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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach | 7 | 41.18% | |
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel | 8 | 47.06% | |
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson | 6 | 35.29% | |
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe | 7 | 41.18% | |
And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens . . . by Cody Cassidy and Paul Doherty | 3 | 17.65% | |
Physics: New Frontiers by Scientific American Editors | 6 | 35.29% | |
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05-31-2017, 09:23 AM | #16 |
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Bah! We just got the wrong book winning. It's about sailing. Boring.
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Jon, I strongly suggest you just read it. I actually think you might enjoy it, and learn something. I know I did, and I'm looking forward to the re-read.
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Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
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It might be good. I've been interested in the Royal Society and the Enlightenment since reading Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle.
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I've finished the first chapter and it's really dull. It's a slugfest to just read the first chapter. The author has a way with words that just says "I have no idea how to write an interesting book". We would have been so much better off with Gulp.
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Are you going to review it chapter by chapter in this thread?
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The hold arrived at the library today. My daughter got her wisdom teeth out today and I'm completely exhausted. Wall to wall with no room to relax. Sitting down now with chamomile.
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06-01-2017, 08:17 PM | #28 |
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I was able to check out the audio version from Overdrive. I finished my other book today, so good timing to start a new one. I'm finding the subject interesting so far.
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To each his own. I find history to be very interesting myself. There is much about the past that still has an effect upon the present.
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06-02-2017, 05:20 AM | #30 |
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It's not that history cannot be interesting. It's that the writing (so far) is not all that good.
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