Whats everyone reading(for pleasure) nowadays?
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And is it any good? Me: Everyman - Phillip Roth[^] The Math Book - C.A.Pickover[^] fascinating, both.
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And is it any good? Me: Everyman - Phillip Roth[^] The Math Book - C.A.Pickover[^] fascinating, both.
I'm reading 2 things. The first is Stop Your Divorce! - How to stop your divorce or lover's rejection when you're the only one who wants to stop it which is this PDF book. Really interesting read. I wish I had known about it sooner, as life would have been so much easier. The second is actually the Sword of Truth series. I'm on the 8th book. Some of the books in the series are better than others. I think the first 3 are the best so far, but I'm continuing to read.
ragnaroknrol: Yes, but comparing a rabid wolverine gnawing on your face while stabbing you with a fountain pen to Vista is likely to make the wolverine look good, so it isn't exactly that big of a compliment.
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And is it any good? Me: Everyman - Phillip Roth[^] The Math Book - C.A.Pickover[^] fascinating, both.
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And is it any good? Me: Everyman - Phillip Roth[^] The Math Book - C.A.Pickover[^] fascinating, both.
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I've just finished reading The End of Food, a book about the global food system. I'm reading a book about the scientist who first proved that the earth is not 6000 years old, and after that I have a book about brain science, and why people are prone to believe in things that are plainly not true, such as ghosts or Islam.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
things that are plainly not true, such as ghosts
For only $1.00 I got a new copy of "The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope" from Amazon Marketplace - the life story of an Arizona Brain Surgeon, with forward by his buddy Andrew Weil. Not even written in true-believer style like say "The Tao of Physics", just the intermittent "Anecdotal Evidence" over a lifetime, there may BE a Ghost in that thar machine...
pg--az
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One Second After by William R. Forstchen[^] A post apocalypse look at what would happen to society if all our silicon turned back to sand following an EMP event.
Melting Away www.deals-house.com www.innovative--concepts.com
Nuclear-Post-Apocalypse-wise, did you ever see the 1984 BBC "Threads", it has its own Wikipedia entry - for me it did such a great job of being reality-TV-style, much more chilling than special-effects which tend to merely get routed into the fantasy-bucket. As with your example, the EMP comes first, the single warhead perhaps sneaking by the early-warning-system.
pg--az
modified on Sunday, March 7, 2010 1:57 AM
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Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Unpaid overtime is slavery.
Trollslayer wrote:
Meetings - where minutes are taken and hours are lost.
Shelby Robertson wrote:
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
"Walking your talk" is always such a challenge. I really enjoyed "The Passion of Ayn Rand" as a book, but I never saw the Golden-Globe-Winning movie version( Wikipedia says Helen Mirren played Rand( in 1999 ), now I'm even More interested ) - as SHE couldn't respect the institution of marriage, what hope for the rest of us mere mortals.
pg--az
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Re-reading The Third Twin by Ken Follett. Very good book if you like science (and quite a bit of pseudo-science) oriented suspense stories. With that in mind I also recommend Dean R. Koontz. //L
I went to High School with Dean (he was in the Bedford High School, Bedford PA, Class of '63 or '64 and I was in Class of '65). Our English teacher was Miss Winona Garbrick, whom he cited in one or more of his early works. She taught us how to catch a trapdoor spider with chewing gum...