Three books I would like to read

[dreamshark]

I'm just making this entry to remind myself. People are always recommending books that sound fascinating and then I forget them.

Survival of the Sickest, a medical maverick discovers why we need disease
Dr. Sharon Moalem, with Jonathan Price, William Morrow, 2007
Recommended by magentamn in LJ today.

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Recommended by many people, most recently mle392.

Away by Amy Bloom
Review in the Strib A&E section today.

Anybody have anything else to recommend?

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I strongly recommend Colin Cotterill's mysteries and Atul Gawande's Better (nonfiction).

[ckd]

Linked, by Albert-László Barabási

Pretty much anything by Henry Petroski; you may have seen his LA Times op-ed on the I-35W collapse.

[daedala.livejournal.com]

I really liked Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

If you're up for fiction, anything by Charles Stross, but I'm especially enjoying his Merchant Princes series, starting with The Family Trade.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to post an entry on the wonderful trash I've been reading, but apparently the trash has rotted my mind. One of a number of books I'd think you'd enjoy is Dark of the Moon a very jaundiced view of the American race to the Moon.

Another recomendation is The Man Who Saved Britian: The disturbing world of James Bond which isn't so much about the spy as it is about what World War II did to the English, and/or the fall of the British Empire.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to post about the wonderful trash I've been reading, but apparently the trash has rotted my mind. Even with that, I've a couple of books I think you'd like:

The Dark Side Of The Moon: The magnificent madness of the American lunar quest (Gerard DeGroot), which is a pretty damned jaundiced, and uncomfortably realistic look at the space race.

Another recommendation is The Man Who Saved Britain: The disturbing world of James Bond (Simon Winder) which isn't so much about the spy as it is about what World War II did to the English, and/or the fall of the British Empire (and what a good, good thing it was in the author's opinion.)