I'm reading Full Fathom Five: Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy by Gordon Chaplin. The book focuses on Chaplin's childhood with his father, Charles Chaplin, in the Bahamas. Charles Chaplin was an ichthyologist in the late '40s. The author helped his father conduct his research as a child...
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. It's the second novel in her MaddAddam trilogy. It's sci-fi describing the near end to all humanity brought on by a desire to interfere with nature. If you like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, you'll like this. It maintains the same theme of what "bad"...
For class I'm reading Neuromancer, but for leisure I'm re-reading The Hobbit for Tolkien Day. I seriously love The Hobbit, if only I could have a class on Tolkien... but a class on sci-fi is the next best thing.
I just recently finished with White Noise, I'd give it an 8/10. Great book, really requires you to think outside of yourself to grasp the objective perspective needed to understand the tactics used in media and consumerism that influence daily life in America. It's especially creepy how it so...