Reading List 2008
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rivendellroseBooks Read So Far in 2008
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
Dancing Girls of Lahore - (forget at the moment)
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation - Olivia Judson
Currently Reading
The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America - Haller & Haller
The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins
(Something whose title I've forgotten temporarily...)
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins (audio)
The last is a fantastic book, but I'm being thwarted somewhat by my computer, which somehow refuses to play anything past track 20 on any audio CD... somewhat problematic since they've broken this CD into 11 minute tracks, so all its discs have more than 20 tracks. It's worth the fuss, though. In the last three discs I've had the pleasure of A) hearing Richard Dawkins, atheist par excellence, talk about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, including the phrase "touched by his noodly appendage," B) heard the very solemn and lovely sounding Lalla Ward end an argument with "nyah nyah nyah" while reading from an infantilized example written by her afore-mentioned husband, and C) got all teary-eyed after a particularly sweet bit of prose about Douglas Adams, in which Dawkins pretty much stopped his whole argument to say how much he missed his friend. The fact that I'm hormonal and already a bit emotional probably factors in, here, but I still found it deeply touching.
All of that in addition to being a very intelligent, eloquent, and interesting defense of atheism. Absolutely delightful.
...The others are good, too, I just can't get all excited about them while I'm working, due to not being able to read them at work. So.
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
Dancing Girls of Lahore - (forget at the moment)
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation - Olivia Judson
Currently Reading
The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America - Haller & Haller
The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins
(Something whose title I've forgotten temporarily...)
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins (audio)
The last is a fantastic book, but I'm being thwarted somewhat by my computer, which somehow refuses to play anything past track 20 on any audio CD... somewhat problematic since they've broken this CD into 11 minute tracks, so all its discs have more than 20 tracks. It's worth the fuss, though. In the last three discs I've had the pleasure of A) hearing Richard Dawkins, atheist par excellence, talk about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, including the phrase "touched by his noodly appendage," B) heard the very solemn and lovely sounding Lalla Ward end an argument with "nyah nyah nyah" while reading from an infantilized example written by her afore-mentioned husband, and C) got all teary-eyed after a particularly sweet bit of prose about Douglas Adams, in which Dawkins pretty much stopped his whole argument to say how much he missed his friend. The fact that I'm hormonal and already a bit emotional probably factors in, here, but I still found it deeply touching.
All of that in addition to being a very intelligent, eloquent, and interesting defense of atheism. Absolutely delightful.
...The others are good, too, I just can't get all excited about them while I'm working, due to not being able to read them at work. So.
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Date: 2008-01-10 04:19 am (UTC)Did you happen to get the text messages I sent you yesterday and today? I wasn't sure if you texted (??)
or not, but I don't want to call and bother you at work, and you have so little time at home, I figured if I texted you, you could answer at your leisure since it wasn't too important. Miss ya!
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Date: 2008-01-10 04:47 pm (UTC)It was good! I'm probably going to reread it sometime soonish, because I'm pretty sure I read it too fast, but it was very good. Not quite up to "Thud," but still very fun. XD