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Jan. 13th, 2009 07:26 pmSo I finally finished The Dark is Rising series, one of those Harry Potter precursors that have been returning to the limelight in the reflected glory of its famous progeny.
(I read one book of it when I was a kid, and enjoyed that. My sister and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
infinitecomplex got me the whole series for my birthday.)
It's a good series overall, and generally got better. The first entry is a bit lacklustre, but her writing improves throughout.
( Review continues )
Right now, I'm reading a book called Reinventing the Sacred, which is one biologist's attempt to refute reductionism and recuperate concepts like free will in scientific terms. It's rather disappointing so far, I'm afraid.
However, it is impossible to hate a book that includes the sentence, "I will try to show that a tiger is both epistemologically and ontologically emergent with respect to physics."
(I read one book of it when I was a kid, and enjoyed that. My sister and
infinitecomplex got me the whole series for my birthday.)It's a good series overall, and generally got better. The first entry is a bit lacklustre, but her writing improves throughout.
( Review continues )
Right now, I'm reading a book called Reinventing the Sacred, which is one biologist's attempt to refute reductionism and recuperate concepts like free will in scientific terms. It's rather disappointing so far, I'm afraid.
However, it is impossible to hate a book that includes the sentence, "I will try to show that a tiger is both epistemologically and ontologically emergent with respect to physics."