Written by: James Watson with Andrew Berry A history of the science of genetics from the man who got famous for ‘discovering’ DNA. Interesting stories that I think I remember or that might be from high school. Length: 17.75 hrs 1/2004: What he said.
Written by: Orson Scott Card Insect-like aliens attack Earth and are repelled but since they will probably come back at some point we start monitoring little kids for fighting talent and then train them to fight in a special school. Then we train them to command ships that simulate attacking the alien homeworld. During his […]
Written by: Kurt Vonnegut Something about repeating a decade over again, Kilgore Trout, and some Vonnegut memoirs. Definitely weak in comparison to his other books. Length: 5.75 hrs 1/2004: The best part of this book can be summed up by a previous reviewer: “This book was published and how many people will buy and read […]
Written by: Many People A few speeches are great in both content and delivery. Some are good content but don’t sound so great. Many were pretty boring. I have to assume there will be even better speeches in the future, so the title feels a little misleading. Length: 1.75 hrs 11/2003: Fortunately this was short.
Written by: Bill Bryson In a nutshell: “First the Earth cooled. Then the dinosaurs came but they got too big and fat and died and turned into oil. Ooh look! There’s a sale at Penney’s!” Actually that’s from Airplane, which was a whole lot funnier than this book. Length: 18 hrs 11/2003: I like Bill […]
Written by: Eckhart Tolle Read by the author, this book is a gentle massage for the brain. Not a lot of complexity here, it is about what it is about – encouragement to remain focused on the present and why that is a good thing. Plus some exercises to help do that. Nothing earth shattering, […]
Written by: Al Franken You know how someone tells you something and then recommends an action based on that thing? And that action kind of makes sense based on what they told you? Except that the thing they told you was a total lie? Turns out a bunch of jerks in government and on the […]
Written by: Gore Vidal A “semi-fictionalized” history of the United States from 1939-1954, focusing primarily on American politics and Franklin Roosevelt. While not entirely true, it does give a sufficiently accurate enough portrayal of the events of the time and how people thought about them so as to be useful in understanding the flavor of […]
Written by: Larry McMurtry The War and Peace of the West, this book meticulously tracks the adventures of a few cowboys and an Indian who likes to pop out of the grass and kill them. Probably because the cowboys are retired Texas Rangers and killed the rest of his tribe. This may not be exactly […]
Written by: Robert A. Heinlein Boy meets girl. Boy and girl go to Mars, have baby, die. Baby raised by Martians, becomes man. Man returns to Earth with special powers, lives with hippies in a water nest. Government scared. Length: 16.25 hrs 9/2003: This is where the term ‘grok’ comes from, a word that nobody […]
whispered words from literary masters, cheesy hacks, inspirational gurus, and fluffy crap artists into my ears. These are there stories.