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23 Mar 2011, 6:09 am

Nerd Do Well, Simon Pegg's autobiography. I hadn't even heard it was published. Oh, well, I suppose it's recent. 2010.



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23 Mar 2011, 5:23 pm

Er, I forget what I've read recently. Bunch of Hornblowers, moderately entertaining. Nothing Lasts Forever, a.k.a. Die Hard, it was quite good.

I'm reading Basic Instincts at the moment. It's a book about the financial crash that someone recommended to me. Its first sentence is "Nobody truly predicted it." Bollocks. ^^


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25 Mar 2011, 6:55 am

The Casefiles of Sherlock Holmes.



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25 Mar 2011, 8:31 am

The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's over 800 pages, so it's gonna keep me occupied for a while :)


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26 Mar 2011, 10:30 am

Reading a collection of Sophocle's works; Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Electra. Read the intro, but can't decide if I'm going to read them in order or go for Oedipus first.


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28 Mar 2011, 11:02 pm

Aspergirls by Rudy Simone

Atypical: Life with Aspergers in 20 1/3 Chapters byJesse A. Saperstein

Trying to find something completely unrelated to being "special" but having no luck right now. :roll:


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29 Mar 2011, 4:51 am

I put short stories by T.C. Boyle aside to start The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson. I just saw the movie The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Whee!



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29 Mar 2011, 3:05 pm

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A very interesting book in terms of life in the islamic world



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30 Mar 2011, 4:52 pm

"The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene

Thus far it isn't as fascinating as his previous two books, but maybe that's because he relies less on the amusing analogies. (I don't think he has used a Simpsons analogy yet) Also to comprehend some of the ideas, I am having to place my imagination outside of the known universe and because I am very poor at math, I feel I have no way to grasp some of the concepts in a way that makes me feel that what he is describing might be a part of reality.


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31 Mar 2011, 4:13 am

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and a collection of short stories (Everything's eventual) by Stephen King.



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31 Mar 2011, 12:55 pm

I finished Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil a while ago.

Today, I am reading Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre, and I am nearly finished with it.

Scratch that:

I am finished with it.


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31 Mar 2011, 6:14 pm

"The Left Hand of God"; it's quite good, so far. I'm trying to work out whether the geography of the setting maps onto America or Europe, or even our world at all... ^^


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08 Apr 2011, 5:39 pm

I read a few minor works just for the sake of READING something:

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Experiments on Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel, and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus.

Next in line, I think, would be either a philosophical work, or, even better, I could continue reading W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk.


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10 Apr 2011, 5:25 pm

William Golding's "Lord of the Flies"

I'm reading it for the second time.


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12 Apr 2011, 4:27 pm

Flat Earth News, journalistic exposé. Interesting.
Adele Blanc-Sec, comic book, after watching the slightly insane film.
Now on to Iron Sunrise, Charles Stross. Sequel to Singularity Sky, and once again, this quote should be enough:
"I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.
I am descended from you and exist in your future.
Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else."


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15 Apr 2011, 6:15 pm

Recently I've been reading a Russian murder mystery which has an Aspie character in it. First time he is introduced to the reader he is walikng down a corridor at work asking people he meets 'Do you know whether Winnie the Pooh is a sow or a boar?'
For some reasons, people usually answer 'Winnie the Pooh is a boar', presuming that he is male, and they make the guy laugh hysterically, because the correct answer would be 'It is a bear''.
Why, had he asked this very same question on this board, I doubt it that the joke would have gone down so well.