Who's Reading What?

[lee G.]

Cricket, The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene, is a book I liked.

[ness]

One book I read last winter that I’m certain would be of great interest to users of this forum is, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, by Douglas Brinkley. This is a fascinating story about our bird watcher president’s effort to save as much of the natural world as he could. Every person who enjoys the outdoors is forever indebted to Theodore Roosevelt.

Thanks for that recommendation. I've had TR in the back of my mind for some time, since a friend suggested Mornings on Horseback.

[FishinCricket]

Cricket, The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene, is a book I liked.

Thank you.

Eric, I am purposefully ignoring your nonsense.

[eric1978]

Thank you.

Eric, I am purposefully ignoring your nonsense.

So you're interested in string theory but you don't want to read Stephen Hawking? M'kay.

[FishinCricket]

So you're interested in string theory but you don't want to read Stephen Hawking? M'kay.

Nah, I'd prefer he read it to me... His voice makes me giggle.

No, that part of your response made sense, it was the other part that was confounding...

[Bird Watcher]

Cricket, The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene, is a book I liked.

They've been running a 4 part series on NOVA hosted by Brian Greene. It's based on his books. Pretty interesting stuff.

Something about we all exist as a 2 dimensional hologram on the side of a black hole somewhere out on the edge of the universe? I don't know about that, but it is interesting.

[Al Agnew]

Just finished "Tesla, Man Out of Time", by Margaret Cheney. Interesting book. Interesting figure.

Last weekend I was as sick as a dog, coughing, sniffling, fever, etc. Couldn't sleep at night because of all the coughing. When I'm lying in bed waiting to drop off to sleep, I often "write" the beginning of a novel in my head. Usually it puts me to sleep within a short time. For the last few weeks I've been imagining an updated Tarzan novel, for some reason. But on Saturday night, since I couldn't go to sleep and my coughing was keeping Mary awake, I got up, went into the living room, grabbed the laptop, and just started writing that novel for real. Wrote about 5300 words. Finally dropped off to sleep about 5 AM. When I woke up I read what I'd written...it needs a little work.

Anyway, it got me interested in re-reading some Edgar Rice Burroughs. Since my idea for the novel is set in the present day, and Burroughs' Tarzan was born in 1888, I wanted to "bone up on" the two novels where he obtained "fountain of youth" elixirs. I read "Tarzan's Quest" last night (really just skimmed it, I've read it at least a half dozen times over the years). Tonight, while watching the Mizzou game, I was looking at the bookshelf in front of me during commercial breaks, and noticed a Burroughs novel that I haven't read in many years, "The Outlaw of Torn", so now I'm going to read it again.

And for the last week or so, when I feel like it, I'm reading the last volume of Shelby Foote's three volume "Civil War Narrative".

[ness]

Well, just finished Empire of the Summer Moon. I was a little disappointed overall. For a book that claims to be about Quanah Parker right on the cover, it was surprisingly light on material about him, and mostly all concentrated in the last quarter of the book.

I've had Truman sitting on the shelf for years and convinced myself to start it last night. Interesting beginning talking about his ancestors and the border wars. The building I work in sits on a piece of the farm he lived on his first few years before moving to Independence (where I grew up). Lots of familiar places, streets, families mentioned there. McCullough's usually a good read.

[Greasy B]

Reading Truman is like eating good ice cream, effortless. What an interesting man, the last accessible president. In his retirement he worked at his presidential library, a person could probably have walked right in and passed the time of day with him.

I guess I’ll plug my way through the Quanah Parker book. That period in American history fascinates me. A little while back I read The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story by Elliott West, I enjoyed that immensely.

[chambug]

There are many I would recommend. Here's a few

The Bible.

"Mean As Hell"....The autobiography of Dee Harkey, a Texas Ranger who went to New Mexico when it was the badlands, trying to instill some law and order. True story that will grab you. I knew the sons and grandsons of one of the NM ranchers he wrote about.

And...."Transcending the Natural" which is at the printers right now. I

have read the manuscript a dozen times at least. Will be available on

Amazon and Barnes & Noble, hopefully by Christmas, I know the Author.