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[bnash]

Johnny says:
BLAST Your Way to Megabuck$ with my SECRET Sex-Power Formula
http://www.iotbooks.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=52&osCsid=24884f72175b9352a0da551a21beb361
Ok???

[astridina]

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[mimi]

I know that Murakami was fiction, but are we still doing that alternation between fiction and science?
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[astridina]

I think that is what Boaz suggested. I actually don't mind either way.

my proposition to be put to a vote:

Welcome to shirley by K. McMasters:
http://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Shirley-Memoir-Atomic-Town/dp/1586484869

This is the controversial book that claims BNL is the cause of cancer etc etc.
I think this is listed as fiction.

BNl ordered 2 to have at the library.



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[bnash]

Ok, I'd say we get some more suggestions for a few more days and then have a vote. Although, Johnny's chaos magic super sex power formula may prove irresistable :/:\:/:/_/:/:/

My suggestion I mentioned at the book club is "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks:

In his most extraordinary book, \"one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century\" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks\'s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks\'s splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine\'s ultimate responsibility: \"the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.\"

(From here)

[mimi]

Here goes my $0.02 :

The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty

[LisaR]

I like Astrid's suggestion of Welcome from Shirley.

Other suggestions:

A Good Year by Peter Mayle;
The Art of War by Sun Tzu;
Kim by Rudyard Kipling;
Life of Pi by Yann Martel;
John Adams (which won the Pultizer Prize) or 1776 by David McCullough.

[astridina]

the art of war was required reading in th USMC. I rather not read that again.
The life of Pi, I think Yolanda was reading that
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[yolanda]

Yep, I read Life of Pi...good book. It was a relevant example for the lunchtime conversation when we talked about cannibalism when that plane crashed in the Andes in 1973. Boaz and Stefan also read this already so that makes it 3 people who would have completed the assignment ahead of time.
Any of the book suggestions are fine with me. Right now, I'm reading Moral Animal but it's a little too heavy for me to suggest it to a general audience.

[mimi]

Well, my only issue with "Welcome to Shirley" is that the book has "facts" in it that are false (as it was written in the bulletin and on the BNL website). Now, i generally think we should be all aware of hidden dangers in science, but if someone writes complete BS and outright lies just to be provocative and play along with the publics fear of the unknown... i don't see why we should reward that author with out time less alone the money.
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[astridina]

you are probably right. I am actually steering towards the life of pi.

lets see how the voting turns out.
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