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That's a book?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:00:38 PM EST
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It is a novel in two parts, first person account of a human Jesus in Gethsemane (the night before his imprisonment) and in the second part events as Pilate sees them (am not quite that far yet.

by PeWi on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:07:23 PM EST
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some more about the author: eric-emmanuel-schmitt

by PeWi on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:11:01 PM EST
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Have you read "Master and Margarita"? Half the book is its own kind of gospel accd. to Pilate.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:52:44 PM EST
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On a related topic, anyone ever read Lawrence's short story "The Man Who Died" (alternatively titled "The Escaped Cock")? It caused quite an uproar in 1920s England, apparently...great book!!

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 01:53:43 PM EST
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no English translation (only German) you can hear with relief, so it will not be in your Christmas stockings....

by PeWi on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:05:20 PM EST
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I don't think there was much threat of that ...

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:07:13 PM EST
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This reminded me of Lamb - the Gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. It was recommended to me by several people. At first it was funny, but with time the humor was repetitive and predictable, so I never finished it.

by Fran on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 01:06:03 PM EST
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"What are you reading?" thread (none / 0)

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:04:22 PM EST

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

The Arabic Alphabet, How to Read & Write It, Awde & Samano

Preventing the Future, Tom Garvin - an analysis of why the Irish economy did so badly for most of the 20th C.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:06:47 PM EST
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Right now I am trying to finish:

Baudolino, Umberto Eco - however as it is in Italien it takes much longer.

I just finished

Here comes the Sun, Joshua M. Greene - a biography of George Harrison. I never was a great Beatle fan, but this book somehow touched me. Part of it was about his musical journey with Ravi Shankar and into yoga.

and am still working through

The Kingdom of God is Within You, Leo Tolstoy. I started reading it, because it seems to be one of the books that have influenced Gandhi strongly.

by Fran on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:20:26 PM EST
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Baudolino, Umberto Eco - however as it is in Italien it takes much longer.

Wow! Eco allegedly uses a lot of archaic Italian in that book, so that must be an effort! I read it of course in translation, and in parallel with a history book and an encyklopedia...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:10:37 PM EST
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Yes, maybe I still have some Latin lurking around the finges of my memory.

Btw. do you know The Planets by Dava Sobel - its still on my to read pile. She also wrote Galileo's Daughter.

by Fran on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:26:28 PM EST
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What was wrong with the thread PeWi started?

Ok, I just finished "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris and "Hunting and Gathering" by Anna Gavalda. Just started "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" by Gary Shteyngart. Very funny and yet very annoying... Also and working my way through a collective 70 pounds of fashion magazines. (Goth is back! Woo hoo!) Might start "The Battle for God" by Karen Armstrong.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:11:37 PM EST
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I was to quick

by PeWi on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:12:46 PM EST
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PeWi, I'm reading A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that I had to admit to you in Paris I had never read.

Perhaps I should have read it when it came out, because I keep getting stuck after a few pages.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:36:20 PM EST
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I had to admit to you in Paris I had never read.

You!? It's a book that somehow would fit you, with its style and wit.

For its clever lampooning of high science and philosophy, it is a favourite of college students of physics and philosophy. (Do you at least know about "42"?)

I keep getting stuck after a few pages.

Have you at least gotten until when the main characters leave the Earth? (Hopefully you haven't seen the movie.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:15:15 PM EST
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"42" was how I revealed my ignorance... The number came up in the conversation and PeWi said "Ah, 42!", like this was something of particular significance.

So I said: "Duuuh..." and he said: "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," and I said: "Oh, right." Then I had to confess I'd never read it, didn't I?

At the time it came out, and the following books and associated stuff, I was right out of the loop, of that kind of loop anyway.

No, the characters haven't left the Earth where I'm up to, which isn't far. I think I find it overwritten a bit, like there's a striving for comic effect in every sentence. But I have to admit: I didn't study physics, and <whisper> I'm not a SF fan... </whisper> and there are probably lots of "generation-marking" books I haven't read...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:46:11 PM EST
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Without giving anything away 6 x 9 = 42

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 04:10:17 PM EST
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Um ....

6 x 7 = 42

6 x 9 = 54

(I'm trying to increase my PN mojo)

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 08:08:13 PM EST
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Re: "What are you reading?" thread (4.00 / 3)

6 x 9 = 42 base 13

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Sep 1st, 2006 at 07:52:20 AM EST
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Give that girl a big PN point!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Sep 1st, 2006 at 08:52:39 AM EST
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No, the characters haven't left the Earth where I'm up to, which isn't far. I think I find it overwritten a bit, like there's a striving for comic effect in every sentence.

Ah, then you got nowhere. It gets funny when those overwritten parts get some contrast...

But I have to admit: I didn't study physics, and <whisper> I'm not a SF fan... </whisper>

Null problemo. The Hitchhiker's is too crazy to be mentioned alongside other SF, and there are no formulas or scary words from physics in the book.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 06:01:49 PM EST
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Re: "What are you reading?" thread (4.00 / 2)

What was wrong with the thread PeWi started?

It wets its nest.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:13:42 PM EST
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Did you remember to take the green dried frog pills today??

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

by Sam on Fri Sep 1st, 2006 at 08:21:47 AM EST
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that's interesting, i just heard an interview with her and linda tippett podcast from 'speaking of faith'

i've been burning these to cd and listening to them driving and doing chores.

she sounds like a wonderful woman, poemless, i bet you enjoy her writing.

i've been consulting my fave herbal, 'a modern herbal' by mrs m. grieve, to find out how to make something useful from my fruiting hawthorn tree.

i think i'll make tincture and syrup.

my propolis tincture came out great, it makes water turn cloudy like pernod, and gives a mild, woody honey flavour to the water.

i have used flowers from the hawthorn for self-medicating a mild heart condition with good success for years.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 01:15:06 PM EST
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By "her" do you mean Karen Armstrong?

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 02:29:16 PM EST
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yup. a spiritual maverick of the first water.

check out the podcast!

l. tippett asks good questions, and the presentation is american public radio-tasteful.

about 50 interviews, subbable through itunes.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Sep 1st, 2006 at 01:46:56 AM EST
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goth is back ... sigh.

Poemless, did you see I posted information on the BooTrib meetup in CHICAGO in the midwest thread at BT? Hope you can come to at least part of it, or maybe join us for some of the festivites that aren't planned yet.

(And of course anyone else who wants to fly over and join us in Chicago is welcome too. Although it will be hard to live up to the standards set by the London gathering.)

by Maryb2004 on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 04:54:08 PM EST
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No, I didn't see that! Will have to go check it out...

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 05:00:22 PM EST
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Battle for God (none / 0)

Good Book! Explains the background to much of what is happening in the world today.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 08:10:26 PM EST
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Re: "What are you reading?" thread (4.00 / 2)

Reading? Eurotrib, along with all these links that Irish fella keeps throwing in his diaries...

I have a pile of books unstarted or barely started, I can't seem to settle at the moment.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:40:28 PM EST
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"Watching the English" by Kate Fox. I always knew there was a code for the English, and I did my best to decrypt it during my stay there, but I finally understand what I did wrong all the time...

Kcurie, if you're reading this, I especially recommend it for you.

"Cat's Cradle" - Kurt Vonnegut

Just because I hadn't read it. So it goes.

by Nomad (Bjinse) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:48:12 PM EST
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Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth
The Cloudspotter's Guide, Gavin Pretor-Pinney (founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society)

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 01:34:35 PM EST
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I'm working on:

"Postwar" by Tony Judt
"A Short History of Philosophy" by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins

I'm a lazy reader so I tend to go for these kind of all encompassing books.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:08:43 PM EST
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I have Postwar and made it through about 250 pages, but I've yet to finish it. It's interesting so far. Still need to finish my books on the histories of Britain (it says "Britain" but really only seems to cover England), Ireland and Scotland, too. And I need to get a few textbooks done before classes begin, but I think I'm going to start that when I get to the airport (and no doubt discover that Delta is twenty hours late).

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:51:28 PM EST
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"The Inner World of Trauma - Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit" by Kalshed. Or, trying to...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:11:48 PM EST

Sounds scary. I'll have to raise you Topoi, The Categorical Analysis of Logic by Goldblatt. Though technically that's sort of a re-read.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:15:48 PM EST
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Topoi sounded interesting so I webbed over to abebooks and AiYEEE!

I think I may get it Inter-Library Loan.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 08:42:21 PM EST
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Dover have a reprint.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Sep 1st, 2006 at 02:39:14 AM EST
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Thanks.

I'll check it out.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Sep 1st, 2006 at 12:07:09 PM EST
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At Home In The Universe - the search for laws of compexity: Stuart Kauffman (courtesy of Migu)

The World is Flat - the globalized world in the 21st C: Thomas Friedman

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:58:38 PM EST

Why on Earth are you reading Friedman? I hope you borrowed the book from a library...

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 01:08:17 PM EST
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I suppose I am peculiar, but I like to read books about 50/50 divided between views that I expect to expand my own, and views which may offer unexpected insights.

I bought the Friedman at the airport. It could just as easily have been a book about pig-breeding, about which I know nothing but which may contain insights that laterally connect to other things I am interested in.

I don't feel that reading anything will convert me (but it might) - as I have a heavy scepsis filter running at all times - so I like reading about Islam for instance. Or business books that I think my clients might have read. All part of understanding any situation one might be in.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 01:32:35 PM EST
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Friedman's follow up to the Lexus and the Olive Tree, The Lexus Gets Towed, is receiving rave reviews. Was fortunate to even get one. Looks like another Pulitzer for Friedman.

"When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins

by EricC on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 04:49:14 PM EST
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4 books at the moment

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

A war against Truth by Paul William Roberts

Crimes of War What the public should know edited by Roy Gutman

and for a bit of a laugh

The Green Book by Muammar Al Quathafi (Which someone brought me back from Libya for fun

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 01:19:13 PM EST

http://edition.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/27068.exclude.html

Wow, and here some of the fundamental questions currently asked at CNN:

by Fran on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 01:22:10 PM EST

Oh my...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:35:04 PM EST
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Someone's got to ask the big questions.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 05:14:37 PM EST
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Re: Evening Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Read? This from the BBC:

Blair to tackle 'menace' children.
Tomorrow's potential troublemakers can be identified even before they are born, Tony Blair has suggested.
Mr Blair said it was possible to spot the families whose circumstances made it likely their children would grow up to be a "menace to society".
He said teenage mums and problem families could be forced to take help to head off difficulties.

If you want to read the rest, take some anti-apoplexy medication and look here.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 02:26:08 PM EST

Londonbear has a diary on it: Tony Blair Tries Out Tom Cruise Role.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:14:27 PM EST
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Just started "Cronica de una muerte anunciada" (G. G. Marquez). Thought I could freshen up my Spanish.

Also about to finish (short read) "Our country's good", a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker, set in penal Australia. A play about convicts making a play. Quite funny.

by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 02:43:32 PM EST

Re: Evening Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Of course I won't list the dozens of language methods I've started reading sequentially and one lesson at a time (I'm having a sort of fit about languages these days, it's my new fad for the next few months, until I come up with a new one, and after that one with another one, etc ...).

Farsi (my fluent cousin knows a lot of Iranian girls in Paris), Arabic (had some prior knowledge, felt like going further for no particular reason), Russian (needed serious freshening, a language I did study for some time so thought I might as well finish it off), Polish (getting armed to seduce that barmaid in Lodz) and Hindi (why not? it's spoken by so many ... on the same tune, I gave up on Mandarin Chinese, it felt annoying to learn - not just because of the non-concise writing, but also because of all those damn intonations).

I just need to keep this fad for a few months and it'll be nice. But knowing myself, I'll probably grow a new interest for model trains in a few weeks, or something.

by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 02:54:34 PM EST
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I got totally lost with 100 Years of Solitude.

Craziest book I've ever seen.

"When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins

by EricC on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 04:35:37 PM EST
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my theory about that book is it might be readable if formatted with some paragraphing!

that wall of words, unscalable....

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Sep 1st, 2006 at 01:53:25 AM EST
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Geoffrey Hosking Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union

Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Cory Doctorow Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Ivan Bunin The Elagin Affair and other stories

Andrzej Sakson Stosunki narodowosciowe na Warmii i Mazurach 1945-1997 (Ethnic relations in Warmia and Mazuria 1945-1997)

Young-Sun Hong Welfare, Modernity and the Weimar State 1919-1933

by MarekNYC on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:17:52 PM EST

Le blog de Lionel Jospin (ex French Socialist PM)

by Laurent GUERBY on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:30:29 PM EST

Re: Evening Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

A book whose pure existence should make you scared: Joel C. Rosenberg: The Ezekiel Option.

How could one up the Left Behind series in terms of crazy religious millenarism and worrying mass appeal in the US? Throw in some Christian Zionism! In a time when Bernard Lewis and a CNN anchor fantasize about an Iranian Armageddon on 22 August, such a book by an author well-connected both to Republican and Likud circles is no more laughable. Read more about the book and the new End Times trend in Matt Taibbi's op-ed in Rolling Stone, written in his best acerbic style. A teaser quote:

Imagining that Iraqi Muslims under Saddam read the Declaration of Independence for inspiration is a little like an Afghan imam dreaming of Kentucky coal miners gathering at a diner to read Ibn al Taymiya before a strike.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:31:15 PM EST

Now I do like to read Matt Taibbi...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 05:21:29 PM EST
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This, for example:

I've read The Ezekiel Option. It's a compendium of every dipshit hocus-pocus Christian pseudo-scientific political idea you can think of, written in that childishly mechanical literary style peculiar to American blockbusters of the Da Vinci Code and Left Behind ilk -- in which every character has a name like Mike Stormfield or Andrew Porchdale, romance is watching a White House aide plant a church-sanctioned kiss on a CIA agent, and human beings seemingly can only think in italics ("Now Jibril was finally making sense, thought Gogolov"). Moreover, the people in the book only come in two types -- absolutely evil or absolutely good. The evil people are all Muslims, communists, Europeans, academics or lefties, and the good people are innocent peace-loving Americans who all have titles in the American or Israeli government or security services.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 05:28:33 PM EST
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I've read The Ezekiel Option. It's a compendium of every dipshit hocus-pocus Christian pseudo-scientific political idea you can think of, written in that childishly mechanical literary style peculiar to American blockbusters of the Da Vinci Code and Left Behind ilk -- in which every character has a name like Mike Stormfield or Andrew Porchdale, romance is watching a White House aide plant a church-sanctioned kiss on a CIA agent, and human beings seemingly can only think in italics ("Now Jibril was finally making sense, thought Gogolov"). Moreover, the people in the book only come in two types -- absolutely evil or absolutely good.

Sounds like what you get in your generic epic fantasy novel plus some overt politics.

by MarekNYC on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 05:33:07 PM EST
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No serious reading at the moment, aside from EuroTrib, Kos and the BBC. I'm off to a concert tonight. Much smoking, drinking and general merrymaking to be done.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 03:54:31 PM EST

Reading (none / 0)

"The Democratic and The Authoritarian State" by Franz Neumann

"Freedom and Culture" by John Dewey

"Bystander" by Gorky

The first two were written in mid 20th Century and try to understand the rise of the Nazis and similar regimes. The fact that the same themes of the illegitimate seizure of power are once again in the forefront makes one wonder if there can ever be any real progress in the make up of society...

Policies not Politics
---- Daily Landscape

by rdf (robert.feinman@gmail.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 04:13:01 PM EST

Lamoureux RIP (none / 0)

I wanted to do a full diary on François Lamoureux, the long time head of the energy and transport directorate at the European Commission, but I just don't have the energy or time tonight.

So here are some initial links:

Lamoureux' 6000 page legacy
Obituary by Pascal Lamy (in French)
Obituary in the FT

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 04:53:38 PM EST

Searle, The Construction of Social Reality. Searle has a good reputation. I wonder why.

Kippenhahn Code Breaking: A History and Exploration

Roesdahl The Vikings

Strong Feast: A History of Grand Eating

Carnap Introduction to Symbolic Logic and its Applications (Can't believe I haven't read this before)

Brown _Boolean Reasoning: The Logic of Boolean Expressions Just to see what is happening in the {0 XOR 1} world.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 31st, 2006 at 09:02:41 PM EST

A bit late, but I was out enjoying Paris again Thurs ev.

I'm reading "Bohemian Paris", Dan Franck, which brings out the exciting mix of art, politics (often left out of traditional art history) and the bohemian life at the beginning of the 20th century, e.g.:

"Was it out of self-protection, to cultivate its individuality, that Montmartre decided to fashion itself into a free commune? This may seem to have been not much more than a joke, and there was an element of that in it. But there was much more. There was also a desire for singularity, for liberty which, at the turn of the century, led some of the area's residents to decide that the Place du Tertre should become the capital of an autonomous territory.

"A vote was held. The proposal was passed by an absolute majority. Next a mayor was elected. Jules Depaquit, illustrator by trade ... [he] made a living by selling satirical drawings to newspapers that specialized in this art. He squandered all his earnings in bistros, which he would enter standing upright, and leave falling over himself. He had a very precise schedule: he would work like the devil for a week, and party for the next three."

An excellent approach to the work-life balance ! He'd get my vote :-) but not that of the maximize the GDP gurus of the FT, nor Sarkozy and his anti 35 hour week diatribes.

Also, "Descartes Error" A. Damasio:

"Neurologist Damasio's refutation of the Cartesian idea of the human mind as separate from bodily processes draws on neurochemistry to support his claim that emotions play a central role in human decision making."

Overturning conventional wisdom and combining philosophy and neurology.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Fri Sep 1st, 2006 at 07:18:24 AM EST

I must read Dan Franck's book. I'm a former inhabitant of the Free Commune of Montmartre.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Sep 1st, 2006 at 09:01:27 AM EST
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