Recommendations, the democratic method
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bibliophages? (Sign-up post here.)
[Poll #1148524]
The list includes: books about religious life, books about loss of faith, books about finding faith, hagiographies, translations of Eastern texts, and science-fiction allegories. I'm too lazy to write up summaries for all of these books but I'm willing to tell you more about any title on the list if you're curious. Er, obviously, some of these books are better suited to a particular reader: e.g. I don't think most people would be able to read Orson Scott Card's novels about the women of Genesis without a high tolerance for his didactic prose. (I actually don't mind Card's preaching in his overtly religious books; I only object to it when it interferes in what is supposedly a secular story.) I should also probably note that I've already recommended Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for last round.
(If anyone onbibliophages wants to recommend any of these books, go ahead!)
Quote of the day from lab meeting...
P.I.: I think negative role models are as important as positive ones.
Post-doc: Are you including yourself as a negative role model then?
P.I.: Yes, I am. When you get your own lab, you'll know how not to run it.
(P.I. standing for Principal Investigator, also known as the professor who's in charge of the lab.)
Yours &c.
My goodness, I'm updating two days in a row!--am I regressing back to the good old college days (which were not so very long ago)? No, what it means is that I have a matter of great importance to discuss: what should I recommend for
bibliophages? (Sign-up post here.)[Poll #1148524]
The list includes: books about religious life, books about loss of faith, books about finding faith, hagiographies, translations of Eastern texts, and science-fiction allegories. I'm too lazy to write up summaries for all of these books but I'm willing to tell you more about any title on the list if you're curious. Er, obviously, some of these books are better suited to a particular reader: e.g. I don't think most people would be able to read Orson Scott Card's novels about the women of Genesis without a high tolerance for his didactic prose. (I actually don't mind Card's preaching in his overtly religious books; I only object to it when it interferes in what is supposedly a secular story.) I should also probably note that I've already recommended Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for last round.
(If anyone on
bibliophages wants to recommend any of these books, go ahead!)Quote of the day from lab meeting...
P.I.: I think negative role models are as important as positive ones.
Post-doc: Are you including yourself as a negative role model then?
P.I.: Yes, I am. When you get your own lab, you'll know how not to run it.
(P.I. standing for Principal Investigator, also known as the professor who's in charge of the lab.)
Yours &c.
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Date: 2008-03-04 12:37 pm (UTC):) :)
I'm not sure I'll be signing up to recommend this time 'round, though. I've only come up with one potential rec so far: Octavia E. Butler's books on Earthseed. Hmm.
(Oh, oh! L. Ron Hubbard! How unkind that would be.)
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Date: 2008-03-05 05:52 am (UTC)You can always sign up just to read too, if you can't come up with a list of recs. ^_^ (L. Ron Hubbard would be quite unkind, though potentially very amusing to discuss.)
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