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Isn't Card a mormon?
What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8
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Isn't Card a mormon?
Yes, he is, although it doesn't come up a lot in the books of his I read. (It's a bigger deal in his non-Ender works, I think.)
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Orange Seeds
playing with cymbals
Curiosity?
that would be mine; but its so tedious and full of what some people might call silliness that my dream of pulling out the "O ya, well G.W.F. Hegel said...therefore...." rebuttal may be in tatters.
(Schopenhauer - referred to by the Great Mind of Adolf H. as Schoppenhauer - is not very original though, IMO. But seriously, that Hegel title sounds a tad bit specialistic.)
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Children at War, by P.W. Singer. Singularly one of the most brutal books I've ever had to read.
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
I bought a friend a copy of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which I might myself read one day.
A mormon reading a mormon, have a problem with gentile authors?j/k
Actually, I think most of the fiction I read is written by atheists. Same with webcomics for that matter - the vast majority of the authors of the webcomics I read are atheist, although my #1 favorite is Mormon.
King of Town
Adventuring
Just bought Jimmy Corrigan, the smartest kid in the world. It's looking pretty good so far
Julian Delphiki
Anton's key
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens.
fugazi
King
Sounds like an interesting read.
Joris Luyendijk - Het Zijn Net Mensen (They're Almost Human/Men), a book about the Middle-East.
holy king
Deity
finally some english language again, to post here 
tortilla curtain by t.c. boyle, then falling man by don dellilo.
tortilla curtain by t.c. boyle, then falling man by don dellilo.
Title tells all...
That would translate to: "They're just like people".
Finished Gangster by Lorenzo Carcaterra. (Well written. Though I suspected the ending, I kept reading to see if I was correct.)
Started on another thriller.
That was an interesting one: I read it during the summer. One quotation to look forward to if you're familiar with the Left Behind books:
With a necessary part of its collective mind, religion looks forward to the destruction of the world. […] This has been a constant trope, ever since the first witch doctors and shamans learned to predict eclipses […] to the best-selling pulp-fiction Left Behind series, which, ostensibly "authored" by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, was apparently generated by the old expedient of letting two orangutans loose on a word processor.
As for myself, I'm reading The Knight in History by Frances Gies.
Ace of Gold
MAKE WAY FOR THE BAD GUY
The last don by mario Puzo
Finished:
The Environmental Pendulum: A Quest for the Truth About Toxic Chemicals, Human Health and Environmental Protection by R.Allan Freeze
Geology of the American Southwest: A Journey Through Two Billion Years of Plate-Tectonic History by W. Scott Baldridge
Manitoulin Rocks
The Accidental Theorist by Paul Krugman
The Environmental Pendulum: A Quest for the Truth About Toxic Chemicals, Human Health and Environmental Protection by R.Allan Freeze
Geology of the American Southwest: A Journey Through Two Billion Years of Plate-Tectonic History by W. Scott Baldridge
Manitoulin Rocks
The Accidental Theorist by Paul Krugman
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Protector of Cats
Revolutionary Road.....................
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Excellent book.
Julian Delphiki
Anton's key
It and its sequel aren't bad but they really don't practice good alternate history.
True - I'm reading the sequel now (More What If?: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been? by Robert Cowley) and just finished the chapter about battle of Hastings. It was was way more 'what happened' than 'what if'.
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