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Reading: Science Books for the Popular Audience,Science Textbooks for College, especially Circuit Theory, Electromagnetic theory, Applied Math methods for Scientists, and Atomic Theory.Foundations of Math, Science, and Biology.Short Stories.Detective Stories.Some Horror and Fantasy Classics.Gardening.Music.Backpacking and Hiking.Exploring used Bookstores.

Napolean Dynamite (The only official authorized biography of my own life growing up)American Graffiti (Rick Moranis, trying to look cool on a Moped)Blazing Saddles (I want to be a Cowboy. Sixgun at my side.)The Naked Gun (Leslie Nielsen as the funniest Cop ever!)National Lampoon's First Vacation film with Chevy Chase. Caddy Shack (Bill Murray is going to get that gopher!)Monty Python.The Original Twilight Zone with Rod Serling.(Everything seems great about this small town, but oddly enough, it all seems strangely familiar too..)The Original Star Trek. (Great innovative stories, by Gene Roddenberry)Jason and The Argonauts.Jack the Giant Killer.The Pit and The Pendulum ( Down in the basement, dodging the swinging pendulum blade, cheered on by the Genteel and well-mannered Vincent Price. Did I mention the dressed skeletons shackled to the wall, and looking on ? )The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The First Indiana Jones movie.The Mummy. (Now! who stole that Scarab Beetle Jewelry out of the casket? -The Mummy is going to find out!)War of the Worlds, and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.A Midsummer's Night Dream.The 1960's Version of West Side Story with Natalie Wood.The Great Escape, with Steve McQeen.The Bridge on the River Quai.Old James Bond Classics with Sean Connery only! Goldfinger, You Only live Twice, etc. Vertigo, and It's A Wonderful Life with Jimmie Stewart. Casablanca, The African Queen, and The Maltese Falcon. Ben Hur and the Ten Commandments With Charleton Heston (Moses parting the sea in front of Pharoah!). Samson and Delilah with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr. The Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland. (Produced a fear of tornados, witches and winged-monkeys, that I still have not fully recovered from!)Old black and white Sherlock Holmes Movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Watson. Horse-drawn carriages, gaslamps, thick London Fog and shadowy figures in alleyways. And "Quick Watson! There's not a second to lose!" )Old black and white Ingmar Bergman Swedish Classics like "Wild Strawberries." and "The Seventh Seal" (Strawberries and Seventh Seal you MUST see!) "Manon of the Spring", with Emmanuel Beart (She stole my heart, when cavorting nude around the spring playing her flute!). The first Harry Potter Movie, with Hagrid, Dumbledore, Snape, and Hogwarts.

Claude Debussy.Antonyn Dvorak.Eric Satie.Ralph Vaughn Williams.Traditional Irish/Celtic Songs -Down by the Salley Gardens, Whiskey in the Jar, She Moved through the Fair, Star of the County Down, The Lakes of Pontchartrain, As I Roved Out, The Rocky Road to Dublin, Dirty Old Town, Tabhair dom do lámh (Give Me Your Hand), Si Bheag Si Mhor ..Traditional Harp and guitar Music! (anything by Turlough O'Carolan), Folk Music of the 1960's Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Kingston Trio ..The Beatles! -Listening to them my whole life, and I still like them!Old English balads. Medieval Music. John Barleycorn must die, The Blacksmith..Choir Singing!Classical Singing by Sissel K., Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli,.. Con Te Partiro, Canto Della Terra..

The Twilight Zone Companion, by Scott Zicree. The Bible, Calculus with Analytic Geometry, 3ed, by George B. Thomas, (All of my love for math, grew out of handling this book for the first time) Electric Circuits, by Edward Timbie (My love of electric circuit theory, grew out of my exposure to this book)University Physics, ~1963 ed., by Sears and Zemansky (My love of Physics grew out of my first exposure to this book) Rubaiyats of Omar Khayyam, translated by Fitzgerald. Hamlet, and Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. The Wind In The Willows, by Kenneth Graeme, The Little Prince, The Phantom Tollbooth, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. The Hobbit, by Tolkein. Dalaure's Book of Greek Myths, Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl, Born Free, by Joy Adamson. All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriott. My First Summer In the Sierra, by John Muir. The Complete Walker, by Colin Fletcher (had a huge influence on my life. All of my Camping and Hiking, grew out of Reading this book). Philosophy: Dialogues of Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett. Adventures of a Mathematician, by Stan Ulam, The Curve of Binding Energy, by John McPhee. The Double Helix, by James Watson (a must-read classic of science!) Surely, You're Joking, Five Easy Pieces, Five Not So Easy Pieces, and The Feynman Lectures, by Richard Feynman. The Medusa and The Snail, by Lewis Thomas, The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins, The Cosmic Code, by Heinz Pagels, In Search of Schroedinger's Cat, and Stephen Hawking's Universe, by John Gribben, etc. Certain Math, Physics, and Electronics Textbooks from University. I don't know why, I just like them! : )The Bible, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Winnie-The-Pooh, by A.A. Milne. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl, The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum, Sherlock Holmes, by Conan Doyle. Greek and Roman Mythology, Some Horror: H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, Dracula, Edgar Allen Poe, Some Adventure: Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, Jack London, John Steinbeck, Two Years before the Mast by Henry Dana. Some comedy: Mark Twain, James Thurber, Woody Allen, Dave Berry, Short Stories Especially! Like those by: Ernest Hemmingway, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, H.H. Munro, Sherwood Anderson, Short Story Anthologies, Scientific Biographies such as: Robert Oppenheimer, Letters and Recollections, by Alice Kimball Smith, And other Biographies of these famous scientists: Ernest Lawrence, James Maxwell, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Irwin Schroadinger, Alan Turing, Anything by Freeman Dyson (Disturbing the Universe is a special favorite!) Anything by Jeremy Bernstein (his latest on Atomic Weapons, is superb). Biology with Stephen Jay Gould or Richard Dawkins. Books on the subject of writing itself, such as: Bird By Bird by Anne Lamont, One Writer's beginnings by Eudora Welty, and especially, On Writing, by Stephen King (one of my all-time favorite books!). The History of science and Technology: The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and Dark Sun, by Richard Rhodes, Memoirs, by Edward Teller.