Pile of books – 4 years later

October 18, 2009 at 12:36 pm · Filed under Stuff

4 years ago I had this pile of books waiting to be read: http://morgane.com/2005/11/

The current list looks like this:

books

Some things never change…

6 Comments »

  1. Kevin Lawrence said,

    October 18, 2009 @ 3:35 pm

    Let me help you out:

    Genome – outstanding.
    Ancestor’s tale – best book of the century so far.
    Haven’t enjoyed any Shermer books yet. No reason to believe this would be any better.
    E=MC2 – I just read this a couple of weeks ago. Starts very well, tails off a bit at the end. Best intro to relativity I have read.

    Hitchens – meh.

    Let me know how latest Dawkins is. I have read all of his previous books but I wonder what he has to say that is new.

  2. Kevin Lawrence said,

    October 18, 2009 @ 3:36 pm

    Hey – wait – ancestor’s tale was at bottom 4 years ago. Are you avoiding it?

  3. Julio Santos said,

    October 18, 2009 @ 4:03 pm

    ancestor’s tale being still there is what I was referring to with “some things never change” :(

    I want to read it, but it’s so damn heavy (as in many pounds). Maybe if I had a PDF version.

    I like most of the Shermer books, though I’m not feeling this one.

    I also like Hitchens, and this one was a gift. I will read it, I know I will.

    New Dawkins is great. I’m 80% done. Every page is evidence for evolution. 450 pages of evidence! I can’t imagine anyone who is honestly curious about evolution not finish the book as *knowing* that evolution is a fact. Of course, the flaw is that people who doubt evolution have many more other opportunities for learning it, and if they haven’t done it by now, they never will and prefer not to know. Or in other words, the book is preaching to the choir.

  4. Jeffrey Fredrick said,

    October 18, 2009 @ 9:57 pm

    I know you’ve moved The Ancestor’s Tale to the bottom of the stack just to torment me, but it won’t work, I won’t let it bother me.

    Bastard.

  5. Jeffrey Fredrick said,

    October 19, 2009 @ 8:07 am

    Ok, more seriously (see comments on the blog from 4 years ago)…
    E=mc^2 was an unusual book for me: I really like some of the information, but I really hated the writing. OTOH after I finished it Anton read it and now Andreas is read it, so it clearly has something going for it.
    Feynan is one of my heroes. Have you read anything of his before?
    The Botany of Desire is on the list of books I’d like to read.
    The Cocoa book is on my shelf and I’m sorry I didn’t make more progress with it last year.

  6. Kevin Lawrence said,

    October 19, 2009 @ 11:41 am

    The MOST annoying thing about e=mc2 was how it tried to teach super basic maths to show that maths was not scary. On almost every page.

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