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Post by benxtaron on Nov 1, 2006 13:35:53 GMT -5
"Atlas Shrugged"
Very interesting book. Very big, over 1000 pages.
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Post by patriotsfan12 on Nov 2, 2006 12:12:34 GMT -5
I just finished Artemis Fowl The Lost Colony and it was a really good book. Has anyone else read it?
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Post by dharmashark on Nov 2, 2006 23:30:58 GMT -5
I've read the other four, pogsklinc. I thought it ended with The Opal Deception. How many books is this dude gonna write anyways?
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Post by patriotsfan12 on Nov 3, 2006 12:02:22 GMT -5
I have no idea, i think there might be one more, but Im not sure.
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Post by Steve on Nov 4, 2006 0:25:40 GMT -5
"Cyrano de Bergerac" It's a play actually, and it's pretty good.
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Post by flawedprefect on Nov 5, 2006 6:29:49 GMT -5
Dunno if I posted this already: "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins.
A very credible thesis to how life came to be on this planet, how we may very well be alone in the universe, and how evolution possibly has worked in the past.
WARNING: Richard Dawkins has a great deal of contempt for Religion. This undertone is aparent in all his books. If you are religious, and are going to read, please keep that in mind.
That being said, however, the critics are right: it is probably the most important book on evolutionary theory since Darwin's "Origin of Species".
d**n, do I sound waaaaay to literary for this corner of the Internet? For that I apologise.
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Post by iheartlost on Nov 6, 2006 1:27:29 GMT -5
"The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" by Matt Ridley. I'm reading this for extra credit in my AP Biology class. You see, I REALLY need the extra credit....
EDIT: Actually, it's a well-written book. It's pretty interesting.
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Post by flawedprefect on Nov 6, 2006 22:47:57 GMT -5
"The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" by Matt Ridley. I'm reading this for extra credit in my AP Biology class. You see, I REALLY need the extra credit.... EDIT: Actually, it's a well-written book. It's pretty interesting. Hmmm... Dawkins quoted the Red Queen example in "Blind Watchmaker". It's a pretty strange concept. Is it from Alice in Wonderland? I seem to recall she meets the Red Queen running on the spot, and getting nowhere. Alice runs along side her and says "In my world, we run to get somewhere". The RedQueen replies: "Oh no, here you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in one spot. If you want to go somewhere, you have to REALLY run!" He used it as an example of evolutionary arms races between predator and prey: each are getting better at killing/avoiding each other, but there really is no ground gained by either party to drive the other to extinction. |
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Post by iheartlost on Nov 7, 2006 21:26:22 GMT -5
"The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" by Matt Ridley. I'm reading this for extra credit in my AP Biology class. You see, I REALLY need the extra credit.... EDIT: Actually, it's a well-written book. It's pretty interesting. Hmmm... Dawkins quoted the Red Queen example in "Blind Watchmaker". It's a pretty strange concept. Is it from Alice in Wonderland? I seem to recall she meets the Red Queen running on the spot, and getting nowhere. Alice runs along side her and says "In my world, we run to get somewhere". The RedQueen replies: "Oh no, here you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in one spot. If you want to go somewhere, you have to REALLY run!" He used it as an example of evolutionary arms races between predator and prey: each are getting better at killing/avoiding each other, but there really is no ground gained by either party to drive the other to extinction. Yes, that's what the book is centered upon. While also incorporating the Red Queen concept in reproduction as well as evolution. It's really good! |
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Post by flawedprefect on Nov 7, 2006 23:40:19 GMT -5
exalt ihearlost for getting through such a complex topic. +8!
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Post by iheartlost on Nov 7, 2006 23:49:41 GMT -5
Woo-hoo! Thanks flawedprefect  By the way, I love your username. |
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Post by flawedprefect on Nov 7, 2006 23:55:44 GMT -5
OMG - Somebody gets it! I shall exalt you again in an hour. Geoffrey McGivern was THE man. (get THAT everyone!) I have talked like him ever since I heard H2G2 for the first time on the radio. |
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Post by Mexican Coke on Nov 8, 2006 12:47:36 GMT -5
Well...we're supposed to be reading One Thousand and One Nights...I think a game was made about this...
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Post by servo3k on Nov 8, 2006 13:24:52 GMT -5
Hamlet... by that guy who wrote a bunch of stuff... yeah... that guy! dont ruin the ending for me!
"Alas poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio a fellow on infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." love that part!
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Post by hansosjesusstick on Nov 8, 2006 13:44:15 GMT -5
Grapes of Wraith  being forced to read by language teacher why can't i just get stuff like that from my spanish teacher can't wait to learn some french from her though |
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By the way, I love your username. 
being forced to read by language teacher why can't i just get stuff like that from my spanish teacher can't wait to learn some french from her though