Whatcha Readin'?

Weird - it was one of the other scientists that said that cockroaches don't have brains.

I did notice that different people were considering the concept of conciousness in different ways.

Cockroaches don't have centralised brains, like we, or other vertebrates do, if that helps. The brain functions which, in us, would all be controlled from the head, are in cockroaches controlled from various points in their bodies. I suppose the scientist you mention was using 'brain' to mean something akin to what most readers would think of as a brain (i.e. something like our own, and those found in other vertebrates).

Just about to start Born To Be BAD ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Currently reading What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty - lots of people answer the question "What do you believe is true but can't prove".

Sounds interesting! I might have to add it to my list.

I'm just about to start reading Geisha of Gion, waiting till I get over the last book...

"Sounds interesting!"

There's a thread where us Listal folk do much the same...

Wait, I'm lost. Much the same as what? Sounding interesting?

"Wait, I'm lost. Much the same as what? Sounding interesting?"

If you're lucky, yes.

Tsk! You know what I meant!

lol I do? My brain has gone to sleep. Don't worry, it'll come to me... Eventually...

I meant there's a 'What do you believe, but can't prove?' thread, with the same purpose as the book of the same name.

Currently reading "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto"

I started reading "Ender's Game" yesterday. So far, it's very enjoyable.

I have just finished Christine, which I rather enjoyed, and have started re-reading the unabridged version of The Stand. This is my favourite Stephen King novel so far, and it'll be interesting to see if it remains so by the time I've finished this reading. So far, things are looking good...

Just started Great Expectations by Charles Dickens today.

Just started the 7th potter book.

:P

Just started William Kennedy's Ironweed

Deathly Hallows again...:D :D :D

Just starting The Kite Runner.

Since nobody else has replied, I'm reading The Lady of the Shorud by Bram Stoker at the moment.

I just got a limited to 1000 collection of Windsor McCay's Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend. Along with a reprint of the comic strip, it has historical and biographical information. Also I have begun to read the Annotated Alice in Wonderland but I am going through it slowly so as to soak up all the behind the scenes information.

You can find the limited Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend here:

www.rarebit-fiend-book.com/index.html

Never read anything except for Dracula by Bram Stoker. How is The Lady of the Shorud?

I just started The Borgia Bride

the last book ive read... Into Thin Air... its sorta boring tho... he takes to long getting to the story -.-

Munky, I just finished The Lady of the Shroud and it was quite good, though Stoker keeps to his journal/letter format and it is still on the general supernatural theme.

Just starting to read Man, Interrupted next.

I am re-reading "Transcendental Wild Oats" by Louisa May Alcott which is all about her father Bronson Alcott's failed attempt at a transcendentalist utopian community in Massachusetts. His endavour only lasted about 6 months LOL. Louisa's account however is extremely amusing. I'm also reading a crap load of materials about this "Fruitlands" community, since surprise, surprise, I have to write an essay on it.

I just started Under The Black Flag, The Romance and the Reality of Life Among Pirates by David Cordingly.

I'm now onto The Penguin History of Medieval Europe by Maurice Keen as part of my reading for my coursework. I only have it on short loan so I should really speed it up a bit...

I just started a great book entitled The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. It has grabbed me and pulled me in. I'm having a hard time putting it down.

Currently reading three things: The Stand (*still*); the memoirs of Joseph Pistone, AKA 'Donnie Brasco' (can't remember the actual title), and Doctor Who: Father Time (one I'm trying to read before the- no, sorry can't say, I might get into trouble for that...).

I just finished The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil. And, even though it's a giant leap from the novel niche I tend to occupy, I just started reading Death Note graphic novels.

How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must) - by Ann Coulter

Very Good Read

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Back to the Divide By Elizabeth Kay

Just started The World According to Garp by John Irving