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The Year's Best Scie... 05/09 Peter is currently reading:
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (Paperback)
by Gardner R. Dozois (Editor)
bookshelves: currently-reading, sci-fi
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Peter Peter said: "It's really fun to be reading science fiction written in the last five years, since so much of our real-life experience of technology has changed in the Internet era.

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The Devil in the Kit... Peter gave 4 of 5 stars to:
The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef (Paperback)
by Marco Pierre White
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Peter Peter said: "Has me thinking about gourmet cooking... Needs to be read with some distance, as the author still holds a rather high opinion of himself. Book still manages to provide a window into the adrenaline of haute cuisine, and I enjoyed that aspect of the ...more "
Maximum City: Bombay... Peter gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Paperback)
by Suketu Mehta
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Peter Peter said: "Now about 300 pages in. Fun to read while in India for two weeks with Eternity Church. I was in Bombay for about 2 hours at a time, transferring between planes, saw some features from the air that seemed familiar.

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The Island of Dr. Mo... Peter gave 2 of 5 stars to:
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Signet Classics)
by H.G. Wells
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Peter Peter said: "I started this for the Frankenstein-esque adventure angle, I'm pleasantly surprised by the speculations on what makes something human.... "
May 11
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Peter made a comment on Peter's review of The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection
260196 Peter wrote: "Interesting connection! I agree that imaginative uses of duplication goes back pre-Internet, probab...more "

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May 09
The Year's Best Scie... Peter is currently reading:
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (Paperback)
by Gardner R. Dozois (Editor)
bookshelves: currently-reading, sci-fi
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
add to my books
 

Peter Peter said: "It's really fun to be reading science fiction written in the last five years, since so much of our real-life experience of technology has changed in the Internet era.

A few thoughts on what I've read so far...

I'm struck by the ma...more
"

progress:  
 
  (page 100 of 672)
05/11/2009 06:30AM
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Peter made a comment on Maddy's review of A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
260196 Peter wrote: "Let me know what you think of the story, I would be curious to compare notes after reading the Marti...more "

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May 06
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Peter made a comment on Peter's review of Watchmen
260196 Peter wrote: "Yes, I have read Maus. It's very good! Graphic novels/storytelling is a genre that can handle a wi...more "

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Peter made a comment on Kerry's review of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
260196 Peter wrote: "Interesting book...makes me grateful for the access to nature I had growing up. "

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Orson Scott Card
"We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction."
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G.K. Chesterton
"Here dies another day,
During which I have had eyes, ears, hands
And the great world round me.
And with tomorrow begins another.
Why am I allowed two?"
G.K. Chesterton


"True joy is to take pleasure
in one's own accomplishments...."
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