Command & Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser - entertaining and terrfying
QuoteCommand & Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser - entertaining and terrfyingBased on your recommendation, I have just started this. Gripping...There's also Richard Rhodes' Dark Sun, about the hydrogen bomb, Teller, Fuchs, etc which I must get round to. And John Hersey's Hiroshima.
I guess with Kindles these days you don't have to take risks on a short collection of books, just download a whole bunch and hope at least a couple are good.
There must have been others but the only book I can remember reading on the one actual expedition I have been on was In Cold Blood. By the end it had been split into four or five parts as pretty much all of us were reading it simultaneously (I remember having to wait for the person ahead of me to finish the part they were on, which I needed next).
QuoteThere must have been others but the only book I can remember reading on the one actual expedition I have been on was In Cold Blood. By the end it had been split into four or five parts as pretty much all of us were reading it simultaneously (I remember having to wait for the person ahead of me to finish the part they were on, which I needed next).The last book I read on an expedition was William Dalrymple's The Age of Kali, a collection of essays on subjects including murder, self-immolation, massacres, etc, all in India. Which I read in various dodgy hovels in India. I with I'd brought something else. It was a little like going on a surfing holiday, and bringing an illustrated history of fatal shark attacks...
Quote from: habrich on November 26, 2016, 11:26:20 amI guess with Kindles these days you don't have to take risks on a short collection of books, just download a whole bunch and hope at least a couple are good.I killed two kindles that way before I wised up.
Do Kindles not cope with having large quantities of books downloaded onto them?
indeed everything by Tom Wolfe is great.