World Book Day - Share Your Favorite Book

Wow, that's like Relativity squared.

Maybe that's what has caused the Universe to accelerate.

The one book that helped me the most:

The Machinists' BIBLE!

For entertainment, this one:

Fun reading and a lot of scumbags die!

My current reading:

There are a lot of times that I will just pick up one of my old textbooks and start reading it. Or sometimes a technical manual of some sort?

I recognize this one, I got one from my dad many, many years ago!

I remember using the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (although not lately).

If given four 9's and told that you can add, subtract, multiply, divide or arrange them using them only once. Make it equal 100.

A logical puzzle book given to me by my dad. Must have been my 6 or 7 birthday. Sorry been to long to remember which one. Greatly influenced me. As one of my strengths is to troubleshoot.

Does 99 + 9/9 count?

At one time I would have said that the 99 bit was cheating, but, I've kind of mellowed in my old age.

Otherwise (9/.9) x (9/.9)

Try this one using three ds where d is any digit from 1 to 9 make 24. There are 9 puzzles here some are easy (like 8 + 8 + 8) but some are pretty difficult.

You can use any mathematical symbols you like (including juxtaposition as above, although there are plenty of solutions without).

3*5+9, 7+8+9, 9-3*4, 8-2*4, 7-1*4, 7-3*6, 8-4*6, 5-1*6, 9-5*6

Here is nine all with out duplicating a number. So your 8+8+8 makes 10 afew more if I were to use the same number again.

Your first answer is correct.

Sorry it's three ds where each d is the same as the other two i.e.

make 24 with three 1s

make 24 with three 2s

make 24 with three 3s

etc.

Two books I love and strongly recommend: A confederacy of dunces (John Kennedy Toole)

/ The discoverers (Daniel Boorstin)

I figure this one has all the others inside!

A favorite book

"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" by Douglas Adams. Having just been exposed to this series of works weeks prior to the publishing of this book - this was the first book I recall being excited for pre-release.

A book that influenced you

"Bushido: The Warrior's Code" by Nitobe Inazo. I was around 9-years-old (I think)when I first read this book, High-School-age when I first started to understand it, and mid twenties when I first started to live it. I consider myself very fortunate to be exposed to, and intrigued by, Eastern Culture and Philosophy at a very young age. I have read and enjoyed very many of Nitobe Inazo's books over the span of my life - and I consider that time very well spent.

A great reference book

Going to skip "The Machinery's Handbook" even though I have worn out many throughout the course of my career... so here are some others that I have found to be extremely useful on more than one occasion:

http://www.amazon.com/Crane-Valves-Fittings-Catalog-No/dp/B000LO0X9S/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429813196&sr=1-1&keywords=Crane+catalog

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Weldments-Omer-W-Blodgett/dp/9994446002

http://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Fluid-Power-Text-Vol/dp/B001E3ZCQE/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429814944&sr=1-6&keywords=industrial+fluid+power

What you're reading now

I was out of the loop for awhile and didn't have much time to read so I have a catch-up list... right now I'm rereading the Long Earth series, written by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter... should be wrapping up the refresh-read of "The Long War" in the next week or so, in preparations to start "The Long Mars" for the first time... excited!

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How about you Savvy?

Just finished "The Long Mars". Very good, especially considering you quickly branch out into three story lines, each of which would make a good book in itself. Gonna miss Sir Terry.

Wow... what a topic. I could spend hours thinking of the great books I have read. I was fortunate that I discovered the magic of the printed word very early in life.

But... to start off... as a young lad my Father and Grandfather (both worked in the electrical field - it's a family thing) had a wonderful collection of 1930s & 1940s era "Audels" electrical books and several copies of the "American Electrician's Handbook". I literally spent hundreds of hours reading them from front to back then the other way around over and over again. Best part... I proudly own those same books today (not other ones, the ones they owned).

As to great works of literature... to many to remember or recall right now but... what stands out the most is anything by Leon Uris.

"Battle Cry" - "Mila 18" - "Trinity" - "Topaz" - "Exodus" - "QB7" read them all. Great works all and highly recommended.

Herman Wouks "The Winds of War" saga. Haley's "Roots"... John Jakes "America" series... wow... just thinking about it keeps bringing up great books I have read to mind.

As to right now... just finishing off a re-read (not sure how many times they have been read) of Arthur C. Clarks Rama series.

Thanks Savy... great topic.

Trilogy by Hugh Howey - Wool, Shift, Dust- good sci-fi future story.

• Favorite book: a new, as-yet unused, DIARY...waiting to capture the future on ANY and EVERY different subject!

One of my favorites too. An amazing book and thought-inspiring on so many levels.

A book that influenced you,

I was influenced by the Book "FREEDOM FROM ACHES" a Book written by a highly qualified Doctor who has done M.D.

The book describes that for any disease in the human body, with out any medicine, injection, surgery can be cured by simple physical excercise 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening. This applies to all ages of men, women,children.

DHAYANANDHAN.S

Atlas Shrugged

A great book indeed.

The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene

Probably my most read book is 2001 a Space Odyssey.

Most influential book a has been the two I am writing. Not because I deem myself great by any stretch of the imagination! However, the level of research and soul searching in writing them has exceeded my expectations in what I have learned on a personal level.

Reference books are too many to list!

Alastair Reynolds Redemption Ark is the current read for me in his Revelation Space series.

It's amazing what you learn when you get in there and do it yourself. I'm happy for you and your adventure into authorship.

I would enjoy knowing of your work if/when published. There must be ways to announce it without spamming, or other gaudy self-promotion. One way is to say forthrightly, Shameless Plug Alert (name book). Any uninterested persons can then simply skip over it.

Or post it in CR4 Fan

Thanks! I'll look into that.

For all those people who grew up in the fifties, sixties or seventies, this is an interesting read (more or less totally non-technical but still intriguing).

Charles Schulz's comic strips were a window into his life more than anyone could have imagined at the time. I just finished this one. It's a long read, but fascinating. Back in the eighties, I lived in Novato, CA only a few miles from Santa Rosa. I kick myself for never making the trip north to try see him at the ice rink.

Of the hundreds of books I have read about history, leadership, people skills, biographies of people who have accomplished great things I would first of all choose the Bible because it tells me who God is and His plan for mankind from the beginning of time till eternity.

Of manmade books I would choose Centurion Principles by Col. Jeff O'Leary; Launching a Leadership Revolution by Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady; Kingdom Man by Dr. Tony Evans; Finishing Strong by Steve Farrar; Waking the Dead by John Eldredge; Talent Is Never Enough by John Maxwell; Robert E. Lee on Leadership by H. W. Crocker III.

The list could go on for quite some length. Reading is one of the best ways we have to leverage our time. Authors spend hundreds or thousands of hours compiling the information and we can garner the results of their work in a matter of days. Amazing. It is even more amazing that so few people read high value books.

An adventure in thought.

"Nine Chains to the Moon"

Buckminster Fuller

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