My sister-in-law gave me Vince Flynn's latest novel Consent to Kill as a Christmas gift. I had never heard of him. Couldn't put the damn thing down. I bought a couple of his earlier novels in paperback, Term Limits & The Third Option. If you're a Clancy fan you will love Flynn's works.
have any of you read Shatterproof: The 100 Most Unbreakable Records in Sports and Why? If so, any thoughts before I look to purchase it?
i have been working on my new 2006 copy of baseball prospectus, and anxiously awaiting the arrival of "pedro, carlos and omar", which is a book about the last mets season by the ny daily news mets beat writer. and also i am knocking down "an anthropologist on mars", by one of my favorite fellas, weird brain expert dr oliver sacks.
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/03/those_philander.html Figured you'd find this interesting. This guy does a pretty good science blog at the Chronicle, and had this post about Feynman, among others. Great quote:
I recently watched a new special on the Titanic on the History Channel, and it has again peaked my interest in the ship. I bought some books on it today.....A Night to Remember and Falling Star: Misadventures of White Star Line Ships
thats the thing i love about feynman. no pretense. he is doing the world's most advanced physics, literally saving the world by working on the bomb, and always so fun and good natured and making fun of himself. oh how i love him.
i guess you know this, but the original phrase is "piqued my interest". i guess you could argue that "peaked" makes sense, but i wouldnt make that argument. and my mom would shoot me in the face if i tried.
