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whats everyone reading?
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I'd like to know what everyone is reading at the moment, bookwise not magazines.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.spanner, it's a huge book, 960 pages, and it is disturbing to me at least because it strikes at the foundations of conventional Christian belief. Eisenman particularly acknowledges the assistance of Michael Baigent, a co-author of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, so you can get an idea of his sympathies. I think it is probably a great book, but I don't think I will finish it.
This is the very last line of the book: "Who and whatever James was, so was Jesus", so I might skip the middle bit !
This is the very last line of the book: "Who and whatever James was, so was Jesus", so I might skip the middle bit !
Blink, The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell. (It was the subtitle that got me...) It's about what he does not like to call intuition, but 'rapid cognition', 'snap judgments' and 'snap decisions.' So far I haven't found anything in it that I didn't already know - or 'know' - but it's very well written and most enjoyable.
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"WoWo- a bit of light reading then I see. ;). "
I just can't stand fiction. Since I left school (16 odd years ago) I have read maybe 10 fiction books. They just don't interest me, there are so many things in this world to know I'd rather try and do that than read something which doesn't hold my interest.
To be honest they are pretty easy going, introduction type books, I'll read those and if the subject grabs me I'll dig deeper and read more.
I just can't stand fiction. Since I left school (16 odd years ago) I have read maybe 10 fiction books. They just don't interest me, there are so many things in this world to know I'd rather try and do that than read something which doesn't hold my interest.
To be honest they are pretty easy going, introduction type books, I'll read those and if the subject grabs me I'll dig deeper and read more.
I'm reading "I-Pod Therefore I Am" by Dylan Jones which is a fascinating book combining both the evolution of the i-pod, and the cultural and musical history of Dylan Jones which is utterly fascinating. I've checked the indexes at the back, and i reckond I'll be downloading from tonight until around 12 December 2019!