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    I've just finished a biography of Benjamen Franklin.  That was truly
    mind-boggling, that one person could accomplish so many different
    things.  I have to laugh now when I read the thirty-something noters
    complaining about getting old; this guy started a revolution when he
    was seventy.  Though he didn't think he'd live to see the end of it, he
    did - and went on to help write the Constitution.
    
    Everybody knows about the kite in the thunderstorm and a lot of people
    know he invented bifocals.  But how many people know he invented that
    gadget they use in the supermarket to take the toilet paper off the top
    shelf?
    
    And of course there's Poor Richard (I'm always tempted to say Little
    Richard for some reason) and all that folk wisdom. Except now they call
    them cliches...
    
    Of course he was also something of a lech and a hedonist, which didn't
    sit too well with some of our more Puritannical forefathers...
    
    I was more absorbed by this book than any novel I've read this year. 
    History is a fascinating subject.  I wonder why the schools always find
    such dry boring people to teach it. 
    
    I think I'll read Jefferson's bio next (he and Franklin were friends,
    though 35 years apart in age, so it shuld be interesting).
    
    
    Ginny

    I am currently reading `Fat is a Feminist Issue' ... I will let you
    know later if it is any good.
    
    Serenity

I've got a question about a new magazine I just picked up today called Mondo.
It's a Cyberpunk style magazine from Australia and I was wondering if any of our
friends down under could give me an idea what people there think of it. I've
read Wired for a while and this seems similar. On a similar note, are there any
others in the file that are "jacked in"? 8^)

CM

    
    
    	I dunno about being jacked in but...well, I better not....:*)
    
    
    

    
    	RE: .4    C-H-E-E-K-S!!!!!!!!  I'm sur-PRIZED at you!!!!!
    
    	>M<

    
    
    	no yer not....
    
    chico (typing in from home on his newly acquired VT180...the height of
    Digital technology) ;*)
    
    

As Emily Lattilla says... Nevermind

It's out of Berkley CA USA. My mistake.

    Resumes that get results   :-)
    
    Ben

    
    Taken off the bookshelf and reading finally....
    
    
    
    'Peeping Tom'  By Howard Jacobson
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

	"Teach Yourself C in 21 days" and "Unix Made Easy" at the moment...:)


chico

    
    
    
    
    	a series of new Star Wars books which are new...the Ann rice
    	Vampire books...(Lestat..currently being read) 
    	and the New Star Trek:Generations book!
    
    	Chris
    	:)

    
    
    This is what I've read over the last two weeks...
    
    "MAMista" By Len Deighton
    "City of Gold" By Len Deighton
    "Banned Classical Erotica"  By various artists
    "Life's Little Destruction Booklet" A Parody By Charles Sherwood Dane
    
    What I am reading now.....
    
    "Faith" By Len Deighton
        (I figured I better read the two I already had, above, before 
         diving into the new one.)
    "UNIX commands for VMS users"
    
    Terrie
    

    
    re -1
    
    Thats a lot of reading in two weeks!  These days takes me longer than
    that to read one book!
    
    

    
    
    
    Jackie....I'm a read-a-holic.  :*)
    
    
    Wait till you see all the books around my house when you and Chris
    are here in May!  I have six large book cases filled to overflowing,
    and several boxes of paperbacks!  (The bookcases are for the hardcovers
    only. )   :*)
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    Winny-the-Pooh's Little Instruction Book    :*)
    Unconditional Life - Deepak Chopra, MD
    Unlimited Power - Anthony Robbins
    *lots* of magazines, I'm a magazine junky 
    
    /gina             
    

I brought over exactly 1 bookshelf, the others belonged to my ex-husband. ;)
And this bookshelf contains:

     - some of my children literature
     - dictionaries ;)  ;)  ;)
     - a part of my science fiction novels
     - a part of my belletristic novels
     - a part of my technical documentation
     - the Karl May books I inherited from my father
       (Karl May was a German author writing wild west and wild east stories)
   
The rest is still in several boxes and waiting for the bookshelves I ordered
recently.

     - oh yes, and there is that book about zeppelins from my father. With
       pictures and authentic history. ;)
     - and the books about (how do you guys call a model electric train to 
       play with??? The French word is "train �l�ctrique")
     - and all my science books

Most of the stuff I have, about 98 percent is in German. ;)  ;)  ;)  ;)

Martina

37,000 1/2 read 'C' programming books.
Damia by Anne McCaffrey
Cabal by Clive Barker
Taltos by Anne Rice + several others
The Shining by Stephen King (abridged, and unabridged)  IMHO one of the best
books ever
Little Big Man
The Pendragon by Lawheed
Several serial westerns
Several more by Anne McCaffrey
The Mists of Avalon
Southern By The Grace of God

I usually check books out of the library, and buy the ones I like and want to
read again.

Mikey

    Martina, electric trains is used here as well as model railroading.
    
    TONS of magazines and newsletters
    The most recent two Tom Clancy books
    Data Trash (half read)
    A book of short stories by William Gibson
    
    I tend to listen to books on tape from our library on the commute when
    I have time (and the car since the van has no tape deck)
    
    My reading time has been disappearing slowly but surely with how busy
    the business has gotten. 8^(

	On my bookshelves:

	Tons of cookbooks
	Home project books
	Art books
	Needlework books
	Jewelry Books
	Gardening books
	Tons of romance novels
	Reader's digest condensed novels
	Knicknacks!
	Dust!!!

	Lola

    Yeah, dust is about the only thing accumulating faster than things to
    be read on my shelves. When are they going to come out with Readers
    Digest Condensed manuals or Programmers Cliffnotes?
    
    

    
    
    
    Tons and tons of Star Trek novels
    lots of science fiction
    all my french literature books!
    mega accounting books
    
    Chris
    :)

    > mega accounting books
    
    Maybe I should ask *you* in future when I have probs with my account,
    Chris :-))
    
    
    My books:
    
    Nearly everything of Marion Zimmer-Bradley
    The lord of rings, Tolkien
    Winnie the Pooh
    a couple of travel guides (from Boston over Spain to Italy)
    
    
    Tina

Hi Chris,

   can you tell me a little bit more about your StarTrek novels?
   Are they about the episodes? Or are they something completely
   different?
   I have the first Voyager episode The Caretaker as a picture
   magazine. With the Voyager crew portraits in full colour. ;)  ;)
   I have the StarTrek Encyclopedia, the StartTrek TNG Technical
   Reference Manual, StarTrek - A History in Pictures, and
   The Klingon Dictionary plus a cassette Power Klingon.
   ;)  ;)  ;)
  
   More SF stuff:  
        Paul Hogan, every novel which was translated into
                    German plus some in English
        Asimov  (of course ;)  )
        Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings trilogy (hello Tina! )
        Greg Bear
        Arthur C. Clarke,
        Robert Heinlein 
        Hans Dominik  (a German author from the 1920es)
        and much more

   It was hard to split the SF literature when my ex and I split up.
   We both are SF fans and had quite a collection. ;)
   
Martina_SF_fan

    also got tons of books on:
    Victoriana
    Old house restoration
    "historical romances"
    tightwad gazzette
    lots of cookbooks
    the tao of pooh 
    the te of piglet
    musclecars of the 60s
    history of Harley Davidson
    sewing books
    and even more magazines!
    did i mention i was a magazine junky?  ;*)
    
    /gina

    
    	CPM reference manual
    	LA75 Programmers Guide	
    	Vortex
    	Dragon Tears
    	Flowers in the attic
    	Gunsmiths guide
    	Improvised munitions ;*)

    Chico, have you read all of the books in the "Flowers in the Attic"
    series?  I love V.C. Andrews novels.  I'm currently reading her latest
    series.. Ruby.
    
    H

    
    
    	haven't read all the books deary....no time. I love to read, but
    trying to fit in time with the kids, work, school, etc just doesn't
    work. :*)
    
    
    chico

    I can understand that.. at least I don't have kids taking up my time
    (yet).  But we're having fun practicing! (-:
    
    H

    
    
    Martina
    
    
    my star trek books are so many..i can't evenb begin to count.
    Some are photo novels of the original t.v series and movies.
    Alot are novels from the pocket book series by various authors,
    My faves are :
    by A.C Crispin... "Yesterdays' Son" and "Return to Yesterday"
    I'm also reading " Sarek" by A.C Crispin now!
    You must realize that Spock is my  fave character!
    
    ;:^|  fascinating Captain!
    
	
    I also have the technical manuals for both TNG and TOS plus the CD Rom
    version of the TNG technical manual and tour of the enterprise
    NCC-1701-D for my PC !! :))))
    
    I also have the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings!(hello Martinas) :)))
    
    Chris
    :)

    
    
    SNARF!

Hi Chris fellow StarTrek-Fan!

   do you know a mail order address for the Technical Manual on CD-ROM???

Martina_loves_Spock_and_has_much_in_common_with_Data
;)

	Lately, Fodor's guide on Bermuda,

	and ------------>>>>>    

	snarfing *33s!!!

    Age snarfffffffffffffff!!!!
    
    And this time Chris won't interfer.
    
    ;)
    Martina

    What's new on my bookshelf?
    
    My latest buy: StarTrek The Original Series, complete, as Collector's 
    Edition. 
    And: the StarTrek movies I .. VI
    Plus 2 small model Enterprises, 1 Klingon Bird-Of-Prey and a Borg Cube.
    (for non-StarTrek-fans: "Enterprise" is the name of the hero starship,
     a Klingon Bird-Of-Prey is a starship of the alien race "Klingons" and
     the peculiar half-android/half-human race "The Borg" uses cube shaped
     starships)
    
    I put all this up on my new bookshelf in my new "library" (formerly junk
    room ;) ) 
    
    ;)
    Martina

    Currently reading "Lady of the Night" (A handbook of Moon Magick and
    Rituals) by Edain McCoy.
    
    Fascinating book with sensible techniques for harnessing lunar magick.
    Rituals are fairly standard, nothing new or surprising, but a
    well-written book none-the-less.
    
    Serenity

Diamond Age - Near future nanotechnology culture that has developed into an
neo-Victorian age.

Just finished Snow Crash by the same author. That has religious zealots
bringing technology to it's knees with a mantra that causes the reversal of
the Tower of Babel

next is Negroponte's Being Digital about the MIT Media Lab and people involved

Light reading 8^)

    For fun I picked up a book called Get Shorty (forget author) will be
    starting it soon.
    
    Serenity

    I got another Edain McCoy (Llywellan) last night. It is a wonderfully
    resourced book about (drum roll) mountain magick. The Appalachians were
    mostly settled by the Scots and the Irish back in the late 1400's. They
    brought with them their magick and to this day they still practice the
    arts their ancestors preserved for them. 
    
    It is a fascinating read! It is called, "(drum roll), "In a Graveyard
    at Midnight"
    
    Serenity	Goddess of Magick

>    resourced book about (drum roll) mountain magick. The Appalachians were
>    mostly settled by the Scots and the Irish back in the late 1400's. They

  Do you mean the late 1700's? Or is this a non-standard view of history?

    Dust :*)
    
    
    
    
    S

    
    Lots of psychology text books, teach yourself maori ;-), lots of travel
    books on New Zealand and Australia, Dictionary's, craft books, recipe
    books  AND dust ;-)
    
    
    
    Shelley

    
    Hey Stretch watchya doin with my dust ?????
    
    
    
    shelley ;-)
    

    
    
    NOooooooo Stretch - thats the rose coloured glasses you're thinkin' of
    ;-)
    
    
    
    Shelley

    
    Flattery gets you everywhere ;-)
    
    
    
    Shelley

    
    That all depends where you're going ;-)
    
    
    Shelley

    
    Oh I'm quite sure you've made it outta the garage stretch - you just
    have to make sure you dont break down on the driveway ;-)
    
    
    shelley

    
    
    Well unless I know where it is you're heading I can hardly give
    directions - wouldnt want you to get lost now would we ;-)
    
    
    
    Shelley

    
    
    Oh - I dont know Stretch -  I get lost in cyberspace.. its all
    unchartered territory to me ;-)
    
    
    shelley

    
    I'm always open to suggestions - within reason of course ;-)
    
    
    Shelley

    
    no boundaries crossed thus far stretch - if you'd crossed over the line
    you would have felt your knuckles being severely wrapped ;-)
    
    Watchya feelin' guilty for stretch ?????????????
    
    
    
    
    Shelley ;-)

    dust!

    Cos u can't read..??

    oi!!
    
    watch it Johnson!

    ...or maybe she doesn't stay home long enough to CLEAN???
    
    STRETCH_gettin'_in_on_the_fun :-)))

    
    
    
    More psychology books about to be added to the book shelf as I've just
    signed up for another course!
    
    
    
    
    
    Shell

    Shells: Can I be yer first patient??? I bet I could give ya enough info
    to write yer thesis on!!! :-)))
    
    STRETCH

    
    
    
    
    Hehehheheheheh... I reckon I'll get plenty of "subjects" from the
    notesfile ;-)
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Shell

    Shell: You can SUBJECTY me to some intensive STUDYING if'n ya wanna...
    I don't MIND... <hehehe>
    
    STRETCH

    
    
    
    
    Hehehehehehhe.... beware I may take ya up on that STRETCH ;-)

    Shells: Pretty open-ended statement for a .69 SNARF Note!!! :-)))))
    
    STRETCH

    
    
    
    hahahahahhahahaha... (My colleagues are looking at me curiously
    wondering why I'm grinning to myself) ;-)
    
    
    
    
    
    Shell

    
    
    The Power of positive thinking - Norman Vincent Peale 
    
    thats what i'm reading at the moment