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Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals.

Interesting and depressing :( Still eating meat but am certainly thinking a lot more about how the animals are raised and killed. Found a local source for...

Thank you very much Bob, I appreciate it. I see that the preface is available online so I'll have a look at that and then probably order the book :)

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The mind's eye. Interesting and very well written (photography was not his only talent) but a little too light perhaps :)



Would you mind adding a few words to as to...

So many recommendations of Malcolm Gladwell here and elsewhere so I've now ordered Blink, Tipping Point and Outliers. Curious to see what the fuzz is about :)

McCarthy's The Road (and others)...

That is an amazing book, one of my favourites :) If you are up for some more on the heavy side then get Thomas Pynchon's book called Mason & Dixon. It'll blow your mind.

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That can be quite useful. I have a book[1] I've used for teaching for many years. There are some passages I like to quote from it when discussing things. I don't need to mark the pages any more,...

Seconded. That is a funny story; quirky, scary and thought provocing at the same time. Be sure to get a decent example though, mine literally fell apart in my hands when I was reading it. Poor glue...

Rivka Galchen: Atmospheric Disturbances.

Wonderful, and so well written it is hard to believe it is a debut novel. Read it, you wont regret it :)

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Kurt Vonnegut is excellent :)

Almost finished with Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn. Funniest read ever :!: It is not easy being a Brooklyn gangster when you have flaming Tourette's but it...

Could not agree more. Have you read Blood Meridian? I thought it was excellent (incidentally, the audiobook version read by Richard Poe is very, very good).[/quote]

The Road...scariest book I've...

Cormac McCarthy: The Road.

This guy knows words and what to do with them. Highly recommended :)

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Wonderful book, everybody should read it. Delivers a shot of philosophy to your head in a digestable way while keeping you entertained. I think I may reread it once I'm done with the new Michael...