Question What are you reading?

[ParaG]

"Digital Apollo -
Human and Machine in Spaceflight"
By David A. Mindell

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-apollo




An excellent read :thumbup:

 

[PhantomCruiser]

The Jungle Book, by Kipling. I forgot how good it is (not Disney, nope, the real thing).

 

[mode1bravo]

Just finished, Desert Eagles by Humphrey Wynn (Eagle Squadron guys flying Kittyhawks in North Africa.)


Just started,
Lunar Rover 1971-1972 (Apollo 15-17; LRV1-3 & 1G Trainer) Owners' Workshop Manual by Dr. Christopher Riley, David Woods, & Phil Dolling
(One of those nice surprises, such a great book.)

 

[Codz]

Ben Bova's Mars.

 

[Graham2001]

"Marsman meets the Almighty" by Dan Trotter (1975)

http://archive.org/download/MarsmanMeetsTheAlmighty/MarsmanMeetsTheAlmightyByDonTrotter1975.pdf

All I'm going to say about it is that I'm surprised NASA didn't try this...

 

[769270865]

The Three Body by Liou Ci xin

 

[Gumok]

Orwell's 1984.

 

[Aeadar]

"Centennial" by James A. Michener.

 

[Ripley]

"I, robot" by Isaac Asimov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot

 

[Codz]

Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.

 

[Pablo49]

Next up is The Fault in Our Stars, which I am basically only reading because I love John Green.

So I worked at a summer camp and instead of reading a new book, re-read Catch-22 while I was there, and haven't read anything new since I returned. I finally pulled The Fault in Our Stars off the shelf yesterday, just under halfway through now. I very much enjoy it so far. And again, John Green <3

 

[Notebook]

Moby Dick, good read, bad for the Whale. Call me Ishmael(spelling could be wrong...)

Forgot how good this novel is, and how good some film treatise of it was:

Mr. Starbuck...

N.

 

[Pablo49]

Finished The Fault in Our Stars just moments ago. I continued to enjoy it and it gets increasingly better as you go. I recommend it. Also, it is a pretty easy read.

 

[Urwumpe]

Just reading "Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War". A really good reading about the A-10 and also giving some many insights into CAS and BAI tactics, as well as into the mindsets of the RFOA-10 pilots. Why should you descent from safe high altitudes into a maelstrom of AAA shells or take-off when the weather is too bad for the fighter jockeys? Simply to protect the ground soldiers lives.

 

[Codz]

A good combat pilot memoir I recently read was "A Nightmare's Prayer". It was written by a US Marine Corps AV-8B pilot who flew ground support missions in Afghanistan.

 

[Ghostrider]

"Vulcan 607", about Operation Black Buck during the Falklands War.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

Moby Dick, good read, bad for the Whale. Call me Ishmael(spelling could be wrong...)

Forgot how good this novel is, and how good some film treatise of it was:

"...that in her retracing search to find her missing children, only found another orphan."

One of the few books I have re-read on three different occasions. It is a moving masterpiece, first introduced to me at 14, when I was very interested in Cetology and was entertaining aspirations of becoming a marine biologist.

At the moment I am reading Kevin Phillip's "1775: A Good Year for Revolution". I would say it is a bit "revisionistic" for my liking, though no offense intended and no reason not to read it. As a non-US American who received an overseas US standards education up to high school, my interest in the subject of US history is quite high. Being a bit dissatisfied with the content of the "standard" of the subject imparted in school, I am always ready to read more about it on my own count.

 

[NukeET]

Edwin Aldrin's MIT doctoral dissertation.

 

[Andy44]

Burning Chrome short story collection by William Gibson of Neuromancer fame. Wonderful cyber-punk noir.

 

[Swigert]

Apollo 13 (also known as "The Lost Moon") by Jim Lovell and Jeffery Kluger.