RIP Peter Straub. I guess I'm going to have to reread the Blue Rose books again. They're all great, but Koko is just genius.
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What are you reading Chapter 4
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In the process of re-reading an old favorite series of mine. Feist's Magician series. After that another old favorite, Max Barry's Lexicon.
Maurice White - My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
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Not quite an autobiography, but there are details about Bill's life along with philosophical musings and his take on the music industry, both past and present. VERY dry humor here.
Not quite an autobiography, but there are details about Bill's life along with philosophical musings and his take on the music industry, both past and present. VERY dry humor here.
Love this book.
Powered through some Timothy Zahn Star Wars books recently - 2 in the span of a week. The Thrawn/Alliances/Treason ones. Now, I need to read the final one, before moving on to his most recent "Thrawn Ascendancy" trilogy.
Having finished the Stephen King books, I'm moving on to Dean Koontz. I had read a few of them in the 80s and enjoyed them. I was going to read all of them, but then I realized there are over 130. So I decided to start his Jane Hawk series with Silent Corner. Pretty good so far, very hard to put down.
I read most of the books that came out before the early 2000s. It was hard to keep up with. The Zahn books were definitely top notch.
At one point in middle school (also around 2000), I had read every single Star Wars book out there except Shadows of the Empire. Of course in those days, I could read 5 hours a night, plus whatever I read during class instead of paying attention... For a while, I was averaging at least 3 books a week, and it wasn't uncommon for me to read an entire book in a single day. My mom worked at the library, and I pretty much just lived there!
Anyway, I agree entirely. Zahn's stuff was by far the best, though I also fondly remember Kevin J. Anderson's books as well as the X-Wing series. There were a few other good stories, but those were the best authors/series overall. If you enjoyed Zahn's Star Wars stuff, I can also recommend anything he writes. I've read a few of his other original works, and they've all been quite good. Even when I have figured out what's happening in the book (which is rare!) it's always written well and has intriguing characters and plot development. Zahn is just a great author in all respects.
I think Rogue Squadron was my favorite series at the time, but I was always excited when a new Zahn title came out. I haven't read any of his non-Star Wars books yet, but he's on my list.
Not everyone's cup of tea, but if you had calculus.....
Analysis I: Fourth Edition by Terry Tao (UCLA)
The first chapter was very distubing talking about math errors we could make and I began wondering "Who the hell is THIS GUY??"
Well, this is who he is, "The Mozart of Mathematics":
Terence Tao - Wikipedia
The reading is straight forward, but you have to do the problems, so figure a maybe 10 pages a week. He is entertaining and very generous with insight..
EDIT: I am painting houses and general repair all month so I am dead tired when I get home. I am skimming this, but will start heavy on it when I get the houses done in a few days. Its well laid out.
EDIT 2 :If you just skim it and dont do the problems, its pretty intuitive.
Analysis I: Fourth Edition by Terry Tao (UCLA)
The first chapter was very distubing talking about math errors we could make and I began wondering "Who the hell is THIS GUY??"
Well, this is who he is, "The Mozart of Mathematics":
Terence Tao - Wikipedia
The reading is straight forward, but you have to do the problems, so figure a maybe 10 pages a week. He is entertaining and very generous with insight..
EDIT: I am painting houses and general repair all month so I am dead tired when I get home. I am skimming this, but will start heavy on it when I get the houses done in a few days. Its well laid out.
EDIT 2 :If you just skim it and dont do the problems, its pretty intuitive.
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A pdf of the 1st edition is free online but has a lot of errors. Its Rev 4 now.
A great read if you have the interest. Published in the middle 1800s, still the standard. Took me a year to read the first time.
Let us know if this books tells the truth about global warming/climate change. I learned about the realities of it in college geology classes in the early '80s.
Warning: this is strictly geological in nature; if you're thinking something else, find someplace else to discuss that.
This book does not, it explains physical changes and processes of the earth as observed by extensive field work and exploration. Plate tectonics, continental drift was not conceived of at that time and became a go to answer for many irrelevant ,unexplained questions in the 1960’s? As to global warming the fact is there have been several ice ages, in the earth’s history and in between them all was a warm period with rising sea levels caused by a warmer climate melting the ice caps. The unimaginable volume of ash and gasses emitted by volcanoes does have an effect on atmosphere, climate, as well as on the surface of the earth, and that is stated in the text. PS; on page xiv of the book’s introduction Lyell’s “system” embodies nothing less than the claim that the earth’s history is steady state or cyclic and not directional at all.
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Glad to see that is covered in the book as that is exactly what I was referring to.
Love geology, go to Big Bend every chance I can get. I have downloaded a few texts on Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Fascinating stuff.
