What are you in the middle of reading right now?

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[–]Tetrahedron 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I just finished reading The Martian, which was a fun one. I'm just about to start The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I'm excited for this one.

Edit: I am also reading Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. Ive only just started and it has already given me material to think about for months. Very cool!

[–]PurpleAmathea[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Man, the Martian was fun. Also, it had a really good film adaptation which is even more surprising given how easy to ruin the subject matter is... I think there was an xkcd about that.

What is prometheus rising about?

[–]Tetrahedron 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I enjoyed the movie a lot as well.

Prometheus Rising takes a look at a whole pile of things in an attempt to find out more about how the mind works. He looks at ideas from Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, to Yoga disciplines, to relativity and quantum mechanics.

I'm still very early in the book and I have had a whole lot to think about!