What are you reading?

[Gerry M]

"Handbook of Model Rocketry", seventh edition by G. Harry Stine and Bill Stine...

 

[rocketgeek101]

I'm currently reading Dune Messiah

 

[JonathanOtt]

"Wings of Fire" (book #9 of the Patrick McLanahan series) from Dale Brown.

 

[smstachwick]

"Handbook of Model Rocketry", seventh edition by G. Harry Stine and Bill Stine...

I still have my copy from circa 2005. It always goes to the range.

 

[OverTheTop]

I recommend Project Hail Mary by the same author. IMO it was better than The Martian.

Read it about a week ago .

I'm not sure I like his writing style. Very staccato. Probably suits those two book though.

 

[mo2872]

Meh, Hail Mary was, IMO, not better than The Martian. Personally, I'd rank the three of his i've read, The Martian, Artemis, Hail Mary.

 

[user 13]

Artemis is probably a better, traditional novel, of the 3.

Project Hail Mary is a VERY ambitious book. The story, twists, science, breadth of the book is truly impressive. Weir pulls it off, well 97% anyway.

But The Martian was just so unexpectedly wonderful. I truly enjoyed reading every page of it. It's a special book in my mind.

 

[Event Horizon]

George Follmer Wheel Man

 

[Cape Byron]

This is just about to hit my reading pile.

 

[Joel Shepherd]

Wrapping up “The Last Stargazers” by Emily Levesque. Easy reading and an interesting look into the life of a professional astronomer. If, like me, you’re an amateur astronomer, you’ll be surprised by the number of challenges we have in common with the researchers, just on entirely different scales. Also, Chapter One alone is worth the price of admission.

 

[Hobie1dog]

the level 2 written test study guide, Several hundred times now.

 

[ewomack]

I finally read "Brave New World," a book I've wanted to read for years. Not as dark and terrifying as Orwell's "1984," but perhaps more realistic and identifiable. Very funny in places, then equally as disturbing in others. A futuristic book written in 1932 that inevitably has 1932 splashed all over it, but still worth reading for its resonating "dictatorship through happiness" themes. In a foreward added after WWII, Huxley wrote that he sees his anti-utopia becoming a reality within the next century.

 

[cwbullet]

I am reading "Red-Handed" by Peter Schweizer

 

[OverTheTop]

My university team's DDR document.

 

[user 13]

Asimov's "Robots and Empire"

Almost done re reading all the Foundation stories.

 

[ThikeHigh]

I just finished Rocket Boys by Homer Hickman.

A great read, well written, and a coming-of-age tale that touches much more than just building amazing rockets. The movie, October Sky is a good job of condensing a much richer story. There is even a future President in the story,

The true story of a group of boys who made their way out following generations of the men behind them into coal mines in West Virginia, where life and limb were always in great danger, and if they lives long, the black lung would get them. In a town where football was the only way to get out, they discovered rocketry after watching Sputnik coast across the sky in October. Hence the movie title is mostly based on the book. As part of a feature on the Blue Ray movie, you can meet the author and his friends, who all went to college, 2 through the Air Force and GI Bill, 3 of the 5 became engineers, and Homer became a NASA engineer, working with astronauts both on the ground and while the astronauts were in space.

It is a great story about what we can do when we follow our hearts with imagination and drive to overcome failures that we learn from to make our dreams come true. Of course, they had help from a teacher and a few parents, and then the whole damned town after the rockets started soaring to 1000's feet and they ended up in a newspaper.

 

[Hobie1dog]

Rockets, June 2009 magazine- featuring the story of Steve Eves Saturn V

 

[lakeroadster]

"Battle cry of freedom: the Civil War era" by James M McPherson

A lot of interesting details about "the era". Thus far, much more interesting than I had anticipated.

 

[RocketGeekInFL]

Malt, A Practical Guide From The Field to Brewhouse

 

[Tech 68]

"The Theme Is Freedom - Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition" by M. Stanton Evans

 

[dpower]

"Wings of Fire" (book #9 of the Patrick McLanahan series) from Dale Brown.

That looks like an interesting series - I've added it to my goodreads "Want To Read" list, 328 long and growing!

I'm currently reading "Powers and Thrones", written by Dan Jones - a history of the middle ages - it's pretty accessible reading, and just 600 pages. Anyone else on this thread a goodreads member?

 

[Grog6]

Just finishing Atlas Shrugged.

Have you read Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut?
Or the two faces of tomorrow, by JP hogan?
Much better IMHO.

 

[ewomack]

I recently finished these...

 

[Cape Byron]

Interesting, if you're a fan otherwise I'd give it a miss.

Easy decision for me, 'cause I'm a fan.

 

[Grog6]

I'm rereading the Giants series by James P Hogan.

 

[Tech 68]

The Dinosaur Hunter by H. Hickam

 

[boomtube-mk2]

Just finished To End in Fire by David Weber and Eric Flint.
Now starting, Saving Proxima by Travis Taylor and Les Johnson.

 

[smstachwick]

I just finished Rocket Boys by Homer Hickman.

A great read, well written, and a coming-of-age tale that touches much more than just building amazing rockets. The movie, October Sky is a good job of condensing a much richer story. There is even a future President in the story,

The true story of a group of boys who made their way out following generations of the men behind them into coal mines in West Virginia, where life and limb were always in great danger, and if they lives long, the black lung would get them. In a town where football was the only way to get out, they discovered rocketry after watching Sputnik coast across the sky in October. Hence the movie title is mostly based on the book. As part of a feature on the Blue Ray movie, you can meet the author and his friends, who all went to college, 2 through the Air Force and GI Bill, 3 of the 5 became engineers, and Homer became a NASA engineer, working with astronauts both on the ground and while the astronauts were in space.

It is a great story about what we can do when we follow our hearts with imagination and drive to overcome failures that we learn from to make our dreams come true. Of course, they had help from a teacher and a few parents, and then the whole damned town after the rockets started soaring to 1000's feet and they ended up in a newspaper.

Read it in my childhood. Everyone on TRF should give it a go if they haven’t already.

I feel like an animated TV miniseries is the best adapted format for books though. So much more time and flexibility to be faithful to a lengthy source.

 

[boomtube-mk2]

Starting a biography about Jim Bridger by Jerry Enzler.

 

[Antares JS]

I'm going to be starting Memory's Legion tonight. One last hurrah in the world of The Expanse.