From the Earth to the Moon - Lots of fun - posted 2 months ago

If you're a physics/chemistry/history geek, this is a blast, literally. A great look at the level of science in post-Civil War USA. Very interesting in understanding what they understood about the moon and space travel.

100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money - 100 ways? I'm not even sticking around for #3... - posted 2 months ago

I'm nearly done, and nothing really earth shattering. Like Peters himself, I could take it or leave it.

The Jacket (Star-Rover) - different, yet the same - posted 3 months ago

Jack London writes a sci-fi!! Wow, that's different. Yet in this tale of a condemned convict who experiences something akin to astral projection, it is typical ( a good thing, btw) London adventure. This convict, when placed in a strait-jacket like contraption for perceived violations of death-row protocol, retreats in his consciousness and re-lives past lives across history. Some are simple events that maybe did or didn't happpen; in one instance he is a child in the Mountain Meadows Massacre in April 1857 (Mormon terrorists slaughtered a group from Arkansas headed to California). The book is pretty good if you like Jack London, by no means his finest. The various adventures are almost like extra-short short stories. While reading the short story parts, it's typical London tales of human will overcoming and being overcome.