I am in the midst of reading a wonderful account of the early days of electricity, Empires of Light. The books covers the euphoria of the inventions, the easy early money, followed by the grueling work of actually turning it into a business that changed people's lives. A riveting story that should be required reading [...]
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Nothing beats this, sitting in an airport, reading my feeds and blogging.
All wirelessly, god this is soooo awesome…..
What else should be Googled?: Following Google’s wonderful announcement that it is scanning and making available to us all searchable text from thousands of books at top libraries, I wonder what else you think should be available? I’ll start the list:
: Transcripts and scripts of TV shows, movies, and radio shows — both news and [...]
Currently deeply into All Consuming: Book Info: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. This book is an amazing almost voyeuristic journey into post-WWII japan. The book was recommended by a friend of mine who has very good taste. He got me to read Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, another book I [...]
Just finished reading Hominids by Robert Sawyer. This is an extremely interesting book with a fascinating premise. Imagine a parallel universe where neanderthals are the dominant species, and humans have become extinct.
Suddenly an accident transports one of these neaderthals to our earth. Lots of interesting things ensue.
Robert Sawyer won this years Hugo for an extremely [...]
Ah, yes, Clive Cussler, Dirk Pitt, NUMA. If you haven’t tried Cussler, give him a shot. Atlantis Found is a decent representative of the Clive Cussler genre. Yes genre, Clive has his own genre. You can think of Clive as a combination of Clancy, Crichton, & your favorite cartoon.
Why Clancy? Because he uses an elite [...]
I love a good techno-political thriller. I’ve read all (well almost, his last few are pretty bad) of Tom Clancy, most of Ludlum and Le-Carre. So when someone recommended I try out Vince Flynn, I thought great! The recommended place to start was The Third Option.
The plot is fairly straight-forward, a german industrialist is supplying [...]
Finished Timeline a bit ago. All in all a pretty good quick read from Mr, Crichton. Highly recommended airplane reading.
The basic premise is that a company develops a time-machine like device and a whole bunch of medieval historians get to go back and the funs begins!
Lots of hard sf stuff here, Crichton at his bet.
Enjoy!
I finished reading a great new book Tigers of the snow. What makes this book particularly interesting is it tells the history of himalayan climbing from the perspective of the sherpa’s who endured the hardships for food instead of the mountaineers who went for personal glory. I’ve read tons of moutaineering books but this one [...]