Most over-rated book

"Chariots of the Gods"

"Non-Engineers" so the lurkers here would buy it ?:-) ...Jim Thompson

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Well, that's two people whose judgement is seriously flawed. I knew that Jim Thompson allows his political affiliations to override his judgement. Nico Coestel isn't quite so obviously crazy, but he does sit on the software side of the fence and A of E does do as much analog as w as digital electronics , so it may not have enough of the right sort of content to interest him.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Have you read any of her books?

Most of the books that John recommends fit

Like Jane Austen? Honoré de Balzac? Barbara Tuchman? Winston Churchill? P G Wodehouse? Rex Stout? Raymond Chandler?

Stick with Noam Chomsky; he's about your speed.

John

The Holy Bible.

Cheers! Rich

:)

AoE is a superb book, with over 125,000 reported sold. Even a circuits jock like me finds it useful once in a while. For beginners, or scientists who use electronics now and then, it's superb. I've given away eight or ten copies by now, the latest to a 14-year old kid who just might get serious about electronics.

John

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Honestly, I think AoE already has that market!

Hmm... lurkers on SED buy AoE, those on SEB buy "Bebop to the Boolean Boogie?" :-)

Actually I've found plenty of useful things in AoE, but for someone with the traditional EE background, hopefully much of it is review. (...but of course H&H didn't write it for EEs as such either...)

I suppose BttBB isn't aimed directly at EEs either, to be fair (as the name suggsets, it pretty much completely ignores analog electronics). Yet, while it's not particularly in-depth, it covers a lot of areas that EEs never learn in school either. It's also pretty good to give to, e.g., a middle-schooler or older who's interested in engineering.

---Joel

It's pretty good for newbies, and it's cool if your local public library has a copy, but it certainly ain't worth no hundred bucks!

Cheers! Rich

Well, thank the Great Roulette Wheel in the Sky that so far, we don't all have to be stuck with nothing but what the censors choose for us.

How dull such a life would be.

Who wrote "Atlas Shrugged?" A year or two ago, everybody was just gushing about it - I checked it out from the local library, just to see what all the whoopla was about - I couldn't even plow my way through the first page. It was the purplest heaving-bazoom romance prose I've ever seen.

At least I was able to make it through more than one page of "Dune," but it did serve its purpose of putting me to sleep on a 13-hour overseas flight.

Cheers! Rich

Cheers! Rich

Actually sounds amusing. ...Jim Thompson

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"Shrugged" is a great 200-page book struggling to leap out from a boat anchor.

Shun the style and drag yourself through it Rich. It's painful, but it's what's happening today. Absolutely prescient. Right up your alley. Picks up in the middle, too.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

"Lord of the flies" AudioBook version. Read by the author. He might be able to write, but he sure as hell can't read.

The old adage, "the book is better" most certainly holds true here.

I first read "Atlas Shrugged" around 1964. My 50th Anniversary copy is _1079_ pages long, quite a bit _more_ than 200 pages :-)

I doubt that Greasy has the intelligence to manage getting thru it.

He's living proof that "You can't fix stupid" ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Amazon has what looks like the entire book online.

I was going to also say AOE, just to provoke conversation. But I abstained.

Isn't the new version due this year? Win?

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Yeah, that's the problem--it's about 4x redundant. It's either a brilliant depiction of the pitfalls / tyranny of government by petty bureaucrats and central meddlers, or just an accurate history, take your pick.

Richard the Dreaded? He's a rebel, but no dummy.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

Try not moving your lips.

OK, sorry. That was way out of line. But funny as hell. :)