I am a member of Shelfari ( here’s my profile page) which basically lets you make an online library of the books you’ve read. I also use GoodReads, which I happen to like better because it seems to update more quickly. I don’t actually maintain the library that well, but I can export my Delicious Library and that’s how I get my book profiles online without doing any actual work.
BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT THIS POST IS ABOUT!!!
I got a Shelfari friend request (with a nice personal message to boot) from the author of Real Ultimate Power. You know, the ninja guy, Robert Hamburger. I guess he also wrote a book called GHOSTS/ALIENS, too:
I took a minute and read through realultimatepower.net again, it’s still as funny as when I first read it five years ago.
Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorite authors - his Border trilogy is just about awesome. I bought No Country For Old Men well before the movie came out, but never found the time to crack it open. After watching the very excellent film, I decided to make a better effort to read any book by my favorite authors before seeing it adapted into a movie. Fast forward a bit, and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is set to be released as a film next year, which sped up its place in my reading queue significantly.
Don’t be fooled by the Oprah’s Book Club selection badge on the cover, this is pure McCarthy. Which means it’s dirty, stark, vast and beautiful. The novel follows a man and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, surviving by any means possible. It’s a quick read (you can probably knock it out in about 4 hours), and worth every second of it.
The world lost a great man yesterday. Michael Crichton, who wrote the book that was turned into my favorite movie of all time, died of cancer at the age of 66.
He was a very smart man and a good author and wrote some of the the most popular books in the last 30 years, like Congo, The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, and the one that became my favorite movie, Jurassic Park. He also created ER, and whether you like or not, it had a long, successful run.
It’s funny how one of his books became one of the best movies ever, but another one (Congo) became probably the worst movie ever.
Update!: After doing a little more research into MC, it turns out that he also had a hand in the video game world. According to Wikipedia, wrote a text-based adventure game called Amazon back in 1984 for the Apple II, Atart ST, Commodore 64, and the DOS systems. With its updated graphics and music, it sold a bunch of copies and was quite a success.
Since this is a blog by nerds for nerds, I thought I would have our first “My Faves” post concerning books (without pictures) to be about sci-fi books. I’m not a very big sci-fi fan, so my collection falls more under the mainstream, social-commentary sort of novels:
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