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- Life as We Do Not Know it (8)
- The NASA Search for (and Synthesis Of) Alien Life
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By Peter Douglas Ward -
Reading since Apr 5, 2013
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- Ubik (438)
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By Philip K. Dick -
Finished on Jan 20, 2013 
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- The Satanic Verses (284)
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By Salman Rushdie -
Not Started
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- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (116)
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By David Foster Wallace -
Abandoned on Dec 26, 2012
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- Everything Bad is Good for You (96)
- How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter
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By Steven Johnson -
Not Started
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- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (369)
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By Douglas Adams -
Not Started
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- Les Echelles du Levant (33)
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By Amin Maalouf -
Finished on Nov 16, 2011
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- Permutation City (46)
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By Greg Egan -
Finished on Jul 18, 2011
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2 people find this helpful
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Mind-body relationship, the nature of reality, the nature of truth, the nature of creation, the laws of the universe... all this is to be found in this brilliant book, which is one of the best sci-fi works I ever read. Go on like this, Greg, and don't listen to those who ask you to write 'standard' ... (
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Jul 30, 2011 |
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- The Darwin Awards II (1)
- More True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker
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By Wendy Northcutt -
Finished in 2002
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- Dossier (4)
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By Sarah Long -
Finished on Feb 17, 2011
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Not that I'm excessively proud of being Italian, particularly lately, but at least not being English or French I'm spared the century-long, never-ending, boring hatred between these two nations.
Sarah Long describes english idiosyncrasies with some insight, and that part of the book is not unpleas ... (
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Feb 24, 2011 |
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- Mother Night (141)
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By Kurt Vonnegut -
Finished on Jan 18, 2011
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- Learning Without School (1)
- Home Education
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By Ross Mountney -
Finished on Dec 2, 2010
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An objective and well balanced guide to home education.
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I have a son that will soon be of school age. Home education is right now a bit too tough to consider for us - I think I would go for it only if everything else fails. But I must admit this book has been rather crucial for me right now, forcing me to think about school and to reconsider my ideas abo ... (
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Dec 3, 2010 |
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- The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener (10)
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By Martin Gardner -
Finished
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The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
1 person find this helpful
al di sotto delle aspettative -
'ci sono ottimi motivi per non credere in Dio... ma io ci credo lo stesso. Non è ragionevole credere che Dio ascolti le nostre preghiere... ma io per qualche motivo prego comunque', e così via.
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Oct 12, 2010 |
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- River Out of Eden (54)
- A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series)
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By Richard Dawkins -
Finished on Oct 10, 2010
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- The Three Body Problem (3)
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By Catherine Shaw -
Finished on Dec 7, 2009
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4 stars for paralleling the story with the idea of the 3-body problem.
0 stars for portraying an impossible victorian teacher that violently intrudes in one of her pupil's family privacy, travels Europe without documents and 2 children who are not her own, and gets away with it. Other plot weakness ... (
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Dec 9, 2009 |
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Abbandonato causa noia mortale.
Non si deve giudicare un autore se non se ne è letto abbastanza, e i racconti iniziali di questo libro decisamente non sono abbastanza. Ma in corso di lettura non potevo evitare di chiedermi ogni momento: ma perché chicchessia dovrebbe leggersi 'sta roba quando è esi ... (continue)
Abbandonato causa noia mortale.
Non si deve giudicare un autore se non se ne è letto abbastanza, e i racconti iniziali di questo libro decisamente non sono abbastanza. Ma in corso di lettura non potevo evitare di chiedermi ogni momento: ma perché chicchessia dovrebbe leggersi 'sta roba quando è esistito Italo Calvino?