Favorite Books (recent reads)

[SiliconJon]

I kept telling myself I was going to buy the book, and the other day I ran across it looking for books on metaphysics/astrophysics. It was called "Magnificent Universe" by Ken Croswell.

MAN, was this book gorgeous and HUGE. Lots of pictures, and not too shaby a naration to go along with it. Definately a book to keep out on the coffee table for a long time.

So now I'm going to have to stop procrastinating and buy it. I would like to find a really good deal on it so I can get two, as I would like to see one at the local library, as I had to request it from one somewhere else in Illinois.

And what does "Remaindered Marked edition" mean?

[M_Six]

A Remaindered Marked Edition has a black mark across the bottom of the book, across the pages. A remainder is a leftover from a bookstore. When a bookstore buys too many copies of a book, they can recoup some of the cost by selling the book as a remainder. The book is then marked with a black magic marker across the bottom of the pages.

When the sales of a hardbound edition have slacked off, the retailer often has the option to return the unsold copies. The copies are then "remaindered" which means that they are marked on the tail with a publisher's logo stamp or simply with 'x' or 'slash' from an indelible marker. Generally, these books are heavily discounted and sold for a small fraction of the original price to bargin retailers, who often sell a $20 first edition for less than a few dollars.

http://www.information-imaging.com/ttb/collect.html

I rarely read books, mostly tech documents for me. I just finished up the System V Binary Interface for Intel 386 architecture processors, supplemental fourth edition. It is a layout for the System V API, thus allowing me to compare with AMD's x86-64 ABI modifications.

As to fiction, I read fan fiction, usually anime related. Free for the taking.

[Redwolf]

Lol Rob.

Recently I have read...ohhh...

Machiavelli's The Prince (still reading)
Clancy's Executive Orders (ditto)
Cussler's Atlantis Found
Cussler's Cyclops (good quick read)
Grand Masters of Mystery (collection of great short stories by the grand masters (Edgar Allen Poe, Author Connan Doyle, etc).

I'm actually writing a short novel right now, since my addiction to books has grown quite large. It came to me in a dream one night...and it should be pretty cool provided I don't hit writers block every day (won't be done for a while, since I'm pretty busy usually).

[SiliconJon]

RobRich, you are a plethora of information

Thx

[Knothead]

I tend to go by authors, and when I discover a "good" one, I look for more by them.

Lately, I'm hungering for dry humor with a plot, and the work of Kinky Friedman fills the bill!

Light, not too filling. Highly recommended!

[SiliconJon]

"The New Nuclear Danger" by Helen Caldicott

Talk about nuts. It kinda ticks me off how she throws in her opinions right off the bat. Just report the facts to me, and save your opinion on the matter till the end, lady! But despite the bleeding spin she puts on the facts, you can still get a lot of good info from the book.

[Creatures]

two books i would suggest:

The Light Of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

and

Powrot z Gwiazd by Stanislaw Lem

both are really interesting books! worth to check them out

Creatures

[Redwolf]

SJ, have you read the Illustrated version of Carl Sagan's Cosmos?

[SiliconJon]

No, but talk about right up my alley...how is the video collection of the same name?

http://search.shopping.yahoo.com/sea...an+Cosmos&did=

Is this the one you're referring too:

http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=b&i...05,srch:kw,x:1

384p hardback, 2002