The book(s) I bought today

The I Ching.

The Ultimate Dracula on impulse at Half Price WER

3001, Arthur C. Clarke. The Odyssey series comes to a close. No one let on about the plot yet, tho - I haven't finished it :)

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What a great resource, terry! Thanks for the info!

The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth about Internet Culture by Dinty W. Moore

figures!

what does the W stand for?

not sure... e-mail him at dwm7@psuvm.psu.edu

Got "Silas Marner" for a dime off the used book table at the library.

I also bought The Wordsworth Dictionary of Obscenity & Taboo Global Advantage on the Internet How to Make a Fortune on the Information Superhighway Doing Business on the Internet Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace

Is it true that you can tell a lot about a person by the books they buy? :)

and what's that supposed to mean? come on, you can say it...

No, it's just that I'm now timid about telling what books I bought recently. :)

good point... (you know, you oughta check out the genx conf, especially the Formatting the GenX Storybook and Chapter 1 of the GenX Storybook topics) ((so, what DID you buy?))

Well, what a lovely compliment! Somebody is associating me, a Babyboomer, with GenX! Thank you! :) I bought: Children of God (sequel to The Sparrow), by Maria Doria Russell The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons Still Me, by Christopher Reeve

Charlotte, I'll be interested to hear what you think of "Bean Trees." have you read any other of Barbara Kingsolver's novels?

I simply adored it. I was ready to rush to Amazon and order all her other books, but my friend Hugh says he will loan them to me. So now I am just waiting (impatiently!) for him to find them. Like the protagonist is from Kentucky, as am I, so there was a lot of resonance going on, but even without that level, it was so enjoyably written that I found myself simply swept away. I bought the new hardcover version they just released in honor of its 10th anniversary, but I'm sure the paperback is still available, too. Run out and get it!

I preferred "Animal Dreams" -- have you read that one? What did you think?

Animal Dreams is on my list, after Pigs in Heaven, which I will start after I finish Children of God. I have read terrific reviews of Animal Dreams, and am greatly looking forward to it!

picked up two more belva plain novels. her latest one, Homecoming, and Whispers. i actually finished the last one i bought and was just dying to get back to a bookstore to pick up more, much to my husband's chargin.

used the plastic, huh?

I enjoyed Homecoming, but I have not read Whispers. How was it? Referring to message 23--- I read both Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver, since I wrote that message. Last week I bought her newest, The Ironwood Bible. Looking forward to it. But first I have to finish the two new ones I just bought by E. Annie Proulx.

already half-way through Homecoming and just started last night (read for 2 hours). Whispers is next, so i'll let you know, Charlotte. wer: nope. we try not to use plastic too much.

Just finished Jane Smiley's "Thousand Acres." It started off in one direction and then suddently took off in another more dysfunctional and outrageous one.

finished Homecoming last night. 4 hour book. good read, though. and i was wrong about it being her latest novel....Legacy of Secrets is the newest and i don't have that one YET!!

Today I bought "Solid State Physics, Second Edition" by Hook and Hall, and "Introductory Nuclear Physics" by Krane. Oh what an exciting life I lead. y

Wow. Sure puts us to shame, Mike.

No Plasma Physics?

Plasma physics is probably the most boring type i can think of. I could have done ap lasma project, but i read about it and then fell asleep :-)

ok, just to interject, seems i was a bit confused with the titles i mentioned by belva plain. let me correct myself: i read Homecoming and have started Random Winds, not Whispers, and her newest book is Legacy of Silence, not Legacy of Secrets. K? glad we got all that straightened out! mike: are those books for your school? just reading the titles makes me sleepy! and what the heck is plasma physics? i really don't want to think too hard, so explain it, please? it sounds like blood work or something.

yeah, wolf, my books are school books :-) $80 worth no less (depending on the exchange rates of course :-) plasma physics the study of plasmas (funnily enough! :) which are extremely hot, highly ionized gases...a normal candle flame is part plasma, part hot gas.

ok, i'm there, thanks mikey!

Ya know...many years ago, maybe 20, I went to an Audiophile store and listened to some Plasma speakers. They were hand made in Mexico. They worked by vibrating layers of plasma, created by lighting some kind of a little gas flame in the top of the speaker. Looked like a little row of pilot lights. It was a devastating experience for me. Never have I heard such sound. It was as if each note was sparkling in the air around my head. I could identify the direction each note came from. It was the clearest, most heavenly audio experience I've ever had. Every home stereo I've owned since then has sounded like crap, but luckily, as time passed, I have forgotten the wonder. These speakers cost $11,000 each. I wonder if they are still making them.

WOW, Charlotte! They sound awesome! How about doing a web search for them?

I would really like to be able to hear such sound just once.

you mean it's better than live?

I did an Altavista search for "plasma speakers" and turned up some sites - check them out!

Oh good. I used Infoseek, and only found one site, and all it contained was some guy telling pretty much the same story I did, that is..he had heard some several years ago and was blown away. In my humble (and non-professional) opinion, yes...better than live.

haha!!

Wow, that's something of a paradox, isn't it, Charlotte?

Yeah....but isn't most of life? :)

Ok, that was a flippant response. I'll try again: What I meant was that it was an enhanced listening experience. It felt pure. With live, you get natural, ambient noises: a cough, a baby's cry, feet shuffling, normal human noises we all take for granted and ignore. When I say it was better than live, I meant to say that I preferred it to live, for its purity. Better?

flippant was fine Charlotte, I like flippant!

I practically flipped .....and landed on my head it sounded so live, it almost purified me wait, I think I might do some of that plasma now I wanna make sure it's pure plasma, though, before I do it

I got it now! Thanks for the clarification, Charlotte!

ok, picked up whispers (another belva plain novel). i really need to expand my novel collection to include other authors. i actually have a list recommended to me and have only read belva plain, dick francis, and fern michaels. sad considering the list had 20 different authors on it.

Add Barbara Kingsolver to your list, Wolf.

thanks, charlotte, what does she write?

Her books are hard to describe, but enjoyable on many levels. I especially liked "Animal Dreams."

There are indeed hard to describe. If I may suggest: Go to www.amazon.com, search for Barbara Kingsolver. There will be reviews by other readers and more articulate descriptions of her books than I am able to give you. I am currently reading her nonficion essays and enjoying them very much. I have finished all her other published works. My favorite so far is her latest novel The Poisonwood Bible. Start withBean Trees if you can.

thanks!

bought Rheingold's "The Virtual Community" the other day, along with "The Union Square Cafe Cookbook" and "Rivals of Dracula"

the last two are not by Howard, of course...

and just who could be a rival of dracula?

not sure yet, gave it to the wife to read at work... I'll let you know when it comes back home

haha!! i mean, who does dracula have to compete with, you know? *grin*

WER?

I love you, too, Stace...

I really enjoyed Virtual Community, as I've said elsewehre...

*laugh*

That's part of what prompted me to finally buy it, Mike. Have you read his "Virtual Reality"?

NO, I've never read Virtual REality, wer. Have you?

nope...just wondering if I should try and find it, too... (actually more like if I see it should I buy it)

I don't really know what it's about..if it's big headsets and wireframe worlds then I don't really care that much :-)

Stokstad's two volume "Art History".

"Every Dead Thing" by John Connolly, hardback, for $2 at the library.

Did you read Every Dead Thing? If so anything stand out?