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About a hot blonde model who fucks successful men to work her way up the social ladder in New York City

Half-way through... very dynamic characters
A very enjoyable kind of trashy read

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Originally posted by woscar Have you read "The Demon-Haunted World"?

No, I haven't! since you've read most of it, what's it generally about?

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Posted by Omega_Blue that's it, fuck it i'm quitting ta forever. fuck if i'm gonna get trolled by fucking yukii. dammit!

I'm about 2/3 of the way through:



I love his prose - it's so earnest and emotive.

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Originally posted by yukii No, I haven't! since you've read most of it, what's it generally about?

It's mostly about fighting pseudo-science and embracing critical thinking and skepticism. It's quite remarkable how he calmly explains subjects like UFO abductions, faith-healers, psychics, religion, demons, and many other "paranormal" phenomena without sounding pompous or arrogant. Not only does he explain the things people have believed and accepted as fact over history but why. It reads like a love poem to science and reason. It's a book that everyone should read, I highly recommend that you do.

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Originally posted by woscar without sounding pompous or arrogant. Not only does he explain the things people have believed and accepted as fact over history but why. It reads like a love poem to science and reason.

that's why i love him. when i buy books i guess thats the next one

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Posted by Omega_Blue that's it, fuck it i'm quitting ta forever. fuck if i'm gonna get trolled by fucking yukii. dammit!

I'm currently reading The Dune Chronicles (6 books, I'm on the 4th). They are absolutely the best books I have ever read.

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Originally posted by woscar It's mostly about fighting pseudo-science and embracing critical thinking and skepticism. It's quite remarkable how he calmly explains subjects like UFO abductions, faith-healers, psychics, religion, demons, and many other "paranormal" phenomena without sounding pompous or arrogant. Not only does he explain the things people have believed and accepted as fact over history but why. It reads like a love poem to science and reason. It's a book that everyone should read, I highly recommend that you do.

I've been meaning to read this for quite some time, actually. It's definitely in queue now.

I am actually reading Michael Talbot's The Holographic Universe right now which actually offers a very interesting (and bewildering) theory on the nature of reality, and reality as we know it. It offers numerous scientific and historical data attempting to provide, essentially, a far more nebulous (but brilliant imo) explanation of various medical and physical abnormalities and how they could indeed be related to human perception. This is a piss-poor explanation on my part, but the book essentially posits that there is a lot of evidence to suggest that everything we experience is indeed being projected to us through a sort of overhead and nearly incomprehensible amount of images and realities that do not necessarily originate in the human mind... it's odd, but compelling. It sounds like something Sagan would maybe hate at first, but then wrinkle his eyebrow at later on, I dunno.

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American Phsycho.. Certainly enjoyed it and it's on the re-read pile as my usual process is read through once without much in depth analysis and go through again with a fine tooth comb if it looks worth it, and it certainly does.

I think main areas for analysis are going to be Bateman's anonymity and how this seems to be making a point about all of yuppiedom, not just him and his own weeknesses and psychoses. There also seem to be minor themes of the meaning in life being what you make of it, but that's a little cliche for me to want to spend much effort picking apart.

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Originally posted by Enigmatik American Phsycho.. Certainly enjoyed it and it's on the re-read pile as my usual process is read through once without much in depth analysis and go through again with a fine tooth comb if it looks worth it, and it certainly does. I think main areas for analysis are going to be Bateman's anonymity and how this seems to be making a point about all of yuppiedom, not just him and his own weeknesses and psychoses. There also seem to be minor themes of the meaning in life being what you make of it, but that's a little cliche for me to want to spend much effort picking apart.

Still haven't read that. It's actually banned in the state of Queensland, where I live Tools.

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