Watcha reading??

[Sava]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Dude, I'm reading the book now... it's very clear. Ryan was the National Security Advisor, but accepted the role as VP, and within a few hours, the plane hit.

Yeah, it is clear... he was a CABINET MINISTER. Accepting the role doesn't mean a damned thing unless you are confirmed by the Senate (for a vacancy). IIRC, the State of the Union was about this... though I may be off a bit.

It says in the book-jacket "the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President"

[Sava]

Originally posted by Tuberski


Yes it was the same character.

Not in the movies but in the book he is the same.

ACK!

I never read any of the Clancy "movie" books.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It says in the book-jacket "the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President"

If that's true, then Clancy ****ed up.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

It says in the book-jacket "the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President"

If that's true, then Clancy ****ed up.

because the great Imran is never wrong

[Imran Siddiqui]

because the great Imran is never wrong

Because you can't have a damn State of the Union address without the Vice-President! And if it wasn't the State of the Union, then the Supreme Court should have been no where near there.

Clancy ****ed up because that's not the way the government works... not because I'm always right (even though that's true as well ).

[Tingkai]

I'm halfway through Bill Bryson's new book A Short History of Nearly Everything.

This is a great book for layman about science. Bryson looks at things like how do we know how much the earth weighs, or how old it is, evolution and genetics.

What's equally interesting are the stories Bryson tells about the famous and not-so-famous scientists.

The book is extremely well-written and covers so many scientific disciplines that I think even a scientist would find it interesting.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

because the great Imran is never wrong

Because you can't have a damn State of the Union address without the Vice-President! And if it wasn't the State of the Union, then the Supreme Court should have been no where near there.

Clancy ****ed up because that's not the way the government works... not because I'm always right (even though that's true as well ).

It says "joint session of Congress" not State of the Union address.

[Eli]

Originally posted by GePap
Needing to earn my avatar, I am reading Thus spoke Zarathustra, which I had never read before.

I was reading this book with lots of short biographies, and every man there has a small caption picture.

When I got to Nietzche :
"Hey, this guy must be a relative of GePap"

[loinburger]

I'm reading somethingoranother by Ray Bradbury. I usually can't remember what I've just read after reading one of his books/stories, except that I liked it (whatever it was). Only books/stories I remember of his (and I've read quite a few) are Farenheit 451 and The Very Gentle Murders.

I'm also reading a book on planning algorithms. Huzzah!

[Q Classic]

i've gone through quite a few on my trip to korea.

i reread sedaris's naked and me talk pretty some day; also, the play copenhagen by frayn; and ive's collection all in the timing.

i also read for the first time a collection of essays edited by martha nussbaum entitled for love of country?,

i'm reading what i didn't for class from mearsheimer's the tragedy of great power politics, and umberto eco's foucault's pendulum is next on the queue.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Sava
It says "joint session of Congress" not State of the Union address.

So then why was the Supreme Court there?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
.....
Took a glance at Luttwak's "Strategy"(non-fiction) looks like something that would be excellent for all us civers.

While not for the feint of heart or weak of english, it's an interesting read. It covers a lot of ground, not all of which is necessary to support the thesis IMO, but much of which is still interesting.

A better book all in all is Archer Jones' "The Western Art of War", which shows every innovation in western warfare from the Greeks to the Modern era via the descriptions of battles and campaigns. This is chock full of military history that you should know but don't. An invaluable tool for someone who wonders what the armies of X period were like. Read this book and you will know that, as well as why, and what came before and after.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by St Leo
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. JK Rowling gets better with every new book she writes.

And more attractive with every billion deposited in her bank account.

[Q Classic]

she is a divorcee, isn't she?

[Harry Seldon]

Yep, with a kid.