The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil
Posted on 11/01/2005 7:42:00 PM PST by MplsSteve
I'm interested in hearing what fellow Freepers are reading these days.
Fiction...non-fiction...trashy novels...technical manuals...it doesn't matter.
I'll start this.
I'm reading "The Kingfish and His Realm; The Life and Times of Huey P Long" by William Ivy hair.
A great book that explores the darker side of Huey P Long that hasn't been covered in other biographies.
Well? What are YOU reading?
"Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You To Know About" by Kevin Trudeau.
A thread on FReeRepublic about what I was reading right now.
A really good 'chick' book I would love to recommend (gee I feel like Oprah, but w/o the money) is Joshilyn Jackson's 'Gods in Alabama.' She is a great story teller.
Got a copy of the Master Cleanse...let me know what you think about Trudeau's book.
Either "Certified First Responder" or "Customer Feild representative."
Could be an abbreviation of his names, eg Calvin Frederick Rushing.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (bedtime reading with the missus)
Taken, by Dean Koontz (naptime, on weekends)
God Is the Gospel, John Piper
Future Grace, John Piper
Voyage of the Dawn Treader (with the family)
Dan
I have to ask, does Trudeau actually give cures; doses, specific info...or just generalities? I have read positive and negative criticisms of this book.
I am reading "Professional Website Design" and a manual on PHP Programming.
Don't everyone get so excited at the same time. LOL.
"The City And The Stars" (A.C.Clarke)
guess you haven't got to Michael Moore yet. He should be in the top five.
I think a lot of it is excellent. Organic/kosher food is better. I can "taste" and "feel" the difference. I'm going to pursue the cleanses, too. OTOH he's off base about yoga and scientology. The FDA stuff was really revealing. I recommend the book, overall. I had to LOL when I remembered the scene in "Beverly Hills Cop" where the cop says to the other cop "Did you know you have 5 pounds of undigested meat inside you?"
The CEO of the Sofa
By P.J. O'Rourke
My hero.
I love yoga for the exercise but don't know much about scientology to give a comment about it one way or the other. I just hate to make comments based on Tom Cruise and not actually know anything. Organic meat is better and an entirely different quality. I don't eat meat anymore but I have customers who just go to Whole Foods for the meat.
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Eden in the East
The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia
Stephen Oppenheimer
The biblical flood really did occur - at the end of the last Ice Age. The Flood drowned for ever the huge continetal shelf of Southeast Asia, and caused a population dispersal which fertilized the Neolithic cultures of China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean, thus creating the first civilizations. The Polynesians did not come from China but from the islands of Southeast Asia. The domestication of rice was not in China but in the Malay Peninsula, 9,000 years ago.
He claims he isn't legally allowed to give specifics. And he doesn't. But he gives you enough that you can pursue his ideas if you want to, by personal effort. I've already learned that his kosher/organic food ideas work for me. Costco has the book for $16.99. It's easily worth that. OTOH I think he wants waayy too much for his 'net site and his newsletter. Although I like the stuff in his book enough I might subscribe anyway. What I consider bad is his plumping for yoga & scientology. Uh-uh, no how, no way. "Something wicked that way lies."
Reading "Stalin and his Hangmen". Just finished "The Eagle's Prey" [one in a great series of novels about two Roman soldiers during the Claudian invasion of Britain and its aftermath], and "The Pale Horseman" {Bernard Cornwall's second novel about the Danish invasions during the reign of Alfred the Great]. Also read a good [but really badly typo'ed] comparative biography of Rommel and Patton.
"The Body in the Library" by Agatha Christie
"Nineteenth Century Music" by Carl Dalhaus
"Compositional Theory in the 18th Century" by Joel Lester
Some mathematics reports sent by various people.
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