Your reading list?

[Tank]

I'm doing a research paper on the topic of atheism, and the pros and cons of it. I can use the internet, but I also need about three books on the subject. I seem to have run into a problem with our school's and public library's database, though. Does anybody know of any book that would help?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Grayling#Publications

Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness (2007). ISBN 978-1-84002-728-0

Grayling is a professional philosopher and Against All Gods has all the content of Dawkins The God Delusion without the overbearing style.

http://www.acgrayling.com/

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http://www.samharris.org/

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/the-end-of-faith

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http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Spell:_Religion_as_a_Natural_Phenomenon

That should keep you going. If I were you I would not make Dawkins the focus of your work, he's too easy a target. Grayling, Harris and Dennett are more 'heavyweights, in the field.

[Buddy]

I'm doing a research paper on the topic of atheism, and the pros and cons of it. I can use the internet, but I also need about three books on the subject. I seem to have run into a problem with our school's and public library's database, though. Does anybody know of any book that would help?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Grayling#Publications

Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness (2007). ISBN 978-1-84002-728-0

Grayling is a professional philosopher and Against All Gods has all the content of Dawkins The God Delusion without the overbearing style.

http://www.acgrayling.com/

_________________________________

http://www.samharris.org/

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/the-end-of-faith

__________________________________

http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Spell:_Religion_as_a_Natural_Phenomenon

That should keep you going. If I were you I would not make Dawkins the focus of your work, he's too easy a target. Grayling, Harris and Dennett are more 'heavyweights, in the field.

Thanks a lot Tank. I hadn't planned on using Dawkins, mainly because many people use him do often it's almost cliche.

*Edit After a quick search I found that my library has Breaking the Spell and End of Faith. Awesome.

[Tank]

I'm doing a research paper on the topic of atheism, and the pros and cons of it. I can use the internet, but I also need about three books on the subject. I seem to have run into a problem with our school's and public library's database, though. Does anybody know of any book that would help?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Grayling#Publications

Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness (2007). ISBN 978-1-84002-728-0

Grayling is a professional philosopher and Against All Gods has all the content of Dawkins The God Delusion without the overbearing style.

http://www.acgrayling.com/

_________________________________

http://www.samharris.org/

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/the-end-of-faith

__________________________________

http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Spell:_Religion_as_a_Natural_Phenomenon

That should keep you going. If I were you I would not make Dawkins the focus of your work, he's too easy a target. Grayling, Harris and Dennett are more 'heavyweights, in the field.

Thanks a lot Tank. I hadn't planned on using Dawkins, mainly because many people use him do often it's almost cliche.

*Edit After a quick search I found that my library has Breaking the Spell and End of Faith. Awesome.

See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_atheist_authors
http://www.atheistresearch.org/index.php

[Sandra Craft]

OK, I'll admit it. I finally caved in and I'm reading The Hunger Games.

I must say, so far it's more of an interesting concept than I thought it would be! I think I'm probably the last person on the planet to even know what the book was about, though.

Last but one -- I didn't even know there was a book.

[Buddy]

Currently on page 31 of The End of Faith and I have a page and a half of notes.  I probably won't use them all, I just write down anything that has potential.

[DeterminedJuliet]

OK, I'll admit it. I finally caved in and I'm reading The Hunger Games.

I must say, so far it's more of an interesting concept than I thought it would be! I think I'm probably the last person on the planet to even know what the book was about, though.

Last but one -- I didn't even know there was a book.

I had heard murmurs about it, but only found out what it was actually about yesterday. I might read it. I'm trying to get into fiction more.

[corgilover]

I finished Catching Fire last night - the sequel to The Hunger Games. I think I liked it even more than the first book. 

I found it more enjoyable as well, I thought the first one was too predictable in ending.

[Sandra Craft]

I've started reading a wonderful book called "The Library at Night", by Alberto Manguel and came across this that I just had to pass on:

Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs.  These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

And twice in that special gummy hell for the booksellers who actually put the stickers on the front of books.

[ThinkAnarchy]

I'm starting The Hunger Games right now. I want to read the books so I can later complain about how much the movie sucks in comparison. That may not be the case, but I typically hate movies based on books I have read.

[Crow]

Finally managed to get into The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo after months of failing to get hooked, was alright once it got going but it was so damn obvious apart from one twist. I liked the character Salander kinda reminded me of SD.

Also George R. R. Martin needs to hurry up with The Winds of Winter, I don't want to wait two years to find out what happened to one of the characters at the end of A Dance With Dragons.

[Crow]

Can anyone recommend any good Sci-Fi novels?

[Tank]

Redemption Space series by Alystair Rynolds
Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton

Both these are 'Big' space opera sci-fi spread over thousands of light years and millennia.

[En_Route]

Robert Edric's  "The London Satyr" provides a bravura dissection of the hypocrisy and prurience of Victorian society, subtle but vivid characterisation, a serpentine plot suffused with overhanging menace, a penetrating study of the power of the unspoken in human interaction....

[Ali]

I've got a couple going right now.  (My husband maintains that my inability to read just one book at a time is -yet another- sign of my adult onset ADD.)

- Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
- Raising The Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation - Elizabeth Beckwith - I don't typically bother with parenting books, but Husband saw this one and thought it would make me laugh.  He was right.
- Big Girl Small - Rachel Dewoskin - listening to this on my iPhone when I drive and work out. 

[OldGit]

Sci Fi, Crow?  Anything by Jack Vance.

You can get his magnificent Planet of Adventure series and Lyonesse trilogy free from TUEBL as epubs.  Calibre  will convert these to almost any format.