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What book are you currently reading?

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bit too much perspective!

one random fact from that book that fascinated me (sorry if your not up to it yet) is that there all solid particles repel each other or something.. you never actually touch anything there is always a one atom layer between you and the object! 8o

when I was reading it on the way back from a wedding my gran spotted me with it and said 'I would like to read that but I'm sure he writes about that evolution' =D
 
Supersense by Bruce Hood.

Examines why humans are predisposed to religion/belief systems.

Guy's the chair of psychology in Bath or somewhere like that. Good read.
 
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Just started on this.

So far so good. A lil' different from the film, but not majorly. Enjoying her descriptive writing style, and general observations on life. Should finish it in no time.
 
Slights - Kaaron Warren, Rather simple reading compared to the last few on this page. (Shock Doctrine is a grim book, my other half read it and sort of put me off - Ive tried starting it a few times but can never really get into it).

Next I have 'Let the Right one in' - John Ajvide Lindqvist (havent seen the movie)

Then 'Matter' - Iain Bank

Then may start the 'Mars' series by Kim Stanley Robinson

(Big thanks to 'Borders book shop' for going out of business and selling everything off)
 
The Story of Tea - Mary Lou and Robert Heiss
Flamingo Feather - Laurens van der Post
The Soul Of The Ape - Eugene Marais
Autobiography of a Super Tramp - William Henry Davies
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Henry Miller

(I'm a bit of a multitasker...)
 
Started reading today 'Blood River - A Journey to Africas Broken Heart' by Tim Butcher.

Despite warnings from old Africa hands that his plan was ‘suicidal’, Butcher spent years poring over colonial-era maps and wooing rebel leaders before making his will and venturing to the Congo’s eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. He travelled for hundreds of kilometers on a motorbike, dogged by punctured tyres, broken bridges and dehydration. As he drove through the most dangerous areas, he stopped only to sleep - biking through the bush for hours and speeding up every time he passed a soldier. And then he reached the legendary Congo River, making his way down it in an assortment of vessels including a dugout canoe. Helped along the way by a cast of characters - from UN aid workers to a campaigning pygmy, he passed through the once thriving cities of this huge country, saw the marks left behind by years of abuse and misrule, and followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers, and of the visitors - such as Katherine Hepburn and Evelyn Waugh - who had been there in very different times. Almost 2,500 harrowing miles later, he reached the Atlantic Ocean a thinner and a wiser man.

His extraordinary account describes a country with more past than present, where giant steamboats lie rotting in the advancing forest and children hear stories from their grandfathers of days when cars once drove by. Butcher’s journey was a remarkable feat. But the story of the Congo, told expertly and vividly in this book, is more remarkable still.
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Seems decent so far. :)
 
Cv Wedgewood - The Kings Peace 1637 - 1641.

Events leading up to the outbreak of the Britsh Civil War.
 
Got two on the go 'Gestalt Psychology' by Wolfgang Kohler 8o once my head turns to mush i switch to 'Emperor, The Gates of Rome' by Conn Iggulden
 
I'm all on UK writers now (although translated in French, sorry). Just finished Bram Stoker's Dracula, beginning Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. And R.L.Stevenson's Dr..Jeckyll & Mr.Hide after that, then XX's century writer J.G.Ballard.
 
Cassavetes on Cassavetes - Ray Carney. Awesome biography.

Cassavetes Directs - Michael Ventura

The Films of John Cassavetes - Ray Carney, totally new way of looking at films starts off with the premise that all the so-called classics of cinema like Citizen Kane and "The Godfather" are, in reality, complete shite.

Everyone talks about the weather, we don't - The writings of Ulrike Meinhof. Not as good as I thought it would be, her later writings on the run were better.
 
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