Ian Daniel Stewart

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  • AboutThis is the somewhat bookish blog of Ian Stewart. Not the famous mathematician, rock musician, or playwright, but the husband, father, designer, and reader of way too many books. Here you will find his musings on the whole range of his interests; from the highest of edifying heights to the basest vanities. You may find something funny in all of this.
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  • Either-Or Meme

    My first blog meme, via Classical Bookworm. I guess I’m an official blogger now… Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback? Whatever I can get. I prefer the trade paperback, though. It’s easier to handle. Amazon or brick and mortar? Definitely brick and mortar – with a sign that says used or bargain out […]

    Ian Stewart

    January 23, 2007
  • Why does God make toothaches?

    Pantheism, the multiverse, and the problem of evil – all in one paragraph: On the principle that you can never have too much of a good thing, reality could very well consist not just of a single infinite mind, but of infinitely many. Even so, this situation wouldn’t be “perfect” in such a way that […]

    Ian Stewart

    January 23, 2007
  • Putting things in perspective

    Average weight of a blue whale: 200,000 to 300,000 lbs. Average weight of an American automobile: 6,000 lbs. Estimated weight of Samuel Johnson: 360 lbs. Weight of blog author Ian Stewart: 155 lbs. Combined weight of the three published volumes (of a projected five volumes) of N.T. Wright’s Christian Origins and the Question of God: […]

    Ian Stewart

    January 23, 2007
  • Writers Pick Their Favorite Books

    I find it tough to put books in ordered lists and come up with even one top book. They can all be so different. If I was going to be really serious about it how would I go about it? I’d probably spread all my favorites out on the dining room table first. Then I […]

    Ian Stewart

    January 22, 2007
  • The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart

    “It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . . ” I hope everyone enjoys the new site design! Let me know what […]

    Ian Stewart

    January 20, 2007
  • Metamorphosis

    I’m off for the weekend! That’s the schedule I’m trying to keep, at least one post every weekday and no blogging on the weekend. Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m not obsessing over the blog. I’m giving myself a crash course in web design over at Upper Fort Stewart’s secret evil twin test site. Right […]

    Ian Stewart

    January 19, 2007
  • An experiment in History, Part One

    Now that I’m finally finishing up The New Penguin History of the World (who knew there was so much to know about penguins?) today seems like a perfect time to begin a review of my grand, accidental experiment in History. Somehow I managed to grow up suspecting the world was illusory. I blame this on […]

    Ian Stewart

    January 19, 2007
  • Favourite Reviews of 1984

    Poor George Orwell. You had to go and get yourself on the high school curriculum, didn’t you? “i give this book one star i had to read it for class and i know it’s suposed to be a “classic” but god itis awful. first of all its NOTHING like the future is probly going to […]

    Ian Stewart

    January 18, 2007
  • Prepare for brain breaking

    Ian Stewart

    January 18, 2007
  • It is not dying, it is not dying

    I remember flipping through the The Tibetan Book of the Dead at the used book store and wondering why anyone interested in Buddhism would ever read it. Mark Bearn of The New Statesman ponders that groovy gas himself and also wonders why anyone ever reads it: “One could tolerate this if there was also profound […]

    Ian Stewart

    January 17, 2007
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