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Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Paperback)) by Douglas Adams

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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

The Centurion's Empire by Sean Mcmullen

Looking Backward : 2000-1887 (Penguin Classics) by Edward Bellamy

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Library624 books — see library

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Tagsread (466), history (119), fantasy (92), physics (82), politics (66), ebook (63), alternate history (56), science fiction (53), literature (51) — see all tags

Groupsanarchism, Atheism and humanism, Atheists review books, Bostonians, Brights, Graduate Students, Marxist & Socialist, Mathematics, New Model Army, Physics! — show all groups

Favorite authorsDaniel Abraham, Jorge Cham, Eric Thomas Chester, Richard Dawkins, Eric Flint, Neil Gaiman, Moshe Lewin, George R.R. Martin, Hayao Miyazaki, Tim Powers, Neal Stephenson, Gabriel Thompson, Howard Zinn (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresLucy Parsons Center

Favorite librariesBoston Public Library (Central Library, Copley Square)

About me I'm a grad student in physics at Boston University. I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and graduated from Amherst College in 2006 with majors in physics, (European) history and mathematics. My main historical interests are the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the history of socialism, anarchism and communism. At BU I'm focusing on computational physics, supported by an NSF/IGERT fellowship through BU's Center for Computational Science.

I am currently secretary of the Socialist Party of Boston and treasurer of the Socialist National Committee. I also play the cello.

The picture is me, with some input from "friends" using Photoshop. Its original caption was: "David A. Schaich joined the revolution in 1957, upon the demise of his career as an artist's model."

About my library I include here both books I own and those I've read, even if I no longer possess them. I also include a few books I tried to read and abandoned for one reason or another. I used to reserve 1-star ratings for them, but have abandoned that scheme, with the result that my rating system is skewed to be on a 2-to-5-star scale.

In 2008 I added lots books still lying around my parent's place, mostly textbooks and childhood books I remember fondly enough not yet to have donated to a public library. I also took the opportunity to double-check editions for other books already listed. In general I haven't tried to determine the correct edition for ebooks in my library.

On my Web site I have 1-3 sentence 'reviews' for most of the books tagged as "read", but I have only imported a few of the better ones here, for books tagged as "minireview". I have imported the 50 or so longer reviews I've written for books tagged as "reviewed", which can also be found here.

Homepagehttp://daschaich.homelinux.net

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Real nameDavid Schaich

LocationBrighton, Boston, Massachusetts

Emaildaschaichgmail.com

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Member sinceJan 19, 2006

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A great Tag cloud...thanks for the review on Robert's History of the World...

Best...Steve Tempo

posted by stevetempo at 10:55 am (EST) on Feb 15, 2007

Thanks, I'll do that when I can find the time. Did you incidentally see the reading guide I wrote on Amazon? It might be of interest to you.

posted by McCaine at 6:12 am (EST) on Nov 26, 2006

How would I do that? I kind of forgot I signed up for this site...

posted by McCaine at 3:02 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2006

Sounds a lot more intellectually fulfilling than finance. Read Brian Green's Fabric of the Cosmos and enjoyed it a short while back. Have you read not even wrong? Seems to me an interesting point that ultimately we need to be able to choose between theories by testing them and what I hear about this book is that you can't do this with string theory. I've got it on my wish list anyway.

Sometimes I think we are luckier over here than in the US re the whole evolution/id debate which isn't much of a worry here. Do you experience this first hand at all? Then again there are loads of other avenues for fakers, quacks and general nutters over here. Our Health Services spends a fortune on Homeopathy !

I live just a few miles from where three of our home grown 7/7 bombers lived. I think that whole thing has made me decide to be a little more active in speaking up against all forms of absurdity and the fact that religion tends to be a force for the bad guys.

Nice to talk - Mark

posted by psiloiordinary at 4:29 am (EST) on Oct 16, 2006

Hi,

thanks for the pointer to that New York Times article - interesting reading.

I always thought I was going to study Physics - but I grew up in the last big recession we had and getting a job offer at 16 was irresitable at the time so I ended up in finance and doing finance exams. I have always retained my interest though and it is sobering to think just how much the field has broadened in the last 20 years."computautional physics" what all that then?

Cheers,

posted by psiloiordinary at 9:44 am (EST) on Oct 14, 2006

Hi,

Me again - just had a look at a couple of reviews on your site (Eric Chester and Tariq Ali).

Very good stuff.

I`ll have a look at some of the others when I can find the time.

Best,

Nick

posted by nickhoonaloon at 5:44 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2006

Hello.

I got here after seeing we shared volume two of Kolakowski's Main Currents of Marxism.

For what it's worth, my edition (OUP paperback, 1981) is not missing pp. 479-510.

If you're interested in Kolakowski, you might like to have a look at 'An open letter to Leszek Kolakowski' by the English historian, E. P. Thompson. It's in his The Poverty of Theory, and other essays. Thompson was an admirer of Kolakowski's early work and, in my opinion, a master of the essay form. If you do get your hands on Poverty of Theory be sure to take a quick look at the pictorial polemic against Althusser!

mjh.

posted by mjh at 2:25 am (EST) on Oct 5, 2006

Hi.
I too wandered over here to check out your profile after meeting you over on the "DSA/SPUSA" thread.

I like your library, but I must say, I REALLY like the books on our 'shared' list.

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 12:22 am (EST) on Oct 3, 2006

Just a very quick note to say `thanks` for answering my query over DSA and SPUSA.

I have responded now - though not very well - am recovering from journey back from holiday (stayed on an organic farm in Wales for a week), and, being self-employed, we had to start work again pretty much straight away on our return.

Anyway , thanks again,

Nick

posted by nickhoonaloon at 10:08 am (EST) on Oct 1, 2006

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