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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:23 pm
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Kurt Vonnegut:
Cat's Cradle
Bluebeard
Mother Night
Breakfast of Champions

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Greg Mitchell wrote:

A favorite book though, since someone mentioned George Orwell, is 1984. Amazing how some of what he predicted in 1948 when he wrote the book has in a sense occurred. For example, people don't think for themselves but tend to let media do it for them. A good example is Global Warming. In the 1970s the same scientists that tout G.W. today, were trying to convince everyone that we were headed for a new Ice Age. According to TIME magazine in 1977, by 2002, 2/3 of North America and most of Europe was supposed to be under glaciers. All civilization was supposed to cease and all life would freeze and die.



I've passed near to the house where he wrote 1984 too, such a strange place to write a book on big brother from I thought, take a look:

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i read lots of books all the time both informative and for leisure more so than when i was young its television i have gotten away from


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Gravity Jim wrote:
You might want to be careful on repeating things Glenn Beck says as "facts:" the most probable explanation for not seeing them printed elsewhere is not a conspiracy of silence, but rather that he simply made them up.

Current favorite books:

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Any of the Discworld novels
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (2nd time though, now I get it)
I Am America and So Can You! by Stephen Colbert
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde

I really liked Angels and Demons, too.


yeah, i don't really trust a lot of the things many people like that say... i try and check some of the info in the book as i'm reading online to see if it can be verified


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Right now my favorite is "I Walked The Line, My life with Johnny Cash" by Vivian Cash/ co-author Ann Sharpsteen.


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