I did read Factoring Humanity, per your suggestion. As for my tastes, I found it fair to middlin. I'm willing to try him again, though: What was your favorite book of his?

Have you read the Simon Green "Deathstalker" books, NK?

Some good SF there (it's pretty much a space opera), and Green writes a crossover series ("The Man with the Golden Torc") and a great horror/fantasy series (The Nightside books). Some pretty good wry humor but mostly great stories with great characters.

Flashforward, Rollback and Mindscan.

I just finished the 4th book in the Outlander series (Diana Gabaldon). I'm pretty burnt out on the "never ending" storyline, so it will be some time before I start on the next one.

I will say this, though: Her vocabulary is incredible. In the last book I read, I marked and saved (I'm using Kindle for all of my reading now) all of the words and am having a wonderful time familiarizing myself with them in the hopes to better my own vocabulary.

Now I'm reading Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam and The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. I'll let y'all know what I thought of them when I'm done.

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Now I'm reading Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam

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Looked it up on Amazon and the summary looked great but very familiar... they made a movie out of it - October Sky and I've seen it. Crap.

I loved the movie. I'm thinking I will like the book even better since it's written by Hickam (the NASA engineer that the book and movie were about) himself.

Here's a bit about Homer Hickam: Homer Hickam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia