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28 Jan 2011, 5:45 am

I've learnt all the Biochemistry I can handle for the moment. I'm taking a break with Schrödinger's beautiful "What is Life?".


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28 Jan 2011, 5:54 am

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I've learnt all the Biochemistry I can handle for the moment. I'm taking a break with Schrödinger's beautiful "What is Life?".


By the way, who painted your avatar? It's lovely.



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28 Jan 2011, 6:28 am

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Some obsure artist called Micheal Endo. It's only valued at $1,600. I still really like it though


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28 Jan 2011, 6:32 am

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Thanks. I really like the quality of light in the painting.



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28 Jan 2011, 9:50 pm

I just started reading a book on the Rastafari, simply called "The Rastafarians".



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30 Jan 2011, 5:33 am

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Neuromancer by William Gibson (Finally)
I hope you enjoy it. I did... that and his subsequent books.


As did I.


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30 Jan 2011, 5:36 am

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I just finished Congratulations! It's Asperger Syndrome by Jen Birch. I feel like standing up and giving an applause for the author...for being persistent in the pursuit of life and happiness...She seems to be having a great life...Looks like aspies do achieve fulfilling lives in the end...Jerry Newport saying that aspies are social late bloomers and all...It was a sweet memoir, but there were disheartening parts which described some serious mistreatment the author went through... It took me some time to finish the book (about a month) because it was composed of somewhat fragmentalized listing of episodes, which didn't follow chronological order, but in the end did come together...

I've got so many options as to which book I will read next...however regarding AS, I'm thinking I'll start Tony Attwood's The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome.

Ah, how happy I am with my books...:)


I recommend "Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome", about AS adolescents, by an AS adolescent, and possibly "Asperger's in Love" for an example of challenges and benefits of an AS partner (note that the sample size was small and all participants were over 40).


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30 Jan 2011, 8:00 am

Ahaseurus2000 wrote:
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Neuromancer by William Gibson (Finally)
I hope you enjoy it. I did... that and his subsequent books.


As did I.


Me as well. I have read the entire Sprawl trilogy, but really preferred Neuromancer out of them all. I am yet to read his other works.


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30 Jan 2011, 5:54 pm

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I need to finish and move on to something else, but I just love it so much that I reread parts all over again.



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30 Jan 2011, 6:54 pm

The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula le Guin
Man who can alter reality by his uncontrolled dreams is manipulated by a well-meaning psychiatrist on a power-trip. The 'absolute power corrupts' theme mixes with an older sci-fi writing style that reminds me a bit of PKD in it's 'retro futurism'.



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31 Jan 2011, 11:36 am

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

I've finally crossed the 500 euro marks spent on books this year :D


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31 Jan 2011, 11:40 am

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.

If you haven't read it already, you owe to yourself to read it. There's even a chapter about the MMR vaccine "controversy".


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02 Feb 2011, 6:19 pm

My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid..she is SUCH an underrated writer!



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04 Feb 2011, 7:20 am

For anyone who is interested, I have just finished Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. I've done a review on my book-reading blog.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp3352643.html#3352643


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04 Feb 2011, 8:19 am

Finishing Dante's Inferno and that philosophy book.


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04 Feb 2011, 3:36 pm

Gourmet Rhapsody, which is also by the author who wrote The Elegance of the Hedgehog (which I finished on the 31st.)