Fugitivus Discussion Forum

Right now I'm in the middle of Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. It's really interesting, he covers things like how to interpret a clinical study, the placebo effect... the MMR scam, all sorts of neat fuckeduppedness.

Got a couple novels waiting for me... Patent to Kill, While My Sister Sleeps [this one I got wondering how atrociously sexist and ableist it's gonna be].

On my holds list at the library:
Four Agatha Christie books [I'm starting reading them... uh for the first time. This should be interesting!]
Gavin de Becker: The Gift of Fear
de Becker: Fear Less
Dan Gardner: The Science of Fear
Bell Hooks: Feminism is for Everybody
Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational

Yeah... I have ~varied~ tastes. It's fun though because I can go from something deep and heavy to floof and it's just nice to take a break sometimes.

Those books sound interesting. I may look for them myself at my own local library.

Speaking of library books:

The Beauty Myth
The 51 Percent Minority
The Gender Agenda (which turned out to be about how feminism threatens the institutions of marriage and family, yeuch, so I put it in my book bag so I wouldn't have to look at it anymore)
The Lamp From The Warlock's Tomb (I like John Bellairs. >.>)

Comics! I love reading comics. I can't be arsed calling them 'graphic novels', either, 'cause then I wouldn't be able to shout 'COMICS' whenever I feel like it.

*ahem*

So anyway, I'm re-reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman stuff, which is incredible, and also reading my hard-copy of Templar, Arizona, which is also online. Spike, creator of Templar, does the most wonderfully real-seeming human bodies, and has the most diverse cast I've seen in a comic this scale for a long time. If nudity bothers you, though, be warned: it occurs fairly frequently.

Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors, and Good Omens and the Sandman comics are both fantastic (incidentally, and slightly off-topic, I'm working on designing a half-sleeve of The Endless, to be started on by my tattoo artist very soon, I hope).

Just finished reading the mind-meltingly racist and sexist Sookie Stackhouse novels (I make a point to be aware of popular culture, though it's sometimes painful), and am now trying to cleanse my brain with A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Hoping it's as good as The Kite Runner.

Tevarre, that is an excellent comic. Thank you for linking to it.

Honestly, I read Good Omens for Terry Pratchett, not Gaiman. I am still mad at Gaiman for his own Enlightened White Non-Racist racism, and also his continued association with Amanda Palmer, who is one gigantic boatload of fail.

Comics, yay!

Does anyone else read Digger? It's pretty awesome. (Matriarchal hyena-people! The youngest hag! Intermittently debilitating mental illness doesn't make the affected character any less competent the rest of the time! A professional troll! Atheistic wombat allies with a god! Vampire squash! Cultural relativism! Prophetic slugs! Morality discussed in a realistic way! Three-dimensional villains and minor characters! Ed!)

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...with a summary like that, I'm gonna start on it now!

And I'm actually leaving half of the good stuff out of that summary because I don't want to spoil anything.

I should probably mention that the main character is female, though - it's not very obvious 'till it becomes a plot point, since she's drawn rather androgynously (bonus!).

Oh, man, Digger! Yes, I read it. It is wonderful. Ursula Vernon's sense of humour never fails to delight and amaze me.