Favorite Writers / Books ?

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Originally Posted by Enoch Root

You might be a good person for my inquiry. There is much I would learn of science and history, etc. Yet I have no love for textbooks. Dry old things they tend to be. I would rather welcome something scholarly that isn't so marvelously boring. Have you any idea of books like that? I know about Carl Sagan's books but that's about it.

Whoa, that's two REALLY broad fields that I don't have a terrible amount of experience with. As for science, I have some books on astro physics. A really accessible read is anything by Stephen Hawking. Of course, he talks about astronomy, the origin of the universe, things like that. As for natural history/science, a quintessential read would be Darwin's "On the Origin of Species." I have a lot of old National Geographic books that cover some interesting topics. Regarding history, this is a topic I don't do much reading on. Autobiographies and biographies are perhaps one of the less dry methods of getting a feel for a certain time period.