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Discussion in 'TV & Movie Discussion' started by mathmajors, Jul 6, 2003.

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  1. Apr 24, 2007 at 5:19 AM #551
    Playa

    Playa The coach is a near

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    Translation: I brought this book to the bathroom with me twice when I went to take a shit. I'm almost done with the first chapter.
     
  2. Apr 24, 2007 at 5:28 AM #552
    Playa

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    About a month ago I finished up Adam Fawer's 'Improbable'. I didn't think about it until I saw an ad for that new Nicholas Cage movie 'Next'. From the movie description I thought it was just renamed. It's not, but they are very similar. Good suspense thriller dealing with the possibility of seeing and selecting different futures. Math, I thought about you as I read it. It's got some basic probability in there, but that's not really why you came to mind. I just think if you have a mathematical mind you would really enjoy this book. For me reading it was like seeing the Matrix for the first time with these wild yet somewhat plausable theories I had never imagined.
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  3. Apr 24, 2007 at 6:40 AM #553
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    I really enjoyed Freakonomics. Statistics bore the shit out of me, but to see them put in a societal context & analyzed & explained this way--fascinating. Lots of food for thought in there.

    Thanks for adding to my interminable list, dammit. I by no means have a mathematical mind. I don't grasp mathematical concepts easily, but am fascinated by the patterns of things, even when I don't want to put forth the effort to REALLY understand them. I just like to sit back & say, Wow, that's cool, without getting too in-depth. This sounds like something I might enjoy. Someday.
     
  4. Apr 24, 2007 at 6:45 AM #554
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    Vonnegut's death got a bunch of his stuff spinning around in my head, so I just re-read Cat's Cradle & Breakfast of Champions.

    Vonnegut is one of my heroes.

    Up your ass with Mobil gas.
    ---Kilgore Trout
     
  5. Apr 26, 2007 at 2:04 PM #555
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    Best and the Brightest by Halberstam
     
  6. Apr 26, 2007 at 8:09 PM #556
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    barry49s Ain’t good for nothing

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    I'm currently reading The Island by Heather Graham. It's the first time I've read her. Quite frankly she sucks. I may not finish the book.
     
  7. Apr 27, 2007 at 10:34 AM #557
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    AK, Breakfast of Champions is my favorite KV book.

    Currently reading Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins. I've never been much of a classical history buff, but the Rome TV show sparked an interest. This is written for a general audience and Dando-Collins does a pretty good job of putting you into the period. Simply amazing what the life of a Roman soldier would have been like.
     
  8. Apr 27, 2007 at 10:40 AM #558
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    A King's Trade by Dewey Lambdin. He also my drinking buddy. Not great but not bad. Easy read. He has about 14 novels under his belt. From Wilimington, NC. 1800's seafaring novels. Very historcially accurate tied into the fiction. His main character is Alan Lewrie. If you want to learn how to talk pirate.

    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/dewey-lambdin/
     
  9. Apr 27, 2007 at 11:35 AM #559
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    Bondgirl Needy Bitch

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    i know someone that wears a pirates eye patch to a wedding
     
  10. Apr 27, 2007 at 11:39 AM #560
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    Cool. Does he have a parrot?

    Ask him if knows what "wedding tackle" is.
     
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