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Originally Posted by MrPLD
I enjoy reading a few of James Gleick's books, things like "Faster", "Chaos" and "Genius" (though "Faster" was a bit weak compared to the other two). I love reading books where you learn things at the same time - but that's probably the inner geek/engineer in me.
Right now I'm rereading "Code Book" by Simon Singh - another great informative non-fiction book.
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I thoroughly enjoyed "Code Book" too!
Now reading "The Perfect Storm" - Sebastian Junger - it's a bit of a mish-mash -- given he tries to imagine what happened on a boat that went down at sea with no survivors, and no radio contact. I get really bothered when authors writing non-fiction refer to people by their first names (a pet peeve of mine), but Junger persists in speculating what "Billy" was doing while the boat was sinking. Just jars on my sensibilities.
The rest of the book is padded with brief historical notes and really unnecessary and overly fanciful descriptions of the people involved in the rescues (I felt he was already casting the movie version)
Think I'll move on to Linda Greenlaw's fishing books if I want more information on New England fishing.