false 20 2211 1842 true 5621617 read 8 true 2083670 currently-reading 361 true 2083669 to-read 375 false 5599295 science-fiction 219 false 5599363 isaac-asimov 196 false 5599298 history 169 false 5599305 military-history 150 false 5599299 biography 138 false 5599541 collection 129 false 5599309 humor 122 false 5599297 science 102 false 5599303 nautical-adventure 95 false 5599609 star-trek-star-wars-other-sf-tv 94 false 5599341 world-history 89 false 5599449 fiction 83 false 5599461 aviation 60 false 5599472 politics 56 false 5600823 artwork-collection 53 false 5599502 historical-novel 50 false 5599493 comics 48 false 5599356 anthology 39 false 5599476 mystery 39 false 5599332 exploration 36 false 5599296 fantasy 34 false 5599478 military-science 34 false 5599331 nonfiction 33 false 5599333 astronomy 26 false 5599350 literary-criticism 24 false 5599512 adventure-thriller 21 false 5599308 philosophy 16 false 5606155 recorded-on-audio-cd 15 false 5599335 biology 12 false 5600448 physics 11 false 5599334 chemistry 11 false 5599340 biology-evolution 8 false 5599329 literature 7 false 5599337 mathematics 6 false 5599358 poetry 5 false 5599809 western 2 false 5611705 atlases <![CDATA[Curtiss voted on a poll]]> http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/12054-which-one-is-the-best Curtiss voted on the poll: Which one is the best? ]]> <![CDATA[Curtiss added 'The Return of the King']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78630874 to: The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
bookshelves: fantasy, recorded-on-audio-cd
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bookshelves: fantasy, recorded-on-audio-cd
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"Globe and Mail's Top 50 Picks (for personal reference)

1st entry: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2nd entry: In Search of Lost Time
3rd entry: On the Origin of Species
4th entry: The Divine Comedy
5th entry: The Republic
6th entry: Don Quixote
7th entry: Ulysses
8th entry: Das Kapital
9th entry: The Confessions of St. Augustine
10th entry: Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
11th entry: The Great Gatsby
12th entry: Middlemarch
13th entry: The Wealth of Nations
14th entry: The Interpretation of Dreams
15th entry: Gulliver's Travels
16th entry: One Hundred Years of Solitude
17th entry: King Lear
18th entry: The Critique of Pure Reason
19th entry: Pride and Prejudice
20th entry: The Iliad and The Odyssey
21st entry: The Brothers Karamazov
22nd entry: T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems, 1909-1962
23rd entry: Lolita,
24th entry: The Koran
25th entry: Our Mutual Friend
26th entry: Ficciones
27th entry: The Histories, by Herodotus
28th entry: Moby-Dick
29th entry: Madame Bovary
30th entry: Kafka's The Complete Stories
31st entry: The King James Bible
32nd entry: Principia Mathematica
33rd entry: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
34th entry: Galileo's Dialogue
35th entry: The Theban Trilogy
36th entry: The Mahabharata
37th entry: Alice in Wonderland
38th entry: The Social Contract
39th entry: Essays
40th entry: Faust
41st entry: Silent Spring
42nd entry: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
43rd entry: Anton Chekhov's Stories
44th entry: War and Peace
45th entry: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
46th entry: The Decameron
47th entry: Waiting for Godot
48th entry: The Tale of Genji
49th entry: Diderot's Encyclopedia
50th entry: Portrait of a Lady" — Globe and Mail
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"He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor." — Raymond Chandler
]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Curtiss]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77031467 Kernos's review of Seeker
by Jack McDevitt

I concur (see my own review).

You might also like to try "Polaris", McDevitt's second Alex Benedict novel. It has perhaps the greatest 'hook' in its introduction/forward that I've ever read. Sort of a locked solar system mystery as an openner. ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Curtiss]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31821866 Bradley's review of Time of the Dark (The Darwath Trilogy, Book 1)
by Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly also wrote my favorite Star Trek novel, "Ishmael." This features characters from the crew of the original series AND characters from the cast of the contemporaneous TV series "Here Come the Brides", to create an alternate history story (sort-of) for the Star trek universe.

Spock investigates a Klingon plot to disrupt the time-stream, and is transported back to the year AD 1867 near the town of Seattle, Washington. There he becomes a temporary member of the community and only remembers fitful and disturbing snatches of the future, having lost his memory as a consequence of Klingon interrogation methods. By the end of the story Spock's/Ishmael's presence has affected nearly the entire community of frontier Seattle, as well as the entire future of the Federation.

Spoiler Alert!

Kirk discovers on the last page, by way of exercising one of his command prerogatives, Spock had also affected his own ancestry. ]]> <![CDATA[Curtiss added 'The West Point Atlas of American Wars: Volume 2, 1900-1953']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76406499 to: The West Point Atlas of American Wars: Volume 2, 1900-1953 (Hardcover) by West Point. Dept of Military Art and U.S. Military Academy
bookshelves: artwork-collection, history, military-history, military-science
An excellent and highly-detailed set of maps and accompanying text depicting the various campaigns and battles involving American troops and naval units, from World War One (1914-11918) up thru the United Nations' operations in the Korean War (1950-1953). Part of a two-volume boxed set. ]]> <![CDATA[Curtiss added 'The West Point Atlas of American Wars, Volume I, 1689-1900']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76406272 to: The West Point Atlas of American Wars, Volume I, 1689-1900 (Hardcover) by Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito
bookshelves: artwork-collection, history, military-history, military-science
An excellent and highly-detailed set of maps and accompanying text depicting the various campaigns and battles involving American/Colonial troops and naval units, from King William's War (1689-1697) up thru the far-flung naval battles of The Spanish-American War (1898). Part of a two-volume boxed set. ]]> <![CDATA[Curtiss added 'Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75372653 to: Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (Paperback) by John H. McWhorter
John McWhorter's books on language ("Language Interrupted", etc...) were recommended to me by someone who saw me engrossed in Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct"; and this was the only McWhorter book waiting to-be-read on my bookshelf. So far it's a devastating indictment of the widespread adoption of the Cult of Victimology by the black community in America, and the way victimology holds blacks back from achieving their full potential; even more than the remnants of latent (or blatent) racism in post-Civil Rights Era America. ]]>