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BOTL UPCOMING MAINTENANCE
Hi Everyone, as mentioned in my introduction post, BOTL needs quite a bit of updating, patching and whatever else I might come across. Over the next few weekends BOTL may be unreachable on occasion as I do migrations or updates, etc. Just be patient - we'll be back! I'll generally try to keep these maintenances until later in the evenings.
Read any good books lately?
- Thread starter Jmurman
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Finished the following books this year ... they were all good reads:
Non-fiction
- Flight / My life in Mission Control by Chris Kraft (about the 1960s space program)
- The Perfect Machine by Donald Florence (building the 200" Hale telescope)
- Wired by Bob Woodward (John Belushi biography)
- An American Life by Ronald Reagan (autobiography)
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (biography)
- The Emperors of Chocolate by Joel Brenner (look inside the Mars + Hershey companies / families)
- Bringing down the House by Ben Mezrich (Six MIT students who took Las Vegas for millions @ blackjack)
- The Ice Masters by Jennifer Niven (1913 voyage of the ship Karluk + crew ... arctic adventure)
Fiction
- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown (adventure / mystery)
- Watchers by Dean Koontz (current day sci-fi / drama)
- Moonfall by Jack McDevitt (catastrophe ... like the movie Deep Impact)
- Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card (continuation of the Ender series ... start with Ender's Game ... military / sci-fi)
- Airframe by Michael Crichton (investigation / drama)
Tom Clancy books are also great vacation reads if you enjoy political + military stories.
Non-fiction
- Flight / My life in Mission Control by Chris Kraft (about the 1960s space program)
- The Perfect Machine by Donald Florence (building the 200" Hale telescope)
- Wired by Bob Woodward (John Belushi biography)
- An American Life by Ronald Reagan (autobiography)
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (biography)
- The Emperors of Chocolate by Joel Brenner (look inside the Mars + Hershey companies / families)
- Bringing down the House by Ben Mezrich (Six MIT students who took Las Vegas for millions @ blackjack)
- The Ice Masters by Jennifer Niven (1913 voyage of the ship Karluk + crew ... arctic adventure)
Fiction
- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown (adventure / mystery)
- Watchers by Dean Koontz (current day sci-fi / drama)
- Moonfall by Jack McDevitt (catastrophe ... like the movie Deep Impact)
- Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card (continuation of the Ender series ... start with Ender's Game ... military / sci-fi)
- Airframe by Michael Crichton (investigation / drama)
Tom Clancy books are also great vacation reads if you enjoy political + military stories.
This last month has been the Jeffery Deaver readathon 
He wrote the bone collector... the ones I've enjoyed the most have all been "Lincoln Ryme" novels. He's the investigator in the bone collector, I've been happy with the read, fast and interesting... good vacation material
Either way... enjoy the hell out of the vacation!!!!
He wrote the bone collector... the ones I've enjoyed the most have all been "Lincoln Ryme" novels. He's the investigator in the bone collector, I've been happy with the read, fast and interesting... good vacation material
Either way... enjoy the hell out of the vacation!!!!
Newt said:This last month has been the Jeffery Deaver readathon
He wrote the bone collector... the ones I've enjoyed the most have all been "Lincoln Ryme" novels. He's the investigator in the bone collector, I've been happy with the read, fast and interesting... good vacation material
Either way... enjoy the hell out of the vacation!!!!
thanks Newt! I'm getting my Cohibas ready for some seroius smokin!
