What are you reading - Page 5

BerrieK · #81 12-04-2009, 06:19 PM

Have just started David Malouf's latest book 'Ransom'.

Looking foreward to it, his other work is amazing.

Kerrie

Inmykombi (Geoff) · #82 13-04-2009, 08:11 PM

I am reading the only thing I usually get to read....
Sky and Telescope magazine.

I dont seem to get time to read much else.

The Sunday paper usually ends up in the Recycle bin after my wife has reead it, before I even open it.

Geoffro

gman (Grant) · #83 13-04-2009, 08:24 PM

Just started Angels & Demons by Dan Brown.
Thought I had better read it before seeing the movie

Rokketboy (Jared) · #84 14-04-2009, 06:50 PM

Still churning through "The Sword of Truth" series by Terry Goodkind. 11 books in the series at about 700 pages a pop. I'm up to book 7. There is a TV series based on it "Legend of the Seeker" - coming to Oz late this year.
Just starting "World War Z" - covers a current day earth where a zombie outbreak has occurred. Written in a war correspondent style. Great if you are into all things zombie - like me

OneOfOne (Trevor) · #85 19-05-2009, 08:15 PM

Been a while since my last update but have read:

"Your inner Fish" which has some very interesting insight into evolution from fish to modern animals

"Only a Theory" gives an insight to the battle between Science and Intelligent Design.

"Creationism's Trojan Horse"...whoa...talk about hard going. This book contains so much information about ID, court cases etc in the US. My head is still spinning.

Currently almost finished "The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved!" which is a young Earth view of evolution and extinction.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #86 19-05-2009, 08:23 PM

I finished "Tramp Royale" yesterday and started "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" today.
Both by Robert A Heinlein.

dpastern (Dave Pastern) · #87 19-05-2009, 09:22 PM

David Eddings - Seeress of Kell, Book V of the Mallorean.

Dave

stephenb (Stephen) · #88 20-05-2009, 06:45 AM

Last Man on the Moon - Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 Astronaut
Failure is Not an Option - Gene Krantz, Apollo Flight Director
Carrying the Fire - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Pilot
Lift Off - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Pilot

Four of the most fascinating and entertaining books I have read in my life. I've had them in my personal library for years and I always pull the out from time to time to read in a marathon of a few weeks. I plead with anyone who has an interest in space exploration or astronomy to locate these books and read them. There are no egos, just plain facts, honest stories. Real edge-of-your-seat reading about the history of NASA.

About to start reading....

Moonwalker - Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 LM Pilot

Waiting now for Buzz Aldrin's to autobiography to be released in June

p.s. I have a copy of Failure is Not an Option - Gene Krantz, I'll post for sale in the IIS Trade section today.

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #89 20-05-2009, 07:26 AM

I'm reading Cadbury's "Space Race" - again, and then I'm moving on to one of my favourite books of all time, "Dragons Egg" by Robert L. Forward - about the evolution of life on a neutron star. Brilliant physics that made Asimov's and Clarke's heads spin.

Ozi_oldbag (Marg) · #90 24-05-2009, 02:50 PM

Just finished Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. Excellent book. Will have to see the movie when it comes out.
Marg

PCH (Paul) · #91 24-05-2009, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Ozi_oldbag

Just finished Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. Excellent book. Will have to see the movie when it comes out.
Marg

Movie's out now - it's really good

Liz · #92 24-05-2009, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Ozi_oldbag

Just finished Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. Excellent book. Will have to see the movie when it comes out.
Marg

marg .... number 6000!!
Yes, read that book when it first came out years ago, and enjoyed it, looking forward to the movie, especially as heading to Roma in October.
Just finished a great book called 'Henrys Daughter', before that was 'The Reader' - good, but movie was fabulous, now started 'We Need to talk about Kevin'.

lacad01 (Adam) · #93 24-05-2009, 09:40 PM

Just finished "The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks" by Peter Aughton and about to embark on "The Goldilocks Enigma" by Paul Davies

Darth Wader (Wade) · #94 25-05-2009, 01:25 PM

Currently reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins.

erick (Eric) · #95 25-05-2009, 01:52 PM

Finally got down to my local library.

Just finished "Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years -- The Astronauts' Experiences in Their Own Words". A great read. Lots of behind the scene events. Some funny - the Astronaut of Chinese background who threatened controllers that he wouldn't come back if he wasn't allowed the time to fix his faulty experiment. He mused - what was I going to do - hang myself in microgravity! He got it working and it was a success and he came back.

Returned that and borrowed "Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd" by Nick Mason. About 30 pages in - wished I had time to read it in one sitting!

Catching up on all the reading I missed out on while raising children!

lacad01 (Adam) · #96 25-05-2009, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by erick

Returned that and borrowed "Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd" by Nick Mason. About 30 pages in - wished I had time to read it in one sitting!

That's such a great read, I couldn't put it down when I first read it

M54 (Molly) · #97 25-05-2009, 04:51 PM

Just finished Paul Davies 'The Mind of God'.

Now reading:
'Astronomy for dummies.' (that's me

) Stephen P. Maran, PhD.
'Astronomy 2009'
'The Southern Sky Guide'. David Ellyard and Wil Tirion.
And pouring over 'Hartung's Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes: A Handbook for Amateur Observers.' Revised and illustrated by David Malin and David J. Frew.

OneOfOne (Trevor) · #98 29-06-2009, 12:07 PM

Catastrophes and lesser calamities - discusses the "big five" extinctions, and some of the lesser ones. Very interesting book, most people may think that meteorites are a major cause, but other than the one well known example (which many believe was just an early nail in a coffin that was already closing), most others are put down to a number of factors - global climate change, dramatic sea level changes.

Confessions of an Alien Hunter- anyone that has heard of SETI will have also heard of Seth Shostak. His book covers the history of ET from the canals of Mars to the movie "Contact". He talks about the methods used in their search for ET, his opinions about alien visitation, worm holes and just about anything you can think of related to the subject. It is a fascinating book filled with his dry sense of humour (I used his little quip "as cold as a dead penguin" just the other day!) and little anecdotes.

Presentation Zen - it may rate highly on Amazon (which is why I bought it), but I am afraid it switches between "interesting" and "this guy is a wanker"....overall I think it tends to the latter. The author is an American who has lived in Japan for a number of years and is another case of someone who has discovered the wheel and has written a book about his new discovery. If you do some public speaking and would like to find out something about the topic, buy something else.

Currently working my way through an illustrated reprint of the first edition of "Charles Darwin on the Origin of Species". At 500+ pages this is a monumental undertaking (I am reading other books while tackling this one). It is interesting to read such a key text with the knowledge of today, his arguments are still quite compelling even today. However, "verbose" is the first thing that comes to mind.

TrevorW · #99 29-06-2009, 12:18 PM

'Temporal Void"- Peter Hamilton

very impressed by his writing

stephenb (Stephen) · #**100** 29-06-2009, 05:51 PM

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First Man - The Life of Neil Armstrong by James R Hansen

Just finished it myself Norm, and also the Audio Book version. Bloody amazing read isn't it?

Half way through reading Deke!: Deke Slayton's Autobiography (Mercury Astronaut and Head of the NASA Astronaut Office. Again, another brilliant book!