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Tom Sarbeck posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 10 months agoEric Temple Bell’s four-volume set, “Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science” impressed me greatly when I read it about sixty years ago while I was earning a degree in mathematics.
However, the queen has lost her throne. She no longer rules mathematics; she serves it. Despite mathematicians’ visions of elegance in their productions, the universe…[Read more]-
It is a beautifully written math book. I view math as a language that helps us to understand and communicate about the universe, but yeah…an incorrect assertion about the universe can be wrong, even if all the math is correct.
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tom sarbeck posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 10 months agoAny science, but my current favorite is the Electric Universe, aka the Plasma Universe.
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tom sarbeck posted an update in the group
Bookish atheists 8 years, 10 months agoA non-fictioner, I’m currently dividing my reading hours between Riane Eisler’s ‘Sacred Pleasure’, Donald E. Scott’s ‘The Electric Sky’, Ulysses Grant’s ‘Personal Memoirs’, and Doris Kearns Goodwin’s ‘Team of Rivals’.
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Winter Lily posted an update in the group
Bookish atheists 10 years, 7 months agoCurrently reading Rumble by Ellen Hopkins.
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Winter Lily started the topic Go Set A Watchman book review in the forum
Bookish atheists 10 years, 7 months agoOk so Go Set A Watchman was pretty good… Well lets just put it this way I liked and didn’t like it. Atticus in GSAW (Go Set A Watchman) seemed like a stranger in this book. Like I said I liked the book but I couldn’t really get into it in the beginning I was practically glued to the book but then after awhile it just bored me a bit and the…[Read more]
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Winter Lily started the topic To Kill A Mockingbird book review in the forum
Bookish atheists 10 years, 8 months agoI absolutely loved To Kill A Mockingbird it was amazing although I thought for sure (Spoiler alert!) that Tom Robinson would go free and they were sooo close to winning but then Tom runs off and well…?
But besides that I really loved it. It gets ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I just really wish Tom Robinson hadn’t run off like he did while waiting for the possible appeal.
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Beth replied to the topic I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson review in the forum
Bookish atheists 10 years, 8 months agoI loved this book too! Normally I don’t like alternating first-person perspectives, but I thought it was done really well in this case. And as you said, such beautiful writing.
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Winter Lily started the topic I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson review in the forum
Bookish atheists 10 years, 8 months agoI just finished reading I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson.
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next, while daredevil Jude cliff dives and wears red lipstick and does the talking for both of them.
But three years later, at sixteen,…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum
Bookish atheists 10 years, 8 months agoAs I grew up I remember my father reading PGW with regular loud outbursts of laughter and seeing a long line of “orange” Penguin books by him on one of the bookshelves.
“I hadn’t the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.”
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Simon Mathews replied to the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum
Bookish atheists 10 years, 8 months agoStrega wrote:Having read all (and I do mean all) of the Jeeves and Wooster books he wrote, I was ecstatic when Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie played Jeeves and Wooster respectively in an adaptation series from the books. If you haven’t seen them in action, I’m pretty certain YouTube will have full episodes available. Pip pip, old friend, no tim…
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Strega replied to the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum
Bookish atheists 10 years, 8 months agoHaving read all (and I do mean all) of the Jeeves and Wooster books he wrote, I was ecstatic when Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie played Jeeves and Wooster respectively in an adaptation series from the books. If you haven’t seen them in action, I’m pretty certain YouTube will have full episodes available. Pip pip, old friend, no time like the present…
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Davis replied to the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum
Bookish atheists 10 years, 8 months agoIndeed. The Code of the Woosters was brilliant.
A particularly nice quoty by Wodehouse:
“Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
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Simon Mathews started the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum
Bookish atheists 10 years, 8 months agoFor anyone who is a fan of the English language and hasn’t read any Wodehouse, I recommend it – particularly the Jeeves and Wooster books. They contain lovely turns of phrase such as:
“Well upon my word, Spode, this is just too much. Just that little bit above the odds that compels a man to take drastic action.”
“I don’t think Totley Towers is…[Read more]
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