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[Ea]

Originally Posted by BenG

Talk about unintended consequences. The struggle to pass the 18th Amendment led to women's sufferage, the rise of organized crime syndicates as we know them today, income tax(if you destroy the nation's fifth largest industry you have to replace the tax revenue with something), plea bargaining, NASCAR, and the cruise industry.

Hopefully their suffrage Funny typo

[BenG]

At least I'm not alone. Google has 78,000 hits for "sufferage".

[bevdeforges]

Originally Posted by BenG

Just finished Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent.

Talk about unintended consequences. The struggle to pass the 18th Amendment led to women's sufferage, the rise of organized crime syndicates as we know them today, income tax(if you destroy the nation's fifth largest industry you have to replace the tax revenue with something), plea bargaining, NASCAR, and the cruise industry.

Definitely a must read if you are at all interested in that era of American History.

Oh, goodie, that one's on my to-be-read list. I saw the author interviewed on The Daily Show and it sounded like the book would be interesting. Now I just have to finish Jonathan Zittrain's "The future of the Internet and how to stop it."

[TC Beacham]

I'm reading the first Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker - The Godwulf Manuscript. Interesting to go back to the beginning after reading so many recent Spenser titles!

[jgaiser]

Just finished "Wizard's Bane" by Rick Cook. Another fun little novel. Full of inside jokes about computers, Unix, programing languages and even Star Wars. Looking forward to picking up the second in the series from Baen.

[jeffcobb]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

Just finished "Wizard's Bane" by Rick Cook. Another fun little novel. Full of inside jokes about computers, Unix, programing languages and even Star Wars. Looking forward to picking up the second in the series from Baen.

If you enjoyed this you should read the entire series, they are great, particularly if you lived and worked through the "computer war" era (apple vs commodore vs VAX vs ...). Fun, fun stuff. The personality types are spot-on.

[kennyc]

I just finished my first reading of "The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development" which was a great and well written introduction by Mark Murphy. Will be reading the follow on next ".....Advanced Android Development"

But just started "This I Believe" from NPR available on line at Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=gAD...page&q&f=false

and through various sources as an ebook.

Excellent and interesting perspectives on life and everything around it by writers ranging from the everyday to the extraordinary.

http://inkmesh.com/search/?qs=This+I...nE=Find+Ebooks

[Latinandgreek]

I'm reading 3 books, and two of them are hefty (Dune and The Name of the Rose). The third (I think I'll put the other two aside for a bit until I finish the third) is "Graceling". I just can't stay away from the YA fiction! I've also got a couple of school books on the go.

[naql]

I just finished The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick. It was a very interesting book. I was actually surprised at the amount of fighting other than the Last Stand. They don't really cover that too much in history classes.

I'm on to reading The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. I'm really enjoying it even though its pretty hard to wrap my mind around a lot of the physics stuff in the book.

I think I'm going to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels next.

[thinkpad]

Finished the Legacy of Gird which are more or less related to the Paksenarrion series. Here one gets to follow the life of Gird himself which plays an important role in the Paks books.
It's a bit slow just as the first book in the Paks series but I liked it nonetheless.

I've just started on Stone's fall by Ian Pears, looks promising.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by naql

I'm on to reading The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. I'm really enjoying it even though its pretty hard to wrap my mind around a lot of the physics stuff in the book.

Cool! I just bought that book earlier today!

[Cyclops]

Next up The Honeymoon in Space (1901) by George Griffith (George C Griffith-Jones 1857-1906))

[FlorenceArt]

I've been laboring through Atonement by Ian McEwan for several days, but it's just not working for me. I'm very disappointed as the author won the Booker prize (not for this book), and I read in an interview that Atonement is supposed to be his best book. I started on Stone's Fall, and what a relief! I don't think I'll be going back to McEwan. I can't really say it's bad, it's just that I cannot relate to any of the characters or believe them, they might as well be ants or aliens, except less interesting to watch

[Rumpelteazer]

Finished "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins today. Although a it's a slow read it's very good.

This month I decided I cannot buy any ebooks, since I have so many free classics I still want to read. Tonight I'm going to read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and probably start "The Damned" by Algernon Blackwood.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

I've been laboring through Atonement by Ian McEwan for several days, but it's just not working for me. I'm very disappointed as the author won the Booker prize (not for this book), and I read in an interview that Atonement is supposed to be his best book. I started on Stone's Fall, and what a relief! I don't think I'll be going back to McEwan. I can't really say it's bad, it's just that I cannot relate to any of the characters or believe them, they might as well be ants or aliens, except less interesting to watch

I too had major disappointments with Atonement - totally flat, uninteresting characters. My first & last McEwan.