I Found This Book Fascinating

I hated high school.
I was living consumed by mentally ill parents, father dying, mother being dragged down working overtime on his dying, myself no doubt when I reflect in hindsight, also mentally ill. I lost all interest and began...

It is the most important, useful, interesting, and enlightening book you'll ever read. Follow the teachings of this book, and you will find true happiness! (Not to mention salvation!)

by Professor Arthur Holmes FRS.
A blast from the past.
The other day I read something, I forget what now, about magma. I knew it was about hot stuff from the earth, but couldn't say anymore than that. I went to my bookshelves. Took down...

subtitled A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, by Roger Penrose.

The author is Rouse Ball Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University. A leading theoretician for most of his life, he is one of those folk we like to...

Full title is Stability & Complexity in Model Ecosystems, by Lord Robert May of Oxford.

Keen and attentive readers of my drivel and dare will recall that I wrote about this book in another Experience when I was last reading it. Now I...

Nice title, with an appropriate pun for what is mainly a picture book. Published in 2008, it is a compilation work, with a small amount of bio text combined with pix by many photographers. Large coffee table format.

I have been in love...

Stephen Pinker.
I love the way this man's mind works.  He is brilliant!  He is an expert in psycholinguistics and he has the ability to make his complex subject accessible to a lay-person like me.
This book explores how we...

Written by a prominent moral philosopher, Professor Emeritus Harry Frankfurt of Princeton University, this is quite some book.

For starters it's about a 30-something page academic paper published in this tiny pocketbook sized hardback...

1. Time Traveler's Wife - best time traveling writing ever.2. The Eyre Affair (et al from Jasper Fforde) - if you love books & literary references3. Kushiel Saga by Jacqueline Carey - awesome religious concepts, well written4. A Year In...

Subtitle is: concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics. By the former Oxford don Sir Roger Penrose.
Penrose is one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. This book came out in 1989 and I acquired it...

The above title by John Barrow of Cambridge University and Frank Tipler of Tulane University. Published 1986.

It's not everyday you hear a distinguished and famous scientist called - by his peers - a crackpot. That's Tipler's burden...

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. I was blown away by her style of writing, beautiful, amazing  voice of a poet  narrating a story in proze. Be careful though, this is an authobiographical novel about Plath's...

subtitled: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan.

Sheehan was a journalist covering the American war in Indochina. When he met Vann the latter was a mid-level officer (Lieutenant Colonel). He paints an amazing picture...

Written by Christa Johnson, MD
 The author was inspired to write this book after the death of a very close friend
The book includes two meditation CD's and the chapters include:
Holistic approach
Meditation
Gratitude...

 "These images are a spectacular reaffirmation that we are privileged to live in the greatest age of exploration the world has ever known."-From Arthur C. Clarke's foreword

"Since the 1960s the National...

Full title is Private Presley: The Missing Years, Elvis in Germany. By Andreas Schroder, published 1993.

I have owned it pretty much since it came out, but can't for the life of me recall where I bought it. I read it immediately back...

The World Without Us by Alan Wiesman. I found it to be really interesting, as a matter of fact it's now one of my favorite books. Unlike my usual way of reading, I read this sporadically and gave myself time to ruminate over what I...