What are you reading right now?

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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby JackRiddler » Sat Aug 07, 2010 1:15 pm

Logicomix. Greatness. Starring Bertrand Russell and a cast of thousands.

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Sets paradox: The set of all sets that do not contain themselves - does it contain itself? If YES, then it cannot be in that set, because it contains itself. If NO, how can you include it in the set, because if you did, it would contain itself. But without it, the set would be incomplete, and therefore not the set of all sets that do not contain themselves. A paradox indicates the system of logic itself has some fundamental flaw in its axioms. Uh oh!

And Boole of Booleans turns out to be some mathematician who preceded Russell historically. Didn't know that.

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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby stefano » Sun Aug 08, 2010 3:58 pm

The enigma of capital by David Harvey. The first chapter is pretty good and I'm looking forward to it, a Marxian look at the global economy today, updated for new instruments, markets and methods of creating money.

Just finished Cosmos and psyche... Very interesting (if a little drily presented), it makes a lot of sense and came at a good time for me personally. I got it after Jeff mentioned it in another thread and I looked into it, thanks Jeff.
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby Stephen Morgan » Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:29 am

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Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. -- Lawrence of Arabia
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby Allegro » Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:01 am

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Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away.
~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist
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Re: What are you reading right now?

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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby Sepka » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:06 pm

Agatha Christie - "By the Pricking of My Thumbs"
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby barracuda » Sun Sep 26, 2010 3:27 am

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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby brainpanhandler » Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:41 am

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"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby sunny » Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:25 pm

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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby RocketMan » Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:49 pm

I'm on a Cormac McCarthy jag... Currently reading No Country for Old Men. Can't get enough of his prose.
-I don't like hoodlums.
-That's just a word, Marlowe. We have that kind of world. Two wars gave it to us and we are going to keep it.
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby Jeff » Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:13 pm

Nick Redfern's latest.

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a real potboiler

Postby annie aronburg » Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:31 pm

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"O Oysters," said the Carpenter,
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Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none--
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby Nordic » Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:32 pm

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My son is loving this book.
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby swindled69 » Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:25 pm

Just got Book 1 of Sinister Forces today and Book 2 is on the way :)
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby Luther Blissett » Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:34 pm

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Total brutality.
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