What are you currently reading?

[jlaurson]

P.G. Wodehouse
Jill the Reckless
Everyman

[Mirror Image]

Right now, I'm not reading anything, but I would like to purchase this book at some point:

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[The Diner]

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Having fun with it so far.

[Florestan]

Right now, I'm not reading anything, but I would like to purchase this book at some point:

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Hugh Grant is the man to play Berg in a movie, no doubt. 

[The Diner]

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Cool. 

[Philoctetes]

Osho's Joy

A very quick and enjoyable read. Makes some good points, has a tendency towards repetition, but is littered with awesome anecdotes throughout.

[Hollywood]

I'm reading more about my royal ancestors William the Conqueror, King Henry I and Henry II in the book Kings and Queens of England and Scotland. I had no idea I even had any royal relations until I discovered them in Aug. 2010 while I was working on genealogy searches into my family tree.

[DavidRoss]

Just started

What was it about Medicare and Medicaid that led to the increase in costs?

Third party payers removed patient cost oversight from the equation.  Strongly recommend Arnold Relman's A Second Opinion. 

http://rangelmd.com/2010/05/how-the-federal-government-screwed-up-health-care-costs/

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa211.html

http://www.calpirg.org/edfund/reports/reports-archive/diagnosing-the-high-cost-of-health-care-how-spending-on-unnecessary-treatments-administrative-waste-and-overpriced-drugs-inflates-the-cost-of-health-care-in-california

[Philoctetes]

Osho's The Book of Understanding

This reads more like a polemic than anything else. He comes off as quite upset. Almost reminds me of Nietzsche in his latter days.

[DavidRoss]

Osho's The Book of Understanding

This reads more like a polemic than anything else. He comes off as quite upset. Almost reminds me of Nietzsche in his latter days.

Osho?  Isn't that the rebranded Bhagawan wanna-be guru who had all those loonies coughing up their life savings in Oregon so he could buy 30 Rolls-Royces?

[Philoctetes]

Osho?  Isn't that the rebranded Bhagawan wanna-be guru who had all those loonies coughing up their life savings in Oregon so he could buy 30 Rolls-Royces?

No clue, but given his books, I have doubt that he would do something like that, but I find the readings valuable.

[Philoctetes]

Apparently he had 93. 

And a terrorist among other things. 

[Todd]

Osho?  Isn't that the rebranded Bhagawan wanna-be guru who had all those loonies coughing up their life savings in Oregon so he could buy 30 Rolls-Royces?

Holy crap, Osho is the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh!  I thought that guy had croaked.  He was quite the charlatan back in the 80s, and that food poisoning thing, wow.  He was ahead of his time.  Alas, the town of Antelope is now literally a hollowed out shell.  (I drove through it last summer.)

Once a charlatan, always a charlatan; I think I'll pass.

[bwv 1080]

basically the only pure physics book I have been able to read given that it is well written and does not assume the reader is able to see that the implications of the math are self-evident

good exposition of basic quantum mechanics as well

my goal being to gain the knowledge I would have of physics today if I had got a masters in it 20 years ago and then forgotten most of it

[jlaurson]

my goal being to gain the knowledge I would have of physics today if I had got a masters in it 20 years ago and then forgotten most of it

My goal is to become Chinese illiterate.

[SonicMan46]

William Osler:  A Life in Medicine by Michael Bliss; Osler (1849-1919), a Canadian physician and legendary Johns Hopkins professor (early biography by Harvey Cushing) - about half way through - if you are interested in outstanding biographical writing, in the development of medicine during this era, and in the man, Osler - then highly recommended!

Last year, our fellow member Anne and I exchanged a few books in the mail - she sent me this one and I thank her (saw that she had posted earlier this month in the Opera thread); was at the bottom of a BIG stack of unread books, so just started my reading! - 

 

[Brian]

I am currently reading...

Jesus for the Non-Religious by John Shelby Spong
Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Tuck
Adorno by Simon Jarvis
Emma by Jane Austen

You know, this might explain why I can't seem to finish a book.

[DavidRoss]

Like most everyone else in the country, it seems - judging by the coverage in the press - I am reading this:

What country is that?  Never heard of it.

[Brian]

What country is that?  Never heard of it.

He's English. The little sticker saying "Costa Book Awards Shortlist" refers to Costa Coffee, England's answer to Starbucks. They were previously called the Whitbread Awards, and winners include Norman Lebrecht, Mark Haddon, and Simon Sebag Montefiore. I've only heard of one of the winning books since 2003, though - perhaps because we Americans are so much less in tune with the Brit book scene. (This year's Booker winner, a Howard Jacobson comedy about Jewishness, will likely never "make it" in the USA because it does things Joseph Heller and Philip Roth, among others, already did better.)

[DavidRoss]

He's English. The little sticker saying "Costa Book Awards Shortlist" refers to Costa Coffee, England's answer to Starbucks. They were previously called the Whitbread Awards, and winners include Norman Lebrecht, Mark Haddon, and Simon Sebag Montefiore. I've only heard of one of the winning books since 2003, though - perhaps because we Americans are so much less in tune with the Brit book scene. (This year's Booker winner, a Howard Jacobson comedy about Jewishness, will likely never "make it" in the USA because it does things Joseph Heller and Philip Roth, among others, already did better.)

Thanks.  Just won the Costa Biography Award, in fact.  Sounds interesting, a personal and family memoir that spans the last century--including flight from the Nazis in Austria.