It has been a long time since I posted about what I am reading...

Right now I am almost done with '3001: the Final Odyssey' by Arthur C. Clarke. I re-read '2001', '2010' and '2061' by the same author before this one. Unfortunately I can't remember why I wanted to read them again...maybe it was a commercial...I know! It was from WALL-E, where the Axiom's captain finally stands up on his own for the first time and the song 'Thus spake Zarathustra' played! Man, aren't thoughts and connections really random sometimes?

If you like sci-fi, these are good books.

And I almost forgot-    :)  :) +0.5 GMoE (Goo Meter of Enjoyability- my scale of how much I liked it.)

2 Book post...

...read 'Revenge of the Sith' again. Still rox, but Anakin is easily swayed...Retard.

Then 'The Legend of Huma' by Richard A Knaak. :) :) :) A good story. I like Dragonlance books. This one is better than a lot of the others.

Now I'm reading 'The Rainmaker' by John Grisham. Again. For at least the 7th time. I love that book.

Apollo 13...

...or formerly 'Lost Moon' by Jim Lovell.

This book rocks! Since 'Apollo 13' is one of my favorite movies, this book was a must-read for me. It helps tell the backstory of how NASA, their engineers and astronauts helped make the flight a 'sucessful failure'.

Another one down...

...this time it's 'The Silmarillion' by J.R.R. Tolkien. :D :D :D :D + 0.5 GMoE

Full smileys for the tale of the Silmarils. I took off the last 0.50 because of all the names that are hard to follow. Nothing like having 2or 3 names for the same person: Sauron/Gorthaur, Melkor/Morgoth Bauglir, Eru/Iluvatar etc... Great stories though.

Next...

...is 'The Runaway Jury' by John Grisham. :) :) +0.5 GMoE -not very engaging, but interesting so far as a person is able to influence a jury.

'The Hunt For Red October' by Tom Clancy. :) :) :) :) GMoE -I like the earlier Tom Clancy books, and I still like this one. Lots of technical details, and a complex interweaving of plots. Very interesting.

Getting current again

The Last Juror by John Grisham :) :) :) :) GMoE

DragonDrums by Anne McCaffrey (last book in the HarperHall trilogy) :) :) :) + 0.5 GMoE

The Summons by John Grisham :) :) :) GMoE

The Street Lawyer by John Grisham :) :) :) GMoE

Again I have been slacking...

Let's see if I can get current. And these are in no particular reading order.

The first 2 books of the Harperhall trilogy by Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsong :) :) :) and Dragonsinger :) :) :) GMoE, respectively. Ignorant people suck. That's all I'll say about those books.

I re-read Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton again. :) :) :) +0.5 GMoE. I like the technical details of his books, but I think I like Hammond in the movie better than the jerk he was in the book. And I still think the line "a deplorable excess of personality" is the best line.