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Old 06-18-2008, 10:45 PM
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looks like i'll be adding to my library....
If you like the book hockey mentioned,
you may have to add The Blind Watchmaker.

And anyone please add as I am still pondering.
It is also interesting to see what people are interested in
outside of horses.
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Old 06-19-2008, 09:35 AM
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"The Great Thebby" by F. Mortimer Fitzgerald
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Old 06-19-2008, 08:16 PM
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I recommend the great thebby....though it is an incomplete work....


i just finished a great book (sent to me by a very generous sometime DT'r)

Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Horbacher

and am half way through

Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the AMerican West by Deanne Stillman

also have to recommend Beautiful Boy: a Father's Journey through his Son's Addiction by David Scheff...and with it you have to read his son's book Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines

they are all good and non-fiction.
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Old 06-19-2008, 10:27 PM
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If you like the book hockey mentioned,
you may have to add The Blind Watchmaker.

And anyone please add as I am still pondering.
It is also interesting to see what people are interested in
outside of horses.
what's the blind watchmaker?
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Old 06-19-2008, 11:10 PM
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what's the blind watchmaker?
It's by Dawkins as well - The God Delusion is a little more interesting in my opinion. . . The Blind Watchmaker focuses mostly on evolution. . .
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Old 06-19-2008, 11:37 PM
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what's the blind watchmaker?
It is mainly about evolution (as mentioned above) having no ultimate purpose
or direction. Thus implying the big guy (God), making those precise
Watches, went about it in a blind way.

So I guess the God Delusion would be the next fit.

Dawkins is a Brit who pulls no punches.
He will tell you how he feels and more.
His American atheist audience is huge.

Stephen J. Gould and Dawkins both excellent writers
on evolution. Gould did not try to rile quite as much.
RIP. Gould was one of my all time favorites. A harder
read than Asimov, but very good.

I gotta go with something Historical. The Adams book sounds
good.
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