What book are you reading now?

[meridannight]

I started reading this one:



It's not in my regular science curriculum, but I thought I'd stretch my boundaries a little. For those who haven't heard of this, there is a possibility that our universe is, in fact, a hologram, and that reality - everything that is in existence and happening - is actually localized on some more distant plane. It's one of the fringe theories currently, so shouldn't be taken too seriously, but the physics absolutely allows such a possibility (for now).

It is fascinating in itself, although I wouldn't go so far as the author to claim that the holographic model of the universe explains paranormal phenomena and some of the human mental abilities. That's stretching it too far.

[Gemini]

-"Back Where He Started" by Jay Quinn. He writes gay fiction - NOT the gay romance genre - but complex stories about people who could be you or me.

This book is about a bi guy with 3 kids whose wife dies. He meets, seduces and enthralls a young gay man, who moves in with him and basically becomes "mom" to the children. When the oldest 2 are on their own, one married, and the youngest in college, their father tells his long time partner that he's outlived his usefulness and dumps him for a woman.

The story is about how the younger guy copes, moves on with his life......and about his ongoing relationship with the kids, and the way he teaches them acceptance and forgiveness.

I've read all of his books and like them a lot. Real people, real relationships.

[Meebs]

Just finished this last night

[Dan1980]

Doctor Who In The Blood by Jenny T Golgan

[Insertnamehere]

A couple of Handbooks on Recombinant Protein Purification.

http://sevierlab.vet.cornell.edu/resourc...rotein.pdf

[meridannight]

I started reading this one:

Well, I'm almost through. And I have to say, all these comments scientists and I occasionally get that we should be more open-minded to alternative theories/options out there, and that science doesn’t know everything yet, that things we can’t imagine being possible might well turn out to be true — such comments themselves being fully reasonable — even the most-open minded people wouldn’t be able to swallow down this nonsense without relinquishing their common sense and intelligence at the same time.

This is wack. It is not the case that I am not open-minded or willing to entertain seemingly far-fetched theories of the reality/universe. It’s that the people who argue for open-minded approach when it comes to (supposedly) paranormal phenomena write utter nonsense like this book. It's not possible to take something like this seriously.

This book is an account of paranormal and parapsychological examples -- personal, or third-person, past, or present -- first and foremost. It makes claims for psychokinesis and backs those claims up with examples from the era of Louis XV (just take a moment and let the implications of it sink in); insists that people have x-ray vision, talks about chakras, energy fields, remote viewing, reading people's minds, dreams, and thoughts, materializing objects out of nothingness, and the like.

I mean, it’s all just too good to be true. According to this author, you can see the future and the past. Future is set in stone, but don’t worry there are other holograms out there and you can change the future by just leaping from one hologram to another! There’s no way to go wrong here. You can materialize objects out of nothingness, you can ''remote view'' (see what another person who is in Paris sees, for example), you can predict the future, and see the past, you can even be invulnerable to physical assault e.g. in the form of having a block of stone dropped on you, you can read another person’s aura and tell what they’re thinking and feeling, or what they felt or experienced in the past, or will experience in the future.


I do agree that we don’t know it all, and we’ll probably never know everything there is to know about the universe. Keeping an open mind is absolutely fine, and necessary even, but no-one should keep their mind so open as to have the truth leak out of its grasp. And that is what the author has done.

I felt like my brain was getting dumber as I was reading this book. I don’t know everything about science either, but at least scientific texts make sense. This text did not make any sense at all. It's presented as a science book, or 'non-fiction'. But there is very little actual science in here.


I've read the opposition, and the opposition doesn't make any sense.

[himself]

Well, I'm almost through. And I have to say, all these comments scientists and I occasionally get that we should be more open-minded to alternative theories/options out there, and that science doesn’t know everything yet, that things we can’t imagine being possible might well turn out to be true — such comments themselves being fully reasonable — even the most-open minded people wouldn’t be able to swallow down this nonsense without relinquishing their common sense and intelligence at the same time.

This is wack. It is not the case that I am not open-minded or willing to entertain seemingly far-fetched theories of the reality/universe. It’s that the people who argue for open-minded approach when it comes to (supposedly) paranormal phenomena write utter nonsense like this book. It's not possible to take something like this seriously.

This book is an account of paranormal and parapsychological examples -- personal, or third-person, past, or present -- first and foremost. It makes claims for psychokinesis and backs those claims up with examples from the era of Louis XV (just take a moment and let the implications of it sink in); insists that people have x-ray vision, talks about chakras, energy fields, remote viewing, reading people's minds, dreams, and thoughts, materializing objects out of nothingness, and the like.

I mean, it’s all just too good to be true. According to this author, you can see the future and the past. Future is set in stone, but don’t worry there are other holograms out there and you can change the future by just leaping from one hologram to another! There’s no way to go wrong here. You can materialize objects out of nothingness, you can ''remote view'' (see what another person who is in Paris sees, for example), you can predict the future, and see the past, you can even be invulnerable to physical assault e.g. in the form of having a block of stone dropped on you, you can read another person’s aura and tell what they’re thinking and feeling, or what they felt or experienced in the past, or will experience in the future.


I do agree that we don’t know it all, and we’ll probably never know everything there is to know about the universe. Keeping an open mind is absolutely fine, and necessary even, but no-one should keep their mind so open as to have the truth leak out of its grasp. And that is what the author has done.

I felt like my brain was getting dumber as I was reading this book. I don’t know everything about science either, but at least scientific texts make sense. This text did not make any sense at all. It's presented as a science book, or 'non-fiction'. But there is very little actual science in here.


I've read the opposition, and the opposition doesn't make any sense.

I looked him up. I can't find any info on his credentials (Having some sort of education in physics would be a start but, of course, it's not compulsory.) I don't know an awful lot about the topic of 'quantum mysticism' but I assume that people take very vague things that people said / believed centuries ago and claim that they must have had some innate understanding of quantum mechanics that we've lost touch with because we're bad people. Maybe that's not what this book is about (haven't read it) so apologies if this is irrelevant.

Does the book work as a piece of fiction?

[matty7]

started reading Gotti - the rise and fall again...I read a few chapters a good while ago , almost finished but the end is a little dull as its all about his court cases , if you buy a mafia book its because you want to read about the shady side of the tracks and he definitely is on the wrong side....if you crossed him you dissapeared

[meridannight]

I looked him up. I can't find any info on his credentials (Having some sort of education in physics would be a start but, of course, it's not compulsory.) I don't know an awful lot about the topic of 'quantum mysticism' but I assume that people take very vague things that people said / believed centuries ago and claim that they must have had some innate understanding of quantum mechanics that we've lost touch with because we're bad people. Maybe that's not what this book is about (haven't read it) so apologies if this is irrelevant.

Does the book work as a piece of fiction?

It works as a reference to psychic experiences and paranormal occurrences, and as a reference on the literature written on these topics. I didn't find it particularly entertaining, or well-written even in that respect. It felt quite dry to me. But I'm not exactly attuned to such topics in the first place. Some people seem to like it, this guy has his fans.

I picked this one up at the bookstore. I hadn't done any background checks, but it was cheap and I thought I'd read something I usually don't. Online I would have never bought it. I don't know his credentials, but this book is categorized as 'non-fiction'.

Talbot was also gay, as I found out on wikipedia.

[himself]

It works as a reference to psychic experiences and paranormal occurrences, and as a reference on the literature written on these topics. I didn't find it particularly entertaining, or well-written even in that respect. It felt quite dry to me. But I'm not exactly attuned to such topics in the first place. Some people seem to like it, this guy has his fans.

I picked this one up at the bookstore. I hadn't done any background checks, but it was cheap and I thought I'd read something I usually don't. Online I would have never bought it. I don't know his credentials, but this book is categorized as 'non-fiction'.

Talbot was also gay, as I found out on wikipedia.

I recently picked up a book in a charity shop. It was called 'A critical evaluation of relativity theory' or something like that. It was only 50p and I wanted something to read on the bus. I started reading it and it began to get a bit strange, so I looked up the author and it turns out he wasn't a physicist but a 'shaman'.