What are you reading now?

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in What are you reading now?:

artificial sweetener tastes like ass

I really hope that's not the voice of experience.

[Horace]

diet drinks are gross.

[Mik]

[Catseye3]

Hey, Mik, do you like baseball? You might like his book Blockade Billy.

[George K]

@george-k said in What are you reading now?:

This is the 2nd (or 3rd, if you will) book in the Revelation Space "Inhibitor" trilogy. The first two books, "Revelation Space" and "Chasm City" are pretty contemporaneous, and "Redemption Ark" moves the story forward.

Halfway done.

Remarkable work. As I said, it's as complex and rich as "Dune" without the political/spiritual overtones.

If you're @jolly a science fiction fan, get into this world.

As I said, it's not "candy," like Scalzi's stuff, because it makes you work for its attention. Just fabulous.

I'm tempted to, when I finish this one, go back and re-read the first book, simply because I feel like I missed so much. I loved "Redemption Space." Wait, perhaps I'll re-read "Chasm City" as well.

So good.

[kluurs]

Based on George's experience, I picked this one up. Fascinating book with an excellent review of the history of the diet industry. Having lived through the pronouncements, it is quite illuminating how long the experts have retained a machine model - calories in/calories out even in the face of continuous failure.

[George K]

@kluurs said in What are you reading now?:

Fascinating book with an excellent review of the history of the diet industry.

The thing I found amazing is how clearly he explains what could be pretty complicated physiology. As I said, I didn't find "The Cancer Code" quite as compelling, but certainly worth a read.

Perhaps that's because he really doesn't offer any suggestions, unlike "The Obesity Code."

[xenon]

Reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. I don't usually read old tomes, but even after reading a few pages I was struck by how modern some of his ideas sound.

(The importance of free speech, equality before the law).

Good, simple writing.

[Horace]

@xenon said in What are you reading now?:

Reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. I don't usually read old tomes, but even after reading a few pages I was struck by how modern some of his ideas sound.

(The importance of free speech, equality before the law).

Good, simple writing.

Conservatism has all the best ideas, sort of by definition - the test of time and all that. Don't attempt to convince a lefty of that though, they are convinced that everything conservatives have ever done for them, the blood, sweat and tears shed in defense of those good ideas, are nothing compared to making sure 6 year olds should be able to have gender reassignment surgery.

[Catseye3]

@kluurs said in What are you reading now?:

it is quite illuminating how long the experts have retained a machine model - calories in/calories out even in the face of continuous failure.

There's a lot of money in obesity. Diet "foods" like Snackwell, weight loss plans like Weight Watchers, the advantages to food growers of keeping the population hormonally screwed up through use of things like GMOs and pesticides, etc which complicate weight control. Not to mention the immense profits flowing to the healthcare industry, not only from patients seeking help with their obesity, but to research in and treatment of obesity-related diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
And this is a bit of a stretch, because I doubt legislators think in these terms, but a population that doesn't feel well won't give you a lot of grief by way of informed protest; they're too tired.

[Doctor Phibes]

@horace said in What are you reading now?:

Conservatism has all the best ideas, sort of by definition

Not to get into an argument about semantics, but it's actually classical liberalism where all the good ideas came from. Back in the 18th century, conservatives were a right bunch of assholes.

[George K]

Based on Copper's recommendation...

Only about ¼ of the way through it.

Funny, exciting and sad at the same time. This is one of the most "conversational" books I've read in a long time.

By that I mean, "OK, I'll let you buy me a (cheap) Scotch beer. Here's my story of how I became a shuttle astronaut. "

Very much a "light" read, but worth the time. At the beginning he sows the seed of NASA's perceived invulnerabilty. You know things are going to go South, but I haven't gotten there yet.

With a testosterone-fueled swagger and a keen eye for particulars, Mullane takes readers into the high-intensity, high-stress world of the shuttle astronaut in this rough-hewn yet charming yarn of low-rent antics, bureaucratic insanity and transcendent beauty

[George K]

Catching up on my medical reading...

[George K]

[kluurs]

@george-k let me know what you think of that - I was thinking about that book.

[Doctor Phibes]

@kluurs said in What are you reading now?:

@george-k let me know what you think of that - I was thinking about that book.

All of the Linda Lark books are amazing.

[George K]

@kluurs said in What are you reading now?:

@george-k let me know what you think of that - I was thinking about that book.

I'm only a little bit into it. It's...engaging. Very homespun and unassuming.

[taiwan_girl]

I was discussing with friends about days, months, etc. and I remembered I had this book.

It is not by the physics guy, but a short (100 pages) book about time (as the clock and months, years, etc.) and it came to be. interesting and a book you dont have to read all at once.

[Doctor Phibes]


Because, well why not?

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in What are you reading now?:

Because, well why not?

Yeah!