JohnJ Posted August 9, 2005 Report Posted August 9, 2005 has anyone read guns germs and steel? i've been meaning to get that off of amazon. it seems like the in book to have read around my town. ← Read it a few years ago and found it very thought provoking and entertaining. I would definitely recommend it. Quote
Dr. Rat Posted August 9, 2005 Report Posted August 9, 2005 has anyone read guns germs and steel? i've been meaning to get that off of amazon. it seems like the in book to have read around my town. ← I also would highly recommend it, as well as Diamond's earlier book the Third Chimpanzee, and if you like those there is a good book called, I think, the Great Human Diaspora by Cavalli-Sforza that is an excellent place to go next. --eric Quote
jazzbo Posted August 9, 2005 Report Posted August 9, 2005 Yes, Eric, get "Civilizations." It's an interesting read. "Millenium". . . by John Varley? Yes, I read it more than a decade ago. . . . Quote
Matthew Posted August 9, 2005 Report Posted August 9, 2005 The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Richard Geldard. The more I read of Emerson, the more I'm convinced that he is America's greatest theologian. Very interesting to see how his conviction that everyone needs to have an "...original relation with the universe" is still a radical call in this day and age. Quote
Z-Man Posted August 10, 2005 Report Posted August 10, 2005 "Millenium". . . by John Varley? Yes, I read it more than a decade ago. . . . ← Actually meant "Millenium" by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of "Civilizations". Basically a history of the last 1000 years in 800 pages. Looks fascinating. Quote
ASNL77 Posted August 10, 2005 Report Posted August 10, 2005 (edited) "The Fall of Yugoslavia" by Misha Glenny. Well written book about the war in former Yugoslavia between 1989 and 1993. Edited August 10, 2005 by ASNL77 Quote
jazzbo Posted August 10, 2005 Report Posted August 10, 2005 Yeah, I just noticed you may have meant that "Millenium." I bet that is an interesting book, as interesting as "Civilizations" is. Quote
jlhoots Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated Quote
Kalo Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 ← How was it? Have you read Charles Sharr Murray's Crosstown Traffic? It's excellent, though more of a critical study of the music than a biography.. Quote
BruceH Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 Hilarious! ← Anything like At Swim Two Birds? Quote
Brandon Burke Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated ← me too. Quote
Brandon Burke Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 Hilarious! ← every time it occurs to me to look for this, whatever shop i'm in at the time doesn't have any. O'Brien is fantastic! Quote
7/4 Posted August 25, 2005 Report Posted August 25, 2005 ← How was it? I dig it, it's been a long time since I read a Jimi bio. There were pre-London facts I didn't know about. He had a pretty fucked up chilhood. Have you read Charles Sharr Murray's Crosstown Traffic? It's excellent, though more of a critical study of the music than a biography.. ← No, I guess I should. Quote
Chrome Posted August 26, 2005 Report Posted August 26, 2005 Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul ← How is this? I've heard it's quite good ... Quote
BruceH Posted August 26, 2005 Report Posted August 26, 2005 Well it's no Constantinople, but... Quote
Matthew Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 The Essentials of Christian Philosophy by Etienne Gilson. I almost want to cry in wonder reading this book because..... 1. Only France could have produced such a mind like Gilson's, especially pre-WWII Paris. Just a wonderful culture of logic, breadth, and love of learning underlying this book. A culture was lost after the war. 2. When Catholic theology/philosophy was up for grabs after WWII, there was a romantic quest by Thomistic scholars to try to become the major influence in theology. History shows that they failed, but what a wonderful failure. 3. The humanness of Thomas Aquinas, who saw in the human intellect something to rejoice in, and that there was a absolute obligation to follow the truth, whereever it led. Or to quote my old metaphysics teacher, Sr. Mary O.P., when I asked her what the heck I was spending a year on metaphysics for: "Matthew, the search for truth is the search for God." 4. It's great to read a book that makes you think about reality in a truly philosophical way. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 As I said, beer bottle labels. Quote
Matthew Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 As I said, beer bottle labels. ← I'll be reading this also tonight..... Quote
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