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What book are you reading right now?
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Just finished Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky which I enjoyed a lot.
At the mo, The Skull Mantra - Eliot Pattison. Bit dull so far, but i'll give it a bit of time.
At the mo, The Skull Mantra - Eliot Pattison. Bit dull so far, but i'll give it a bit of time.
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"The Bible Code" by Michael Drosnin. It's one of those "Can't Be! - but it is..." books. There are at least two simultaneous codes in the Hebrew text of the Torah, like watermarks. One, this book deals with: the equidistant letter sequence [or ELS] code, and was largely discovered by Eli Rips, the Jewish mathematician. The other is a mathematical underpinning of the entire text, and was discovered by the Russian, Ivan Panin, a literary critic turned to math. I have a hunch that there at least five other codes in the text, as yet undiscovered...
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The only trouble with all of that is the manuscripts we have have literally hundreds of differences between copies. Nobody knows what the real original text was. Too bad they didn't have the printing press. We only have copies of copies of copies...
| Originally Posted by Lazarus Short /img/forum/go_quote.gif "The Bible Code" by Michael Drosnin. It's one of those "Can't Be! - but it is..." books. There are at least two simultaneous codes in the Hebrew text of the Torah, like watermarks. One, this book deals with: the equidistant letter sequence [or ELS] code, and was largely discovered by Eli Rips, the Jewish mathematician. The other is a mathematical underpinning of the entire text, and was discovered by the Russian, Ivan Panin, a literary critic turned to math. I have a hunch that there at least five other codes in the text, as yet undiscovered... Laz |
The only trouble with all of that is the manuscripts we have have literally hundreds of differences between copies. Nobody knows what the real original text was. Too bad they didn't have the printing press. We only have copies of copies of copies...
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Just finished re-reading "1984", by George Orwell.
And yes, it really IS that good. If you haven't, do.
And yes, it really IS that good. If you haven't, do.
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Just finished "Bad Monkeys" by Matt Ruff.
Currently working on "The Raw Shark Texts" by Steven Hall.
Currently working on "The Raw Shark Texts" by Steven Hall.
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The Tales from the Earthsea books by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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