I am currently reading On Writing by Stephen King. It is a valuable book to anyone looking to become a writer. I also reccomend it to anyone that has no thoughts of becoming a writer. It's an amazing book.

Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth.

My Computer Screen.

My Computer Screen. 

 

Dbaho's post.

I haven't read a book in years, but I might waste some time and money on Canseco's book.

I've got a couple of things going at the moment:

Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong

The Good of Affluence, Seeking God in a Culture of Wealth by Schneider

And my goal is by Easter to have read all of the Books of the Prophets in the Old Testament...

 

Plus at the moment I am reading: Specificity of memory representations for spoken words. By Luce and Lyons (article)

On Writing is really solid. It helps you cut through all the bulls*** that you think you have to write. I like his white rabbit example, and his railing against adverbs.

 

Right now I'm reading "Living on Luck", a collection of letters that Bukowski wrote in the 60's and 70's. It's pretty solid.

Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson.

I am currently rereading Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice....

I'm currently reading lots and lots of books for school.

 

However, I'm also trying to read Truman by David McCullough.

Just finished In Retrospect by Robert McNamara, and now am reading The Commanding Heights and a bunch of other Vietnam books for school.

2005 Australian Taxation Law by Woellner, Barkoczy, Murphy and Evans.

Just finished George Washington biography. Now I've started "The Case for a Creator."

I am currently reading:

 

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Divine Comedy by Dante

Crime and Punsihment by Dostoevsky

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Ulysses by James Joyce

and

Barely Legal #18

Penthouse

and Busty Beauties

 

I am reading the financial reports on a company I am buying. :banghead

 

After my brain goes to mush I switch to re-reading I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Any fans of Twilight Zone, and mysteries will love this book.

 

ANyone up to an on-line book club read? Someone recommend a book, wait a week or two and we could start a thread?

Free-Choice Science Education: How We Learn Science Out Of Schools (Ed: Faulk)

 

Because I rock, dammit!

Free-Choice Science Education:  How We Learn Science Out Of Schools (Ed: Faulk)

 

Because I rock, dammit!

 

What book are you writing?

Late Bloomers by Fern Michaels

and

Ah, Those Irish Colleens by Helen Walsh Folsom (History of Women in Ireland through the ages)

ANyone up to an on-line book club read? Someone recommend a book, wait a week or two and we could start a thread?

 

That sounds cool, but I'm a picky b****. I don't read fiction and I read very slowly.

That sounds cool, but I'm a picky b****. I don't read fiction and I read very slowly.

 

The club I was active with a few years ago read a lot of fiction. I joined to force myself to read some good fiction and it sparked me to read more.

 

We should probably start with a baseball book. Perhaps fiction, maybe not. Any suggestions?

What book are you writing?

 

Marine Biotechnology Demystified. To be available in website format hopefully in May.

"May God Have Mercy" for my Federal Habeas Corpus class

 

and

 

"Juiced" by Jose Canseco

Marine Biotechnology Demystified.  To be available in website format hopefully in May.

 

Denystified? It doesn't seem that mystical

Denystified? It doesn't seem that mystical 

Haha! Just Tuesday the European Commission approved a drug called Prialt for sale in the UE (it got FDA approval back in December) as a treatment of chronic severe pain. It’s a synthetic version of a toxic compound isolated from a venomous tropical pacific snail! Because the compound works on neuropathic pain at the level of the presynaptic neurotransmitter by blocking certain ion channels, it can be used to manage pain without the systemic side effects of current opioid therapeutants.

 

Yeah, no need to dumb any of that down for the public…

 

Hopefully a number of promising marine-derived drugs will see the light of day before too long. Funny, for the longest time "drugs from the sea" meant that errant bail of pot that washed ashore occasionally after smugglers dumped their cargo. We call them "square grouper" – and they’re quite a valuable catch pound for pound.

 

After my brain goes to mush I switch to re-reading I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Any fans of Twilight Zone, and mysteries will love this book.

 

 

GREAT book!!! Best "Vampire" story ever.

 

I'm reading: Guitar Player Repair Guide by Dan Erlewine. Slow going on this one. I used to read 3 books a week, and then I fell off on reading. I really need to get back to it, but when I have free time, I usually grab the guitar.