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Reading list:

Plato- The Apology
Spinoza- Ethics
David C Stove- The Plato Cult And Other Philosophical Follies
Erasmus- In Praise Of Folly
St Augustine- Confessions

These are just a few.

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this is a fabulous book. also read around the time i read "surely you're joking mr. feynman," by richard feynman. that is a bunch of anecdotes, many about working at los alamos during ww2.

also on the list:

perdido street station - china mieville (scifi)
anything by steinbeck

i have a bunch of stuff piled up, and now i can't remember a lick of it.

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"The Dancing Wu Li Masters, An Overview of the New Physics" by Gary Zukav
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[ January 09, 2004, 05:34 PM: Message edited by: tweeker43 ]
 
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This just in
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wife just picked up (at the Library): "The Dancing Wu Li Masters, An Overview of the New Physics" by Gary Zukav. I will start now!
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I hope you and the others enjoy it.
 
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Originally posted by Pablo:
This just in
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wife just picked up (at the Library): "The Dancing Wu Li Masters, An Overview of the New Physics" by Gary Zukav. I will start now!
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I hope you and the others enjoy it.
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Mine got here today.

I got 3 books and free shipping and also signed up for a credit card-which I will probably cut up when it gets here
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I paid a grand total of $.47 (including shipping) for:

The following items were included in this shipment:The following items were included in this shipment:
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1 Quantum Reality $10.36

1 The Dancing Wu Li Masters : $7.50

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb $12.60

[ January 09, 2004, 07:07 PM: Message edited by: Al ]
 
"Seabiscuit" ...

A factual book that reads like a novel and worth getting for the writing in the chapter about Tom Smith alone. It'll make you want to saddle up and head out west to a place that no longer exists ....

Not only a great human interest story but a revealing look at American life during the Great Depression.

One interesting fact ...in 1938, more pages of newpaper print were devoted to this little horse than to FDR or Adolf Hitler. Of course, he was having a better season at the time
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Like I mentioned in a previous post:

"Old Glory" by Jonathan Raban.

"The author realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the astonishingly varied lives of the people who live along its banks. Whether he is fishing for walleye or hunting coon, discussing theology in Prairie Du Chien or race relations in Memphis, he is an expert observer of the heartyland's estrangement from America's capitals ot power and culture, and its helpless nostalgia for its lost past. Witty, elegaic, and magnificently erudite, Old Glory is as filled with strong currents as the Mississippi itself."

I'm a big boating nut and love touring by boat (canoe and kayak sometimes), so maybe I'm a little biased...

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"Seabiscuit" ...

A factual book that reads like a novel and worth getting for the writing in the chapter about Tom Smith alone. It'll make you want to saddle up and head out west to a place that no longer exists ....
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I've spent a fair amount of time around horses, so, of course, some friends of mine wanted me to go see this movie with them when it was in the theaters...never went, but one of them rented it the other day...didn't really care much for it. The best part of it was the Belgian that shared time with Seabiscuit.

Guess my opinion is kinda slanted though...

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(Didn't post the picture itself for the sake of our friends on dial-up!)

[ January 09, 2004, 07:54 PM: Message edited by: Jelly ]
 
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Jelly,

The book is much, much better than the movie ....

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Oh, I figured as much...I'm not much of a movie/tv watcher (although I do watch some programs on history channel, tlc, discovery, etc)

When you mentioned the movie, it made me think of people trying to make me watch it...Just 'cause I've been around a few horses doesn't mean I will love a movie...let's not even talk about the "Horse Whisperer" (Sorry, just ranting!)
 
Two excellent books are "The Sparrow" and "Children of God", by Mary Doria Russell.
Most anything by Mike Resnick is fun, especially "Ivory".
Has anyone read any of the 'Tracker' books by Tom Brown, jr.? If so, what do you think about him?
 
The Seabiscuit movie was entertaining, but as usual Hollywood just had to bring in the "government rescued us from the depression, etc" message...I actually rented it because my .59$ version wouldn't play. I mean sorta kid like entertaining, and if they would have left the TJ (Agua Caliente) "working girls" part out I would have let my girls watch it. But there is no way you could say actors know anything (much) about horses. Haven't read the book, but I would like to know the REAL history (not the Hollywood version)

As for Wu Li Masters, I'm only on page 50 or so, I'm super stressed at work (got a 4000 line spreadsheet going involving litigation...on some bad USA made parts). So I read maybe 5 - 6 pages and I'm just too tired so out I pass....but he's basically using a bunch of analogies to try to get a grip around quantum mechanics, did a fine job of not fully hacking down Newtonian physics...interesting, but not riveted yet.
 
I think a lot of times that good fiction contains as much "truth" as non-fiction if you know what I mean.

"The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit" by Sloan Wilson. For anyone whose ever looked up and wondered how the heck they ended up with the unfulfilling life that they have.

"The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk. This book should be mandatory reading for anyone in a heirarchical organization...
 
There is reading, and then, there is reading. The ultimate cleansing of the brain of the cult of Darwinism-Marxism starts with "Beyond Good and Evil" by Nietzsche.

Live dangerously...
 
I suspect there are quite a few history buffs like me reading this board. "Close to Shore" was good. It is about the New Jersey shark attacks of 1916. Kinda neat how all the scientists said it couldn't be a great white because "everyone knows they don't have strong enough jaws to injure a man."
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Also, Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire." Historical fiction recount of the Battle of Thermopylae. 2,000 Greeks vs. a Persian army estimated at close to a million men. The battle that saved democracy.

Last, I just picked up a copy of Brock Yates' book "Cannonball" last night. It's a pretty good read for us outlaw motorheads.
 
The Civil War - Shelby Foote (yes the trilogy)
Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
The Four Corners - Kenneth A.Brown
Hell I was There - Elmer Keith
The First World War - John Keegan
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
The Great Game - Peter Hopkirk

These are the best ones I've read in the last 3-4 years. We don't have television so the wife and I read a lot.

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GSV - Hey I read Bordain's book - yeah I like his writing better than his TV....right up my GI tube, so to speak....kinda find out how phoney TV really is from reading a book on food!

OK before I passed out last night I dinstinctly remember reading (in Wu Li) that there may be some signs of intelligence to subatomic group behavior. THIS is getting interesting.
 
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