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Originally posted by Not Bob
I am going to be stuck on an airplane for several hours in a week or two, and need something to read other than briefs and five month old copies of the ABA Journal and Lowenthal's Collected Slip and Fall Slip (Hah!) Opinions.
Any suggestions? Fiction or non-fiction is fine. No Ayn Rand or books by people who yell on TV for a living.
Thanks!
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For something perhaps a little different, and on the non-fiction side, I've been working my way through the W. W. Norton "Great Discoveries" series of biographies of scientists. They tend to be written by people known for their writing rather than their prowness in history of science, so they're pretty readable. They're short and not overly technical (at least so far - I'm just starting the Godel one, which may be a bit harder to follow).
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel
Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie 
