1. Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90

Comment #146086 by Donnie VandenBos on March 18, 2008 at 3:41 pm

Don Herbert last summer, Arthur Clarke this spring ... I am really not liking this trend amongst my childhood heroes.

2. The Giant Tortoise's Tale

Comment #133732 by Donnie VandenBos on February 26, 2008 at 3:58 pm

I really do love listening to Professor Dawkins speak, particularly so when he doesn't have to bandy arguments back and forth with somebody (though those are fun, too).

I agree with you, z8000783, when you say The Ancestor's Tale should be adapted to a multi-part television series. That would be phenomenal!

3. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133140 by Donnie VandenBos on February 25, 2008 at 4:48 pm

Kudos to Steve and Paula for having the stomach to work through a Vox Day book. I've never been able to read more than a few pages of The Irrational Atheist at a time.

And it's not as though I'm particularly close-minded towards counter-points. I read John Haught's most recent book, and while I don't necessarily agree with what he wrote, he did so in a reasonably entertaining and intelligent manner.

But The Irrational Atheist is an entirely different sort of beast ...

4. Richard Dawkins on five of his favorite books

Comment #133128 by Donnie VandenBos on February 25, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Well, a book thread is as good a place as any for my first post. Mine would look something like this:

- On The Road (Jack Kerouac)
- The Count Of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
- Against The Day (Thomas Pynchon)
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson)
- The Demon-Haunted World (Carl Sagan)

I specifically neglected to list any books by Professor Dawkins or any other "New Atheism"-related books in an effort for a more eclectic list.