Whatya reading currently?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

The God Delusion

have considered getting that-let me know if it's good.

[GPK]

It's a little old now...and it's been a while since I read it, but "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy is one of my all time favorites.

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

haskins tc book..good storys...

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by Danzig

have considered getting that-let me know if it's good.

it's very good. . .

Originally Posted by hockey2315

it's very good. . .

Is this by Dawkins, Richard Dawkins the evolutionary biologist?

[Cajungator26]

I just picked up They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 by David Maraniss.

Originally Posted by pgardn

Is this by Dawkins, Richard Dawkins the evolutionary biologist?

I looked it up and it is.

The Selfish Gene was one of the most influential books
I ever read. Now that I look back upon it, it was over the
top. But the ideas were astounding. A completely diff. way
of viewing life.

Dawkins is very well known for pricking at religion. He thrives
on it. Climbing Mount Improbable, practically all his books
rake religion.

I did not know he was having another go at it.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

it's very good. . .

looks like i'll be adding to my library....

[herkhorse]

I've been reading The Berenstain Bears, good stuff.

Seriously though, the last book I read was Ishmael. That was about a year and a half ago before my kid could walk and talk. Now I'm too tired to read.

Originally Posted by herkhorse

I've been reading The Berenstain Bears, good stuff.

Seriously though, the last book I read was Ishmael. That was about a year and a half ago before my kid could walk and talk. Now I'm too tired to read.

God bless you for reading to your kid(s).

Originally Posted by Danzig

looks like i'll be adding to my library....

If you like the book hockey mentioned,
you may have to add The Blind Watchmaker.

And anyone please add as I am still pondering.
It is also interesting to see what people are interested in
outside of horses.

[geeker2]

"The Great Thebby" by F. Mortimer Fitzgerald

[paisjpq]

I recommend the great thebby....though it is an incomplete work....


i just finished a great book (sent to me by a very generous sometime DT'r)

Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Horbacher

and am half way through

Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the AMerican West by Deanne Stillman

also have to recommend Beautiful Boy: a Father's Journey through his Son's Addiction by David Scheff...and with it you have to read his son's book Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines

they are all good and non-fiction.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by pgardn

If you like the book hockey mentioned,
you may have to add The Blind Watchmaker.

And anyone please add as I am still pondering.
It is also interesting to see what people are interested in
outside of horses.

what's the blind watchmaker?

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by Danzig

what's the blind watchmaker?

It's by Dawkins as well - The God Delusion is a little more interesting in my opinion. . . The Blind Watchmaker focuses mostly on evolution. . .

Originally Posted by Danzig

what's the blind watchmaker?

It is mainly about evolution (as mentioned above) having no ultimate purpose
or direction. Thus implying the big guy (God), making those precise
Watches, went about it in a blind way.

So I guess the God Delusion would be the next fit.

Dawkins is a Brit who pulls no punches.
He will tell you how he feels and more.
His American atheist audience is huge.

Stephen J. Gould and Dawkins both excellent writers
on evolution. Gould did not try to rile quite as much.
RIP. Gould was one of my all time favorites. A harder
read than Asimov, but very good.

I gotta go with something Historical. The Adams book sounds
good.