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None at the moment. Im posting here.
C'moooooonnnnnn!!!! Books, man! BOOKS!
well, i wasnt reading a book, i was posting. Like now.
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LOVE BECOMES A FUNERAL PYRE - A biography of The Doors
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LOVE BECOMES A FUNERAL PYRE - A biography of The Doors
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Mar 24, 2016 - 6:36 AM
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Tall Guy
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Recently read (a selection):
The Southern Reach Trilogy (Jeff Vandermeer) - uneven sci-fi series that gets off to a great start in Annihilation, gets bogged down a little in Authority and hits its stride in the densely-written finale, Acceptance.
Touch (can't remember the author, but it's a woman) - an intriguing idea of an entity who passes from person to person, taking over their bodies and being pursued by an organisation determined to kill off the small number of people with that ability. Some fantastic passages and ideas but it drags in the middle as a superluous travelogue detracts from the action. If it were 50 pages shorter it'd be a great read from start to finish.
Close Encounters of the Furred Kind (Tom Cox) - made me laugh out loud throughout, a rare commodity in a book. By the guy who posts "My cat is sad" on that bacefook thing. His description of his various cats and the humans who serve them is hilariously on point.
The Noise of Time (Julian Barnes) - a fictionalised re-telling of the darkest times in the life of the 20th century's most important composer. Rightly being pushed hard in Waterstones and highly recommended.
Currently reading:
Nod (Adrian Barnes - no relation) - in a world where sleep is suddenly unattainable, society breaks down after a few days as people become unhinged by their inability to drop off, and the very few who still retain their capability to achieve shut-eye become targets.
Some Kind of Hero (Matthew Field and Ajay Chowdhury) - a film by film analysis of the Bond series, having unearthed many new facts in a series of new interviews and documents. Very interesting.
In the pipeline
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Wind/Pinball (Haruki Murakami) - his first two novels, available in English for the first time.
Ardennes 1944 - Antony Beevors's take on the Battle of the Bulge.
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LOVE BECOMES A FUNERAL PYRE - A biography of The Doors
Never heard of this one. Is it as great as Danny Sugerman's sacred-to-me-in-high-school Morrison bio, No One Here Gets Out Alive? I must have read that damned book over and over in my senior year. 
well, it is , refreshingly, a book about the BAND, not just Jimbo!
It's not one of the better DOORS bios- poorly written
but
it has very recent interviews with many folks intimately involved with the band including :
DENSMORE,
KRIEGER
and Bruce Botnick etc.
check out MORRISON :Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis for a good JM bio
bruce
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The Shining. It's my bus book.
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THE BATTLE FOR BOND- Robert Sellars
I thought I knew all about the legal trouble concerning THUNDERBALL, NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN....
but I was wrong.
Broccoli, Saltzman, Fleming, McClory deserved each other
DANCE OF DRAGONS
grr mARTIN writes like a dirty old man - his sex talk is downright prurient and embarrassing. But, in the hands of great scriptwriters (including himself) magic appears!
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Finished reading The Night Manager by John LeCarre
Now reading 12 Years A Slave
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THE LAST SULTAN : aHMET eRTEGUN
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN - Highsmith
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After finishing the superb Michael O'Donoghue biography....
you are sick!
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Jul 15, 2016 - 6:52 PM
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Metryq
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Warlok wrote: Well, compared to Tesla, I cannot interpret much on that wiki page. Beliefs about gravity, yeah, I see that... everything else could use some more de-mystifying layman explanations. [i[Sounds important  .
Tesla did some pretty wild stuff that still has electrical engineers scratching their heads today, although more has probably been written about his work than Heaviside's.
Technology is applied science, and that may be one way to evaluate scientific discoveries and models. And Heaviside's work is very applicable. For example, when he was working for a telegraph company he used measurements and a little math to figure out where the break/fault in a trans-Atlantic cable was located, rather than the tedious dredging-cutting-testing-splicing-and-dredging-again approach. Today we use a method known as TDR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain_reflectometry
Heaviside also worked out duplexing, quadplexing and even multiplexing when it was thought to be impossible. That is, he figured out how to send multiple messages both ways over a single telegraph wire. When others were saying it can't be done, Heaviside had already done it (without asking the bosses if he could experiment on their lines).
Some of his work is more esoteric, such as the self-inductance of conductors, or the refinement of Maxwell's equations. I'm assuming that even an armchair science fan understands the significance of Maxwell's equations which unified electricity and magnetism (and light) and led to major developments in 20th century physics (like quantum mechanics). Maxwell had 20 equations, which Heaviside reduced to 4, and thus made Maxwell's theory accessible to many more scientists and engineers.
I haven't read anything detailed yet on Heaviside's electric vector gravity, but there are researchers still following this line today. The Maverick book I mentioned above is suitable for the layman, but probably a bit over the head of a complete beginner.
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