I don't remember when I first saw the 1957 Sidney Lumet film, 12 Angry Men, but it has always been a favorite of mine. I don't really know how I missed the fact that it was based on a book!
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A Christmas Carol
I read A Christmas Carol every year at Christmastime. It is currently my all-time favorite book. I know the story by heart - who doesn't? Scrooge is nearly as synonymous with Christmas as Jesus Himself! The book is extremely readable and short enough that I would encourage everyone to make…
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Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
This book effectively picks up where Liftoff left off. Plus, it covers Elon Musk's, how to put this, mental decline over the last several years. But ultimately what this book does is tells the story of the hard work that a lot of people put in to make a private…
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The Pandora Principle (Star Trek #49)
If you're familiar with Pandora's Box, then you know this Greek myth is about Pandora, the first woman created by the gods, who was given a box by Zeus, with strict instructions never to open it. Apparently all religions see women as complete morons, so of course out of sheer…
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir definitely has a specific writing style and preferred method of telling a story. And that is a first-person narrative from the perspective of a human not on Earth, alone in some fashion, who is snarky/sarcastic, in a high tension situation with seemingly no way out, using copious amounts…
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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Say what you will about Elon Musk... go ahead, I'll wait... you get it out of your system? Okay, so putting all that aside, if you ever thought your job was hard, imagine working for a huge nerd with a lofty vision and seemingly endless amounts of money who just…
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Tender is the Flesh
I'm a carnivore. Not like on the carnivore diet. Although I eat woefully few vegetables. Let's just say that I eat enough fruit and vegetables, in combination with my vitamins and supplements, that my chances of getting scurvy are not nonexistent. I can't not eat meat; the perfectly cooked, medium…
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Casino Royale (James Bond #1)
"Don't worry about that chair with a hole in the middle. It's merely waiting to be reupholstered." - La Chiffre, Casino Royale (1967 film)
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The Grapes of Wrath
I remember in high school having the choice of reading The Grapes of Wrath or To Kill a Mockingbird for class. I chose the latter. I was glad, too. I actually read Mockingbird and genuinely liked it. I also remember after we read the books, the students who read The…
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Black Sunday
With this book, I have now read everything by Thomas Harris. A whopping six novels - 4 of which feature Hannibal Lecter. This was not a Lecter novel. It was, in fact, Harris's first novel and a response to the Munich Olympic massacre in 1972.