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Sun 31 Aug, 2003 10:03 am
It's a game of lists. Write the names of as many books as you wish. Any title, any subject matter. Add a little thumbnail if you like. Try not to repeat, though it's bound to happen. You have the right to discuss a book or recommend one if you wish, if it doesn't take over the whole thread.
1. REBELS, ROGUES AND RASCALS, 1961 Ballantine paperback, by Alexander Klein
Gallery of frauds and fakers, charlatans and quacks, swindlers, imposters and other sharp operators.
2. DR. EBENEZER'S BOOK AND LIQUOR STORE, 1980 St. Martin's Press, by Gerald Rosen
Ebenezer is a disillusioned nuclear scientist who gave up his family and career and embarked on a quest for truth in the back streets of San Francisco. Opened a book and liquor emporium -
3. VOODOO SCIENCE, 2000 Oxford University Press, by Robert Park
"The road from foolishness to fraud." "In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how are we to separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims?"
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