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I enjoy reading for pleasure, reading aloud on trips, and reading books-on-tape for my local public broadcasting radio station. I enjoy science fiction, some fantasy, popular science, biographies, history, true military stories, murder mysteries, and historical novels.

Every saturday afternoon I play Ultimate frisbee at a local pick-up game, except when my wife and I are away on a camping trip in our tent-trailer with our grandkids and our dog, Bejamin W. Beagle (the W is for the President).

When I get together with my old friends from San Diego, we play any number of wargames, strategy games, or intellectual party games. With our daughter and our grandkids, My wife Judy & I, play Scene-It, usually one of the Harry Potter editions.

I enjoy old movies, musicals, and science fiction movies, especially Star Trek; and science fiction & forensic crime programs on TV.

When it comes to politics, I am more than just a staunch Republican, I am utterly Conservative.

Photo is me & my grandkids at Battery Russell on the Oregon Coast.]]> 56 male Vancouver, WA 03/2008 12/2009 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 http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1675.want_to_read_books http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180905694s/1090465.jpg 1012909 Curtiss http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1012909-curtiss Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:00:47 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/161874 http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg 1012909 Curtiss http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1012909-curtiss Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:28:58 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/42643 http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg 1012909 Curtiss http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1012909-curtiss Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:27:42 -0800 The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78630874 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255628545s/18512.jpg 1012909 Curtiss http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1012909-curtiss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:37:22 -0800 The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78630777 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672084s/15241.jpg 1012909 Curtiss http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1012909-curtiss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:36:19 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77031467 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174006926s/352777.jpg 1012909 Curtiss http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1012909-curtiss Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:39:32 -0800
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.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31821866 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182188194s/1241337.jpg 1012909 Curtiss http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1012909-curtiss Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:12:42 -0800
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.]]> The West Point Atlas of American Wars: Volume 2, 1900-1953 (Hardcover) by West Point. Dept of Military Art and U.S. Military Academy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76406499 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 1012909 Curtiss http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1012909-curtiss Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:02:19 -0800 The West Point Atlas of American Wars, Volume I, 1689-1900 (Hardcover) by Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76406272 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 1012909 Curtiss http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1229319762p2/1012909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1012909-curtiss Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:01:56 -0800 more...]]>