At any given time, I am probably reading one book in paper form, another as an audio book, and another on an e-reader. I also keep an anthology or collection in my car, for those long waits. My average rating is between 3 and 4, because I try to seek out good books and authors. One goal is to read all the SF award winners and SF Masterworks. See my profile at Worlds Without End.
Finally, the "social media" info - I am a long-time reader, proud to have completed several summer reading programs as a kid. I recall reading more than 50 books one summer. When I'm not reading, you might find me gaming (board and role play) or working, either as a baseball umpire or with software.
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Childers's lone masterpiece, THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS, considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognisable as the brilliant forerunner …
Read in 2005
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Read in 2007
A tour of the American candy business which explores the role candy plays in our …
Read this shortly after it showed up on the library "new books" shelf. Agree completely with another reviewer - there are some definite five star sections in here. One stellar example is the history: what used to be thousands of candy companies are now, a century later, down to just over 100. The games the major companies play (and get away with) for shelf space is tragic.
Other parts of the book were autobiographical and not as well written. Seeing similar things in his newest book. Steve Almond seems to have a definite sense for important topics, but trouble with solid conclusions.
Read in 2004
Feed (2002) is a young adult dystopian novel of the cyberpunk subgenre written by M. …
Read in 2005
Read in 2004
Mathematics can reveal and illuminate things about the complex world we live in that can't …
Should really be titled 100 blog entries you might want to read. Then again, you might not. I think the best was #100, as I had not heard of the global village "State of the Village Report" or it's revisions.
http://www.odtmaps.com/pdf/popvillage.pdf
Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are?Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's …
I liked the later stories more than the first two. Will definitely read more C.L. Moore
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find …
I enjoyed the first book for the story, I enjoyed this book for the history. Oh, and it's "Kingdom" not "Kindgom"...
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance is the …
Audio book, read by one of the authors (Dubbner). Lots of people say they don't enjoy this as much as the first one. Perhaps because when the first one came out, few people wrote of these topics, and now many more do. Still a good read.
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension (1994, ISBN …
A good history and coverage of current events. I wanted more on string theory and Ramanujan's modular functions, but at least this serves as a good pointer.
