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OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
J.Robert Oppenheimer. "A life". Written by Abraham Pais et al. I have read a bit about this subject since my teen-age years, but this book is quite good in a very different way: science.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell. Only read the first few chapters so far but it seems like a good book.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell. Only read the first few chapters so far but it seems like a good book.
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Politically it's not brilliant (although not terrible). I found some bits absolutley hilarious though, particularly Orwell quoting his Russian friend's views on the Jewry.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.
It's pretty good so far!
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
QED by Richard Feynman
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Reid&Sanders - Operations Management
but god I am longing for a decent novel, or a novelle on some scientific or business issue
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Just finished The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins. I can't claim to be entirely objective, but I enjoyed it.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Just finished The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins. I can't claim to be entirely objective, but I enjoyed it.
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I need to get reading that book some day; apart from reading "bits" for free in Waterstones during lunch break; in "Company time"
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Chris Moyles' autobiography, 'twas a christmas gift.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Chris Moyles' autobiography, 'twas a christmas gift.
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I received that, left it in Cardiff though. I'll read it when I get back!
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
The Scarlatti Inheritance by Robert Ludlum.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Children of Dune and Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy, very slowly though.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
How to post in discussions where you have nothing to bring, by T&F.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Corsarios de Levante - Arturo Pérez-Reverte... Capitan Alatriste fighting turks in the mediterranean sea.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Corsarios de Levante - Arturo Pérez-Reverte... Capitan Alatriste fighting turks in the mediterranean sea.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Resurrection, Tolstoy.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris and War Made New by Max Boot.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
The bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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The bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe
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I've have the movie adaptation with Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis, would you say that the book is better than the movie (if you've seen it)?
I just finished reading 'The Innocent Man' by John Grisham; his 19th novel, and his first non-fiction. Was very well written, and an excellent story. Then again I have the other 18 and thought they were all very good stories and very well written.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Ulysses but I've pretty much stopped after 100 pages because its dire.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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I've have the movie adaptation with Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis, would you say that the book is better than the movie (if you've seen it)?
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The film is terrible, the book is rather good.
It doesn't work as a film because the plot of the novel isn't particularly good; to narrate to someone what happens would just be boring. The writing style is (in my opinion, I seem to recall Dace having quite strong opinions on this book) such that it makes the story interesting, and almost exciting.
I've read it 6 times, if that's any kind of testament.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Harrington on Hold Em Vol 1-3, doesnt help much though :/
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
A feast for Crows by George R R Martin. Forth book of the series a Song of Ice and Fire
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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A feast for Crows by George R R Martin. Forth book of the series a Song of Ice and Fire
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Going to buy this book coming week! And read it out within a day or what, however I do have my exams coming up, so I don't know how wise an idea this is.
Also, I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe is a bit too cliché for my liking, but fun. It reminds me a bit of the books of Donna Tart.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Going to buy this book coming week! And read it out within a day or what, however I do have my exams coming up, so I don't know how wise an idea this is.
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It's a big book, it takes a couple of days to read. It's as irritating as all his other books :P
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Kargool I can't disagree, that's a cool book. Though I want to know how far you throw the book when ... that happens.
I'm sorta (re)reading Polgara the Sorceress (David Eddings) // the latest in the Sword of Truth series (Chainfire + Phantom) by Terry Goodkind.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Kargool I can't disagree, that's a cool book. Though I want to know how far you throw the book when ... that happens.
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Well, i threw A storm of Swords at my sister when THAT happend in that book.. Is it worse than what happend in A storm of swords? *Note, the Starks are my faves*
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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I'm sorta (re)reading Polgara the Sorceress (David Eddings) // the latest in the Sword of Truth series (Chainfire + Phantom) by Terry Goodkind.
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chainfire drove me nuts... it took me 2 weeks to read it .. the first 1/2 was so hard to settle into
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
I finished 'I am Charlotte Simmons' by Tom Wolfe yesterday, a very good read, if a little 'silly'.
Just started 'After the Plague' by T.C. Boyle, it's a book of short stories that I picked up in Fopp, mainly because it was only £3 and it has a wolf on the cover.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Michael Burleigh's Sacred Causes. Only just started it but I read his history of the third reich and that was excellent. I finished a review of the current state of epistemology recently but even if you're interested in that sort of thing it becomes pretty dull after a while.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Michael Burleigh's Sacred Causes. Only just started it but I read his history of the third reich and that was excellent. I finished a review of the current state of epistemology recently but even if you're interested in that sort of thing it becomes pretty dull after a while.
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I had a justified belief that ur mum is fat because I saw a photo and its true that ur mum is fat but the photo I saw was actually of your sister so did I know ur mum was fat???
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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I had a justified belief that ur mum is fat because I saw a photo and its true that ur mum is fat but the photo I saw was actually of your sister so did I know ur mum was fat???
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You had a justified belief which wasn't true. In future I'd research my material better.
PS book horn.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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I had a justified belief that ur mum is fat because I saw a photo and its true that ur mum is fat but the photo I saw was actually of your sister so did I know ur mum was fat???
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You had a justified belief which wasn't true. In future I'd research my material better.
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Reread Nodrog's scenario, JonnyB. The belief is true. But the reason that he has the belief is unrelated to the truth of the belief. But no, this still isn't considered knowledge. That's a simple - though rather abusive - Gettier counterexample to the traditional JTB analysis of knowledge.
I'm reading Alan Gibbard's Thinking How to Live.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Reread Nodrog's scenario, JonnyB. The belief is true.
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that depends how you use the word true.
I'd spend more time reading a dictionary if i were you.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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that depends how you use the word true.
I'd spend more time reading a dictionary if i were you.
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It's true, I'm still somewhat ambivalent about the debate between robust and minimalist definitions of truth, but I don't think that's what you had in mind. You're just trying to insult me. Let's go back to the original scenario, shall we?
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I had a justified belief that ur mum is fat because I saw a photo and its true that ur mum is fat but the photo I saw was actually of your sister so did I know ur mum was fat???
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This is a hideous run-on, but it expresses a few distinct propositions.
1) I have a justified belief that your mum is fat.
2) The belief is justified by virtue of evidence (in the form of a photo)
3) Your mum is fat.
4) The photo was not of your mum, but rather of your sister.
The belief in question (as expressed in (1)) is that your mum is fat. (3) says that this belief is true. I think that's all that needs to be said on the matter. There might be some further beliefs relevent to this story, i.e. the belief that it is your mum in the photo. THAT belief would be false. But that's not the belief being evaluated.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Eragon - cos the movie came out and we've had the book on the house for nearly 2 years, so it was about time ..
not bad for a kids book.
i will be taking eldest on holiday with me .
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Just finishing Bram Stoker's Dracula (which is ace and not what I expected), and also reading Heidegger's Essence of Truth.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
Reading Joyce is the first, the last and the middle step on the road to insanity.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Reading Joyce is the first, the last and the middle step on the road to insanity.
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Except for Dubliners.
I'm currently reading Against The Day. I don't like it so much and someone gave me a copy of The House Of The Spirits for christmas so I might give up and start reading that soon.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Reading Joyce is the first, the last and the middle step on the road to insanity.
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I aim to re-read Ulysses this year ! Even if it takes me all year.
Currently reading Rip it Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds. If you ever thought hey! I'd love to read a book about Postpunk 1978 - 1984! then THIS is the book for you. No really, its a fantastic book.
Also reading Notes from the Underground.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
I am having a re-read of ... The art of War by Sun Tzu
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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I am having a re-read of ... The art of War by Sun Tzu
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Nothing wrong with "re-reads" at all! Though, the book you refer to is a bit too heavy for me.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
I've been through the oddball things lately. Mainly things regarding Ordo Templi Orientis. I got my inspiration off Satyr's (not our Satyr, I hope!) Black Lodge of Santa Cruz.
Currently I'm, whenever not studying Finnish economic history, plowing through Aleister Crowley's essays. The current one goes under name The Qabbalah.
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Nothing wrong with "re-reads" at all! Though, the book you refer to is a bit too heavy for me.
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Hehe. The print of Art of War I own features an introduction as long as the context itself. Quite amusing really.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Hehe. The print of Art of War I own features an introduction as long as the context itself. Quite amusing really.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
I love those books ...
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
it is one of those books that can be read in 1/2 a day but can be studied for months
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
I'm going to buck the trend by announcing that I'm reading non-fiction
This survival guide to be precise. All you could ever need to know about how to skin a polar bear (I must say I do like the assumption that you could catch one in a survival situation) and more!
More seriously, there's actually some pretty cool info in there and I recommend it to other like minded outdoorsy geeks like myself.
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Re: OK GD people, which book are you reading now?
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Must've missed my post about reading John Grisham's last book which happens to be non-fiction.
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