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What Are You Reading? Part Deux. (pg. 2)
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| denys envy |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
it's the ecstasy. |
i thought it was the unicorns... |
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by denys envy
i thought it was the unicorns... |
It's both. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Enjoy
bluebeard by vonnegut |
i want to read this. |
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| nefardec |
michael veal - Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
r. murray schaefer - The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World
douglas khan - noise, water meat: a history of sound in the arts
kodwo eshun - more brilliant than the sun: adventures in sonic fiction
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| Alex |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
I need to read that, simply so I have more ammunition against Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Shintos, Taoists, Daoists, Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Seventh Day Adventists, Mormons, Protestants, Exclusive Breathren etc... |
:stongue: :stongue:
Hitchens is cool and all, and it is a funny book but it isn't exactly a great insight and the arguments would only really work against dumb religious people... Which is sadly quite a few, bah. :mad: |
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| Trance Nutter |
One of my favourite Antarctic explorer stories.
Basically Sir Ernest Shackleton tried to lead an expedition to trek from one side of Antractica to the other. While sailing to their landing point the ship got stuck in ice for 8 months. Ship was eventually crushed by ice. They then haul the lifeboats and all their stores, but the snow is too soft on the ice floe so they set up camp for 2 months. The ice floe starts to melt, so they pack up and move to a thicker part of the floe, and camp there for another 3.5 months. The floe eventually startes breaking up, so they row the lifeboats for 5 days over open sea to Elephant Island.
After a while there Shackleton and a couple of other guys row one of the boats another 800 miles over open seas to South Georgia, but land on the wrong side. They then have to cross the mountain range on the island (the first time it had ever been done) to the settlement on the other side.
They then hire a boat to go back to Elephant Island to resuce the others, but the boat can't get through the ice. So they try again, another failure. And again, another failure. They eventually get a suitable boat and go back and rescue the men, who had camped on Elephant Island for 4 months. All in all, from depart to rescue the expedition had taken about 21 months.
Not one man died.
This book was written by Shackleton in 1919 in an attempt to try to recoup some of the money spent on the expedition. It jumps around a bit, not being an author and it basically being a report of the expedition means that it can be a little hard reading sometimes, but the story itself is pretty extraordinary. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Alex
:stongue: :stongue:
Hitchens is cool and all, and it is a funny book but it isn't exactly a great insight and the arguments would only really work against dumb religious people... Which is sadly quite a few, bah. :mad: |
I think you'd really like the book in the original post - the theology isn't terribly strong, but I'm sure you can see by the title that the references to Augustine and other theologians run throughout. |
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| Alex |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
I think you'd really like the book in the original post - the theology isn't terribly strong, but I'm sure you can see by the title that the references to Augustine and other theologians run throughout. |
I'll check it out for sure, it looks like a nice read.
Have you read C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity by any chance? It's also a nice read, not very theological at all, just plain enjoyable even for the agnostic/atheist I imagine. |
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| Lira |
- Bernard Comrie - Linguistic Universals and Language Typology
- Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations
- George Yule - Pragmatics
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