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Sep 3Sep 3

Posted by Julie808
I've been listening to the audio version of "The Better Angels of Our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined" By: Steven Pinker, published in 2011. It's a long book, 36 hours to listen to it, and I'm only about 10 hours in, but it's an interesting ...
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May 16May 16

Posted by AlanCliffe
Sometimes I think this whole world Is one big prison yard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards. Bob Dylan, “George Jackson.” Some random thoughts on Jerome Loving's Jack and Norman. That is, Abbott and Mailer, the longtime ...
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Mar 16, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by AlanCliffe
VALIS again, about forty years after my first time around. PKD's Exegesis extensively excerpted. An explication of an elaborate cosmology, or is it a cosmogony, that isn't true. Insanity recollected in a state of sanity? Maybe. But having an ...
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Apr 2, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Reignmond
A short Sci-Fi that is quite good even though it will only take about an hour to read. It is also kinda cheap.
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Mar 22, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by DarkMatter
Have you read C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy?
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Jan 23, 2022Jan 2022

Posted by nicestuff
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War IIBy Roger Moorhouse (2020) "As German and Soviet forces met on Polish soil and declared their eternal brotherhood - conveniently forgetting the preceding years of rabid antipathy - Poland ...
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May 22, 2021May 2021

Posted by AlanCliffe
Marilynne Robinson's Jack hits close to the bone, maybe even too close. Don't know that one has found one's Della. Don't know that one ever will. Robinson's a rather cogent thinker for a Christian. But there is the rub. I may well read her other ...
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Jan 2, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by Behind-the-dog
Are there any other fans of Kate Atkinson here? I ask not just because I think she's a brilliant novelist, but because she often mentions, seemingly in passing, that one or another of her characters is an atheist, and it seems to me that they are ...
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Nov 22, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by LenHazell53
I recently managed to get hold of a book I read many years ago, and was more than a little shocked by it. I have for many years been a fan of British horror writer Graham Masterton and have collected almost all of his books bar one. In 1980 under the...
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Jun 23, 2019Jun 2019

Posted by Matias
Review of the book: "Short History of Atheism", by Gavin Hyman The author is a theologian and this book is intended for theologians only. Whoever expects a "short history of atheism" - like me - will be disappointed. The core ...
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Mar 17, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by IamNobody
Sunday read with Maps app to see where each location is placed on the map, nice large coffe while it is still snowing. The book is a recount of WWII events by none the less the great character Winston S Churchill. This is a rare book you don't want ...
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Aug 3, 2018Aug 2018

Posted by Hellbent
Are you currently reading several books? I nearly always have a number of books on the go. At the moment I'm reading Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler and Panic Room, a mystery story by Robert Godard. I didn't plan...
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Posted by Julie808We of Little Faith I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) By Kate Cohen.

Posted by dfrossI enjoyed "The Dictionary of Lost Words", a historical fiction about the creating of the Oxford-English Dictionary and the fight for women's suffrage in the UK.

Posted by ReignmondA highly biased selection.

Posted by ReignmondI read this back in 2018. Absolutely loved it. It is an oddly small sized book, so it is good to travel with. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondI read this back in 2018. Absolutely loved it. It is an oddly small sized book, so it is good to travel with. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondA short Sci-Fi that is quite good even though it will only take about an hour to read. It is also kinda cheap. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondLooking again at this book reminds me that I wanted to re-listen to it again.

Posted by ReignmondThis freebie ebook from Gutenberg Press and by the Master Sci-Fi writer Philip.

Posted by ReignmondAt Home: a short history of private life by Bill Bryson. An enjoyable book about everyday things we don't even think about. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondAt Home: a short history of private life by Bill Bryson. An enjoyable book about everyday things we don't even think about. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondJust finished Bomber Mafia written by my genetic 4th cousin on both of our Fathers' side.

Posted by ReignmondI read this back in about 1983.

Posted by ReignmondVery good. I have noticed that 12 step programs are ineffective. [goodreads.com]

Posted by ReignmondActually read this some time ago (46 years) while trying to figure out why I simply could not believe in Jesus or God or anything else I was being told by Bible Thumpers.

Posted by ReignmondThis is one of my very most favorite books.

Posted by Julie808I'm currently reading "The Power Worshippers" by Katherine Stewart. Is anyone else reading this?
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