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WANTED: Book Suggestions for our Sept., Oct. and Nov. NON-FICTION discussion!

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Re: WANTED: Book Suggestions for our Sept., Oct. and Nov. NON-FICTION discussion!

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I would be interested in reading "Thinking Fast and Slow".
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I'd like to resubmit 'Muhammed' by Karen Armstong.
I did enjoy this book, and read it more as history, but it does give an insight to the times he lived in, and the errors caused in the name of Islam. Even if you are anti Islam it's a good read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Muhammad-Prophe ... gital-text

'Loved reading this book, it is interesting unlike some of the books around on Islam. Karen Armstrong seems to have grasped the concept of an interesting history book which is concise and insightful. I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn about the Muslim prophet.'
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I have no idea how you select the book chosen, but I do know that I cannot remember you ever having a female author...tut..tut...

Anyway, I would like to suggest:-

The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble - A personal history with jigsaws...It is a unique and moving personal history of remembrance and growing older; about the importance of childhood play; and how we rearrange objects into new patterns both to make sense of our past and to ornament our present.

Among her many gifts is the ability to spotlight the apparently merely topical, and find there, something universal. Like all good writers, she is in search of truth.
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Penny, we have had 17 female authors. All of our past books can be found at http://www.booktalk.org/books.html :)
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I was referring to the Non-Fiction discussions but I can see from perusing the past books that there have been a very few female writers. I'm not really complaining, because it is always very 'blokey' on here and it would be odd if there were lots of authoresses.

Alain de Botton's - Religion for Atheists is receiving a lot of attention. I have thought I'd like to read it just so that I could know whether or not I agree with the reviews. :wink:
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The trend I have found is that fiction draws in women more than non-fiction.
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Chris wrote:

The trend I have found is that fiction draws in women more than non-fiction.
Yes, we like a bit of escapism, I think. Still, we should be encouraged to read what we would not otherwise attempt, so thanks.

I am using the Royal 'we' here. :D
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Saffron wrote:5. Kahneman, Daniel. "Thinking, Fast and Slow." Farrar, Strauss, Giroux.
Entertaining look at the complexities and oddities that characterize our mental processes from the only psychologist ever to have won the Nobel Prize for Economics.
This is the one I would most like to read next.

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Guardian Review http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/de ... l-kahneman
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Review by William Easterly

Why even experts must rely on intuition and often get it wrong. There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman, a winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, distils a lifetime of research into an encyclopedic coverage of both the surprising miracles and the equally surprising mistakes of our conscious and unconscious thinking. He achieves an even greater miracle by weaving his insights into an engaging narrative that is compulsively readable from beginning to end. My main problem in doing this review was preventing family members and friends from stealing my copy of the book to read it for themselves. more...
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He achieves an even greater miracle by weaving his insights into an engaging narrative that is compulsively readable from beginning to end.
Right, I'm intrigued and I'm going to read it either way.....It sounds as though it is right up my garden path! :)

PS - and I like his face!! http://science-society.com/files/2012/0 ... anA043.jpg
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I'm with you, Penny and Robert. I just downloaded it. Was only £5.49. Isn't technology brill!!
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