Read any good books lately?

DrHyde · « **Reply #90 on:** May 31, 2004, 06:18:39 AM »

Various Vampire: The Masquerade books. Good stuff if you want real vampire stories rather than the cookie cutter movie crap.

prinz · « **Reply #91 on:** May 31, 2004, 09:40:38 AM »

"Last stand of the Tin Can Sailor" The story of Taffy 3.. IMHO the US Navys finest hour! cheers PE

solvegas · « **Reply #92 on:** May 31, 2004, 01:19:05 PM »

Read that years ago . Imagine destroyers and jeep carriers against battleships and heavy cruisers and bluffing them into retreat ! Just amazing !

Palomine · « **Reply #93 on:** May 31, 2004, 01:30:04 PM »

Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by M. Luckiesh (Dover edition) and...

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis... had a brief chat about this book with a sweetly voluptuous, pale-skinned and doe-eyed brunette named Rose in a Los Feliz coffee shop, but stupidly didn't ask for her phone number. Could kick myself in the head for that missed opportunity. A young woman who looked like that AND had read City of Quartz??? Undoubtedly, she was probably the ONE.

rtpoe · « **Reply #94 on:** May 31, 2004, 11:08:21 PM »

No fair! I was going to revive this thread today!

"The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History" by John M. Barry

A look at how the US medical community handled the great influenza epidemic of 1918 (which killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has in 24 years). Good info on how influenza works, and why it's so tough to deal with. Plus a warning that we have to act fast whenever a new disease appears (SARS).

I've read "Bones of the Earth". Michael Swanwick has a neat idea on the end of the dinosaurs. Unfortunately, we can never know for sure...

I'll have to get that book on Taffy 3. I hope they all got some medals there!

rtpoe

Palomine · « **Reply #95 on:** May 31, 2004, 11:30:19 PM »

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No fair! I was going to revive this thread today!
rtpoe

Read faster.

homevintner · « **Reply #96 on:** June 01, 2004, 12:55:01 AM »

I'd like to get that one on Taffy 3 also.

rtpoe · « **Reply #98 on:** June 02, 2004, 09:01:27 PM »

It's by James D. Hornfischer.

And they did get a Presidential Unit Citation:
http://www.desausa.org/taffy_3_citation.htm

rtpoe

homevintner · « **Reply #99 on:** June 12, 2004, 12:26:51 AM »

Thanks for that author.

My most recent:
3001 The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Kull by Robert E Howard
Victory Call to Arms edited by Stephen Coonts

prinz · « **Reply #101 on:** June 22, 2004, 01:06:06 PM »

Ringworld's Children by Larry Niven Yea Larry! So nice to revisit the Ringworld after so long...PE

Palomine · « **Reply #102 on:** June 22, 2004, 03:26:53 PM »

Will do GW.

Now starting Le Carre's new novel "Absolute Friends."

BillN · « **Reply #103 on:** June 22, 2004, 06:43:31 PM »

I heard that President Clinton's book does not require a bookmark.

Apparently he likes his pages bent over.

Hentaibee · « **Reply #104 on:** June 24, 2004, 01:11:42 PM »

re-reading some classical philosophers for university classess... Nietzsche and some others

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