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Maj
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Sorry, I couldn't resist. Especially after you'd edited your post to fix something already. I'll be nicer tomorrow.
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Zherog
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:48 am Post subject: Re: What You're Reading |
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I fixed a busted quote tag. 
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Marzi
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: What You're Reading |
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Medesha- That management book looks cool. I don't read a lot of those types, but one I loved that you may really like too is How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes. Great ideas for management, mixing in business type events, and just relating to people. Even phone skills stuff. I really enjoyed it.
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Medesha
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: Re: What You're Reading |
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Cool, I'll check it out!
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Count Arioch the 28th
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: What You're Reading |
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Rules of the Game , Neil Strauss.
Since being my own charming self is not getting me any success with the ladies, I guess I better learn some new techniques.
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Thoth_Amon
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: What You're Reading |
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I just finished the first two books in Donaldson's new Convenant series (i enjoyed them).
I also just read the Black Company books by Glen Cook.
Finally I am in the middle of a history of computer gaming.
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Julia of Hillsdown
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| Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:07 pm Post subject: Re: What You're Reading |
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Rereading Clive Barker's Cabal.
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Maj
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: Re: What You're Reading |
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| Maj wrote: | | I'm delving into yet another health and food related book, Good Calories, Bad Calories {OK, amazon, Toast, Butter}, by Gary Taubes. It turns a lot of conventional food wisdom on its ear and takes another look at it from a different angle, and has a lot of really great information and history in it. I think it should be required reading for anyone for anyone with serious health issues like diabetes - not because I necessarily believe many of the conclusions in the book, but because I support the science behind the conclusions. I think it's a fairly interesting read besides, though some have described it as overly technical (I don't think it is, but if you don't know what a protein is, then it might be for you). |
Ess and I finished reading this book last night, and we both agreed that it should be required reading. It seriously talks about how food relates to chronic desease - from infertility to high blood pressure to depression to cancer to headaches to Alzheimer's to obesity - and it's amazing. It also talks about the failings of the medical community, and how and why those have come about.
One of the most poignant quotes in the book is from the epilogue:
| Good Calories, Bad Calories; Page 451 wrote: | | The institutionalized vigilance, "this unending exchange of critical judgment," is nowhere to be found in the study of nutrition, chronic disease, and obesity, and it hasn't been for decades. For this reason, it is difficult to use the term "scientist" to describe those individuals who work in these disciplines, and, indeed, I have actively avoided doing so in this book. It's simple debatable, at best, whether what these individuals have practiced for the past fifty years, and whether the culture they have created, as a result, can reasonably be described as science, as most working scientists or philosophers of science would typically characterize it. |
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Count Arioch the 28th
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: What You're Reading |
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Body for Life, by Bill Philips.
It supposedly is a reasonable diet and exercise book. I'm not terribly confident since I've failed any attempt to get into shape that I've ever tried, but my Dad sent it to me for my birthday, and it would be rude not to at least try.
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Maj
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| I'm checking out Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years {OK, Amazon, Earth, Heat} right now. The library version of the book isn't the updated and expanded 2008 edition; it's from last year, but it's still quite interesting. If nothing else, it certainly makes a good argument for the notion that Global Warming is a much more complex phenomenon than the presence of one gas in our atmosphere. |
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wanderer
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Blacksad (wiki), a french style comic book series of spanish origin. So far it has three volumes. The series is very noir inspired, set in a '50s era large US city (possibly NY, but i'm not sure). All characters are anthropomorphic animals, which might sound cheesy but it is really well done. Blacksad, the main characters is a detective, and the series follows mainly him through his adventures.
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Julia of Hillsdown
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Hellsing, a manga about vampires.
And the inimitable Sandman, by my new god, Neil Gaiman.
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Absentminded Wizard
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Right now, I'm reading Star Wars: Death Star. It's a pretty good read for anybody who likes the Star Wars universe, if you can get over the bad puns (the prison planet Despayre, an escaped con who takes the assumed name "Teh Roxxor").
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Merestil Haye
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*Practices thread necromancy.*
Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Book one was pretty cool, and so far Book 2 is interesting.
I fely I needed to learn a little bit about the world if I'm going to help run a mafia game set i the world...  |
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Count Arioch the 28th
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I picked up The Elric Saga from the local library. I have been wanting to read a new author for a while, Moorecock seems like a good choice.
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