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Haha the house is very creepy! (I haven't finished it yet so I don't know what happens!) But I seriously can't read it before going to bed because it has such an eerie vibe and it freaks me out! I would never be able to live in that house :P
But yeah they book is DEFINITELY creative. Everything is so deeply explained, especially the characters.

Any fans here of One Hundred Years of Solitude?

I'm unable to see the poll results - is that the way it's setup? I ready to start reading. :p

I'm reading Altlas Shrugged and find it ironic that it is suddenly in the media spotlight because it's so applicable to the state of our economy. I like it so far :)...

i love atlas shrugged and the fountainhead. in fact, i have a first edition- second printing of the fountainhead. it's one of my favorite books.

@ Cara: hope you enjoy Atlas. If you're new to Rand's work I'd recommend Fountainhead. I personally prefer it to Atlas, but both are brilliant works.

I'm finishing up A Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

I have read THE GOD DELUSION, very good and interesting book.

>Any fans here of One Hundred Years of Solitude?

You bet Laura!

wow great!

how do i get the ebook that we are suppose to read? I would love to check it out!

Kell, if you send me a message on my page with your email address i can send you the pdf file.

I was currently reading The Greatest Generation by Brokaw... but I seem to have misplaced it... I suppose it's a good thing since I should probably find new fiction to read. Thinking about reading Hater by David Moody, apparently it's excellent. I want to read Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon, but I'm told I should wait until classes let out.

let's see, since everyone's listing what they've read recently or are reading now...
in the last 5 weeks or so i've read:
The Third Chimpanzee- Jared Diamond
The Fabric of the Cosmos- Brian Greene
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell- Tucker Max (hilarious)
Saving Darwin- Karl Giberson
Jesus, Interrupted- Bart Ehrman

and right now i'm reading Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin.

i hope they serve beer in hell is so funny! haha, it's wild.

Hey Nelson, a few of us have posted books on out home pages using box.net ...I know you have the bomb library, maybe you could use box and share the ones that are looking tattered. I've got a lot more to put up but some of them are badly formatted from copying and I'm trying to re-do them; a possibly insane task knowing there are perfect copies laying around here.

never heard of box.net. i'll for sure look into it. if i can use it to help everyone access the books i have then i will for sure. maybe you can tell me, is there an appreciable difference though between box and megaupload where i've already uploaded all my ebooks? or is it just appealing to have them centrally located on box?

Megaupload is cool, I use it all the time, however, if you don't have a membership you have to suffer the slower downloads and penalty delays. You also need to access to a link. I have started using box because I saw a few other people here doing it. If you go to my page you'll see the books I have uploaded and you can upload one or all of them - they are not zipped or 'rarred" which may or may not be good.

wow. i just looked at your page. that's a lot easier. now i have to go through all my books and upload them. lol. what a chore. how'd you embed that widget on your page? do they offer code for that on box?

Go to TA main page and then to 'add applications"; box.com will be in the list. Obviously you have to setup your box account first in order to get everything pointed correctly. Can't wait to see your library.

okay Dave. i added the app and uploaded everything i have right now except for one book that was over the per file size limit. i didn't even realize how many i had but it ended up being something like 115 books, essays, and articles.
thanks for your help!

NP Nelson, thanks for all your trouble giving us access to a great library.

my pleasure! i hope others can get some use out it.

God Delusion was great.

I definitely want to read a bunch of the books you guys are describing.

anything by dawkins is a good read although he's a bit militant. i really like sam harris too

i just finished God is not great. any suggestions?

that's a great one Randy

thanks

Yeah, He reads it with the Mrs I think and theyre both very good readers (is she an actress or something?) ... I have Ancestors Tale and River out of Eden in audio, drop me a line if anyone wants them .....

Lalla Ward, his wife, is an actress, yes. though she's retired from it.

I have the audio version of the god delusion on my ipod, my ex put it on my computer on our way to st louis, it was a great way to pass the time. I loved it.
I also like the portable atheist.

I audio read "God Is Not Great" Kris, I preferred the CH style to RD. Less confrontational.

I audio read both God Is Not Great and The God Delusion. I thought Dawkins and Ward read The God Delusion very well. Christopher Hitchens sounded like he was half drunk - I pictured him in a satin robe, slouched in a comfy chair by the fire, drinking a brandy as he mumbled along. It turns out, his style really worked for me - I began to feel like I was in a comfy chair across from him - a private audience to his witty attack on all things religious. Good times.

I am reading SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable, by Bruce M. Hood. I happened to hear this guy being interviewed on NPR not long ago and bought the book. It is very well written and clearly explains the basis of the phenomenon of belief in the supernatural. I recommend it.

I'm reading "Counterknowledge: How we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science, and fake history"

Never really even knew/thought about the fact that there were Atheism books out there until recently. I have "The God Delusion" and am just starting it now

Oh have fun with that one! I lean more toward Sam Harris's style of writing. I enjoyed his End of Faith It is a smaller book, and of course an easier read.

I have yet to read God is not Great by Hitchens, but I am afraid it will get me in the dumps because most anti-religion books can do that. All the 'killing in the name of (insert god here)' makes me really sad : (

I have "The End of Faith" too. Will make that next on the list. The God Delusion is a long book. Should take me around a week to finish it all, inbetween enjoying the weather that's finally getting warm here as well as designing. thanks for the recommendation though. It'll be atheism book #2 for me :)

Robert DeVore: I read "The God Delusion" Last year and it is fantastic. Dawkins is very witty and I am thinking I might want a re-read. Have you read Christopher Hitchens "God is not Great"?

Thanks for the invite...

so...do we just tell each other what we want to read?...or is there an actual current selection? I'm sorry...new here.

Hey, what's the current selection? I'm personally re-reading God: The Failed Hypothesis and The God Delusion

It's not written by an atheist, but this book SURE supports and gives ammunition to our cause of fighting against religious intolerance: You should read: "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalists" by: John Shelby Spong.

http://www.texasfreethoughtconvention.com/

Demon Haunted World is one of my all time favorites! It was the third in a trio of books I read back to back to back that changed my life and my views of the world.

Though it isn't exactly a book on Atheism, I highly recommend "Your Inner Fish" by Neil Shubin. It's a short (a bit less than 220 pages), humorous, and fantastically enlightening explanation of evolution and how we know what we do about it. Shubin touches on range of subjects including paleontology, developmental biology, and embryology; all the while keeping things accessible and entertaining for any level of reader. If you'd like to start learning a little bit about Evolutionary Biology then this is a great place to start.

Shubin's Your Inner Fish is a great book, too! I second that recommendation.

no doubt, Shubin's book is fantastic.

Has anyone read a book called Reinventing the Sacred? I've just started reading it so I'm trying to withold judgement but I can't help but feel slightly annoyed. The author's contention is that particle physics (reductionism) is insufficient for explaining emergent phenomena (complexity theory). OK...there is arguably a point to be made there. What I object to is his insistence that emergent properties are unpredictable and therefore unknowable and hence we should call the phenomena "god". wtf??? I think he's being intellectually lazy and pandering to the widest possible audience by suggesting that we can all agree on this definition of god. Ummm...no.

I'm sorry I don't remember the author's name offhand. I think it's Kaufmann or Kauffman?