Happy St George's day
Apr. 23rd, 2010 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livI'm not really interested in celebrating a saint's day (not being Christian), nor in celebrating Englishness (not being that sort of patriot), nor in dragon-slaying (as I generally find myself on the side of the dragon). However, I kind of like the idea of the Catalan version where people give eachother books.
So I propose a game: comment and recommend me a book, and I'll rec you something in return. If I don't know anything about you, I'll suggest something that I really like, and which I generally find isn't well known. And I'll keep going until I find something new to you, if necessary. You can give me a hint of the sort of books you prefer if you want to, but it's not required; it might be a more fun game if I have to guess based on my judgement of your character.
I have a comprehensive list of everything I've read in the last seven years, in case you find it hard to know where to start, but you obviously don't have to read through all that.
So I propose a game: comment and recommend me a book, and I'll rec you something in return. If I don't know anything about you, I'll suggest something that I really like, and which I generally find isn't well known. And I'll keep going until I find something new to you, if necessary. You can give me a hint of the sort of books you prefer if you want to, but it's not required; it might be a more fun game if I have to guess based on my judgement of your character.
I have a comprehensive list of everything I've read in the last seven years, in case you find it hard to know where to start, but you obviously don't have to read through all that.
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Date: 2010-04-23 12:06 pm (UTC)And yes, you are definitely supposed to give me books (if you gave me a rose instead cos I'm a girl you would be in Trouble!) You're quite right, though, it's getting to the point where we've already recommended eachother everything that really urgently needs to be shared.
If you lend me Cyberiad next time it's convenient, I'd be very interested to read that! *hug* It's really one of those things I ought to have read already, I think. I am put off Nehemiah because it's one of those books that are half in Aramaic, and change language mid-sentence, so it would be a bit of a slog to read. But it's short, and if you think it's exciting maybe I should give it a go.
What should you read? I think it's time I rec'd some biology books; have you read Darwin's dangerous idea? That is Dennett's atheist magnum opus, and has some really good explanations for how you get consciousness by evolution, without needing to invoke an omnipotent creator. And very readable, for something that is dense with both biology and philosophy.
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Date: 2010-04-23 12:24 pm (UTC)I bought Cyberiad from the internet -- it's on my pile of books you can ransack whenever you like :)
I am put off Nehemiah because it's one of those books that are half in Aramaic
:) I'm not yet a sophisticated enough reader to know or notice. (I obviously read it in English, indeed, in the questionable Good News Bible translation.)
Maybe "exciting" is too strong, it's more that I expected everything from Esther[1] to Malachi to be completely and utterly unreadable so I was very pleasantly surprised to have a reasonably interesting story at the book where I opened it.
After failing at Becky's quiz to recognise half of the books of the bible I made a concerted effort to at least read the list of the books IN the old testament, and can at least recite the first half in order, even if I can't do the minor prophets and so on.
I think it's time I rec'd some biology books;
Ooh, good idea. I think I probably started it once as a teenager but didn't read all of it, I'm not sure. I should certainly ACTUALLY read it. xx.
[1] Did I say? It does NOT mention spiderman. ANYWHERE.
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Date: 2010-04-23 12:38 pm (UTC)I was idly wondering earlier if there might be a profusion of copies of, say, The Name of the Rose given out in an effort to fulfill both versions of the tradition at once.
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