What are you reading?

[rowjimmy]

I cannot seem to finish James Joyce's "Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man"

Good reading if you wanted about 60 pages of gorgeous prose on what Hell is like.

60 Pages, huh? I can accurately describe hell in three words:

Hannah Montana Marathon

You sir, are no James Joyce.   8-)

I, and my affinity for concise prose, thank you.

[fauxpaxfauxreal]

New Palahniuk book coming out in this summer!
:banana:
Pygmy

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ean=9780385526340

I haven't liked a new Palahniuk book since Choke...

...jumped the shark.

[ytowndan]

The Origin Of Species.
Charles Darwin.

[nab]

The Origin Of Species.
Charles Darwin.

Little light reading?

[ytowndan]

The Origin Of Species.
Charles Darwin.

Little light reading?

I love a good 19th century science journal.   :wink:

But, seriously I do enjoy it.  With all the biology courses I'll be taking I better be able to get through this book.  :-D

[hoodie22]

New Palahniuk book coming out in this summer!
:banana:
Pygmy

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ean=9780385526340

I haven't liked a new Palahniuk book since Choke...

...jumped the shark.

Maybe I'm the only one....but I went through "Snuff" in about a day.
Its kind of sick, but I couldn't put it down.

I am currently reading "Survivor"

[nab]

The Origin Of Species.
Charles Darwin.

Little light reading?

I love a good 19th century science journal.   :wink:

But, seriously I do enjoy it.  With all the biology courses I'll be taking I better be able to get through this book.  :-D

This is true.  Darwinian method has really become another step in the scientific method.  Archeologically speaking, it is sometimes used to explain the "evolution" of artifact styles through time.  Pretty interesting stuff if you are a nerdy archeology boy like me.


FWIW, this is what I'm reading right now:



http://www.amazon.com/Ainu-Northern-William-W-Fitzhugh/dp/0967342902

[ytowndan]

The Origin Of Species.
Charles Darwin.

Little light reading?

I love a good 19th century science journal.   :wink:

But, seriously I do enjoy it.  With all the biology courses I'll be taking I better be able to get through this book.  :-D

This is true.  Darwinian method has really become another step in the scientific method.  Archeologically speaking, it is sometimes used to explain the "evolution" of artifact styles through time.  Pretty interesting stuff if you are a nerdy archeology boy like me.

I bet.  Definitely the greatest man in science. 

[fauxpaxfauxreal]

New Palahniuk book coming out in this summer!
:banana:
Pygmy

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ean=9780385526340

I haven't liked a new Palahniuk book since Choke...

...jumped the shark.

Maybe I'm the only one....but I went through "Snuff" in about a day.
Its kind of sick, but I couldn't put it down.

I am currently reading "Survivor"

"Survivor" is by far my favorite of his books.  I knew it was going to be good right around the part in the first few chapters where the protagonist receives a phone call via his "suicide prevention hotline".

His new books to me are just I think not as shocking to me as his first few books were/are...

[fauxpaxfauxreal]

The Origin Of Species.
Charles Darwin.

Little light reading?

I love a good 19th century science journal.   :wink:

But, seriously I do enjoy it.  With all the biology courses I'll be taking I better be able to get through this book.  :-D

This is true.  Darwinian method has really become another step in the scientific method.  Archeologically speaking, it is sometimes used to explain the "evolution" of artifact styles through time.  Pretty interesting stuff if you are a nerdy archeology boy like me.

I bet.  Definitely the greatest man in science. 

I disagree.  I think there are far better minds... Gregor Mendel... Marie and Pierre... Schrodinger... Bohr... all spring IMMEDIATELY to me.

Darwin was a great scientist, but "greatest"... not by a long shot.

[ytowndan]

The Origin Of Species.
Charles Darwin.

Little light reading?

I love a good 19th century science journal.   :wink:

But, seriously I do enjoy it.  With all the biology courses I'll be taking I better be able to get through this book.  :-D

This is true.  Darwinian method has really become another step in the scientific method.  Archeologically speaking, it is sometimes used to explain the "evolution" of artifact styles through time.  Pretty interesting stuff if you are a nerdy archeology boy like me.

I bet.  Definitely the greatest man in science. 

I disagree.  I think there are far better minds... Gregor Mendel... Marie and Pierre... Schrodinger... Bohr... all spring IMMEDIATELY to me.

Darwin was a great scientist, but "greatest"... not by a long shot.

True.  Labeling someone as the greatest in a field that's so broad is kinda silly to begin with.  Also, I should have made it more clear that I was referring specifically to biology (in which Mendel, who you mentioned, also had such a pivotal role in).  Greatest?  No, I agree with you there.  One of the greatest?  Absolutely, IMO. 

And, that was definitely a PWI.  I posted that after about 5 glasses of Woodford Reserve, and the book was obviously still dominating my thoughts.   :-D

[fauxpaxfauxreal]

It was interesting to listen to them talk of him on npr's Talk of the Nation... apparantly... Darwin did not publish his work until 20 years after he originally wrote it...and only because a buddy of his came up with almost exactly the same theory independently...

Since Darwin was an Oxford grad, he was technically a C of E Cleric...

[ytowndan]

It was interesting to listen to them talk of him on npr's Talk of the Nation... apparantly... Darwin did not publish his work until 20 years after he originally wrote it...and only because a buddy of his came up with almost exactly the same theory independently...

Since Darwin was an Oxford grad, he was technically a C of E Cleric...

I'll have to search npr's online archive for that.  I assume it was recent, given that the 200th anniversary of his birthday was a couple weeks ago. 

[fauxpaxfauxreal]

It was interesting to listen to them talk of him on npr's Talk of the Nation... apparantly... Darwin did not publish his work until 20 years after he originally wrote it...and only because a buddy of his came up with almost exactly the same theory independently...

Since Darwin was an Oxford grad, he was technically a C of E Cleric...

I'll have to search npr's online archive for that.  I assume it was recent, given that the 200th anniversary of his birthday was a couple weeks ago. 

It was today's show.  It might be called "Science Friday".  I think WBUR in Boston produces it.

I don't know if it was the first or second hour.

[ytowndan]

It was interesting to listen to them talk of him on npr's Talk of the Nation... apparantly... Darwin did not publish his work until 20 years after he originally wrote it...and only because a buddy of his came up with almost exactly the same theory independently...

Since Darwin was an Oxford grad, he was technically a C of E Cleric...

I'll have to search npr's online archive for that.  I assume it was recent, given that the 200th anniversary of his birthday was a couple weeks ago. 

It was today's show.  It might be called "Science Friday".  I think WBUR in Boston produces it.

I don't know if it was the first or second hour.

That made it much easier to find.  Thanks!  +K