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What's on your reading list?

What do you plan to read this summer? What are you reading now?
I am currently reading "Degrees Kelvin" by David Lindley, published by Joseph Henry Press. The biography of Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. He was a 19th century physicist probably best known for dicsovering the temperature at which atoms cease to move: -273.15 degrees Celsius (0 degrees Kelvin or absolute zero). He also performed a lot of the early groundwork for theories of electromagnetism and thermodynamics. Lord Kelvin devised a new compass for ships that would work well when surrounded by steel as the world's ship building began to move from wooden to iron vessels. A fascinating figure from history.
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gunbei
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When it comes to reading I have a very bad habit of starting many books and finishing very few. Right now I'm in the midst of between 5 and 10 books in varying stages.

Some of them have to do with the history of the Mongol invasions of Europe, the Middle East and Japan, the art and personality of Leonardo Da Vinci, Galilleo's letters to his daughter, a Native American biography and a book about an ex-KBG man who snuck box loads of secret documents out of Moscow over a twenty year period.

Last summer I was engrossed in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, and The Da Vinci Code, and when the new Harry Potter book is released that will probably jump to the top of the stack.

Thanks for giving me a kick in the pants Slipknot1! Reading in an air conditioned room while camped in my listening chair is a nice way to pass a hot day.
gunbei
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Hey Marco, are you really Wheezer from the Little Rascals?

Jax looks like Pete the Pup!

And the way you photographed her with Chilla they look like they could be waiting for Stymie, Furina, Dickey Moore, Spanky and the rest of the gang for a hike out in the wild Los Angeles woods.

Beautiful lighting and cast shadows!
gunbei
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Crazy4blues,

You make a great points about Dan Brown's books. Angels and Demons and DaVinci Code seemed like they were created from the exact same template, just change the location and the names and the title. Even though they can get very over the top and are based on very shakey history, I still got sucked into them.

And the luscious female Italian physicist from Angels and Demons? You forget, she was a master yogi too! Heheh.
gunbei
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Crazy4blues, I think Harrison Ford is too old, heheh!

I have an actor's face in my head for the upcoming DaVinci Code movie, but I can't think of his name. Rats! I think he's in his forties though, much closer to the Robert Langdon character.

Remember, he's gotta have the ability to engage in underwater mortal combat against an evil assassin in one of those dangerous Itlaian fountains!

I see Sophie Marceau for the part of Sophie Neveu in DaVinci Code and Maria Grazia Cucinotta as the 6 foot tall yogi master physicist in Angels and Demons! LOL

But you're right, Hollywood doesn't cast the best people for the parts, just ones that'll bring in the most dough.
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