Star Trek

Oh that's cool!

Currently reading Colin Dextrer's 'Last Bus to Woodstock' and David Aaronovitch's 'Voodoo Histories'.

The latter I'd highly recommend to anyone of a sceptical/skeptical/'reality-based' outlook. It explores the role of conspiracy theory in modern history and to some extent the minds of conspiracy theorists.

Someone mentioned vampires in response to a mention of 'The Night Watch'. Sergei Lukyaneko's has a book of that name (and three other that follow), featuring 'magicians', vampires and the odd werewolf. I enjoyed them muchly. Not as gothic as you might infer from such things, engaging characters, a few insights into Muscovite/Russian identy, nice themes of goods vs evil and the compromises good can be compelled to take.

The New American Bible - a modern American english translation of the Bible

Freefall - Joseph Stiglitz

Stiglitz has produced an excellent overview of the recent economic crisis and its causes. I would recommend it to anybody with an interest in economics.

Before starting the Stiglitz book, I read Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin. The Sorkin book, though analytically less satisfying than Stiglitz, gives a fascinating blow by blow behind the scenes description of how the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington unfolded circa late 2008.

I read quite a bit of comic books on a regular basis. In the last four days I read 3 Punisher graphic novels, "The Slavers", "Up Is Down", Black Is White", and "Born," all by Garth Ennis. I'm also a huge fan of Swamp Thing, the most underrated character in comicdom, and plan on reading Saga of the Swamp Thing 17-20 today.

For non-trek I am finishing up "Catch Me if You Can", I have been meaning to get around to it since the movie came out and I found it to be a real page turner.

For non-trek Science Fiction I recomend anything by Vernor Vinge, and "A Deepness In the Sky" in particulair.

Nice to see the Bible on someone's list. 

I bought Sunday's New York Times and I am working my way through that. 

Sir H. Rider Haggard's books:
"King Solomon's Mines," "She,"
and "Allan Quatermain" will all
be read soon, as time allows for it.

Ah, good old King Solomon's Mines. Interesting book, you can really see how it influenced and inspired Tolkien.

It also asks that age-old Victorian question, when is homosociality just plain homo?

After She you totally need to watch She, the 1982, low-budget post-apocalyptic barbarian movie starring Sandahl Bergman VERY loosely based on it. What a riot!  

homosociality?

If you are referring to the relationship between Quartermain and his 2 comrades than I must strongly disagree; just three close male friends who admire each other. Quartermain is a widower and had a son. It is at most a strong bromantic relationship. Not that there's anything wrong with homosexuality, mind you. I can see where you're coming from, as Quartermain talks glowingly of his 2 comrades. I've read both King Solomon's Mines and Alan Quartermain and can't say which I enjoyed more.

I'm also a huge Arthur Conan Doyle fan; I've read all 4 Sherlock Holmes novels and the best of the SH short stories, as well as The Lost World, which bears many similarities to King Solomon's mines.

Kieth Richards autobiography

I'm finishing up "The Raw Truth About Milk" by Doctor William Campbell Douglass II and starting Terry Goodkind's "Stone of Tears".

Well I was reading the book that I prevously worked on. The illustrations that I did that is.

Hmmmm... Finished Sherlock Holmes. I'm still in a mood for the classics... Maybe some Shakespere is in order.