Clearly she wants me to read Lord of the Rings

  • Thorry84
    5·
    2 months ago

    I can’t help but notice your excellent taste in books. However I’d feel remissed if I didn’t yell at you in the voice of Homer Simpson.

    NEEEEEEEEEEEERD

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 months ago

    I like your choice of books. How was the Von Braun book? One I don’t see on your shelf, but would recommend it would be “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” by Chris Hadfield. There is a second book he did at the same time of just photography he took while at the ISS. Both are worth looking at.

    • Troy@lemmy.caOP
      5·
      2 months ago

      Neufeld’s von Braun book is great! It doesn’t pull any ethical punches – it’s almost clinical in the treatment of his early career opportunism within the Nazi regime.

      The bottom shelves are dedicated more to rocket science than human spaceflight, generally, which is why I don’t have Hadfield’s book. I met him once though. I did grad school in Planetary Science and got to meet quite a few astronauts and have a few beers.