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Biotech / Medical : Biotech Valuation
CRSP 61.97-3.2%Nov 3 9:30 AM EST

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To: Biomaven who wrote (14551)12/8/2004 10:29:58 AM
From: nigel bates  Read Replies (2) of 52153
 
(OT - book review)
I've just tonight finished volume three of Neal Stephenson's "The Baroque Cycle."...


Great fun (even if he can't really do female characters). Anyone who liked it would also enjoy his 'Cryptonomicon',
and probably Dorothy Dunnett's 'Niccolo' series (to which Stephenson owes a few debts - and which is similarly long).

Other historic fiction - anything by Derek Robinson (esp. 'Piece of Cake', and 'A Good Clean Fight'), and Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series.

SF (sort of) - William Gibson's recent stuff (eg 'Pattern Recognition') is fine literature, IMO.

Crime - anything by Scott Turow or James Ellroy.

Kids - Philip Pullman or Lemony Snicket.

Economics - Hernando de Soto's 'The Mystery of Capital'.

And one book everyone ought to read - though probably not as a Christmas gift - Philip Gourevitch's 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families '. An astonishing masterpiece.
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