What are you reading?

rdawson808 · Mar 4, 2009

Terry Pratchett's Nation.

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Thomas · Mar 4, 2009

Originally Posted by appolyon

Was thinking about picking up his book on Mother Teresa. Is it a good read? I hear Hitchens is pretty damning...

Thanks for the recommendations ... will look into these books and get back to you. It is a topic I've never really thought much about, but has now piqued my interest.

Hitchens' Mother Teresa book is okay but he doesn't have a lot to work with. He kind of slaps her around for associating with shady characters and promoting ignorance.

Now, Hitchens' Kissinger book - that is damning in the extreme.

MetroStyles · Mar 4, 2009

Originally Posted by Thomas

Hitchens' Mother Teresa book is okay but he doesn't have a lot to work with. He kind of slaps her around for associating with shady characters and promoting ignorance.

Now, Hitchens' Kissinger book - that is damning in the extreme.

Does this Hitchens guy generally just hate on people/concepts?

romafan · Mar 4, 2009

One of my weaknesses (although I usually hate myself afterwards) is biker exposes: you know, either a H. Thompson-type account or an infiltration by undercover law enforcement operatives. Just finished No Angel by Jay 'Bird' Dobyns....

Fuuma · Mar 4, 2009

Originally Posted by Connemara

Yeager Hudson's The Philosophy of Religion is an outstanding review of the arguments for and against. It is my go-to reference book for this sort of thing. I have heard that John Hick's Philosophy of Religion is good but I've never had the chance to look at it.

I loved Theodore Drange's Nonbelief and Evil, a really damning critique of theism. It is pretty technical and he assumes a somewhat advanced knowledge of philosophy. But it's one of the best atheist tracts out there.

Yo I'm pretty set in my ways as it comes to atheism so to me the existence of God is not that interesting a topic. Should I read one of these (note I'm familiar with continental philosophy)?

Thomas · Mar 4, 2009

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

Does this Hitchens guy generally just hate on people/concepts?

People/concepts he opposes, sure. He's anti-God, anti-oppression, for a start. Savaged the Clintons in another book but seems to not much like Bush either. Loves George Orwell (that was a good book) and confrontations. Letters to a Young Contrarian was a really good book IMHO.

denimdestroyedmylife · Mar 4, 2009

just finished bolano's by night in chile.
a deathbed confessional (that's the conceit) that is written as one long paragraph
however it is a lucid book and powerful
and weird

my first stab at bolano
i liked it much

i have 2666 in queue
but next i think i am going to try some saul bellow for the first time

also been reading a lot of WD Snodgrass, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Ashberry

Connemara · Mar 4, 2009

Originally Posted by Fuuma

Yo I'm pretty set in my ways as it comes to atheism so to me the existence of God is not that interesting a topic. Should I read one of these (note I'm familiar with continental philosophy)?
Hudson's book is a really interesting read. Even as a nonbeliever, I found many of the arguments for God to be fascinating. For me, it's something worth knowing for the sake of knowing, but it seems like you have a similar view on acquisition of knowledge. If you want to jump in head first, look at Hume's Natural History of Religion. I don't have the balls to read the whole thing (yet) but many of the excerpts I've looked at are funny, ingenious, etc. Another great critique of Judeo-Christian tradition.

itsstillmatt · Mar 4, 2009

Originally Posted by Connemara

If you want to jump in head first, look at Hume's Natural History of Religion. I don't have the balls to read the whole thing (yet) but many of the excerpts I've looked at are funny, ingenious, etc. Another great critique of Judeo-Christian tradition.

Isn't it about 50 pages?

Don't Wilk out on us.

life_interrupts · Mar 4, 2009

Just finishing Watchmen again in time for the movie. The A Terrible Legacy by Glen Grenwald.

kwilkinson · Mar 5, 2009

Originally Posted by iammatt

Isn't it about 50 pages?

Don't Wilk out on us.

Dood

thats.mana · Mar 5, 2009

Just picked up the Wind-up bird chronicle by Murakami and just finished Dance, Dance ,Dance by him, highly recommended.

MetroStyles · Mar 5, 2009

Originally Posted by thats.mana

Just picked up the Wind-up bird chronicle by Murakami and just finished Dance, Dance ,Dance by him, highly recommended.

You are gonna love it. Takes you to another world...

appolyon · Mar 5, 2009

Found de botton's 'Architecture of Happines' in a discount bookstore and bought it... picked it up today to read and it is actually all about architecture ... what a drag

skidsm · Mar 5, 2009

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