Earth Abides by George R Stewart

Out of all the books I read this summer, the only new one worth writing about is Andre Dubus III's The Garden of Last Day. I loved The House of Sand and Fog, but this latest novel of his just didn't cut it. It's over five hundred pages of excruciatingly detailed writing about only two or three days of a stripper's life and the life of a fictionalized version of a September 11th Trade Center hi-jacker. Much of the time is spent describing their brief encounter (thought it feels as if it lasts a hundred years) at the Puma Club for Men on the southern, gulf coast of Florida. The rest of the book is spent on the day or two after, finally ending with the bombing of the World Trade Center and the FBI coming to question April about the few hours she spent with Basam, the hi-jacker.

There was potential for another good book, but Dubus couldn't cut it this time. There was no compelling reason to become attached to any of the characters nor were there any real glimpses inside Islamic culture as there was in House of Sand and Fog. About half of the time I spent with the book, all I could do was think about how stupid some of these characters were. So my advice is not to spend money on it. If a friend wants to get rid of it, give it a whirl since it'll be free. Otherwise, don't bother.

I went out and ordered adobe photoshop cs - classroom in a book as well as dummies guide to photoshop cs I hope they help me out

My Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary: With Additional Material from A Thesaurus of Old English (Hardcover) arrived. 15 pounds and 4500 pages of bedtime reading

Dang Gweep!!! Talk about cerebral overload!!!

Try and put that on your reader!

You try first !!!

I just finished Under The Dome by Stephen King. If you enjoyed The Stand then you'll enjoy this one.....it's not quite as good I don't think but it's close enough for King fans.

I gave it to a friend and she said she is not far in to the book yet but it seems to be taking place like the movie the mist did she said.

I never watched the movie but I read the book and there are definate similarities but I found this one better.

You must go out and buy Pat Conroy's South of Broad! I read it over Christmas break and was in awe of this man's talent. There were one or two hokey moments in the dialogue that I could've done without, but his wit and dark sense of humor overpowers his few mistakes. And I've never been to Charleston, South Carolina, but now I must go.

I'm studying the feds regs on hazmat and tanker CDL endorsements to take the written tests. Gotta renew my license next month with more flexibility of use.

I ended up spending about 22 dollars on fictionwise last night for the larry niven collection and the time travel collection in multiformat

I love multiformat since I can put them on my tungsten e2, cybook, ezreader pro and ebookwise 1150 all at the same time if I wanted

CONTENTS
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Cause and Consequence by Mary Soon Lee
Life Edit by Damon Knight
Many Mansions by Robert Silverberg
10 to the 16 to 1 by James Patrick Kelly
The Noise of Their Joye by Tom Purdom
Standards and Practices by Barry N. Malzberg
The Price of Oranges by Nancy Kress
Backward, O Time by Damon Knight
Time Enough by Damon Knight
The Chosen by Kate Wilhelm
Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven
Neutron Star [A Beowulf Shaeffer Story] by Larry Niven
Not Long Before the End by Larry Niven
The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven
At the Core [A Beowulf Shaeffer Story] by Larry Niven
Procrustes [A Beowulf Shaeffer Story] by Larry Niven
Wrong Way Street by Larry Niven
ARM by Larry Niven
Flatlander [A Beowulf Shaeffer Story] by Larry Niven
The Lion in his Attic by Larry Niven
The Hole Man by Larry Niven
Grendel [A Beowulf Shaeffer Story] by Larry Niven

Off to read some of those ebooks above on the cybook

I would love to read the Richard Castle books I hear they are very good.

They have some racy parts I am told Bruce

so there is NASCAR in the books?

I meant sexy parts Bruce

Then maybe I should get my wife to read those parts to me or do you think Wesley would read it for me.