Sunday Jan 10, 2010

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In the past couple of weeks i have read both 1984 and Animal Farm. I have to say that I liked 1984 for its currents relevance. But I also have to said that it could be argued that Animal Farm is basically the same book. Sure he directed towards the russians of old(maybe the current one to?). But there is no denying how similar they are.
I have three books now that I am currently trying to read. The first is 'The God Question' It is a book about what famous thinkers -from plato to dawkins- have said about the god. The next is 'Black Hole War' and it is about what happens after matter goes into a black hole. There is quite the argument about this an this covers a couple of the sides. And lastly is 'the Boomer Bible'. Here is the review from publishers weekly via amazon.

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The Boomers of management consultant Laird's title are baby boomers, and the author systematically skewers all of the things he claims that generation holds sacred--television, Wall Street avarice, the heroes of our nation's history and our Eurocentric cultural heritage. Boomers have forsaken established religions to follow Harry, the First Babe of the Boom, who gives them great things to eat, drink and inhale and who proclaims for them total exemption from responsibility for their actions. This "bible" also includes "The Book of the Damn Yankees," a version of American history, and the "Psongs" ("Happy is the man who gets to walk around with a pocketful of cash"). All of these topics have been treated better before. The book's pseudo-biblical style can be amusing at first, but it wears thin long before the end of the volume's 700-plus pages. The author is capable of an insightful observation or a genuinely funny line, but these are few and far between. And with his hipper-than-thou attitude, Laird seems to despise everyone but himself, while his muddled politics, neither left nor right, seem designed to confuse and deliberately offend readers.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.



I guess i find to many books interesting at once. It makes it hard to focus solely on one because i get excited about the next one.
-me
roguemind:
PS: would you drive 40mins one way 3 or 3 times a week to start training in JuJitSu?

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