Favorite Books

[E7]

I read mostly for recreation, thus mostly fiction.

The Shadow Man by John Katzenbach

The Poet by Michael Connelly

Chasing The Dime by Michael Connelly

The Narrows by Michael Connelly

Every Dead Thing by John Connoly

The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille

The Penny Ferry by Rick Boyer

Enigma by Robert Harris

Ken Ward in the Jungle by Zane Grey

[healey36]

The Outermost House by Henry Beston...a year spent on the beach on Cape Cod, 1926 or so...

I'm intrigued. Can you tell us about it, if you please? Murph

Like Hemingway, Beston was an ambulance driver during WW-1...after the war he came back, worked as a journalist, wrote some. He built himself a shack on Great Nauset Beach, figured he'd stay there for a few weeks, get his head back together. He ended up staying for a year. The book is basically a journal of his time there, the change of the seasons, the wildlife, the great storms, the shipwrecks. It was a time when the men of the Lifesaving Service, precursor of the Coast Guard, still walked the beach each night. A tremendous book, I've read it seven or eight times.

Beston went on to buy a farm in Nobleboro, just down the road from Tramp's neck of the Maine coast. He journalized that in another book, Northern Farm. That's a good one too, but Outermost House is better.

Healey

[G3750]

Alex, I'll take science fiction for $200...

Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asimov
Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov

R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark
Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clark
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

George

[G3750]

George-
re "Shattered Sword " and insights: Yes. The book illuminates how doomed the entire Japanese military enterprise was.
re "Six Frigates:" Shoot. Now I have to go buy that one and add it to my ever-expanding list.

OK, what about this one?

http://prescriptionnutritionalhealth.co ... rnfischer/

George

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asimov
Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov

R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark
Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clark
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

Read all of those way too many times, but the Bradbury still resonates soundly.

[rex desilets]

George:
"Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors." Absolutely. In fact, the episode is something of a fetish with me. There is quite a bit of other literature on the subject including the official USN version. Plus a documentary on the old Military Channel.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Sshheeze, just when you thought you had come to be acquainted with a fella, you read the information above. Amazing! Refreshing! Edifying, too! Bravo. the Murph

[rex desilets]

Sci-Fi: "The Mote in God's Eye." Niven & Pournelle

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Sci-Fi: "The Mote in God's Eye." Niven & Pournelle

Good book!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Sci-Fi: "The Mote in God's Eye." Niven & Pournelle

Good book!

Say it ain't so!

[webenda]

Sci-Fi: "The Mote in God's Eye." Niven & Pournelle

Good book!

Say it ain't so!

"The Mote in God's Eye" was interesting in that the authors created an entire science fiction novel around a single bible principle:

Matthew 7:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Robert A. Heinlein, who gave the authors extensive advice on the novel, described the story as "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read." I didn't think it was that good. My rating:

Reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20130701140 ... df#page=23

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Dune

[webenda]

My favorite book is Principia mathematica, by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell.
I paid $350 for my three volume first edition copy. Now it is available on line for free.

Reference: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/eBooks/ ... ussell.pdf

In this on line version, the proof that 1 + 1 = 2 occurs on page 379 as a result of proposition 54-43.

Prop *54-43.:,/ 1.: /3A.
a32 Dern. F. *54-26.) F:. a=tfx. /3= t'y. ): a /E 2. -. x+y. [*51'231] *- ~( A
nc =A. [*13-12] Ea/= 1 F.(1).-*11-11'35.)3 F:. (ax, Y). Ot= ~'x./3=1y. D: a
v/32. -arl3= A (2) F. (2).-*1 154. *52-1.)DF. Prop From this proposition it will
follow, when arithmetical addition has been defined, that 1 ~ 1 = 2.

Many people ask how it could take over 300 pages to prove something as self evident as 1 + 1 = 2?
They do not understand. Prior to Whithehead and Russell nobody had even defined the symbols "1", "+", "2", and "=". This had to be accomplised before any equation using the symbols could be written. It took until page 379* to define the symbols and to prove that they could put the symbols 1+1= together before proving that 1+1=2. They went to the basics of basic in this proof.

*Volume I, 1st edition, page 379 (page 362 in 2nd edition; page 360 in abridged version).

[rex desilets]

Oh, Wayne. Only 2 stars for "Mote?" Despite what the godfather said? I think you're carrying iconoclasm a bit too far

Also, did you read the math book cover to cover? I doff my chapeau to you

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Dune

Absolutely LOVED the movie. The Spice. Reverend Mother. Sand Worms. The visit to the emperor by one of the Time Folders (esp. that locomotive-like contraption to get into the room.
Jus everything about and in it.
Five Smiling Faces, score.