What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9
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Steve Perry wrote Net Force.
Ya serious? The front cover does say it was a joint creation by Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, and the inside cover dedication thing by Clancy says, "We would like to thank Steve Perry for his creative ideas and for his invaluable contributions to the preparation of this manuscript." That not much credit for him if he wrote it...
And how can you create a book without writing it?
At least it partially explains why it is at least mildly interesting.
And how can you create a book without writing it?
At least it partially explains why it is at least mildly interesting.
Concept, like Masada said. I think the NetForce series was kinda based off of an earlier Clancy-concept-that-other-writers-turned-into-books, Op-Center Tom Clancy does this sort of thing a lot, where he loosely collaborates with other authors or farms out most of the actual writing to them after brainstorming the basic idea behind the whole thing. Did this as early as Red Storm Rising, his second fiction book, where he and Larry Bond (of Red Phoenix and Vortex fame) kinda co-wrote the book. I assume he gets top billing because his name sells better than other authors' would.
I'm reading Roma, the story of Rome's first thousand years through the eyes of one of its families. It's a very interesting novel by Steven Saylor.
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond [re-read for class]
Modernization and Revolution in China: From the Opium Wars to the Olympics by June Grasso
Political Change in the Metropolis by Ronald K. Vogel
World Politics: Trend and Transformation by Kegley
Principles of Economics by Mankiw
Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History to 1500 by Bentley
Introduction to Geography by Bergman
FOR FUN:
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
Modernization and Revolution in China: From the Opium Wars to the Olympics by June Grasso
Political Change in the Metropolis by Ronald K. Vogel
World Politics: Trend and Transformation by Kegley
Principles of Economics by Mankiw
Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History to 1500 by Bentley
Introduction to Geography by Bergman
FOR FUN:
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
Ricks' The Gamble, about the surge, for a class.
Link to video.
De rigueur for anybody who reads Mankiw.
Link to video.
De rigueur for anybody who reads Mankiw.
Both good.Azale said:
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
Sound pretty good to me (particularly the second one).
Harris is one of my favorite authors: Fatherland is definitely interesting, but I prefer his Imperium and Pompeii.
Shylock
Hey smiling strange
I'm doing the original Dune now.
I like it so far, it's miles better than the other althistory writers I've subjected myself to
Sound pretty good to me (particularly the second one).
Yea, and the second one is mercilessly succinct. Diamond is kinda the opposite of that.
I'm going to be thinking of this throughout the entire class now.
Nylan
Characters Welcome
I'm going to be thinking of this throughout the entire class now.
That's probably all you'll be thinking about. That book failed me on so many levels.
Imperialmajesty
Emperor
Fatherland was excellent. I literally stayed up two days and finished up the book.
I used the Canadian edition of Principles of Economics by Mankiw (has four Canadian co-authors, only of which teaches at my university). It came with a study guide, which I never used. I got an A, and not really that good of a student.
Finish John McPhee's The Control of Nature, about people fighting the elements in Southern Loiusana (The Mississippi want to leave its current channel for the Atchafalaya River), Iceland (saving a productive fishing town from an eruption) and Los Angles (the San Gabriel mountians are eroding away, producing massive mud slides). It's interesting introduction, although I found the lack of maps in the book annoying. All the beauty of the written word cannot replace a good map or two.
Finish John McPhee's The Control of Nature, about people fighting the elements in Southern Loiusana (The Mississippi want to leave its current channel for the Atchafalaya River), Iceland (saving a productive fishing town from an eruption) and Los Angles (the San Gabriel mountians are eroding away, producing massive mud slides). It's interesting introduction, although I found the lack of maps in the book annoying. All the beauty of the written word cannot replace a good map or two.
Orange Seeds
playing with cymbals
Textbooks just came in through the door(and $400 goes out) so here they are:
Conduct and Character Mark Timmons($104 stinking dollars for 255 pages of glorious phil.)
Ancient Greece in its Mediterranean Context Nancy Demand
Vermeer's Hat: the 17th century and dawn of the global world Timothy Brook
The Search for Modern China Jonathan D Spence
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You Frank Stanford
InventoryDionne Brand
The Poetry of Pablo Nerunda
The Discovery Frances Mayes
Howl Allen Ginsberg
and a couple that are pedantic in nature and not worth mentioning
anyone read any of those stellar publications before?
Conduct and Character Mark Timmons($104 stinking dollars for 255 pages of glorious phil.)
Ancient Greece in its Mediterranean Context Nancy Demand
Vermeer's Hat: the 17th century and dawn of the global world Timothy Brook
The Search for Modern China Jonathan D Spence
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You Frank Stanford
InventoryDionne Brand
The Poetry of Pablo Nerunda
The Discovery Frances Mayes
Howl Allen Ginsberg
and a couple that are pedantic in nature and not worth mentioning
anyone read any of those stellar publications before?
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