My Wish List: H to P by Author
Submitted by buber on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:02
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- Hanson, Victor Davis: The Soul of Battle
- Haydon, Elizabeth: Rhapsody : Child of Blood
- Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
- Hellman, Hal: Great Feuds in Science
- Hofstadter, Douglas: Godel, Escher, Bach
- Honan, Park: Shakespeare: A Life
- Huffington, Arianna: How to Overthrow the Government
- Kamen, Henry: Philip of Spain
- Kaplan, Robert: The Nothing That Is : A Natural History of Zero
- Kaplan, Robert D.: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
- Kluger, Jeffery: Journey Beyond Selene
- Krech, Shepard: The Ecological Indian
- Kurlansky, Mark: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
- Lacey, Robert: The Year 1000
- Langley, Lester D: The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850
- MacKay, James A.: William Wallace : Brave Heart
- Marks, Leo: Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
- Miller, Walter M.: A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Mudd, Roger; Snow, R: American Heritage(r): Great Minds of History
- Nasar, Sylvia: A Beautiful Mind
- Norwich, John Julius: Shakespeare's Kings
- Petrosko, Henry: The Book on the Bookshelf
Author Comments:
These are the books on my wish list. I've heard about most of these from the New York Times Book Review. If anyone has any comments, positive or negative, about these, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.
I split the full list up by author so that the list wouldn't be so long and would be easier to read...
If anyone has used copies of any of these they'd like to sell, I'd be interested...
Once again, I've only read one and that one would be Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I heard over and over again that it was a terrifying book, but I read it and didn't find it all that terrifying. It was a good book, but to me it just seemed a bit too farfetched.
I read it long ago, in high school, and remember liking it. I need to reread it. I think that it is maybe a little farfetched, but, at the same time, with the developments of cloning and how soon people will be able to choose just about every genetically determined trait for their children (scientifically, it will be possible... whether morally it is allowed is a different question), I think that it is more relevant than it may first appear.