Re: OT - recommend me a book


"Chris Whitworth" <usenet.chris@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2007-05-29, hurricanepilot <ask@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 13:47:15 +0100, Zomoniac
<the_proper_one@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2007-05-28 09:38:02 +0100, deKay
<andyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon,
28 May
2007 01:51:22 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "Deano"
<deano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:

A popular science book to be specific. I can't think of a subject so
anything is ok I guess. I don't want something too cerebral but I
don't
want to be patronised either.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

My current book. 'Tis good.

There's too much in it to remember though - I knew a lot of important
geologists' names for about 12 minutes.

My copy was clearly vandalised by a load of rampaging Intelligent Design
nutters, as it's missing a load of pages out of the chapter on evolution.

Fun read, although he does perpetuate the myth about glass flowing at one
point, which made me cross.


I thought glass did flow which is why really old windows are thicker at the
bottom than at the top? Or is it just me that's thicker at the bottom?

Chris
--
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"Back when I was young, we had to travel back in time to put the tape in
so
the game would load before we died."


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