No seriously. I’m leaving for Fiji Sunday with who will then be my wife and heading to a secluded resort for a long honeymoon. Hell travel time alone (including layovers) adds up to about 65 hours there and back. (8 flights and 2 boat rides.)
So we’ve got some reading to do.
I’ve read just about everything by Michael Crichton, all of Dan Brown’s novels. (Although once you’ve read one you’ve read them all.)
Any recommendations? I wonder if Barnes & Noble carries Maximum Boost… Is that an interesting read or just a text book?
I actually just got done reading The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston, about 2 days ago. Fantastic TRUE book about Ebola and basically how close we’ve come sometimes to a full outbreak.
Here’s the summary from Amazon:
Far more infectious than AIDS, filoviruses (thread viruses) are relentless killer machines that consume a human body in days, causing a gruesome death. Symptoms include liquefying flesh, spurts of blood, black vomit and brain sludge. Outbreaks of the Ebola filovirus devasted Sudan and Zaire in 1976. And in 1989 Philippine monkeys in a Reston, Va., research lab, found to be infected with Ebola, were the target of a U.S. Army-led biohazard task force that decontaminated the lab, exterminating hundreds of monkeys to prevent the possible airborne spread of the disease to humans. In a horrifying and riveting report, portions of which appeared in the New Yorker , Preston ( American Steel ) exposes a real-life nightmare potentially as lethal as the fictive runaway germs in Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain. Preston plausibly argues that the emergence of AIDS, Ebola and other highly adaptable rain-forest viruses is a consequence of ecological ruin of the tropics.
Sounds like my kind of book. Haha when I went to Angola in 2006 I was nervous because a few months before I was there they were trying to contain an outbreak of Marbung virus in a nearby province. :ohnoes: (Marbung is a close cousin of Ebola.)
Sounds like my kind of book. Haha when I went to Angola in 2006 I was nervous because a few months before I was there they were trying to contain an outbreak of Marbung virus in a nearby province. :ohnoes: (Marbung is a close cousin of Ebola.)
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They talk extensively about Marburg, actually. Definitely not something you want to get.
After reading this book I realized just why I had to get 6 different shots before I went to Africa… and just how many more scarier things were out there that they couldn’t even begin to protect me from.
Mmmkay. Well, Vince Flynn has a whole series of books based on the character Mitch Rapp. Pretty fast paced, well written books about a secret operative whos always involved with covert ops with foiling terrorist attacks abroad as well as domestically. In fact the first book is about a scenario where terrorists take over the white house. Actually, heres some info. Read the reviews, they give you a better idea of what to expect. If youre interested, let me know, i may be able to dig these books up for y abefore you leave, im off from fork the next few days
They talk extensively about Marburg, actually. Definitely not something you want to get.
After reading this book I realized just why I had to get 6 different shots before I went to Africa… and just how many more scarier things were out there that they couldn’t even begin to protect me from.
This looks interesting.
“In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.”
I went on a two week safari in Tanzania and Kenya. My mother took me when I was in high school… I hope I get another chance to go back again now that I’m older. I had a great time, but at that age I was still a little bitter that she didn’t choose to go to Paris or someplace that didn’t require mosquito nets. But now that I’m older I’d appreciate things a lot more.
Very cool. I finished my work early on one of my trips and I got to go on a game ride in Namibia. I would loooove to get to spend some time seeing Africa’s natural beauty. :tup:
I think I’ll grab a long way gone. My fiance would probably want to read that too, and since we’re limited to 44 pounds of luggage each it’d be good to bring books that we would both read. Hot zone’s definitely coming. That sounds right up my alley.
