What book are you reading now

[Yurt]

Playboy...hey that's as thick as some books!

the articles are arousing....

[My Winter Storm]

John Grishams 'King Of Torts'

[Said1]

Jacob the Liar - Jurek Becker

[5stringJeff]

I just finished Ron Paul's "The Revolution." It's only 170 pages, and an easy read besides. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone. In fact, I would add this book to the list of every high school senior's "must read and report on in order to graduate" list.

[Yurt]

Next - michael crichton

[crin63]

I'm reading, How to own a gun and stay out of jail.

[AFbombloader]

After I went to the DMZ and realized I really knew nothing about the Korean War, I picked up "The Korean War" by Max Hastings. Very interesting book about the forgotten war.

AF

[Said1]

I'm reading the Celestine Prophecies, again. I need to revisit the second insight.

[Little-Acorn]

the articles are arousing....

What articles?

[Shadow]

I read a lot since there is never anything good on the boob tube. I have read 4 books this month and have started on my fifth this week.


Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts.. very good mystery about a baby that was stolen at birth and presumed dead,20 years later he comes back to solve the murder of his mother. The author beats you over the head with her liberal views quite a bit,but it was still good.

Obsession by Karen Robards another good mystery/government conspiracy type book. Lots of twists and turns.

High Profile by Robert B Parker . One of his detective series, not Spencer for hire though. I think the detectives name was Jesse Stone ,who is a small tourist town cop trying to solve the murder of a controversial talk radio host (imagine that).

The Price of Pleasure by Kresley Cole...pure smut, but I had to mix it up a bit.

Right now I am reading Falling Awake by Jayne Ann Krentz ,another mystery type book that involves level 5 dreaming research and murder. So far so good.

[Shadow]

Double..sorry

[retiredman]

1 Kings

[Abbey Marie]

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
by Michael Brooks

I would give this a very high recommendation. It is a fascinating book about scientific results that scientists cannot explain or even accept.
See below...

Amazon.com Review
Product Description
When we look to the "anomalies" that science can’t explain, we often discover where science is about to go. Here are a few of the anomalies that Michael Brooks investigates in 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense:

Homeopathic remedies seem to have biological effects that cannot be explained by chemistry

Gases have been detected on Mars that could only have come from carbon-based life forms

Cold fusion, theoretically impossible and discredited in the 1980s, seems to work in some modern laboratory experiments

It’s quite likely we have nothing close to free will

Life and non-life may exist along a continuum, which may pave the way for us to create life in the near future

Sexual reproduction doesn’t line up with evolutionary theory and, moreover, there’s no good scientific explanation for why we must die

Science starts to get interesting when things don’t make sense.

Science’s best-kept secret is this: even today, there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar "anomalies" have revolutionized our world, like in the sixteenth century, when a set of celestial anomalies led Copernicus to realize that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse, and in the 1770s, when two chemists discovered oxygen because of experimental results that defied all the theories of the day. And so, if history is any precedent, we should look to today’s inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. In 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense, Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet thirteen modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

13 Things opens at the twenty-third Solvay physics conference, where the scientists present are ready to throw up their hands over an anomaly: is it possible that the universe, rather than slowly drifting apart as the physics of the big bang had once predicted, is actually expanding at an ever-faster speed? From Solvay and the mysteries of the universe, Brooks travels to a basement in Turin to subject himself to repeated shocks in a test of the placebo response. No study has ever been able to definitively show how the placebo effect works, so why has it become a pillar of medical science? Moreover, is 96 percent of the universe missing? Is a 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? Might giant viruses explain how life began? Why are some NASA satellites speeding up as they get farther from the sun—and what does that mean for the laws of physics?
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[Abbey Marie]

Picture of Michael Brooks. So young to be so smart.

[hjmick]

I'll have to pick up a copy of that book, sounds interesting.

Right now I'm in the middle of The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi. Very interesting look at a decades old serial killer case in Italy.

Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008: When author Douglas Preston moved his family to Florence he never expected he would soon become obsessed and entwined in a horrific crime story whose true-life details rivaled the plots of his own bestselling thrillers. While researching his next book, Preston met Mario Spezi, an Italian journalist who told him about the Monster of Florence, Italy's answer to Jack the Ripper, a terror who stalked lovers' lanes in the Italian countryside. The killer would strike at the most intimate time, leaving mutilated corpses in his bloody wake over a period from 1968 to 1985. One of these crimes had taken place in an olive grove on the property of Preston's new home. That was enough for him to join "Monsterologist" Spezi on a quest to name the killer, or killers, and bring closure to these unsolved crimes. Local theories and accusations flourished: the killer was a cuckolded husband; a local aristocrat; a physician or butcher, someone well-versed with knives; a satanic cult. Thomas Harris even dipped into "Monster" lore for some of Hannibal Lecter's more Grand Guignol moments in Hannibal. Add to this a paranoid police force more concerned with saving face and naming a suspect (any suspect) than with assessing the often conflicting evidence on hand, and an unbelievable twist that finds both authors charged with obstructing justice, with Spezi jailed on suspicion of being the Monster himself. The Monster of Florence is split into two sections: the first half is Spezi's story, with the latter bringing in Preston's updated involvement on the case. Together these two parts create a dark and fascinating descent into a landscape of horror that deserves to be shelved between In Cold Blood and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. --Brad Thomas Parsons

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. United in their obsession with a grisly Italian serial murder case almost three decades old, thriller writer Preston (coauthor, Brimstone) and Italian crime reporter Spezi seek to uncover the identity of the killer in this chilling true crime saga. From 1974 to 1985, seven pairs of lovers parked in their cars in secluded areas outside of Florence were gruesomely murdered. When Preston and his family moved into a farmhouse near the murder sites, he and Spezi began to snoop around, although witnesses had died and evidence was missing. With all of the chief suspects acquitted or released from prison on appeal, Preston and Spezi's sleuthing continued until ruthless prosecutors turned on the nosy pair, jailing Spezi and grilling Preston for obstructing justice. Only when Dateline NBC became involved in the maze of mutilated bodies and police miscues was the authors' hard work rewarded. This suspenseful procedural reveals much about the dogged writing team as well as the motives of the killers. Better than some overheated noir mysteries, this bit of real-life Florence bloodletting makes you sweat and think, and presses relentlessly on the nerves. (June 11)