Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies
by Jami Bernard
ISBN 0-06-095161-3
Every since I saw Reservoir Dogs for the first time, I was hooked.
Of course, after seeing past the violence and language, I was
surprised to find that Quentin Tarantino DOES know how to tell
a interesting story. This book is a biography and it tells
about how Quentin started off, his movies, other actors opinions
of him, etc... and how he feels that the music he chooses for each
film is a time consuming effort, but all the while, the most
important aspects of his works.
Frozen Star: Of Pulsars, Black Holes, and the Fate of Stars
by George Greenstein
ISBN 0-452-25693-3
I haven't actually finished this book yet. I tend to read about
3 books at once so I take longer to get through them all. This
is your basic information book, very professionaly written, on
such anomalies as Black Holes and where they go, the births and
deaths of stars, some over 2000 times bigger than our Sun!! It
also recounts the "adventures" of a group of young scientists trying
to further their career, only to run into problems when seeking
out a powerful telescope for use in their studies.
Baby's First Pop-Up Book
by unknown
ISBN 0-0384-3894
From A-Apple to Z-Zebra, Baby's First Pop-Up Book is twenty-six
pages of alphabetic adventure.
Hubble's Universe
by Simon Goodwin
ISBN 0-670-87310-1
This is mainly a "picture" book, comprised of full-page photos taken
by the Hubble Telescope. It shows distant galaxies, stars, nebulas,
and even quasars!!!! It is really amazing to see how small we
are and now big the universe really is. Our galaxy, the Milky
Way, is composed of over 400 billion stars, our little Sun being
just one of them. But, in the entire universe, their are over 400
billion galaxies, all full of billions of stars. wow.
The Third Millennium
by Brian Stableford and David Langford
ISBN 0-458-99440-5
This one is a keeper. Actually, I got it from the local library
about ten years ago, and they never called me about it and never
will, so it is mine. This is essentially a history book, but it
is written in the future tense. This history book was written in
the year 3000 and it looks back in time to the events between 2000 AD.
and 3000 AD. We are the past. This book is our future's history.
Very interesting reading, especially since everything in it is
written in past tense. "London 2025. As the Greenhouse effect
caused the melting of the ice caps, several low-lying parts of Britain
vanished under the rising waters." Interesting to see what may
lie in store for us over the next 1000 years.