What are you reading?

blonde by joyce carroll oates
its about marilyn monroe

Just finished Generation Kill and now I'm working on World War Z.

Read World War Z a couple months back. It was a great "sequel" to the Zombie Survival Guide.

Am currently reading "Anatomy Of A Deception" by Lawrence Goldstone.,a Medical/Murder mystery set in 1889. About 8 chapters in,its good reading so far.

A couple of days ago I read "Make Room,Make Room" by Harry Harrison. It was the book that the movie "Soylent Green" was based on. I kept waiting for the "Soylent Green is people. It's made out of people",but it never happened. Turns out Soylent was just soybeans and lentils. Fucking Hollywood.

Harrison is good but no one can hold a match to the GOD of writers...



Over 500 books to his credit and I've read EVERY one of them, including the text books.

FICTION
Science Fiction Novels

1 Pebble In The Sky Doubleday 1950
3 The Stars, Like Dust-- Doubleday 1951
4 Foundation Gnome Press [1] 1951
5 David Starr, Space Ranger [2] Doubleday 1952
6 Foundation and Empire Gnome Press [1] 1952
7 The Currents of Space Doubleday 1952
9 Second Foundation Gnome Press [1] 1953
10 Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids [2]
Doubleday 1953
11 The Caves of Steel Doubleday 1954
12 Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus [2] Doubleday 1954
15 The End of Eternity Doubleday 1955
17 Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury [2]
Doubleday 1956
20 The Naked Sun Doubleday 1957
21 Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter [2] Doubleday 1957
26 Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn [2] Doubleday 1958
67 Fantastic Voyage Houghton Mifflin 1966
121 The Gods Themselves Doubleday 1972
262 Foundation's Edge Doubleday 1982
278 Norby, the Mixed-up Robot [21] Walker 1983
281 The Robots of Dawn Doubleday 1983
298 Norby's Other Secret [21] Walker 1984
318 Norby and the Lost Princess [21] Walker 1985
328 Robots and Empire Doubleday 1985
333 Norby and the Invaders [21] Walker 1985
349 Foundation and Earth Doubleday 1986
351 Norby and the Queen's Necklace [21] Walker 1986
364 Norby Finds a Villain [21] Walker 1987
365 Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain Doubleday 1987
379 Prelude to Foundation Doubleday 1988
404 Norby Down to Earth Walker 1988
429 Nemesis Doubleday 1989
437 Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure [21] Walker 1989
445 Norby and the Oldest Dragon [21] Walker 1990
456 Nightfall [32] Doubleday 1990
The Ugly Little Boy [32] Doubleday 1992
Norby and the Court Jester [21] Walker 1991
Forward the Foundation Doubleday 1993
The Positronic Man [32] Doubleday 1993

Mystery Novels

28 The Death Dealers (A Whiff of Death) Avon 1958
172 Murder at The ABA Doubleday 1976

Science Fiction Short Stories and Short Story Collections

2 I, Robot Gnome Press [1] 1950
14 The Martian Way and Other Stories Doubleday 1955
23 Earth Is Room Enough: Science Fiction
Tales of Our Own Planet Doubleday 1957
29 Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future Doubleday 1959
60 The Rest of the Robots Doubleday 1964
82 Through a Glass, Clearly New English Library 1967
87 Asimov's Mysteries Doubleday 1968
98 Nightfall and Other Stories Doubleday 1969
113 The Best New Thing World Pub. Co. 1971
125 The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of
Trying Doubleday 1972
146 The Best of Isaac Asimov Sphere 1973
150 Have You Seen These? NESRAA 1974
164 Buy Jupiter and Other Stories Doubleday 1975
167 The Heavenly Host Walker 1975
170 "The Dream", "Benjamin's Dream" &
"Benjamin's Bicentennial Blast" Benjamin Franklin Keeps. 1976
174 Good Taste Apocalypse Press 1976
176 The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories Doubleday 1976
229 Three by Asimov Targ 1981
249 The Complete Robot Doubleday 1982
267 The Winds of Change and Other Stories Doubleday 1983
323 The Edge of Tomorrow Tor/Tom Doherty Associates 1985
332 It's Such a Beautiful Day Creative Education 1985
336 The Alternate Asimovs Doubleday 1986
345 Science Fiction by Asimov Davis Publications 1986
347 The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov Doubleday 1986
350 Robot Dreams Byron Preiss 1986
376 Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov Avenel 1987
409 All the Troubles of the World Creative Education 1989
410 Franchise Creative Education 1989
411 Robbie Creative Education 1989
412 Sally Creative Education 1989
421 The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of
Isaac Asimov Dark Harvest 1989
450 Robot Visions Byron Preiss 1990
460 The Complete Stories Volume 1 Doubleday 1990
467 Cal [35] 1991
The Complete Stories Volume 2 Doubleday 1992
Gold HarperPrism 1995
Magic HarperPrism 1996

Fantasy Short Story Collection

395 Azazel Doubleday 1988


Mystery Short Story Collections

155 Tales of the Black Widowers Doubleday 1974
178 More Tales of the Black Widowers Doubleday/Crime Club 1976
190 The Key Word and Other Mysteries Walker 1977
212 Casebook of the Black Widowers Doubleday 1980
277 The Union Club Mysteries Doubleday 1983
303 Banquets of the Black Widowers Doubleday 1984
327 The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries Walker 1985
348 The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov Doubleday 1986
444 Puzzles of the Black Widowers Doubleday 1990

Anthologies (Edited by Isaac Asimov)

47 The Hugo Winners [6] Doubleday 1962
52 Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales [7] Collier 1963
76 Tomorrow's Children: Eighteen Tales of
Fantasy and Science Fiction [6] Doubleday 1966
110 Where Do We Go from Here? [6] Doubleday 1971
115 The Hugo Winners, Volume II [6] Doubleday 1971
147 Nebula Award Stories Eight [6] Harper & Row 1973
151 Before The Golden Age: A Science Fiction
Anthology of the 1930s [6] Doubleday 1974
186 The Hugo Winners, Volume III [6] Doubleday 1977
192 One Hundred Great Science Fiction
Short-Short Stories [11] Doubleday 1978
202 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 1: 1939 [13] DAW Books 1979
205 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 2: 1940 [13] DAW Books 1979
208 The Science Fictional Solar System [14] Harper & Row 1979
209 The Thirteen Crimes of Science
Fiction [14] Doubleday 1979
213 The Future in Question [11] Fawcett Crest 1980
214 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 3: 1941 [13] DAW Books 1980
217 Who Done It? [15] Houghton Mifflin 1980
218 Space Mail [11] Fawcett Crest 1980
219 Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science
Fiction Short-Short Stories [11] Taplinger 1980
220 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 4: 1942 [13] DAW Books 1980
221 The Seven Deadly Sins of Science
Fiction [16] Fawcett Crest 1980
224 The Future I [11] Fawcett Crest 1981
226 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 5: 1943 [13] DAW Books 1981
233 Catastrophes! [14] Fawcett Crest 1981
234 Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science
Fiction of the 19th Century [16] Beaufort Books 1981
235 The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science
Fiction [16] Fawcett Crest 1981
236 Fantastic Creatures: An Anthology of
Fantasy and Science Fiction [14] Franklin Watts 1981
239 Raintree Reading Series I [14] Raintree 1981
Travels Through Time
Thinking Machines
Wild Inventions
After The End
241 Miniature Mysteries: One Hundred
Malicious Little Mystery Stories [11] Taplinger 1981
242 The Twelve Crimes of Christmas [17] Avon 1981
243 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 6: 1944 [13] DAW Books 1981
244 Space Mail II [14] Fawcett Crest 1982
245 Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries [16] Walker 1982
246 TV: 2000 [16] Fawcett Crest 1982
247 Laughing Space [18] Houghton Mifflin 1982
250 Speculations [15] Houghton Mifflin 1982
251 Flying Saucers [14] Fawcett Crest 1982
253 Raintree Reading Series II [14] Raintree 1982
Earth Invaded
Mad Scientists
Mutants
Tomorrow's TV
255 Dragon Tales [14] Fawcett Crest 1982
256 The Big Apple Mysteries [17] Avon 1982
258 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 7: 1945 [13] DAW Books 1982
260 The Last Man on Earth [14] Fawcett Crest 1982
261 Science Fiction A to Z: A Dictionary of
Great Science Fiction Themes [14] Houghton Mifflin 1982
263 Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of
the 19th Century [16] Beaufort Books 1982
264 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 8: 1946 [13] DAW Books 1982
268 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 9: 1947 [13] DAW Books 1983
269 Show Business Is Murder [17] Avon 1983
270 Hallucination Orbit: Psychology In
Science Fiction [16] Farrar, Straus, & Giroux 1983
271 Caught In the Organ Draft: Biology In
Science Fiction [16] Farrar, Straus, & Giroux 1983
273 The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book [20] Crown 1983
275 Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and
Supernatural Stories of the 19th
Century [16] Beaufort Books 1983
276 Starships: Stories Beyond the Boundaries
of the Universe [14] Fawcett Crest 1983
279 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories,10: 1948 [13] DAW Books 1983
282 Thirteen Horrors of Halloween [17] Avon 1983
283 Creations: The Quest For Origins in
Story and Science [22] Crown 1983
285 Wizards [14] NAL 1983
286 Those Amazing Electronic Thinking
Machines!: An Anthology of Robot and
Computer Stories [14] Franklin Watts 1983
287 Computer Crimes and Capers [14] Academy Chicago Pub. 1983
288 Intergalactic Empires [14] NAL 1983
289 Machines That Think: The Best Science
Stories About Robots and Computers [23] Holt, Rinehart, & Winston 1983
291 One Hundred Great Fantasy Short-Short
Stories [24] Doubleday 1984
292 Raintree Reading Series 3 [14] Raintree 1984
Bug Awful
Children Of The Future
The Immortals
Time Warps
293 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 11: 1949 [13] DAW Books 1984
294 Witches [14] NAL 1984
295 Murder on the Menu [17] Avon 1984
296 Young Mutants [14] Harper & Row 1984
297 Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science
Fiction Firsts [16] Beaufort Books 1984
301 The Science Fictional Olympics [14] NAL 1984
302 Fantastic Reading: Stories & Activities
for Grade 5-8 [25] Scott Foresman & Co. 1984
304 Election Day 2084: Science Fiction
Stories on the Politics of the
Future [13] Prometheus Books 1984
306 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 12: 1950 [13] DAW Books 1984
307 Young Extraterrestrials [14] Harper & Row 1984
308 Sherlock Holmes Through Time and
Space [14] Bluejay Books 1984
310 Supermen [14] NAL 1984
311 Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Fantasy
Novels [14] Crown 1984
314 Cosmic Knights [14] NAL 1985
315 The Hugo Winners, Volume IV [6] Doubleday 1985
316 Young Monsters [14] Harper & Row 1985
319 Spells [14] NAL 1985
324 Great Science Fiction Stories by the
World's Great Scientists [14] Donald I. Fine 1985
325 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories,13: 1951 [13] DAW Books 1985
329 Amazing Stories: Sixty Years of the Best
Science Fiction [13] TSR Inc. 1985
330 Young Ghosts [14] Harper & Row 1985
331 Baker's Dozen: Thirteen Short Science
Fiction Novels [14] Crown 1985
334 Giants [14] NAL 1985
337 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories,14: 1952 [13] DAW Books 1986
338 Comets [14] NAL 1986
339 Young Star Travelers [14] Harper & Row 1986
340 The Hugo Winners, Volume V [6] Doubleday 1986
342 Mythical Beasties [14] NAL 1986
346 Tin Stars [14] NAL 1986
352 Magical Wishes [14] NAL 1986
353 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 15: 1953 [13] DAW Books 1986
355 The Twelve Frights of Christmas [16] Avon 1986
360 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 16: 1954 [13] DAW Books 1987
361 Young Witches and Warlocks [14] Harper & Row 1987
363 Devils [14] NAL 1987
366 Hound Dunnit [28] Carroll & Graf 1987
367 Space Shuttles [14] NAL 1987
371 Atlantis [14] NAL 1988
372 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 17: 1955 [13] DAW Books 1988
380 Encounters [14] Headline 1988
391 Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Crime
Stories of the 19th Century [16] Dembner Books 1988
392 The Mammoth Book of Classic Science
Fiction: Short Novels of the 1930's Carroll & Graf 1988
393 Monsters [16] NAL 1988
394 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 18: 1956 [13] DAW Books 1988
397 Ghosts [14] NAL 1988
405 The Sport of Crime [17] Lynx 1988
407 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 19: 1957 [13] DAW Books 1989
413 Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the
Occult [14] Prometheus Books 1989
414 Purr-fect Crime [17] Lynx 1989
422 Robots [14] NAL 1989
428 Visions of Fantasy: Tales From the
Masters [13] Doubleday 1989
430 Curses [14] NAL 1989
435 The New Hugo Winners [13] Wynwood Press 1989
436 Senior Sleuths: A Large Print Anthology
of Mysteries and Puzzlers [28] G. K. Hall & Co. 1989
446 Cosmic Critiques: How & Why Ten Science
Fiction Stories Work [13] Writer's Digest Books 1990
448 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 20: 1958 [13] DAW Books 1990
455 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 21: 1959 [13] DAW Books 1990
457 Robots from Asimov's Davis Publications 1990
458 Invasions [14] Roc/Penguin Books 1990
459 The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science
Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s [16] Carroll & Graf 1990
465 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 22: 1960 [13] DAW Books 1991
468 Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 23: 1961 [13] DAW Books 1991
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science
Fiction: Short Novels of the
1940's [16] Carroll & Graf 1989
Faeries [14] Roc/Penguin Books 1991
The Mammoth Book of New World Science
Fiction: Short Novels of the 1960s [16] Carroll & Graf 1991
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 24: 1962 [13] DAW Books 1992
The New Hugo Winners, Volume II [6] Baen Books 1992
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 25: 1963 [13] DAW Books 1992
The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science
Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s [16] Carroll & Graf 1992
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science
Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s [16] Carroll & Graf 1993

NONFICTION
General Science

31 Words of Science, and the History Behind
Them Houghton Mifflin 1959
36 Breakthroughs in Science Houghton Mifflin 1960
39 The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science Basic Books 1960
61 Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of
Science and Technology, 1st Ed. Doubleday 1964
65 The New Intelligent Man's Guide to
Science Basic Books 1965
97 Twentieth Century Discovery Doubleday 1969
102 Great Ideas of Science Houghton Mifflin 1969
118 Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of
Science and Technology, New Rev. Ed. Doubleday 1972
120 Asimov's Guide to Science Basic Books 1972
122 More Words of Science Houghton Mifflin 1972
128 Ginn Science Program, Intermediate
Level A Ginn 1972
129 Ginn Science Program, Intermediate
Level C Ginn 1972
132 Ginn Science Program, Intermediate
Level B Ginn 1972
140 Ginn Science Program, Advanced Level A Ginn 1973
141 Ginn Science Program, Advanced Level B Ginn 1973
143 Please Explain Houghton Mifflin 1973
207 A Choice of Catastrophes Simon & Schuster 1979
252 Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos Crown 1982
257 Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of
Science and Technology, 2nd Rev. Ed. Doubleday 1982
274 The Measure of the Universe Harper & Row 1983
309 Asimov's New Guide to Science Basic Books 1984
370 Beginnings: The Story of Origins -
of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the
Universe Walker 1987
431 Asimov's Chronology of Science and
Discovery Harper & Row 1989
Our Angry Earth: a Ticking Time Bomb [33] Tor 1991
Why Do We Have Different Seasons? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
Is Our Planet Warming Up? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
Why Is the Air Dirty? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
Why Are Whales Vanishing? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
Where Does Garbage Go? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
What Causes Acid Rain? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
Why Are Some Beaches Oily? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1992
Why Are Animals Endangered? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1992
What's Happening to the Ozone Layer? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1993
Why Are the Rain Forests Vanishing? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1992
Why Does Litter Cause Problems? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1992

Mathematics

32 Realm of Numbers Houghton Mifflin 1959
35 Realm of Measure Houghton Mifflin 1960
42 Realm of Algebra Houghton Mifflin 1961
57 Quick and Easy Math Houghton Mifflin 1964
66 An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule Houghton Mifflin 1965
142 How Did We Find Out About Numbers? Walker 1973
423 History of Mathematics (a chart) Carolina Biological Suppls. 1989

Astronomy

30 The Clock We Live On Abelard-Schuman 1959
34 The Kingdom of the Sun Abelard-Schuman 1960
37 Satellites in Outer Space Random House 1960
40 The Double Planet Abelard-Schuman 1960
59 Planets For Man [9] Random House 1964
77 The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar Walker 1966
79 The Moon Follet 1967
80 Environments Out There Scholastic/Abelard-Schuman 1967
84 To the Ends of the Universe Walker 1967
85 Mars Follet 1967
89 Stars Follet 1968
90 Galaxies Follet 1968
101 ABC's of Space Walker 1969
111 What Makes the Sun Shine? Little, Brown & Co. 1971
134 Comets and Meteors Follet 1973
135 The Sun Follet 1973
139 Jupiter, the Largest Planet Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard 1973
152 Our World in Space New York Graphic Society 1974
160 The Solar System Follet 1975
162 How Did We Find Out About Comets? Walker 1975
165 Eyes on the Universe: A History of the
Telescope Houghton Mifflin 1975
179 Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard 1976
182 The Collapsing Universe: The Story of
Black Holes Walker 1977
184 How Did We Find Out About Outer Space? Walker 1977
188 Mars, the Red Planet Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard 1977
197 How Did We Find Out About Black Holes? Walker 1978
199 Saturn and Beyond Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard 1979
203 Extraterrestrial Civilizations Crown 1979
228 Venus, Near Neighbor of the Sun Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard 1981
232 Visions of the Universe The Cosmos Store 1981
265 How Did We Find Out About the Universe? Walker 1982
313 Asimov's Guide to Halley's Comet Walker 1985
317 The Exploding Suns: The Secrets of the
Supernovas E. P. Dutton 1985
359 How Did We Find Out About Sunshine? Walker 1987
369 Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1987
381 The Asteroids Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
382 The Earth's Moon Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
383 Mars: Our Mysterious Neighbor Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
384 Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
385 Quasars, Pulsars, and Black Holes Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
386 Rockets, Probes, and Satellites Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
387 Our Solar System Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
388 The Sun Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
389 Uranus: The Sideways Planet Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
398 Saturn: The Ringed Beauty Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
399 How Was the Universe Born? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
400 Earth: Our Home Base Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
401 Ancient Astronomy Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
402 Unidentified Flying Objects Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
403 Space Spotter's Guide Gareth Stevens, Inc 1988
415 Is There Life On Other Planets? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
416 Science Fiction, Science Fact Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
417 Mercury: The Quick Planet Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
418 Space Garbage Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
419 Jupiter: The Spotted Giant Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
420 The Birth and Death of Stars Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
424 Think About Space: Where Have We Been
and Where Are We Going? [30] Walker 1989
438 Mythology and the Universe Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
439 Colonizing the Planets and the Stars Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
440 Astronomy Today Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
441 Pluto: A Double Planet? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
442 Piloted Space Flights Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
443 Comets and Meteors Gareth Stevens, Inc 1989
452 Neptune: The Farthest Giant Gareth Stevens, Inc 1990
453 Venus: A Shrouded Mystery Gareth Stevens, Inc 1990
454 The World's Space Programs Gareth Stevens, Inc 1990
463 How Did We Find Out About Neptune? Walker 1990
464 How Did We Find Out About Pluto? Walker 1991
What is a Shooting Star? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
Why Do Stars Twinkle? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
Why Does the Moon Change Shape? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
What is an Eclipse? Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space Random House 1991
The Future in Space Gareth Stevens, Inc 1993

Earth Sciences

46 Words on the Map Houghton Mifflin 1962
107 ABC's of the Ocean Walker 1970
117 ABC's of the Earth Walker 1971
133 How Did We Find Out the Earth Is Round? Walker 1973
168 The Ends of the Earth: The Polar Regions
of the World Weybright & Talley 1975
194 How Did We Find Out About Earthquakes? Walker 1978
211 How Did We Find Out About Antarctica? Walker 1979
215 How Did We Find Out About Oil? Walker 1980
223 How Did We Find Out About Coal? Walker 1980
231 How Did We Find Out About Volcanoes? Walker 1981
320 How Did We Find Out About the Atmosphere? Walker 1985

Chemistry and Biochemistry

8 Biochemistry and Human Metabolism [3] Williams & Wilkins 1952
13 The Chemicals of Life: Enzymes,
Vitamins, and Hormones Abelard-Schuman 1954
18 Chemistry and Human Health [5] McGraw-Hill 1956
22 Building Blocks of the Universe Abelard-Schuman 1957
25 The World of Carbon Abelard-Schuman 1958
27 The World of Nitrogen Abelard-Schuman 1958
43 Life and Energy Doubleday 1962
48 The Search For The Elements Basic Books 1962
50 The Genetic Code Orion Press 1963
62 A Short History of Chemistry Doubleday 1965
68 The Noble Gases Basic Books 1966
75 The Genetic Effects of Radiation [10] U.S. AEC 1966
95 Photosynthesis Basic Books 1969
158 How Did We Find Out About Vitamins? Walker 1974
335 How Did We Find Out About DNA? Walker 1985
432 How Did We Find Out About
Photosynthesis? Walker 1989

Physics

19 Inside The Atom Abelard-Schuman 1956
69 Inside The Atom (3rd revised edition) Abelard-Schuman 1966
70 The Neutrino: Ghost Particle of the Atom Doubleday 1966
72 Understanding Physics, Volume I Walker 1966
73 Understanding Physics, Volume II Walker 1966
74 Understanding Physics, Volume III Walker 1966
108 Light Follet 1970
123 Electricity and Man U.S. AEC 1972
131 Worlds Within Worlds U.S. AEC 1972
136 How Did We Find Out About Electricity? Walker 1973
169 How Did We Find Out About Energy? Walker 1975
173 How Did We Find Out About Atoms? Walker 1976
180 How Did We Find Out About Nuclear Power? Walker 1976
230 How Did We Find Out About Solar Power? Walker 1981
299 How Did We Find Out About Computers? Walker 1984
312 How Did We Find Out About Robots? Walker 1984
322 Robots, Machines In Man's Image [27] Harmony House 1985
343 How Did We Find Out About the Speed of
Light? Walker 1986
375 How Did We Find Out About
Superconductivity? Walker 1988
406 How Did We Find Out About Microwaves? Walker 1989
451 How Did We Find Out About Lasers? Walker 1990
466 Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic
Cosmos E. P. Dutton/Truman 1991

Biology

16 Races and People [4] Abelard-Schuman 1955
33 The Living River Abelard-Schuman 1960
38 The Wellsprings of Life Abelard-Schuman 1960
51 The Human Body: Its Structure and
Operation Houghton Mifflin 1963
55 The Human Brain: Its Capacities and
Functions Houghton Mifflin 1964
56 A Short History of Biology Natural History Press [8] 1964
124 ABC's of Ecology Walker 1972
145 How Did We Find Out About Dinosaurs? Walker 1973
153 How Did We Find Out About Germs? Walker 1974
204 How Did We Find Out About Our Human
Roots? Walker 1979
248 How Did We Find Out About Life In the
Deep Sea Walker 1982
254 How Did We Find Out About the Beginning
of Life? Walker 1982
280 How Did We Find Out About Genes? Walker 1983
356 How Did We Find Out About Blood? Walker 1987
368 How Did We Find Out About the Brain? Walker 1987
390* History of Biology (a chart) Carolina Biological Suppls. 1988
434 Little Treasury of Dinosaurs (5 book set) Outlet 1989
Giant Dinosaurs (vol. 1)
Armored Dinosaurs (vol. 2)
Small Dinosaurs (vol. 3)
Sea Reptiles and Flying Reptiles
(vol. 4)
Meat-Eating Dinosaurs and Horned
Dinosaurs (vol. 5)

Science Essay Collections

24 Only a Trillion Abelard-Schuman 1957
45 Fact and Fancy Doubleday 1962
53 View from a Height Doubleday 1963
58 Adding a Dimension Doubleday 1964
64 Of Time and Space and Other Things Doubleday 1965
78 From Earth to Heaven Doubleday 1966
83 Is Anyone There? Doubleday 1967
88 Science, Numbers, and I Doubleday 1968
103 The Solar System and Back Doubleday 1970
109 The Stars in Their Courses Doubleday 1971
119 The Left Hand of the Electron Doubleday 1972
138 Today and Tomorrow and... Doubleday 1973
144 The Tragedy of the Moon Abelard-Schuman 1973
148 Asimov on Astronomy Doubleday 1974
157 Asimov on Chemistry Doubleday 1974
159 Of Matters Great and Small Doubleday 1975
163 Science Past, Science Future Doubleday 1975
171 Asimov on Physics Doubleday 1976
175 The Planet That Wasn't Doubleday 1976
183 Asimov on Numbers Doubleday 1977
187 The Beginning and the End Doubleday 1977
193 Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright Doubleday 1978
198 Life and Time Doubleday 1978
206 The Road to Infinity Doubleday 1979
237 The Sun Shines Bright Doubleday 1981
238 Change!: Seventy-one Glimpses of the
Future Houghton Mifflin 1981
266 Counting the Eons Doubleday 1983
272 The Roving Mind Prometheus Books 1983
290 X Stands for Unknown Doubleday 1984
326 The Subatomic Monster Doubleday 1985
341 The Dangers of Intelligence and Other
Science Essays Houghton Mifflin 1986
354 Far as Human Eye Could See Doubleday 1987
357 Past, Present, and Future Prometheus Books 1987
378 The Relativity of Wrong Doubleday 1988
426 The Tyrannosaurus Prescription: and One
Hundred Other Science Essays Prometheus Books 1989
427 Asimov On Science: A 30 Year
Retrospective 1959-1989 Doubleday 1989
447 Frontiers: new discoveries about man and
his planet, outer space and the
universe E. P. Dutton/Truman 1990
449 Out of the Everywhere Doubleday 1990
462 The Secret of the Universe Doubleday 1991
Frontiers II: more recent discoveries
about life, Earth, space, and the
universe [21] E. P. Dutton/Truman 1993

Science Fiction Essay Collections

227 Asimov on Science Fiction Doubleday 1981
408 Asimov's Galaxy: Reflections on Science
Fiction Doubleday 1989

History

54 The Kite That Won the Revolution Houghton Mifflin 1963
63 The Greeks: A Great Adventure Houghton Mifflin 1965
71 The Roman Republic Houghton Mifflin 1966
81 The Roman Empire Houghton Mifflin 1967
86 The Egyptians Houghton Mifflin 1967
91 The Near East: 10,000 Years of History Houghton Mifflin 1968
92 The Dark Ages Houghton Mifflin 1968
94 Words from History Houghton Mifflin 1968
96 The Shaping of England Houghton Mifflin 1969
106 Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire Houghton Mifflin 1970
116 The Land of Canaan Houghton Mifflin 1971
126 The Shaping of France Houghton Mifflin 1972
137 The Shaping of North America: From
Earliest Times to 1763 Houghton Mifflin 1973
149 The Birth of the United States Houghton Mifflin 1974
156 Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship John Day 1974
161 Our Federal Union Houghton Mifflin 1975
189 The Golden Door Houghton Mifflin 1977
461 The March of the Millennia: A Key To
Looking At History [30] Walker 1991
Asimov's Chronology of the World HarperCollins 1991
Christopher Columbus: Navigator to the
New World Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
Ferdinand Magellan: Opening the Door to
World Exploration Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991

The Bible

44 Words in Genesis Houghton Mifflin 1962
49 Words from the Exodus Houghton Mifflin 1963
93 Asimov's Guide To The Bible, Volume I Doubleday 1968
99 Asimov's Guide To The Bible, Volume II Doubleday 1969
127 The Story of Ruth Doubleday 1972
195 Animals of the Bible Doubleday 1978
225 In the Beginning Crown/Stonesong Press 1981

Literature

41 Words from the Myths Houghton Mifflin 1961
104 Asimov's Guide To Shakespeare, Volume I Doubleday 1970
105 Asimov's Guide To Shakespeare, Volume II Doubleday 1970
130 Asimov's Annotated "Don Juan" Doubleday 1972
154 Asimov's Annotated "Paradise Lost" Doubleday 1974
181 Familiar Poems Annotated Doubleday 1977
191 Asimov's Sherlockian Limericks Mysterious 1977
222 The Annotated "Gulliver's Travels" Clarkson N. Potter 1980
362 How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and
Comfort [21] Walker 1987
373 Asimov's Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan Doubleday 1988


Humor and Satire

112 The Sensuous Dirty Old Man Walker 1971
114 Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor Houghton Mifflin 1971
166 Lecherous Limericks Walker 1975
177 More Lecherous Limericks Walker 1976
185 Still More Lecherous Limericks Walker 1977
196 Limericks: Too Gross; or Two Dozen
Dirty Stanzas [12] W. W. Norton 1978
240 A Grossery of Limericks [12] W. W. Norton 1981
305 Isaac Asimov's Limericks for Children Caedmon 1984
Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700
Favorite Jokes, Limericks, and
Anecdotes HarperCollins 1992

Autobiography

201 In Memory Yet Green Doubleday 1979
216 In Joy Still Felt Doubleday 1980
I. Asimov: A memoir Doubleday 1994
Yours, Isaac Asimov [36] Doubleday 1995

Miscellaneous

100 Opus 100 Houghton Mifflin 1969
200 Opus 200 Houghton Mifflin 1979
210 Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts Grosset & Dunlap 1979
259 Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz [19] Dembner Books 1982
284 Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz II [19] Dembner Books 1983
300 Opus 300 Houghton Mifflin 1984
321 Living in the Future [26] Harmony House 1985
344 Futuredays: A Nineteenth-Century Vision
of the Year 2000 Henry Holt 1986
358 Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz III [19] Dembner Books 1987
374 Isaac Asimov Presents From Harding to
Hiroshima [34] Dembner Books 1988
377 Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature
Quotations [29] Blue Cliff 1988
396 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction and
Fantasy Story-a-Month 1989 Calendar Pomegranate Calendars & Bks 1988
425 Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz IV Dembner Books 1989
433 The Complete Science Fair Handbooks [31] Scott Foresman & Co 1989

[footnotes omitted]

IA may be great... and prolific... but i still prefer bradbury.

Clarke and Heinlein,mostly because my brother had a shitload of their books.

Thanks for the heads up, Charlie. Sounds interesting. Is basic knowledge of Hawking's theory necessary?


I just finished 'Fast Food Nation' by Eric Schlosser. It was an interesting read, a bit shocking at times. But it didn't really tell me something I didn't know already; only the specific quantities and added statistics kept me at it.

I felt the same way about FAST FOOD NATION, but didn't bother finishing it.

As for Susskind, no prior knowledge of ANY kind of physics/cosmology is really necessary. His first book, 2005's THE COSMIC LANDSCAPE, is really good also. He refutes 99% of Intelligent Design in that one. He was intending to do the Black Hole/Hawking book when he was pulled into the Intelligent Design furor, and finally got around to this. It's brand new. I think these books are better than Hawking's, more like Feynman's lectures if you've ever read them. Totally accessible to anyone willing to concentrate! I bought the audiobook for my aeronautical engineer uncle, and he loves it.

Fast Food Nation was a really good flick, very surprised, thought it was gonna be lame, I kinda like Kinere (sp?)

I was talking about a book, but maybe you don't know what that is.

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris.

A pretty short book (169 pages not including end notes) that talks about the recent history of financial innovations like securitized debt obligations and credit default swaps that were created in the 1980s and 1990s with the advent of fast desktop computers and the use of mathematical models to create extremely complex investment portfolios. Those very innovations -- and the actions of a very arrogant man named Alan Greenspan -- are the reasons why the world is currently fucked financially and why this will make the S & L bailout in the 1980s seem very small.

You don't need a finance degree to understand and enjoy this book. It is written in everyday English and not at all mathematical or technical.

armadale, wilkie collins

I'm about halfway through with "The Lost Weekend" by Charles Jackson.

The new issue of Skeptic magazine. Lots about that shit Expelled movie.

Lately, the following:

Robert Little - The Revolutionist
Fiction, nicely done. I've read several books by Little and I think it's a decent read.
This is story told along the line of history from the Russian Revolution to Stalin's death. Part love affair, part spy novel, part thriller.

London has been informed.... - Reports by Auschwitz escapees
Chilling. Three reports by people who escaped from Auschwitz, when it was running at full power. It (partly) proves that the Allied forces already knew what was happening at the extermination camps in 1942/1943. Without doing anything about it.

Sebastian Haffner - Anmerkungen zu Hitler
Little book about Hitler. Interesting. It focusses on his achievements, successes, failures, mistakes and, ultimately, his treason. Haffner is a great historian and writer. I recommend his work.

Multatuli - Max Havelaar
Classic Dutch book. First time in 20 years I look at it.

re reading Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler...

Great book, about a great american, and one of the greatest people of the 20th century... nay of all time.

Miklos Nyiszli - I was Doctor Mengele's assistant

Shocking book. A Hungarian (Jewish) doctor describes his time as member of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. Pretty graphic from time to time.

Zombie Haikus

some examples:

Elbows bend one way
except for this guy who is screaming
his bends two ways now

you are so lucky
that I cannot remember
how to use door knobs

Biting into heads
is much harder than it looks
the skull is feisty

nothing hurts me now
normally the screwdriver
wouldnt have gone there

and my favourite
brains brains brains brains brains
brains brains brains brains brains brains brains
brains brains brains brains brains

I Bleed For This? (old text files)

"Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" by Mary Roach.

^^me too! that and confessions of a yakuza by junichi saga..

Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection

Bernard Malamud - The fixer
Based on a true story. Pulitzer Price for Ficiton 1967. It's a good read.

Walter the Farting Dog

I'm reading 3 uninteresting novels for a (native literature) class.

"Mean Spirit" --Linda Hogan
"Ravensong" --Lee Maracle
"Half-Breed" --Maria Campbell

Hopefully my class gets less boring when we start reading plays.

And for fun I'm reading the "Paranoia XP" first edition book.

^^^ What is that from? I remember when I was little, my neighbor's mom had a book of those drawings.

Freakshow - James St. James

uncle silas, j. sheridan le fanu

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Jenna's book. It is 1000 times better than I thought it was going to be. Wow she had it shitty growing up...

Proficient Motorcycling by David Hough.

-Chuck, Vegetarian fanboy

Some light reading in between "The Road" and "Shock Doctrine":

Just finished reading this book:

For the 10+ time. I love love love this book.

I'm also reading The Secret...I have been reading it for just about a year now...I really cant seem to get into it enough to keep on wanting to read it.

Just started reading this one:

The Year of Living Biblically by A.J Jacobs. It's fucking great. Oh and I'm re-reading Core Performance by Mark Verstegen. I'll see where his workouts take me...

Venus in Furs. Read it when I was 17 and revisiting it now.

It's a tough read, but....

Oddly enough I was going through some stuff from when I lived with my mom, and I found a Book Of Mormon. Creeepy.

I was thinking about Elder Harding and the time we fucked in the kitchen at the LDS church, I was 13 and he was 18. He was on a mission from Oregon.

"I seem to be a verb" R. Buckminster Fuller.

It took me ages to find this book and I was not disappointed.

Just started reading this one:

as promised...

Gunker, did you make the hole in the book or was it already there when you bought it? If so, did you get a discount?

Just picked this book over at Brooklyn Public Library today:

The Atlas Of Anatomy.

Atlas Of Anatomy.

Donnybrook, about the first Battle of Bull Run.

can you forgive her?, anthony trollope

Me of Little Faith-Lewis Black

conversations with h.s.t., great read

^^I'd really like to read that HR.

"Shock Doctrine" has a website, with mucho supporting documentation:

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/resources

Uplifting goodies like "Central Intelligence Agency, Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation, July 1963

This declassified CIA interrogation manual was used throughout Latin America in the 1960s and was heavily influenced by Donald Hebb and Ewen Cameron’s mind control experiments at McGill University. Many of the sensory deprivation techniques described in the manual later resurfaced at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo."

and

"“The Depatterning Treatment of Schizophrenia,” 1962

In this paper, Ewen Cameron advocates using a combination of electroshock, barbiturates and sensory deprivation to disrupt patients’ sense of time and space."

"The 5 Families" by Selwyn Raab. It chronicles the history of New York's Mafia families. It is long, well researched and it is very good.

Too Fat to Fish . It's Artie Lange's memoir.

Get it G. Reverend Bob Levy reads, well, tries to. Hilarity ensues. He's a Panzer. Baba Booey reads as well.

I'm reading The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty. As a die hard Mets fan, that's better than porn.

Kushiel's Dart by Jaqueline Carey.. Again...

God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant...so far so good

I figured. But you don't find him literate on the show? He can be pretty well-spoken and witty when he's compelled to do so.

Still didnt finish Freakshow by James St. James. I love to read but it makes me very drowsy.

Steven King's new book of short stories, "Just Beyond Sunset", I think. Some good, some not so much.

the mill on the floss, george eliot

La Pierre Angulaire (1953), aka The Cornerstone, in English. Historical novel I've had lying around since high school.

I May be Wrong, but I Doubt It, Charles Barkley's, first book. An easy read in the tub....

FIGHT by Eugene S. Robinson. He is a little word-heavy at times, but he is a true violence 'hobbyist'...

Lately:

Dr. J. Presser - Ondergang (1965)- Dutch/1000 pages
About the extermination of the Jews in The Netherlands. It was written a bit too emotionally for my taste. Though he does point in the right direction when it comes to the general attitude in Holland during the occupation.

Tom Clancy's Op-Center - Line of Control & Mission of Honor

Norman G. Finkelstein - The Holocaust Industry
Short, easy-to-read. I understand his position and agree with most of his comments and conclusions. I don't like the way he bashes people. Very cynical; that shouldn't be necessary, but apparently he needs it to get his point across.

I have only been reading RPG source books lately.

In hard copy it's been "Paranoia XP". This game is kind of tough to explain in a forum post. I highly recommend it.

And on the computer it's been Violence: The Roleplaying Game of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed.

It's a great game and even has stats for weapons like "piano wire and a brick" and culinary blowtorches. You can see a PDF of it here. It is only 34 pages long and worth a read. "Welcome to Violence you degraded turd".

I have a friend who grew up in wartime Netherlands. He was just a young teen then. He has interesting stories.

His family left after the war and moved to a farm in Nebraska in the US.

Everyone I know who has read Finklestein's book said it was great.

I'm reading My Father's Keeper, which is about the lives of children of high-ranking Nazis later in life. A little dramatic, but super-interesting....

Animal Life


Killer whales are smart motherfuckers.

just finished Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point, and also Blink.

also recently finished Predictably Irrational -- awesome book, the amazon summary doesn't do it justice. Sort of like Freakonomics, but different.

you watch cocaine cowboys on showtime cm? griselda one bad ass madrina.

I have every damn channel except Showtime. Nothing is on any of the others for $125 per month, so I never bothered getting it. Just my luck.

cm get cocaine cowboys on dvd asap.. rent it or something, It is badass. Griselda blanco makes pablo escobar look like willie d .

Netflix. Thanks!

Cool. I can't bear reading books or watching films out of order, so I will get 'em ALL.

A Religious Orgy In Tennessee, a collection of Mencken's coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial, along with his obituary of Bryan.

A book by this guy:

And what did Grabin have to say?

The New Rules of Lifting by Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove.

If you ever see a fitness article with one or both of those names, read it....

I just finished Grabin's book today and starting reading a book by Alexander Komarovskiy, he was a Soviet military architect so the book is interesting:

FIve Families by Selwynn Raab

Reading Burg's posts were good training for this book. 700+ pages not including all the appendixes, indexes, and source pages.

Reading the Drizzt series of books from R.A. Salvatore right now...

Just finished "the Looming Tower"

http://www.amazon.com/Looming-Tower-Qaeda-Road-Vintage/dp/1400030846/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232425853&sr=8-1

Bought it a year ago and never got around to reading it. Fascinating and incredibly well researched.

Starting the Partnership next. http://www.amazon.com/Partnership-Making-Goldman-Sachs/dp/1594201897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232425944&sr=1-1

by one of the editors of big brother skateboard magazine and founding member of the 'jackass' crew. ostensibly porn reviews, but he never gets to the review. instead he uses it as a jumping off point to write about his sad, ugly life & puke stained skateboarding adventures. personally, i don't think it's as cute as he obviously does. i'd rather read a real review. he's an alcoholic dick with bad writing style, and exactly the kind of person i grew up riding skateboards & getting fucked up with. funny at times. mine is by the toilet.

^^^^^^^^^Agreed. His shit really started to wear me out. Although, in his new review he gets back to his roots (yay)...

http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n1/htdocs/skinema-521.php

the assignment: or, on observing the observer of the observers, friedrich durrenmatt
and
the american, henry james

All your books suck, they're crap.

Adrianople AD378 from the Osprey Campaign series.

Detailing the battle of Adrianople which the Romans lost to the Goths in the 4th century AD.

Blood in the Cage by L. Jon Wertheim. It's a history of the UFC and of Pat Miletich in particular. For an MMA book it is actually quite well-written.

A woman in Berlin.

End of World War II from a different point of view.

Its very good.

Vitruvius Brittanicus, but there is no text in the book:

Leon Uris - The Haj
Nice story, easy to read. I like his books.

Noam Chomsky - 9/11
Interesting, gives some insight in American reactions.

Philip Short - Pol Pot (The History of a Nightmare)
Biography of Pol Pot. I just started. Interesting, because the trial in Cambodia is slowly starting to move forward.

Just finished "Of Human Bondage" and started "For Whom the Bell Tolls".

I decided to go back and read all the assigned reading I blew off and cheated on when I was younger. I don't think I would have appreciated them the same as a teenager anyway. I think most good literature assigned to High School (and even most college) students can't really be appreciated or even understood at that age. I remember wanting to stick hot needles in my eyes rather than read another page of "Of Human Bondage" when I was in high school. I hated it at the time. I just finished reading it recently, and thought it was great (except the happy ending was a bit of a sell-out).

http://tinyurl.com/dbcfdh


I wanna go Tommy Hearns on Coke (aka Pipino)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS_AQK2idU8

^ Looks good, best boxing book I've ever read is Stephen Brunt's Facing Ali.

Right now I'm trying to decide what to read next: either Blue Movie by Terry Southern or Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber.

Salman Rushdie - The Enchantress of Florence.

Also Reengineering the Corporation. My boss is stuck in 90s management fads and is making me read it.

Henrik Ibsen's -The Hunger Artist

He starved himself as part of a circus act, and eventually they'd forget about him. One day they found him nearly dead, collapsed in his cart/bed, and asked why he didn't just eat.

"I'd gladly have eaten," he said, "if only I had found something I liked."

Catcher in the Rye (again), It's been years and saw it and picked it up.
Does anyone still go to the library to rent out books? I like the library and I enjoy renting them, something about the smell, the plastic cover and the fact that so many others have read the same book.
WIERD???

I'll check out a book through the library if I can't find it or I'm unsure if it's any good. If I like a book I eventually end up picking it up even if I read a library copy.

Right now I'm reading Flannery O'Connor's Wiseblood. Great stuff.

Getting ready for the warm weather vacation planning...

Great stories, some of them are believed to be true. The good part is when the young man, Jesus, tried to start a populist movement to get the Romans out of Palestine. They caught him in a Godfather-like betrayal and killed him. Then he came back from the dead and really charged everyone up, kind of like Obiwan on Star Wars. So much that the Roman Empire eventually fell into ruin. This would make a great movie. Good plots and subplots.

Ya think ??????

Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo



Dambisa is a Harvard trained economist economist from Zambia, whose career has included working at Goldman Sachs and the World Bank. In "Dead Aid" she analyzes the reasons behind prevailing extreme poverty in her native Africa despite the billions of dollars flowing to the continent from the Western world.

Her answer is simple: Africans don't need left-leaning elitist snobs like Geoffrey Sachs or Bill Clinton to come up with all kinds of solutions their problems. They are not incompetent fools that will all die of hunger the very moment the international aid stops flowing. On the contrary without the international aid, the African governments will be forced to launch reforms that will enable economic growth and fight the corruption in order to raise tax revenues to compensate for the loss of international aid money. The businessmen will be forced to start caring about their customers instead of focusing on strengthening political connections.

She is also very critical of self proclaimed celebrity saviors and spokesmen of Africa like Bono and Bob Geldof. According to her, Live Aid has turned the discourse about Africa into a discotheque. "How would Americans feel if Amy Winehouse started to give the US government advice about the credit crunch? And was listened to?” she asks.

Dead Aid is an interesting book written by a successful black woman who succeeded on her own merits without profiting from the white guilt. Also, she's not that bad looking and would make an interesting addition to the "Ghetto Gaggers" series.

i am a cat, soseki natsume

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.

Just finished:

Biography of Pol Pot by Philip Short - Not the best biography ever, but certainly worth my time. Lots of background on Khmer history and culture.

The Haj by Leon Uris - What can I say? Read it, great stuff.


Reading now:

Dead Souls - Gogol
Autobiography by Lemmy (Motörhead)

Presently reading "FETISH; Fashion, Sex, & Power" by Valerie Steele.

It was gift from the wife.

Starting William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (2003) this weekend.

A couple of days ago I received a rather long memo/transcript about a story titled The Bali 9. It's a very long and very messy story and it's had me engrossed for about a week.

Predictably Irrational -Dan Arilly

It explains people's buying decisions. My fave is the Asymmetric Dominance Effect.

Jefferson vs Hamilton Confontations That Shaped a Nation

A good collection of letters and articles written by the two.

The Omnivore's Dilemma, another one by Michael Pollan

I have three going at once. "I Hate Your Guts" by Jimmy Norton going in the bathroom, A Harry Turtledove novel about medieval wizards and glaciers going up in my shop and another book (the title/author escapes me) in the living room. I'll read anything from a product label to a dictionary looking for good writing.

Tom Clancy´s Powerplays - Cutting Edge

It sucks. The guy who wrote this, Jerome Preisler, should start writing for his highschool paper. Worst in the Powerplays series so far.


Jozef Musiol - Man and Crime
About the investigation and trial of Nazi war crimes (especially medical experiments) in Poland. Written by Polish prosecutor/judge. Interesting, also nauseating.


Recommended:
Dead Souls by Gogol
Great book, very entertaining and detailed description of Russian country life in mid-19th century. Full of humor and absurdity. Book ends in the middle, as Gogol burned the second part just before it was scheduled to be published. Only a few chapters remain of that part.

Took some books today at the library:

Alex you are not going to get rich by inventing a deep fried soap with 18 secret herbs and spices.

Concentrating on making soap may help Panzer move away from the enema/fecal fixations of the recent past. I foresee a synthesis of his several interests: Photographing soapmaking trannies from a moving Soviet era APC (armored personnel carrier) with an enema-bottle pinhole camera while using scent essentials as developer AND fixer.

American Gods - Neil Gaiman. Looks promising.

I have a couple of ideas for soaps and body lotions.

The Book of Samuel.

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

Why do we have this thread. What's the point? Are we recommending what to read to one another?

Kushiels Dart (by Jacqueline Carey).. again... because I am getting ready to read the next in the series,Kushiel's Chosen and I want to refresh!!

Lately, the following:

Tom Clancy's Powerplays - Zero Hour
I expected another shyte episode after 'Cutting Edge', but was very pleasantly surprised by this one.

Tom Clancy's Netforce - Changing of the guard
Good. The whole Netforce series is ok, I think.

Leon Uris - Armageddon
Another good book by Uris. He writes well, has good plots and character building. Is it amazing literature? No. Is it nice to read? Yes.

Dostoyevski - The Gambler
Second book I read from him. It's kind of autobiographical and has (as all 19th century Russian writers) great descriptions of both people and surroundings. It's not too difficult or complicated; a good way to start with Dostoyevski.

Book on the Auschwitz Trials in 1963-1965
It's about the trial on Mulka and 19 other men/women. Written by two left-wing journalists, it's more interesting as an insight to how the Dutch society looked at Germany and WWII during the sixties, then as document on a trial on warcrimes.

Léon Poliakov - The Aryan Myth
Difficult to read, but worth it. It describes the development of the concept of the aryan 'race' as superior. Poliakov is an expert in this field and gives a lot of information on the antropological roots of it and traces it back to the Early Middle Ages. Via the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, it ends in the early 20th century when 'aryanism' becomes part of the NS ideology in Hitler Germany.

Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point
The point where an idea or trend spreads like wildfire and what gets people attached to certain shows, ads, or fashion. Another words, what makes these things 'sticky.'

Derrida and Madlibs.

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women by Jayne Ann Krentz.

Panzer asked for a list of books I have. And as I'm shifting most of my books from one book case to another, I took some time to make some sort of list. This is part one. Listed are mostly paperbacks. This is what I read before I go to sleep; it ain't literature or very interesting. Purely entertainment.

Marc Andries En Morgen Is Het Revolutie
Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail
Balsamo & Carpozi Jr. The Maffia – The First 100 Years
Tom Clancy Red Storm Rising
Tom Clancy Patriot Games
Tom Clancy The Cardinal Of The Kremlin
Tom Clancy Clear And Present Danger
Tom Clancy The Sum Of All Fears
Tom Clancy The Bear And The Dragon
Tom Clancy Rainbow Six
Tom Clancy Executive Orders
Tom Clancy Red Rabbit
Tom Clancy The Teeth Of The Tiger
Tom Clancy Without Remorse
Tom Clancy Debt Of Honour
Tom Clancy's Net Force NetForce
Tom Clancy's Net Force Hidden Agendas
Tom Clancy's Net Force Night Moves
Tom Clancy's Net Force Breaking Point
Tom Clancy's Net Force Point Of Impact
Tom Clancy's Net Force Cybernation
Tom Clancy's Net Force State Of War
Tom Clancy's Net Force Changing Of The Guard
Tom Clancy's Power Plays Cutting Edge
Tom Clancy's Power Plays Zero Hour
Tom Clancy's Power Plays Wild Card
Tom Clancy's Power Plays Cold War
Tom Clancy's Power Plays Bio-Strike
Tom Clancy's Power Plays Shadow Watch
Tom Clancy's Power Plays ruthless.com
Tom Clancy's Power Plays Politika
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Op-Centre
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Mirror Image
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Games Of State
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Acts Of War
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Balance Of Power
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre State Of Siege
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Divide And Conquer
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Line Of Control
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Mission Of Honor
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Sea Of Fire
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Call To Treason
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre War Of Eagles
James Clavell Shogun
James Clavell Tai-Pan
James Clavell Gai-Jin
James Clavell King Rat
James Clavell Noble House
James Clavell Whirlwind
Max Ehrlich The Cult
Kinky Friedman Elvis, Jesus And Coca-Cola
John Hands Perestroika Christi
Josjikawa Musashi
Jonathan Kellerman The Clinic
Frank King Night Vision
Stephen King Bag Of Bones
Ira Levin The Boys From Brazil
Robert Littel The Company
Robert Littel The Sisters
Robert Littel An Agent In Place
Robert Littel The Once And Future Spy
Robert Littel The Revolutionist
Eric Lustbader The Ninja
Eric Lustbader The Miko
Eric Lustbader White Ninja
Eric Lustbader Second Skin
Eric Lustbader Jian
Eric Lustbader Shan
Eric Lustbader Black Blade
Eric Lustbader Angel Eyes
Eric Lustbader French Kiss
Eric Lustbader Sirens
Eric Lustbader Zero
Eric Lustbader Black Heart
Eric Lustbader Pale Saint
Eric Lustbader Dark Homecoming
Eric Lustbader Shallows Of Night
Eric Lustbader Dai-San
Eric Lustbader Beneath An Opal Moon
Henning Mankell Moordenaar Zonder Gezicht
Takashi Matsuoka Cloud Of Sparrows
Middelburg & Vugts De Endstra-tapes
Jan Mulder De Vrouw Als Karretje
Steve Pieczenik Pax Pacifica
Steve Pieczenik State Of Emergency
Philip Roth The Plot Against America
Leon Uris Armageddon
Leon Uris Topaz
Leon Uris QB VII
Leon Uris The Haj
Leon Uris Mitla Pass
Leon Uris Redemption
James Wilson Het Duistere Spoor (The Dark Clue)

Titles and/or names you can't read or that don't make sense are in Dutch. Over 90% is in English.

"i want that"
its about consumerism
and its realllllllllllllly boring

Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales

I'm finding it incredibly fascinating.

Part 2 of the list of books.

(Letters E, D, NL stand for the language my copy is in. E=English, D=Deutsch, NL=Nederlands)


Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim E
Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils E
Cervantes - Don Quixote E
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim E
William Golding - Lord Of The Flies E
William Golding - Rites Of Passage E
Hermann Hesse - Der Steppenwolf D
Aldous Huxley - Those Barren Leaves E
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World E
Aldous Huxley - Eyeless In Gaza E
Aldous Huxley - The Devils Of Loudun E
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Revisited E
James Joyce - Ulysses E
Franz Kafka - Das Schloss NL
Franz Kafka - Amerika D
Franz Kafka - Das Urteil (und andere Erzählungen) D
Franz Kafka - Tagebücher 1910-1923 D
Franz Kafka - Der Prozess E
Bernard Malamud - The Fixer E
Herman Melville - Moby-Dick, Or The Whale E
Multatuli - Max Havelaar NL
George Orwell - Animal Farm E
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four E
Jean-Paul Sartre - L'Âge De Raison NL
Jean-Paul Sartre - Le Sursis NL
Jean-Paul Sartre - La Mort Dans L'Âme NL
Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night And Sunday Morning NL

Dostoyevsky - Poor Folk NL
Dostoyevsky - White Nights/The Landlady NL
Dostoyevsky - A Nasty Story E
Dostoyevsky - Crime And Punishment E
Dostoyevsky - The Gambler E
Dostoyevsky - The Idiot E
Dostoyevsky - The Possessed E
Dostoyevsky - Bobok E
Dostoyevsky - A Gentle Creature NL
Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov NL
Gogol - Dead Souls E
Gorky - The Life Of A Useless Man E
Gorky - The Mother NL
Gorky - Life Of Klim Samgin NL
N.S. Leskov - Cathedral Folk NL
V. Shalamov - Kolyma Tales E
Solzhenitsyn - One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich E
Solzhenitsyn - Short stories E
Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle E
Solzhenitsyn - The Cancer Ward E
Solzhenitsyn - August 1914 E
Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1-3) NL
Solzhenitsyn - Letters/Autobiography/Related Material NL
L. Tolstoy - Childhood E
L. Tolstoy - Boyhood E
L. Tolstoy - Youth E
L. Tolstoy - War And Peace E
L. Tolstoy - Anna Karenina E
L. Tolstoy - Resurrection E
L. Tolstoy - Hadji Murat E
I. Turgenev - Novels, Shorter fiction, Letters (Vol. 1-5) NL

Got a last minute train ride to New Orleans tomorrow and just bought this for the 8 hour ride there and back:

haven't read a rock bio since high school, but i love the stooges.

Enjoyed this a lot. Maybe I read it too fast as I feel like going back and reading it again; slowly this time.

Finally, reading the source for "Homicide" and "The Wire."

In terms of writing, better than expected; for a journalist (written in 1991, eventually wrote eps for the "Homicide" TV show, the rest is history...) has talent for setting and black humor.

The second Anita Blake novel, The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton

Furuno 1850DF Operations Manual

Helter Skelter again, celebrating Susan Atkins death.

Leon Uris - Mitla Pass

I enjoyed this book a lot. So far the best I've read from Uris. Where characters in other books remain little developed, because of the main plot/storyline, in Mitla Pass multiple characters are shown to their full extent. The theme of fears that people experience is (of course) not exactly new, but in this novel it's described in a superb way. Not unlike the great 19th century Russian writers.

Historically interesting as well. It describes life in the Pale of Settlement at the end of the 19th century, beginning 20th century, as well as the Jewish communities at the US east coast in the beginning of last century.

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet's
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

Quite funny.

I took some books from the library:

Last book that I read was K BLOWS TOP, about Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 tour of the USA. Damn fine read.

this:

Martin Gilbert - Auschwitz and the Allies

Solid writing. (Gilbert also wrote some parts of the Churchill biography.)
Earlier I read Walter Laqueur's 'The Terrible Secret' and 'London has been informed..' by Henryk Swiebocki (ed.). Laqueur's focus is more on the general situation and attitude towards the news about the extermination camps; 'London has been informed...' deals mostly with the way the reports came from Poland to the West.
Gilbert writes extensively about the reaction both in the US and UK to the news and information about Auschwitz and other camps. He's not mild on what both governments did and did not do.


Maxim Gorky - The Mother

I was a bit surprised by this. It's a perfect example of socialist realism, but a very good read. It's also in typically Russian style with long, detailed descriptions of events, people and thoughts/emotions. I read a older Dutch translation, which (I think) is very close to the original Russian.

Tolstoy - Hadji Murat

Nice, rather short novel. It's about an Avar commander in the Caucasus. A kind of tale of war and betrayal.


Varlam Shalamov - Kolyma Tales

Superb. Dry stories, told from a distance. Highly recommended.

Nightmare USA: The Untold Story Of The Exploitation Independents by Stephen Thrower


Possibly the most awesome work ever printed, and big enough to kill a man with a single blow, even in paperback.

Just finished reading this book while taking a dump:

I read that book a couple of months ago. It was pretty interesting. Reading SuperFreakonomics now. After that the new Malcolm Gladwell book: What the Dog Saw.

Not a big Gladwell fan.

I am reading Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman's new book. Meh....

Enjoy a work of perverse genius...I did. I'm still a little queasy.



"I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg."

from:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/books/04litt.html

“The Kindly Ones,” the 983-page novel by Jonathan Littell that went on sale on Tuesday, is a fictionalized memoir of a remorseless former Nazi SS officer, who in addition to taking part in the mass extermination of the Jews, commits incest with his sister, sodomizes himself with a sausage and most likely kills his mother and stepfather. Oh, and it’s been translated from the French.

Then again, long before the book was released in the United States by the Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, it came with a laureled publishing history. Mr. Littell, an English-speaking American who decided to write in French and now lives in Barcelona, Spain, won the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award, as well as a prize from the Académie Française.

The book, published as “Les Bienveillantes” in France in 2006, sold around 700,000 copies there. A French critic compared it to Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.”

It was the talk of the Frankfurt Book Fair two years ago, and the subject of a heated auction here in the United States, resulting in Harper’s paying, according to Publishers Weekly, about $1 million for the rights to publish the novel in this country. Now, as it hits bookstores — and the time is near when Harper will find out whether such a tome can earn back such a hefty advance — the novel is meeting a dramatically polarized critical response. Last week in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that “the novel’s gushing fans, however, seem to have mistaken perversity for daring, pretension for ambition, an odious stunt for contrarian cleverness,” adding that the book was “willfully sensationalistic and deliberately repellent.”

But on The Daily Beast (thedailybeast.com), Tina Brown’s blog, Michael Korda, the former editor in chief of Simon & Schuster and the author of several biographies, hailed “The Kindly Ones” as a masterpiece and Mr. Littell as a genius.

“I guarantee you, if you read this book to the end, and if you have any kind of taste at all, you won’t be able to put it down for a moment — lay in snacks and drinks! — you will be upset, disturbed, revolted and deeply challenged,” Mr. Korda wrote. (Some of Mr. Korda’s books have also recently been published by Harper.)

Just started reading this one:

Checkout my collection of books. I just finished uploading every pic of the book that I have.

Almost done with this:

Finally getting into Don DeLillo. Just finished White Noise. Really dug it.

Now starting Mao II.

The inspiration for both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.

this

Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils

It's funny as hell and carries the (assumed) message in a light way. I like his writing; Lucky Jim was also very good.


Leon Trotsky - The History of the Russian Revolution

I bought this a while ago and only recently felt up to reading it. Trotsky's not the easiest writer to read, but his eye for detail and his historical knowledge and comparison are very impressive.

For those interested, <clicky> for online version.

I'm reading Censored 2010. I've read a few of their past collections, this one is bad so far. One article is about schools being more segregated now than in the 50's. They use a small section for the base of the argument. Then in an article about toxic waste in North Carolina, they say there are 200million people in the area. 300million in the US, 200mill in a corner of NC, yep makes sense. I put the book down after that. I'll probably pick it up again at some point, but it should not b called Project Censored this year. It should be called, Journalism So Lousy They Couldn't Get Paid For It.

Just finished reading this one:

Last book I read was Harry Turtedove's How Few Remains. Nice read, but I disagree with his fundamental premise that McClellan would have ever offered battle to Lee on the west bank of the Susquehanna. IMO he would have intrenched on the east bank and required Lee to cross at his peril. BTW I would like to read Edmund Morris on TR, and thanks for jogging my memory. Have to boost that to the top of my reading list.

@ Dean Wormer: EXCELLENT Book. Much better than part II, IMO.

White Line Fever is pretty good. I like that there is at least one entertainer out there that didn't get all faggy and weepy about his past.


I just read Punching with Power by Ross Enamait. A lot of guys I respect swear by his shit.
http://rosstraining.com/blog/

This scared the shit out of me.

Just finished reading this one:

Michael Jackson's Autopsy report.

This book:

I've been reliving my Florida youth by reading Tim Dorsey novels one after the other.

Right now I'm on "Nuclear Jellyfish"

Really great......

Finally, reading "Fiasco":

Given some time for it to settle down, and read
THE best-written account of the so-called "Phase IV" of the Iraqi invasion of 2003...
.....
looks like the "super smart" Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld/Cheney/Bush consortium really fucked up...

Fallujah I:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/297677/the_battle_of_fallujah/

hopefully we convinced the citizens that we came in peace...

And Bremer.

And maybe Bush Jr. if he gets over his case of retardation...

The Japanese Skincare Revolution -Chizu Saeki

The New Rules of Lifting for Women -Lou Schuler

In the Land of Invented Languages

I'm enjoying this book, especially the section on the earliest attempts to invent a universal language. Some of them combine charts with symbols and numbers as their alphabets. Have not hit Esperanto or Klingon yet.

I recommend this and from the web site it should be fairly obvious whether you would like it.

Been doing a bit of traveling recently which always means packing something to read.

I got a weird urge to learn more about the causes of World War I after an interesting conversation with somebody who I was quite sure had no idea what they were talking about, but didn't personally know enough about the subject myself to call bullshit.

Got this book and thought it would be a bitter pill to swallow, but I was very pleasantly surprised. I'm only about 40% through it, but it is a great read and well written.




Now, if I can just find that fucker and steer the conversation back to the causes of WW1...

Recently:

Exodus by Leon Uris
Good, not excellent. I guess I expected a bit too much.

Nicolai Gogol - The Overcoat, The Nose, Diary of a Madman
Very powerful and funny short stories.

^^ Which book by Dostoevski you would recommend?

If you haven't read "Crime & Punishment" yet, and aren't fluent in Russian, be sure to get the Jessie Coulson translation.


On a similar note:

I wish I could find a version of Tolstoy's "War & Peace" that didn't have extended passages in French. I have been unable to read that book because I can't find a copy that is completely translated into English.

When it comes to reading a book that has been translated, I have found that who did the translation makes a tremendous difference.

My Russian is a tad bit rusty, so, mostly, I read translations (English or Dutch).

I have "War & Peace" in a translation by Constance Garnett, first published in 1904. It's pure awesomeness, in my opinion. Descriptions, atmosphere, dialogue, all very fluently and accurately done. I think Tolstoy could be happy with this translation.

Re. "Crime & Punishment". I have a 1951 translation (Penguin Classics edition) by David Magarshack. I've found that, especially with 19th century Russian writers, the older translations are often the better. Somehow, the 'Zeitgeist' shows more through the eyes of a contemporary translator.

Facing the Congo (Jeffrey Tayler) Just started it. Travel book about a guy who wants to row the Congo river.

I've been working my way through the third Dune book, Children of Dune by Frank Herbert for a few weeks now. I blazed through the first two Dune books, but this one doesn't hold my interest nearly as well. Perhaps it's because I'm using a netbook rather than a dedicated reading device, so I always find something else to do instead.

Today, I started in Isaac Deutscher's biography of Lev Trotsky. It's a well-written piece about a great thinker/orator/writer, who was also a fine humanist.

^ You're talking about the same Trotsky who liquidated the socialists and anarchists after the October revolution right? A real fine humanist.

"Just Kids" by Patti Smith about her early life with Robert Mapplethorpe.

^ Sounds cool, I've always wondered about that relationship. And she was with Sam Shepard too.

Right now: The Last Great Fight by Joe Layden, about the Douglas/Tyson upset.

The latest Public Severe Weather Statements from the Storm Prediction Center. The Whorebot is definitely going to hit the fan somewhere in southern Kansas/northern Oklahoma today.

Just finished this one:

The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft

I'm reading The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It.

and

Fuck me ! Another misspelled fuck up !

Ethnic cleansing ?