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OT: The Book Recommendation/Review Thread

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  1. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    Enjoy <ok>
     
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  2. Hash.

    Hash. pure daycent

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    Mein kampf - adolf hitler. Im not even joking. I seen it for download and got it to see what the fuss about it is. Ill start it over the weekend.

    Also got 6 dan brown books ... I read angels and demons and the davinci code before but ill give his others a go.

    The devil by graham thompson and the general by paul williams are two good true crime/ biographies
     
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  3. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Difficult read, but possibly the most important book ever written and published <ok>
     
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    Recently got Viv Albertine's book 'Clothes,music,boys' about her life in music etc. and also Randall Munroe's 'What if'. 'Serious scientific answers to
    absurd hypothetical questions' is what it says on the cover.Have not started either yet.........winter reading <ok>
     
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  5. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    which of these is more rambling and incoherant?
     
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    johnsonsbaby Well-Known Member

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    May sound a weird one but 'Civil Disobedience' by Henry David Thoreau [which is said to have inspired Tolstoy] and also his 'Walden'.

    On a lighter note James Fenimore Cooper - his Natty Bumppo aka Hawkeye books - even Gerrez would like them: They include The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer. Famously mocked by Mark Twain for their literary shortcomings, they are great examples of escapism.
     
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  7. johnsonsbaby

    johnsonsbaby Well-Known Member

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    RHC will love that, he does a thing on the Higgs boson! He has a website as well - http://xkcd.com/
     
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    luvgonzo Pisshead

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    The Star Rover by Jack London, great stuff.
     
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  9. johnsonsbaby

    johnsonsbaby Well-Known Member

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    That was published here as The Jacket also a film Adrien Brody, Keira Knightly and Daniel Craig.
     
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  10. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    I must admit I've not heard of him <yikes>
     
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  12. johnsonsbaby

    johnsonsbaby Well-Known Member

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    I like that 'Science Ruining Everything Since 1543' <laugh>

    The What If book looks good, always worthwhile to have books you can dip in and out of while actually learning something.
     
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    Germlands Nozzer Well-Known Member

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    Going back to Darwin, smbc actually started BAHfest, a symposium of bad evolution theories held at MIT, based on one of the comics - see http://bahfest.com/.

    This is going off-topic a bit though, so I'll just say that an xkcd book (separate to the What If? book) and several smbc books are available. I've got the xkcd one. It's good, although I feel the comic improved after the time the book was published. As someone who sometimes works with statistics, this is one I like.


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    johnsonsbaby Well-Known Member

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    <laugh> that cartoon


    Books with pictures eh ... maybe we can get Gerrez interested in reading after all.
     
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    Germlands Nozzer Well-Known Member

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    There are some "books" he likes, e.g.:

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    johnsonsbaby Well-Known Member

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    That was mean, lunchtime and cheese sarnie while looking at peperoni overload, bbq chicken ....


    <grr>

    <laugh>
     
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    jenners04 I must not post porn!

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    get him to read asterix lol.

    is the Viz still around? used to enjoy reading that, fat slags was funny.

    i have enjoyed reading dan brown books esp code breaker, is it the religious angle people dont like him for ie Di Vinci, angels and demons, or his style of writing?
     
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  18. luvgonzo

    luvgonzo Pisshead

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    I really enjoyed the book didn't know it was made into a film will look it up.

    7.1 on IMDB

    Looks pretty good I will get hold of that this weekend.

    Just found this though.....

     
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    Skylarker PL High Commissioner

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