What's on Your Summer 2002 Reading List?

Quixote asks: "Well, summer is upon us, and I'm wondering: what does Slashdot read? I'm thinking of non-geeky, non-SciFi books. Anything out there that has caught your fancy? Would you like to share your reading list (stuff that you've read and/or plan to read)."

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I'm currently reading the Qu'ran

[ringbarer]

No lie. With all the anti-Muslim propaganda currently in the news, I feel it's best to try to understand things from another point of view.

Because in the end, we're not that different!

Supporting Controversial Books...

[Chasing Amy]

> With all the anti-Muslim propaganda currently in the news, I feel it's best to try to
> understand things from another point of view.

That's how I try to approach everything. Why believe what agenda-driven media and political people claim, when you can get closer to the source and make up your own mind?

That's why, when I saw Bill O'Reilly screaming his loudest about a recent book release, complaining bitterly that a university press would dare to publish it--I knew I had to read it. :-) Controversial subject matter, but the book he said shouldn't have been published is judith Levine's *Harmful to Minors*:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081664006 8/ qid=1023794022/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-3562730-02361 48

So, I pre-ordered it, and I have to say it's a fantastic analysis of the current situation. The author makes a lot of sense, and I feel sad that we (Americans) live in a country where people are so outraged by the simple truths most of the civilized world already takes for granted. We in the U.S. treat 15 year olds the same as 5 year olds. No wonder some kids rebel against that...

Anyway, I always like to support free speech by buying the books of authors whose books get assailed for silly personal moral reasons. So, go buy that book, or another one in need of support, as a big F-U to those who would censor our right to read.