Currently reading thread...

Socrates505 · 28-08-10 23:21:34

Did you hear him air the call about b.a.com? it was great.

ngaio · 31-08-10 01:43:14

Yeah I did! While here at work! It was awesome!

ngaio · 01-09-10 08:50:44

Currently reading Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E Butler...

Sci fi, post apocalypticish told from the point of view of a black female and written by a feminist... For this sci fi loving feminist, this book is really hitting the spot and fast becoming a favourite of mine! Woot!

viva · 02-09-10 01:18:10

awww yeah nio can i please borrow when finished!!!!

Will · 09-10-10 15:36:48

Currently reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

Interesting stuff, though I'm already one of the choir so....

ngaio · 11-10-10 08:00:15

Sorry I wasn't able to lend ya the book, Viva, but you absolutely must get your hands on a copy if you can, it's a great little book and I look foward to the sequel.

Will, I've been meaning to read that for awhile now, though I'm one of the choir too. I don't always enjoy what I've heard/read of Dawkins but I tend to agree with a large amount of what he says.

About two thirds through Sex At Dawn and really enjoying it so far. I will possibly be recommending it to everyone everywhere.

blissed · 11-10-10 14:16:54

I'm a bit of an imposter in this thread because I don't read any books but Dodson and Ross have a book out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi_OhtH7Yd8

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nihpuad · 11-10-10 22:52:16

ngaio wrote:

About two thirds through Sex At Dawn and really enjoying it so far. I will possibly be recommending it to everyone everywhere.

Heard the author on Susie Bright's podcast, and am now eagerly awaiting the audiobook (which he said was in the works).

Meanwhile I've just been utterly terrified by Jeff Sharlet's C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. <shudder>

aven frey · 12-10-10 14:51:37

It was a little while ago but I feel like I need to recommend this to as many people as possible because it was so stunning. Anna Karenina. I'm sure lots of people have already read this, I don't know why I waited so long, but if you haven't and you love words, ideas, history, love, tragedy or trains I promise it'll make sad beautiful fireworks explode on the letter decoding nerve endings of your brain.

ngaio · 19-10-10 00:27:29

Ahhh! So many books I wanna read!

Oh and Nihpuad, I've only listened to one episode of Susie Bright's podcast due to the cost, but I got an itunes gift voucher for my bday recently so I'm thinking I should download some more episodes... any recommendations?

And Bobby, yeah, I really do need to get to reading that! I want beautiful fireworks exploding in my head... all I have right now are pop rocks and a headache!

nihpuad · 20-10-10 05:04:18

ngaio wrote:

Oh and Nihpuad, I've only listened to one episode of Susie Bright's podcast due to the cost, but I got an itunes gift voucher for my bday recently so I'm thinking I should download some more episodes... any recommendations?

I listen every week, and no particular episodes stand out in my memory (except for the two-part interview with the Sex at Dawn guy... but since you've already read the book...). You could do a keyword search for interesting guests (she's interviewed Tristan Taramino [sp?] and Betty Dodson, for instance). But... I don't know how much your gift voucher is for, but buying individual episodes isn't the most efficient way. If the voucher were for audible.com, I'd say you should get an annual subscription, but I can't find that option on iTunes. There, it looks like your best choice is to buy a whole year's worth of back episodes (~40+, or 25+ hours of listening) for US$19.95, as opposed to single episodes for US$5.95 each. The collections are called Never Get Out of Bed with Susie Bright, by calendar year, and they're listed under audiobooks rather than podcasts.

FWIW... I'm currently reading the first comprehensive biography of Robert Heinlein, Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century, Volume I: Learning Curve, 1907-1948, by William H. Patterson. Dunno how many folks here are SF fans, but it's not without interest from a sexuality point of view, as Heinlein was a nudist and a proponent/practitioner of "Companionate" (aka open) marriage. Despite the right-wing reputation he has in some quarters, he was a liberal socialist as a young man, and always had unconventional ideas about sexuality.

ngaio · 25-10-10 00:43:20

Ok cool, thanks Nihpuad! I keep getting tempted to sign up to Audible.com but worry I'll spend too much of my already scarce time on it...

I've never read much Heinlein which is pretty ridiculous considering I really dig scifi. Hmmmm. He sounds like an interesting character too!

nihpuad · 26-10-10 02:58:07

ngaio wrote:

I've never read much Heinlein which is pretty ridiculous considering I really dig scifi. Hmmmm. He sounds like an interesting character too!

Fair warning: Many people consider Heinlein a misogynist (or at least consider his fiction misogynistic). Me, I think it's a bit more complex than that: His childhood was in the pre-WWI American Midwest, and he came of age between the world wars. He was politically active (as a socialist-leaning Democrat) in the late 20s and 30s, which was a fairly progressive time over here, and he had an odd mixture of socially progressive ideas and a romantic nostalgia for a bygone, simpler time. As a result, he tends to write strong, super-intelligent, highly competent, sexually liberated women who nevertheless value traditional heteronormative notions of marriage, and yearn for motherhood, in ways that often infuriate modern feminists. Heinlein's women are a bit of a conundrum: They seem retro from our POV, but when he first started writing, he was having stories rejected because the female characters were too strong and independent.

All of which is a longwinded way of saying, yes, by all means read Heinlein... but don't be surprised if some of it pisses you off.

BTW, I'm now "reading" the audiobook of Charles Stross' Saturn's Children, which is quite obviously an homage to Heinlein's Friday, but modernized by a generation or two. I'm less than halfway through, but I already feel confident recommending it.

ngaio · 27-10-10 00:22:49

Ahhh I getcha, thanks for the head's up not hat because I probably would have gotten angry, haha!

hyperballad · 27-10-10 02:01:43

I'm about halfway through Shantaram, it's kind of intense, so I'm reading a comprehensive nutrition book at the same time.

Taking a break from Terry Pratchet atm too, all the books started blurring into one long weird story in my head.

I also have a 1972 edition of the History of Eroticism waiting for me on my bedsite table.

Xebeche · 29-10-10 08:52:45

bobby wrote:

Anna Karenina. (sic) if you haven't and you love (sic) trains"

Crushing sense of humor you have! I concur though, I was all weepy when finishing it.

Currently reading anything about Neuropsychology that I can find.

shara_c · 29-10-10 19:16:30

I'm currently reading Left in the dark by Tony Wright and Graham Gynn. It's been fascinating so far. It's about the evolution of the human mind.

blissed · 30-10-10 00:27:33

Googled Tony Wright and found a video interview (it's got a 2 min intro) http://www.youtube.com/user/NigelPengel … t0deUiGO-E

Seems quite interesting. though I think the evidence suggests we ate raw meat too before we started cooking it. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 … 111547.htm

Would be good for Tony's key peroid of 200,000 years ago to be able to map goegraphically and over time the progression of cooking and how it spread through the population. http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb … ew2c.shtml

Yeah it's interesting, thanks

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shara_c · 30-10-10 15:28:51

I hadn't seen that interview. Left In The Dark says how the various lineages eventually moved out of the forests and started eating meat. Thanks for the links I'm reading them now.

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