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Hist

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Jan 18, 2009
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"The Other Islam" by Stephen Schwartz.
Extremely biased anti sunni book and specifically anti wahhabi and pro-sufi.
The writer shows childish love to Sufism that every sufi person in the world is an angel whilst every saudi citizen is a terrorist. I hated this book from reading the first 10 pages but i continued it out of boredom.

Piece of Shit Book.
 

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Martin

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Dec 31, 2000
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"The Other Islam" by Stephen Schwartz.
Extremely biased anti sunni book and specifically anti wahhabi and pro-sufi.
The writer shows childish love to Sufism that every sufi person in the world is an angel whilst every saudi citizen is a terrorist. I hated this book from reading the first 10 pages but i continued it out of boredom.

Piece of Shit Book.
If you hated it, did you finish it?
 

Ford Prefect

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May 28, 2009
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i think i just read one of my favourate quotes

"everything seemed to be going plan, only 20 minutes earlier he had announced he was going to go mad, and now he was chasing a sofa around a field on pre historic earth."
 
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mikhail

mikhail

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Jan 24, 2003
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    I'm most of the way through Richard Feynman's QED: the strange theory of light and matter. It's a fascinating and accessible account of the quantum theory which is the core of modern physics. Feynman shows how his Feynman diagrams work (modestly, he hasn't mentioned so far that he devised them, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work) in terms understandable to anyone with high school physics.
     
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    mikhail

    mikhail

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    Jan 24, 2003
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    By chance have you checked out the Feynman Lectures? I started listening to them a while back but by the 3rd one he'd lost me.
    Not yet. You might try a book called Six Easy Pieces - essentially the six most accessible lectures from that series. I've read that and Six Not So Easy Pieces (the worst titled science book ever), but not the whole Lectures.
     

    Enron

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    Oct 11, 2005
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    I am reading The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain.

    It's a collection of writing from his life, mostly regarding his adventures in the food service industry.
     

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