{"id":679,"date":"2007-12-08T06:02:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T11:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/08\/books-recently"},"modified":"2007-12-08T06:02:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T11:02:29","slug":"books-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/08\/books-recently","title":{"rendered":"Books, recently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading quite a bit recently. Quite a number of them are being read online, in sporadic bits, via my O&#8217;Reilly Safari subscription, so at some stage maybe I&#8217;ll list them when I complete them. However, in a non-technical sense, here are a bunch of books I&#8217;ve read recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Sperm Are from Men, Eggs Are from Women: The Real Reason Men and Women are Different by Joe Quirk<\/b> &#8211; arguably, a complete waste of time, but you might just read it for humour sake. However, I&#8217;m wondering if his thoughts on sexual evolutionary biology holds weight &#8211; what he says, is actually, at many instances, quite true. Its an extremely easy read, he likes pointing out that he isn&#8217;t an expert in any field he talks about (good, I like his honesty), and if you&#8217;re a man (or woman), you&#8217;ll find out a little more about the other sex. With a surname like Quirk, this doesn&#8217;t get any quirkier.<\/li>\n<li><b>The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins<\/b> &#8211; if I were loaded, I would buy this for every evangelical Christian with a brain, that I know. And there are a lot of them (those that don&#8217;t just listen to what the pastor says and takes it for gold). Giuseppe bought this for me as a gift in Heidelberg, and its truly a great read. Of course, there&#8217;s also a book titled the Dawkins Delusion, and at some stage I&#8217;ll find that and read it. However, if you&#8217;re of the thinking that religion is one of the major causes of problem in this world, read this book.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: The Emerging 21st Century Power by Shashi Tharoor <\/b>&#8211; Amazing book. This is highly recommended, do read it, if you want to learn more about India. Shashi Tharoor himself was the youngest under-secretary general at the United Nations, and his writing quality is just amazing. He might be a bit wordy, he is originally a Keralite, but living overseas, but his perspectives are just amazing. I really enjoy the way the stories are presented, as they&#8217;re all independent from another. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seeing that I&#8217;m in India now, I picked up all the rest of Shashi Tharoor&#8217;s books from the bookstore the other day. You might want to do that too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading quite a bit recently. 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