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12-27-2005, 01:46 AM | #1 |
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I've been reading the letters of Richard Feynman (Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track). Some of them are funny, others are powerful, and I think they give a good picture of him. I wish that they included more early, early letters from when he was my age. I'm tempted to find and read compilations of letters by other people.
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12-27-2005, 07:28 AM | #2 |
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Oh, man. I didn't need to see that either. I've read several of Feynman's books as well as several books about Feynman, including the one that was a part of the Cellar Book Club. (If anyone with more initiative than I have wants to get that started again, that would be really cool *hint* *hint*)
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12-29-2005, 01:25 AM | #3 |
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I'm just finishing "Angels & Demons" from Dan Brown.
Also just finished "American Hardcore" from Simon Blush.
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01-26-2006, 08:38 AM | #4 |
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About 2 months ago, I picked David Weber's On Basilisk Station (the first Honor Harrington novel) off my bookshelf and reread it -- I owned the first two books in the series and had for many years but life had gotten in the way after that.
Now I own all the books in the series and have been reading them in order. I'm a third of the way through War of Honor and have Shadow of Saganami (the next-to-last book released) and the new hardcover of At All Costs (1) waiting behind it; once I get through the latter I'll be up-to-date. (1) Which comes with a CD-ROM containing just about everything David Weber has ever written. Sweet. |
01-26-2006, 09:30 AM | #5 |
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01-26-2006, 09:48 AM | #6 |
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What I am reading / read
I just finished "Freakonomics" liked it. I also just finished "Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents" by Pratchett, loved it... I am currently reading "The life of John Muir" - very intereting (not right this minute of course!) I am also reading http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037...lance&n=283155 "First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power" which is sortof good, but looooong.... It is bascially a history of our imperialism....
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01-26-2006, 07:11 PM | #9 |
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The Invasion by Gerald Griffin. Vikings are invading Old Ireland. It is really interesting to read something written by a relative quite removed in time and space. I really understand the conflicted feelings he carried about his people [Irish], religion [Pagans/ Catholics], and government [how to throw out the Brits is the real question]. He's not a bad fantasy/ faux history writer but for me the cool part is to read someone whose thoughts were in part formed by my ancesters thoughts. Bottom line there is some damn good libertarian soliloquy buried in there. There is a difference in hero building compared to modern writers. In modern books heros arise when circumstances demand one. In this one, Elim (our hero) develops himself over time knowing that he's called to greatness. Interesting.
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01-26-2006, 11:18 AM | #12 |
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Jorge Luis Borges: Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley. Very strange and interesting short stories.
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01-26-2006, 01:09 PM | #13 |
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Just finished: The Truth About Chernobyl - Grigori Medveyev
(minute by minute account of the disaster, and the several days following, including details of some amazing clusterfucks along the way) Mildly hard to grasp ... this year marks the 20th anniversary.
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01-26-2006, 02:23 PM | #14 |
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GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL: The Fate of Human Societies
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01-26-2006, 03:55 PM | #15 |
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What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard Nelson Bolles.
Recommended to me by footfootfoot, for which I am indebted. This is not my first time through this collected wisdom. Many years ago I read it like a kid takes medicine, and when the job happened, I forgot the unpleasantness of the bulk of the work of the book. I am now catching up on a considerable backlog of deferred maintenance on my career. Thank you, footfootfoot. Nine chapters down on my first lap. Keep you all posted.
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