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Message 1926094 - Posted: 23 Mar 2018, 21:33:49 UTC

"The Emperor's New Clothes", by Roger Penrose.
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Message 1926131 - Posted: 23 Mar 2018, 23:48:54 UTC - in response to Message 1924332.  
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In the Things are getting better series I'll make sure to read this, as Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined failed to utterly convince me. I normally never say this, but in that specific case I'd like to believe it lol

"A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous 14th Century", by Barbara W. Tuchman. This is not a new book, with a 1978 copyright.
However, I am finding that it provides an interesting perspective of our own times (ours, being better, certainly).

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Message 1926166 - Posted: 24 Mar 2018, 1:34:10 UTC - in response to Message 1926094.  
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Correction: "The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose.
(Freudian Slip?)
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Message 1926226 - Posted: 24 Mar 2018, 8:24:23 UTC - in response to Message 1926094.  

Roger Penrose author? Looks like another one for the to read list
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Message 1926285 - Posted: 24 Mar 2018, 14:41:03 UTC - in response to Message 1926226.  
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I wrote a letter to Roger Penrose in 1995 and he answered it suggesting me to read his new book "Shadows of the mind". But it is a good deal more technical. I just finished reading "A short history of time" by Stephen Hawking, which mentions his cooperation with Penrose in the subject of black holes.
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Message 1926356 - Posted: 24 Mar 2018, 19:29:56 UTC - in response to Message 1926285.  

Maybe I should have another go at reading Hawking's book again Got stuck around chapter 3 or 4 last time
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Message 1926360 - Posted: 24 Mar 2018, 19:40:53 UTC - in response to Message 1926356.  

His book is much easier than "Shadows of the mind" by Roger Penrose.
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Message 1926362 - Posted: 24 Mar 2018, 19:54:07 UTC - in response to Message 1926360.  

Thanks Tullio, will keep that in mind
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Message 1932731 - Posted: 29 Apr 2018, 21:19:54 UTC

If we stop reading this thread will die!

I haven't been reading much lately, but I keep buying books that I honestly intend to read. Really. I've recently bought the hard copy of the book by Stephen King and Owen King, Sleeping Beauties. I've read mixed reviews.

I also bought the Kindle version of Fire and Fury, the one about the inner workings of the current White House administration.

When I buy a book, I usually buy Kindle versions. I like hard copies, but it's faster and easier to buy the Kindle version. I no longer have a working Kindle, but I have the app on an old iPad mini. I'm actually surprised they're still selling Kindles since it really has only one purpose. Or does it? I haven't really looked into them for some time, so maybe they do more than just the books.

Here's a recommendation: One of the funniest books I've read was actually a published version of someone's blog. I don't usually laugh out loud when I'm reading, but this time I did. The book is The Force is Middling in this One: And Other Ruminations from the Outskirts of the Empire. It's stinkin' funny! (Really, it's not about Star Wars.)
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Message 1933236 - Posted: 2 May 2018, 16:24:32 UTC - in response to Message 1932731.  
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For a change, have been reading some hacking books, starting with: Dark Market by Misha Glenny then following two of his recommended reads: Kevin Poulson's Kingpin and Joseph Menn's Fatal System Error. Perhaps I should watch the 1983 film War Games as well.
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Message 1935572 - Posted: 13 May 2018, 23:49:53 UTC

"The Other Brain", by R. Douglas Fields, Ph.D.
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Message 1936318 - Posted: 19 May 2018, 20:45:38 UTC

Here's a free short story from Stephen King.

https://stephenking.com/other/stephenking-laurie.pdf
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Message 1936323 - Posted: 19 May 2018, 21:14:34 UTC

Always found Terry Pratchett's books fun to read, he has quite an imagination..
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Message 1936561 - Posted: 21 May 2018, 18:19:36 UTC

I just started a book called Nightshade - Twentieth Century Ghost Stories. It's a collection, so I expect some stories to be better than others, but it's a nice escape on a Monday afternoon. :~)
The mind is a weird and mysterious place
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Message 1936577 - Posted: 21 May 2018, 21:00:30 UTC

Just started to read the dystopian novel "We", by Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924

Came across it after I read, George Orwell's "1984"
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Message 1936593 - Posted: 22 May 2018, 0:02:14 UTC

"A Higher Loyalty", by James Comey.
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Message 1936774 - Posted: 23 May 2018, 10:48:55 UTC

Noblesse.

Noblesse is about a powerful noble - Cadis Etrama Di Raizel (referred to as Rai) - who has been asleep for 820 years with no knowledge of mankind's advancement and scientific successes. At the start of the webtoon, Rai wakes up in an abandoned building in South Korea, and starts to get used to the modern world. He goes to a school, where he reunites with his loyal servant Frankenstein. With Frankenstein's help, Rai enrolls into high school and inadvertently befriends athletic teenager Shinwoo, computer geek Ikhan, and Shinwoo's crush Yuna, and a few others. Noblesse follows the group's often dangerous adventures against a secret organization while uncovering Rai's past.

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Message 1938498 - Posted: 6 Jun 2018, 21:36:02 UTC

Re-reading (after several years) Book #2 of the "Wingman" series by Mack Maloney. Prior to that, I was reading the last book (#16 I think, of 23 total) of Mike Shepherd's "Kris Longknife" series.
Both in e-Book format (Kindle 5th Generation reader - an older model with no backlight, so the battery lasts a lot longer and no touchscreen)
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Message 1938580 - Posted: 7 Jun 2018, 12:13:03 UTC - in response to Message 1938498.  

The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester....the story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Involving murder, the American Civil War and nineteenth century London. Reads like a thriller.
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Message 1939502 - Posted: 14 Jun 2018, 17:46:55 UTC

Robert F Kennedy: Ripples of Hope
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