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Title: | Fingerprints of God |
Rating: | 4 |
Author | Barbara Bradley Hagerty |
ISBN: | 978-1-59448-877-1 |
Pages: | 323 |
Format: | hardcover |
Started: | 2013-03 |
Finished: | 2013-03 |
An interesting and informative book about the author's look at the science of faith and spirituality. Although it is an account of her spiritual evolution, it is also a review of the current status of the scientific study of human spirituality, including the biology and genetics of faith and belief, and research into life after death, among other things. The results are rather inconclusive at this point, but I find it encouraging that scientists are actively and objectively studying this.
Title: | The Day of the Jackal |
Rating: | 4 |
Author: | Frederick Forsyth |
ISBN: | 978-0-965-01830-2 |
Pages: | 380 |
Format: | hardcover |
Started: | 2013-03 |
Finished: | 2013-03 |
An old-style, spy novel, type of mystery based around a fictitious assassination attempt an Charles de Gaulle. Although the first half of the book was a bit dry, once the chase to catch the assassin before he can carry out his plan begins, the pace picks up and the story draws you right in.
Title: | the green blue book |
Rating: | 3 |
Author: | Thomas M. Kostigen |
ISBN: | 978-1-60529-471-1 |
Pages: | 210 |
Format: | paperback |
Started: | 2013-02-11 |
Finished: | 2013-02-13 |
A quick read, it has some helpful advice on how to avoid wasting water.
Title: | Cryptonomicon |
Rating: | 4 |
Author: | Neal Stephenson |
ISBN: | 0-06-05-1280-6 |
Pages: | 1152 |
Format: | paperback |
Started: | 2012-11-25 |
Finished: | 2013-02-10 |
Wow, a long book but worth the time. It's an interesting weave of past and present threads, that eventually converge. And it's got some interesting tidbits for computer and cryptography geeks!
Title: | Calculating God |
Rating: | 4 |
Author: | Robert J. Sawyer |
ISBN: | 0-812-58035-4 |
Pages: | 335 |
Format: | paperback |
Started: | 2012-11-04 |
Finished: | 2012-11-07 |
Interesting science fiction novel that contemplates the existence of God, his, her, or its nature, and whether or not we humans are even capable of truly understanding morality. And it even manages to be an entertaining read!