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