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By: SpaceGoat (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 16:42:01 on Jun 16, 2003

Hopefully, this won't be a very contentious topic :-) , but what's everyone reading now that summer is delivering us its gift of more free time?

Here are the books I have read, am reading, and will read this summer:

How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman - finally, the Scottish Enlightenment--which had its roots in almost-barbaric early Presbyterianism, surprisingly enough--gets its due for explaining and inspiring many tenets of modern free enterprise capitalism and political freedom, as well as for contributing substantially to American independence

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond - for what I think of this book, see my post further below

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis - I'm almost half-way finished with this book, and I'll finish it once I've read...

Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith - when Ro suggested this book, the subject intrigued me too much to wait until I'd finished Sphinx before delving into this book, which has thus far presented generally excellent argumentation; I'll comment on Atheism more fully once I've finished it

After I finish Sphinx...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rawling - hey, I don't claim this series qualifies as the best literature, but damn, it's fun

London by Peter Akroyd or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - I'm not sure which one to read yet; both will probably take me the rest of the summer to complete

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"Whenever we read of the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness... it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God."
-Thomas Paine on Bible

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"A vicious, inequitable, unpopular, impolitic, and socialistic act. ... The crusade for an income tax is the most unreasoning and un-American movement in the politics of the last quarter-century." -The New York Times describes the income tax in 1894

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