====== To Read ====== Send this to Virg: Gerard K. O'Neill to build colonies in space The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space Earth should be preserved as a natural park. (national park) (which nation?) ^Title ^Author ^Date Added^How did you learn about this book? ^ |The Sea |John Banville |2006/03/29 |I heard the author on NPR (Diane Rehm), and his excerpt sounded great | |The Syringa Tree |Pamela Gien |2006/07/20 |Diane Rehm again. I think mom would really like this one | |Science of Fear : Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't - and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger|Daniel Gardner |2008/08/05 | Diane Rehm again| |Devil take the hindmost : a history of financial speculation| Chancellor, Edward |2008/09/07 |CNN Money Article, suggested reading for those interested in why you should weather the storm of the bear market| ===== Elon Musk's Top 8 ===== - "Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down" by J.E. Gordon - "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" by Walter Isaacson - "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson - "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" by Nick Bostrom - "Merchants of Doubt" by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes - "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding - "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" by Peter Thiel - The "Foundation" trilogy by Isaac Asimov ===== Lucy Suggestions ===== This list was for Mike (our neighbor) who spends a lot of time down time at the fire house: * Charles Frazer * Cold Mountain, Civil War. * Thirteen Moons, Pre-Civil and Civil War * Dan Fesperman * Lie in the Dark, contemporary detective in Sarajevo * Small Boat of Many Sorrows, same as above * Matthew Kneale * English Passengers, Tasmania 1770-1800 * Barbara Kingsolver * Poisonwood Bible, Missionary in Africa during the 1950's * Mary Doria Russell * Children of God, Aliens and the Jesuits * Susan King * Lady MacBeth, Scotland and MacBeth * Gary Jennings * Journeyer, Marco Polo * Margaret Atwood * The Handmaid's Tale, Science Fiction * Martin Cruz Smith * Gorky Park, Russia during the 50-60's * Sharon Kay Pennman * All of hers... stories of England and Wales durin the 1100-1400's ====== Read ====== ^Title ^Author ^Date Added^ What did you think? ^ | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Phillip K. Dick | 2008/04/07 | Most excellent! I loved the movie and have seen it many times. This was a great peek into the source material from which the movie was extracted.| | God is Not Great | Christopher Hitchens | 2008/06/01 | Friggen awesome review of how organized religion is a man made system, and that people don't necessarily behave better because of religion | | Bushworld | Maureen Dowd | 2008/06/30 | Very interesting collection of her articles from the New York Times. She always makes me grin |