Big Marv's Wanted Books
Here's a bunch of books I'm keeping my eye out for.
- He's Just Not Into You
- Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo
- Possibly more of a "chick" book than one for guys (judging by the reviews on Amazon, anyway) but a friend tells me it's a lot of laughs. Authored by two Sex and the City writers, and in part based on one episode from that series.
- A Scanner Darkly
- Phillip K. Dick
- Futuristic cop tracks a dealer who might be someone close to him. (A friend gave me more detail than that, but it sounds really good.)
- Ilium
- Dan Simmons
- A friend tells me "godlike beings acting out the Iliad on a terraformed Mars sentient cyborgs sent by humans long ago to the moons of jupiter, arguing the merits of Shakespeare vs. Proust the last few "old style" humans enjoying a park-like earth and much, much more. By page 25.
- Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck
- Ricky Jay, Rosamond Wolff Purcell (Photographer)
- Heard an interview with Ricky Jay recently on FreshAir. He's a fascinating guy.
- Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
- The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency
- James Bamford
- A look inside the NSA.
- The Radioactive Boy Scout
- Ken Silverstein
- Bored boy genius scrapes radioactive material from smoke detectors, Coleman lanterns, and glow-in-the-dark hands from vintage clocks and builds an almost working nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed. According to Time Magazine, by the time public-health officials finally caught on to what this kid was up to, the potting shed was so hot it had to be classified as a Superfund site.
- First Impressions: What You Don't Know About How Others See You
- Ann Demarais and Valerie White
- Hey, I'm a shy computer geek. I need to learn this kinda crap.