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06-07-2012, 09:53 AM
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| Books You've Read Recently
I figured this would fit into the media forum. I'm always looking for good stuff to read. What have you recently finished?
I just finished:
Animal Farm - George Orwell (finally)
Chaos Theory - Robert P. Murphy (it's about the functionality of an anarchist society)
Young and Revolting - CD Payne (final installment of the Youth in Revolt series) | 
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06-07-2012, 09:59 AM
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| there's a thread for this somewhere - maybe in the Pub?
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06-07-2012, 10:06 AM
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| I searched "books" and it didn't come up.
I remembered a thread about "books you've read", and people had lists of like 50 titles per post. I'm more interested in what you are reading right now, fresh on your mind. | |
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06-07-2012, 10:09 AM
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| yeah, this exists somewhere.... | 
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06-07-2012, 10:15 AM
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"Every American has the right to know when their government believes it has the right to kill them"
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06-07-2012, 10:27 AM
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| So I guess VN just isn't interested in books? 1 post since January. Merge, por favor. | |
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06-07-2012, 10:29 AM
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| I started a thread about this two weeks ago. | |
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06-07-2012, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Panthro  I started a thread about this two weeks ago. | Insult to injury | |
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06-07-2012, 10:34 AM
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| just pointing out that you are mistaken about there just being one post since January. | |
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06-07-2012, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by n_huffhines I searched "books" and it didn't come up.
I remembered a thread about "books you've read", and people had lists of like 50 titles per post. I'm more interested in what you are reading right now, fresh on your mind. | Currently, halfway through War and Peace, into Book 3 of Hume's Treatise (second time through), and halfway through Genome by Matt Ridley. Also reading (and editing) a 500-page manuscript on military ethics (specifically, systemic "collateral damage").
On my list for the rest of the summer are: Darkness at Noon
The Sound and the Fury
Appointment in Samarra Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
And, the second half of Sidgwick's Method of Ethics
How was Chaos Theory?
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06-07-2012, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by therealUT Currently, halfway through War and Peace, into Book 3 of Hume's Treatise (second time through), and halfway through Genome by Matt Ridley. Also reading (and editing) a 500-page manuscript on military ethics (specifically, systemic "collateral damage").
On my list for the rest of the summer are:
Darkness at Noon
The Sound and the Fury
Appointment in Samarra
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
And, the second half of Sidgwick's Method of Ethics
How was Chaos Theory? | Good, and it's only like 50 pages. It's a quick read. Very high level view of how justice would be served, how contracts would be honored, etc. You can download it free from the author (of course you can, he's an anarchist).
Love Ridley, BTW. Haven't read any of his books. | |
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06-07-2012, 12:37 PM
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| I'm halfway through Atlas Shrugged, and a little exhausted by it. I don't know how it's going to end, but I already feel like the whole thing could have been written in half the pages. | |
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06-07-2012, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Panthro I'm halfway through Atlas Shrugged, and a little exhausted by it. I don't know how it's going to end, but I already feel like the whole thing could have been written in half the pages. | For Ayn Rand in half the pages, read Anthem or We the Living. Of course, both those books lack the really great dialogue and introspection that make The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged masterpieces.
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LG, when I think of UT football I think about world class sprinter WR's, like Gault,...fast bruising hard to tackle RB's, great OL play and a D that'll knock your d**k in the dirt. That's from the Johnny Major era thru the Philip Fulmer era.--HIGHTIDE 25 APR
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06-07-2012, 10:19 PM
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