We’re out of town for the weekend visiting family, so if you usually depend on this blog for entertainment, you’ll need to find something else to do. How about a good book or two?<\/p>\n
You can’t decide what to read? Well, the Internet is here to provide suggestions. You might, for example, think about the list of most significant SF books<\/a> that was compiled by the SF Book Club<\/a>. It’s the usual mix of influential and popular<\/a> and has been making the rounds in LiveJournaldom, where it has come in for some criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n Not in the mood for genre fiction? Well, Discover<\/cite> has put together a list of the Greatest Science Books of All Time<\/a>, so you might try one of those. If, like John Horgan, you think their list is full of books that are old and hard to read<\/a>, you could also try the Those don’t work for you either? Well, if you’re going to be all contrary, pick a title you don’t like, and feed it into the Unsuggester<\/a> from LibraryThing, which will tell you the books least likely to overlap with your chosen title. <\/p>\n If you’d just like a way to fritter away a few hours, here’s a challenge for you: Find a reasonably mainstream book for which the Unsuggestions are not<\/strong> dominated by Christian devotional books. The only one I could come up with was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/cite>, which is a Christian devotional book in disguise. Seriously, do people who read books like The Passion of Jesus Christ : fifty reasons why He came to die<\/cite> by John Piper not read anything else?<\/p>\n (Special bonus fun note: I found the Piper book on the Usuggestions for The Sparrow<\/cite> by Mary Doria Russell. The first book on the Unsuggestions for the Piper is Good Omens<\/cite> by Pratchett and Gaiman.)<\/p>\n Given all that, if you can’t find something to read for a few hours, you’re beyond my power to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re out of town for the weekend visiting family, so if you usually depend on this blog for entertainment, you’ll need to find something else to do. How about a good book or two? You can’t decide what to read? Well, the Internet is here to provide suggestions. You might, for example, think about the… Continue reading Would You Like Something to Read?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}