23-03-2005 14:25									#1
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Im reading "The Works of HG Wells". I finshed reading "The Time Machine" yesterday and started on "The Island of Dr Moreau" today.

edit: the book includes the following stories:

The Time Machine
The Island of Dr Moreau
The Invisible Man
The First Men in the Moon
The Food of the Gods
The War of the Worlds

	23-03-2005 14:34									#2
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Lone Wolf 12: The Masters of Darkness

	23-03-2005 14:37									#3
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The Time Machine' is a great read. Much better than the film (the 60s version. I wont even mention the recent one) which removed the social aspect of the book where classes becomes so polarised that they go down different evolutionary paths.

Myself, Im mostly reading journal articles for my dissertation but I found a copy of The Gulag Archipelago in a charity shop for £2 the other day, so Im just about to start reading that. In fact, I saw it and immediately thought back to something someone posted on poly years ago, when I first started posting. It was something like "If you haven't read the Gulag Archipelago, then you are unworthy to talk about anything" or something like that. I can't remember who it was, but whoever you are/were, you're the reason I bought it.

Hmmm. Poly impacting on real life...worrying.

	23-03-2005 14:46									#4
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

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Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction
by Robert S.P. Beekes

for like the fifth time

	23-03-2005 16:40									#6
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How I became the leader of the world, the autobiography of SuperCitizen.

"The autobiography of SuperCitizen is a modern story of ultimate success. SC, often regarded as the champion stud, rose from the ghettos of Finland, Northern Europe, to conquer the whole world with his unchallenged verbal skills, his talent and his muscles.

This first part of the series will cover his childhood, how he came to Europe and the US and how he had sex with 300 women in one month."

"AWESOME!!!"
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"This **** is the BOOOOOMB!"
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"A book that should be taught in schools of our country"
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	23-03-2005 16:56									#7
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As usual, several on the go at once:

'The Roots of Evil: A Social History of Crime and Punishment' by Christopher Hibbert

'American Favorite Ballads: Tunes and Songs' as sung by Pete Seeger

and 'Gloriana's Torch' by Patricia Finney.

	23-03-2005 17:31									#8
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I just finished "The constant gardener" by John Le Carré.
On another note, i will not be finishing "The Da Vinci code". First time that i will not make it through a book, no matter how boring.
I even finished the one John Grisham novel i started, but this one proved to be too much for me. I got halfway through it, but it was too much: I had to re-read Foucault's Pendulum to "cleanse" my brain.

	23-03-2005 17:32									#9
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Catch-22 for the 6th time

	23-03-2005 17:40									#10
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Perspectives on Power by Noam Chomsky, and Sacred Ballance, by David Suzuki.

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guns germs and steel, for the second time

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"Small Places, Large Issues. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology" by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
"Cultural Anthropology. A Perspective on the Human Condition" by Emily Schultz
"The Sane Society" by Erich Fromm

	23-03-2005 17:55									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Aivo½so "Small Places, Large Issues. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology" by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

I have the garage mix of that one.

	23-03-2005 18:12									#14
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"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond

	23-03-2005 18:16									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Adrian Hon "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond

Finished that one a fortnight ago.

I thought some of his speculations in the Greenland Viking chapter were a little 'creative', especially the one about the possible reason for the absence of fish remains in middens.


But his chapters on Central American and Pacific cultures were terrific.

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I'm right in the middle of the Greenland Viking chapter. I was also pretty impressed by the Pacific culture stuff... very well written and concisely explained. Diamond is an excellent writer.

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I really need to start reading "The Hitchhiker'S Guide to the Galaxy". I got it for Christmas (well, early January), but I haven't started yet. I have to get a move on if want to finish it before the movie premiere.

For now I'm reading "Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction" for an HCI course. The exam is next week and I'm only halfway through it. Augh!

	23-03-2005 18:26									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Adrian Hon I'm right in the middle of the Greenland Viking chapter. I was also pretty impressed by the Pacific culture stuff... very well written and concisely explained. Diamond is an excellent writer.

Have you reached the food poisoning from bad fish bit ?


It was so tenuous, I was frankly aghast.

But the Pacific deforestation and knife's edge island resources bit was very disheartening and extremely convincing.

	23-03-2005 19:40									#19
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"A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge.

	23-03-2005 19:44									#20
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"Hornblower in West Indies", by C.S. Forester.

Reading his whole career...

	23-03-2005 19:53									#21
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You guys read boring and crappy books. Then again, it says about a man who reads crappy books. That man is crappy.

	23-03-2005 20:04									#22
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"Image and Reality in Plato's Metaphysics" by Richard Patterson

	23-03-2005 20:05									#23
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quote: You guys read boring and crappy books. Then again, it says about a man who reads crappy books. That man is crappy.

Says the man who does not read.

	23-03-2005 20:07									#24
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I don't read? Understatement of the year. **** I read, didn't you see, I even have my OWN BOOK! So what do you have to show? Nothing. You have nothing, and you are nothing. You will never have anything and you will always be a nobody and when you die, no one will remember you, let alone miss you.

	23-03-2005 20:12									#25
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quote: I even have my OWN BOOK!

You OWN a book Its yours? For keeps?

	23-03-2005 20:13									#26
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damn it you know what I mean I have published a book, and no, not as a publisher but as the writer.

	23-03-2005 20:15									#27
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quote: I don't read? Understatement of the year. **** I read, didn't you see, I even have my OWN BOOK! So what do you have to show? Nothing. You have nothing, and you are nothing. You will never have anything and you will always be a nobody and when you die, no one will remember you, let alone miss you.

I love Pekka posts.

What book are you currently reading? The people demand Proof!

	23-03-2005 20:15									#28
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Haven't read the food poisoning bit yet. I'm quite interested to find out how he'll relate all of the case studies to the present day, and what he thinks we should do. Very sobering to think that western civilizations haven't been around for very long at all compared to many others.

A Deepness in the Sky

	23-03-2005 20:16									#29
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Space, I posted it already, earlier.

	23-03-2005 20:18									#30
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Google says no such book exists, therefore you do not read.