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I've got a whole shelf of atheist literature, of which The God Delusion has the shiniest cover. (It's also highly quotable.) My favorites on this particular shelf are Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett, and The Reason Driven Life by Robert Price. (The latter is a chapter by chapter refutation of the best-selling evangelical tract The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren.)

I hang out over at richarddawkins.net, and on pretty rare occasions I post there, but I doubt I'll ever feel like an insider among that crowd. There's lots worth reading, watching or listening to there, however.

On another track, I finished The Road, and enjoyed it all the way through, while feeling just a tad underwhelmed by the ending, at least from a narrative point of view.

Spoiler:

It was a little more optimistic and hopeful than I expected, which is fine, of course. But it's the bleak stuff that's going to stick with me.

I'm looking forward to the movie, which does not seem likely to me to be a mainstream hit.