What’s everyone reading?

[SpurMeUp]

Haha, yes it does feel like this! I think I just really want the information to insert itself into my brain.

Wait and see, Scara will read it in one sitting and recite it back from memory.

One of the nice things about the book is it can stimulate your own thoughts. His conclusions are not concrete 'science'. All history is a narrative, and it can be told in different ways. The things he brings up are fascinating, mixing biology and history, but you can question his conclusions and come to your own.

It is great book, I need to finish it.

 

[StephenH]

Heartstone by CJ Sansom, historical mystery novel set in Tudor times.

sounds good ill give that a go.
Audible here I come.


Sadly that they are all abridged versions.

 

[LutonSpurs]

Absolutely man, I'm in the same arena, potentially more leaning towards the agnostic side in recent years but firmly based in evolution and the science of spirituality (if that's even a thing).

Everyone has to be agnostic right. You can't really prove how we originated so on that you just are agnostic. The rest is interesting. The concept of a creator, interfering or not. The good creator. The controlling and punishing one or the merciful one. All of this. And then the science of spirituality itself. Can you find peace and purpose without organised religion? Of course you can. It's all a great area to reflect on.

 

[markysimmo]

 

[markysimmo]

For you Sapiens readers this is meant to be really good too

 

[Rorschach]

For you Sapiens readers this is meant to be really good too

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This is on my list (I need a bit of positivity). He references this event in the book I believe - a real lord of the flies story but with quite a different narrative to Golding.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

I've not long finished his book Utopia for Realists. It's an easy read actually and focuses on UBI, shorter working weeks, and borders among other topics. All pertinent to the time we find ourselves in.

 

[Parklaner81]

This is on my list (I need a bit of positivity). He references this event in the book I believe - a real lord of the flies story but with quite a different narrative to Golding.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

I've not long finished his book Utopia for Realists. It's an easy read actually and focuses on UBI, shorter working weeks, and borders among other topics. All pertinent to the time we find ourselves in.

You'll lure gutterboy back yet...

 

[Rorschach]

You'll lure gutterboy back yet...

I bet he's a lurker anyway

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

This is on my list (I need a bit of positivity). He references this event in the book I believe - a real lord of the flies story but with quite a different narrative to Golding.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

I've not long finished his book Utopia for Realists. It's an easy read actually and focuses on UBI, shorter working weeks, and borders among other topics. All pertinent to the time we find ourselves in.

Have you read E F Schumacher - Small is beautiful?

 

[Rorschach]

Have you read E F Schumacher - Small is beautiful?

I have not. I'll look at it.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

I have not. I'll look at it.

It critiques western economics and so much resonates today but remarkably first published in 1973

 

[Kandi1977]

I read this forum. Give me Equal amounts of laughing and blood boiling.

 

[Grays_1890]

Everyone has to be agnostic right. You can't really prove how we originated so on that you just are agnostic. The rest is interesting. The concept of a creator, interfering or not. The good creator. The controlling and punishing one or the merciful one. All of this. And then the science of spirituality itself. Can you find peace and purpose without organised religion? Of course you can. It's all a great area to reflect on.

Im totally non religious but I love reading about it, love reading about the evolvement of belief in people and if it’s peace of mind or true belief in the actual Adam and Eve side

 

[Rorschach]

It critiques western economics and so much resonates today but remarkably first published in 1973

Sounds interesting. I'll check it out.

 

[Mr_B]

fascinating read, especially with whats been going on in last few weeks

 

[markysimmo]

This is exceptionally funny

 

[StephenH]

Just finished Dissolution by CJ Sansom.
very good.

next?

Will end up reading the series but I would like not just read the same genre/series one after another which is my normal habit.

 

[Baleforce]

I'm halfway through this, very enjoyable.

 

[StephenH]

I'm halfway through this, very enjoyable.

Ta
I use audiobooks and it's not out.
I will keep an eye out.

 

[Robbo]

Recently finished this one:

It was a very fascinating read - a page turner about maths and finance, and the life and career of Jim Simons.

From Amazon:

"After a legendary career as a mathematician and a stint breaking Soviet codes, [Jim] Simons set out to conquer financial markets with a radical approach. Simons hired physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists - most of whom knew little about finance - to amass piles of data and build algorithms hunting for the deeply hidden patterns in global markets. Experts scoffed, but Simons and his colleagues became some of the richest in the world, their strategy of creating mathematical models and crunching data embraced by almost every industry today."