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A Passion For Discovery

A Passion For Discovery - Peter G.O. Freund Interesting book, with not-so-known snippets from the lives of the luminaries (mostly of previous century) in physics. It shows them in a more human light, and shows the enormous effect sociopolitical changes and human frailties have on the chronological development of physics, or for any science or art for that matter, but still ends with a positive message that 'nature has its own way of sorting everything out over time'.
The stories are funny, very interesting, moving.

Good read for science amateurs like me, who like history :)
Inheritance - Christopher Paolini Good one. best one of the series. Paolini has matured a lot. Better than all of the HP books. Watch out for literary maturity, which sets is apart from HP and previous Inheritance cycle books. I like it!
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien, Ted Nasmith,  Christopher Tolkien Expansive, in scope and in reach. This book may not suit those looking for a nice story, one that is usually sought in fantasy, but for those who want to delve deep in the mysteries of Middle-Earth, and those to whom the history of events described in Lord of the Rings excite to no end.
For those who are willing to brave through the avalanche of information to the very end.
And yes, very dark. It lays bare the thoughts which are too true in the real world itself: Men are not without failings, and with power and wealth, those failings catch them, and bade their fall. Which is only very true.
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear phew! this giant mammoth of a book is one of the most expansive and inclusive depiction of 19th century Russia, second only to War and Peace, and yet different in its own way.
If Crime and Punishment is intense torture packed in a normal sized novel, then this is bit-by-bit exploration of that torture, scrutinizing it to the minutest detail.
Be sure to get a lifetime worth of philosophy, religion, humanistic, and progressive thought-currents all in this tome.
Notes from Underground - Ben  Marcus, Andrew R. MacAndrew, Fyodor Dostoyevsky Amazing! very possibly the best work of Dostoyevsky...

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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