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A group for those of us who like reading and books. Fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry... everything goes.

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Latest Activity: May 12

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Welcome to the Nexus Book Club!

Hello to all our new (and old) members! We'd love to hear from you; please take the time to introduce yourself either on the forum or the wall.

Feel free to discuss the books you're reading at the moment, your favorite authors or works, and so on. I'm sure everyone has a book they think others here might find interesting!

Also, don't forget to check out the page Books by A|N Members Who are Published Authors, located just under the members section on your right.

Books of Interest to Atheists and Skeptics
Breaking The Spell by Daniel Dennett
A Devil's Chaplain, by Richard Dawkins
The End of Faith, by Sam Harris
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
God is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens
Godless, by Dan Barker
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
Why I am not a Christian, by Bertrand Russell

Sites for Bibliotaphs
Audible.com
BookCrossing.com
BookMooch.com
The Internet Archive
LibraryThing.com
LibriVox.org
Project Gutenburg
Shelfari.com

Discussion Forum

American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips

Started by Dallas the Phallus. Last reply by Dallas the Phallus Nov 30, 2011. 4 Replies 0 Likes

Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives, by Dean Buonomano

Started by Dallas the Phallus Nov 10, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Who's your favourite science fiction author (if you like sci-fi)?

Started by Vyktor Alzirr. Last reply by Carolyn R Nov 3, 2011. 77 Replies 0 Likes

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Comment by Noah Petersen on July 1, 2010 at 12:45am: Terrible news for fans of great atheist writing. Apparently Christopher Hitchens may have cancer, and that will suspend his current book tour. I hope he recovers quickly.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/06/a-cancer-diagnos...

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on June 30, 2010 at 4:54pm: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
Who were the Beats and how did their work and lives alter the course of American literature? We'll talk this hour with Bill Morgan author of the new book "The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation" (Free Press, 2010). Jerome Weeks will guest-host.

Listen here.

Comment by Crazy Cat Lady on June 9, 2010 at 6:02pm: More awful books

http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/

Comment by Aiden on June 3, 2010 at 2:38pm: In this week’s eSkeptic, Harriet Hall, M.D. (aka the SkepDoc) reviews The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists by Sean Connelly.

Comment by Aiden on June 2, 2010 at 7:33am

Comment by Aiden on May 19, 2010 at 10:14am: In this week’s eSkeptic, Victoria Bekiempis reviews The Case for Rational Optimism by Frank S. Robinson.

Victoria Bekiempis is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Bekiempis has written on topics ranging from botched redevelopment projects, to guano harvesting, to reality TV tryouts. She studied philosophy and languages at the University of South Florida. When she’s not working, Bekiempis is probably reading sci-fi or cooking a mean curry.

Comment by Stephen Goldin on May 14, 2010 at 3:40pm: Thank you, Aiden. Much appreciated.

Comment by Aiden on May 14, 2010 at 2:44pm: Added your books to the list, Stephen.

Comment by Stephen Goldin on May 12, 2010 at 3:35pm: I don't mean to brag, but I'd like to add a few more titles to the roll of my books listed above--the 4 books in my Arabian Nights-style Parsina Saga: Shrine of the Desert Mage, The Storyteller and the Jann, Crystals of Air and Water, and Treachery of the Demon King.

Come to think of it, I do mean to brag. It's not easy to write a sprawling 4-book adventure saga, and I'm damned proud of this one.

Since works of fantasy, by their very nature, require supernatural elements, there is a religious system involved in this universe. I based it on Zoroastrianism and, as religious systems go, it's relatively benign. As a matter of fact, while I was researching Zoroastrianism, I found a precept written explicitly in one of their holy books: As much as you possibly can, do not bore your fellow man. As religious precepts go, I find that one of the most interesting.

Comment by Aiden on May 12, 2010 at 9:37am: The following book review appeared in Science magazine (May 7, 2010, Vol. 328. no. 5979, pp. 693–694). In this week’s eSkeptic, Dr. Michael Shermer reviews The Brain and the Meaning of Life by Paul Thagard.