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I just finished Humanity’s Edge by FReeper TBW2- excellent sci-fi book (a series of short stories). I’m digging around for something new, I’ve been going through 2 books a week lately.
I’m reading volume 1 of Conceived in Liberty by Murray Rothbard
The 5,000 Year Leap, The Book of Lies, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (for my son!)
1. I am Ozzy- autobiography, Ozzy Osbourne
2. The Lady in the Tower-the fall of Anne Boleyn
3. The Illuminatus Trilogy....timely
4. Forty Ways to look at Winston Churchill..
5. The House of Rothschild...Niall Ferguson
Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef. Great story by son of Hamas leader who converted to Christianity and became a spy for Shin Bet. It has some great lessons on the intractable Middle East problems
I’ve been reading Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden Files (Turn Coat, #11, just came out in paperback) and Codex Alera. I’m waiting for the last volume of that series to come out in pb. Partly I don’t want to pay for hardcover, and partly I don’t have room on my shelves.
I’m also reading a fantasy series by P.C. Hodgell that I managed to miss until now. Baen Books is republishing the earlier ones as double books. Rather dark, but so far quite fascinating.
I thought it appropriate to follow this with "How Democracies Perish" by Jean-Francois Revel. I read about it on a thread last week and picked up a used copy off of Amazon for a couple bucks. From the back cover: "Why do so many socialists and other liberal minded men in the countries of Western Europe, and indeed elsewhere, lend their support to communist activities over the world? How can the spread of communist regimes be averted? Can the capitalist democracies so reform themselves that they can survive?" Originally published in 1976 before Reagan and the supposed end of the Cold War, it is very timely today as we deal with the serious internal threat to our nation's survival.
Just finished “Dune”. Just started “Atlas Shrugged”. Yeah, I know, I’m behind the times by 30 years.
Just finished Ralph Reed’s “Dark Horse: A Political Thriller, for fun. Started slow, but was entertaining.
Now, for something a bit more serious, am taking Glen Beck’s advice, and starting “The Age of the Unthinkable”.
When working, I am listening to Spencer Quinn’s “Thereby Hangs a Tail”. This is for humor... a Chet and Bernie Mystery, as told by Chet, Bernie’s sidekick.
Chet is a dog, and the narrator does him perfectly. Wonderful fun.
The first Chet and Bernie mystery by Spencer Quinn is “Dog Gone It”, and there is a new one coming out in the fall.
The Magus (John Fowles)
1984 (Orwell)
The Three Deceivers....easy read, but uniquely written. Open the book from the Three Deceivers side and read about the “deceivers,” then turn the book upside down and over and the title on the back is The Three Alternatives (to the deceivers.)
How Animals Think by Dr. Temple Granden.
Excellent book by an autistic animal behavior expert. The premise of her book is that autistic people think and experience the world much like other mammals do. Fascinating and an entertaining read.
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Dread Empire’s Fall by Walter Jon Williams. Decent SciFi novel.
Spy Hook... it's been awhileOh yeah, the third book is a Microsoft book Developing in Silverlight.
I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation by Bruce Chadwick
