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19 Dec 2007, 9:24 pm

Read Mervyn Peake's "Boy in Darkness", which I may have read before. It's too short. I may have to read the Gormenghast trilogy again. The TV production was excellent.

Just rounding off my Douglas Hofstadter perseveration with "I Am a Strange Loop".

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20 Dec 2007, 12:01 am

The White Plague: by Frank Herbert

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20 Dec 2007, 12:21 pm

"The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. One of my favourites!

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22 Dec 2007, 10:19 am

I Am Legend
Game of Thrones
Getting Things Done
Fundamentals of Piano Practice.

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22 Dec 2007, 2:21 pm

The Bible.

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22 Dec 2007, 2:34 pm

"Handbook of Mathematical Functions, with Formulas , Graphs and Mathematical Tables" Edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun.

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25 Dec 2007, 11:33 am

I am always rereading a book called "The Roots of Evil" by Ervin Staub. It is an excellent sourcebook for anyone interested in the origins of group think leading to mass murder and genocide. It is not a primer on psychopathy, which has been the focus of Robert Hare's research on humans whose behaviour and mindset suggest they function as psychopaths.

There are interesting links, however between pschopathic humans and ones who engage in genocide.

At the moment I am reading a book called "Hitler's Shadow War", by Donald M. McKale. Summary: the war against the Jews was planned and fought parallel to the nazi war. McKale's argument is a forceful and factual historical recount of genocide occurring along with the nazi conquering of Europe and Russia, as hitler ranted in his notorious antisemitic tome mein kampf.

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25 Dec 2007, 4:10 pm

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas R.. Hofstader.

One of those cool books that take on life, the universe, and everything. Fiction or nonfiction- Viva la phantasmagorias!

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25 Dec 2007, 8:37 pm

Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish-Mark R. Levin

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30 Dec 2007, 8:41 pm

The Perry Bible Fellowship collection.

Sooo funny.

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31 Dec 2007, 1:50 am

Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin. But the words reading it might not be accurate.

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31 Dec 2007, 4:04 am

Stephen Hawking's, A Brief History of Time

. . . very interesting stuff

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31 Dec 2007, 9:42 am

Last two posts were nice. I've finished "I Am a Strange Loop". No, for a bit of less heavy reading...

"The High Crusade" Poul Anderson (1960)

Either my memory is shot, or I really haven't ever read it before. Amusing (if rather old) ideas, so far.

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31 Dec 2007, 7:18 pm

Gad. Just finished the Belisarius series by Flint and Drake (Dance of Time)
Before that was 'The Protector's War' by Stirling
Right now I'm out of books, so I'm rereading Muhammed, by Maxine Rodinson (a biography)

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02 Jan 2008, 10:58 pm

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

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02 Jan 2008, 11:57 pm

"Magician" by Raymond E. Feist. It's his "revised" version. The author's cut.

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