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Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition (Paperback) by Rich Horton |
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The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer (Paperback) by Georges Ifrah |
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The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read (Hardcover) by Stuart Kelly |
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read in August, 2008
Douglas said:
"It's too bad Borges didn't write this book. I liked the idea of such a book but mostly didn't care about the particular books that he wrote about. He does mention the lost 113 pages, but just to make fun of it.
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| August 03 | ||||
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New comment on Nathan's review of
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Isaac Newton (Paperback) by James Gleick |
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| August 01 | ||||
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The Victorian Internet (Paperback) by Tom Standage |
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read in July, 2008
Douglas said:
"The story of the invention of the telegraph and its parallels with the modern internet.
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| July 13 | ||||
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Robert Burns: Selected Poems and Songs (Hardcover) by Robert Burns |
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Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books) by George B. Dyson |
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read in July, 2008
Douglas said:
"I liked this partly because it was so much like the book that I'm working on. The subject is how machines are evolving intelligence. The author is the son of the Dyson who made up Dyson spheres.
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| July 04 | ||||
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Keeper of Dreams (Hardcover) by Orson Scott Card |
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read in June, 2008
Douglas said:
"I had already read about half of the stories in this book, but I think they were the better half. My favorites were Homeless in Hell and Missed, I think.
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| July 03 | ||||
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The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 Of The World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century (Hardcover) by Mike Wallace |
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read in June, 2008
Douglas said:
"You could make up predictions that are as likely or interesting to read. I would recommend you skip this one and read The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twentieth Century instead.
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Nathan 64 books 7 friends |
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Heather 39 books 31 friends |
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Lesli 13 books 17 friends |
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Rosemary 48 books 42 friends |
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Melissa 42 books 21 friends |
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Amanda 2 books 12 friends |
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Rebecca 9 books 21 friends |
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Miriam 10 books 25 friends |
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Marcelle 0 books 21 friends |
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Daniel 8 books 10 friends |
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Genevieve 29 books 19 friends |
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John 13 books 8 friends |
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