BOOK REPORTS

I have not reported on books I have read. One of the most interesting was Christopher Dunn's THE GIZA POWER PLANT. This is his many years investigation of the Giza Pyramid and his conclusion that the Egyptian society of the time were much more advanced than we give them credit for. He makes a strong case for the concept that the pyramids were built to harness the earth's vibrations as Nicoli Tesla wanted to do. His concept was that the pyramid tapped the constant vibration in space of the hydrogen atom and amplified it using the construction of the pyramid so that it acted as a MASER amplifying the input and outputing high power. He is not sure how they used the power but his suggestions are interesting. I have another book on the same subject, Egyptian technologies, that I haven't read. Dunn accepts others who have argued that previous civilizations were very advanced to the point of having nuclear energy. Looking at how far we have come since our nation was organized and knowing that ancients were not stupid, it is a reasonable argument. The argument has been that they destroyed each other with atomic energy and destroyed their libraries wiping out the knowledge. Interesting.

I read one of Elmer Kelton's novels written under the McElroy nom-de-plume that Nancy had finished about a troop of Texans coming back from being defeated at Glorietta Pass during the Civil Way. I think the name was A LONG WAYS TO TEXAS. Great story. Nancy has been working her way through Elmer Kelton and is reading one every week.

I also finished Condalezza Rice's first book that gave a fascinating insight to growing up in segregated Birmingham showing the separate culture that existed in the black world that few whites are aware of. She had the problem that many have of choosing a degree in college. She changed her Junior year and picked Russian history due to Madelaine Albright's father who was teaching at the Univ. of Denver. Due to affirmative action she was chosen as an incoming professor at Stanford Univ where she bloomed and used the position for many assignments in Washington that led to her being chosen by the Bushes as an advisor on the collapsing Russian government, leading to her eventual choice as Secy of State. I was most interested in her being chosen as Provost at Stanford from the position of professor to provost without any experience as a department head or dean, almost unheard of. And she did a great job during a time of cutting budgets and student unrest. She documents how her mother and father died and her feelings. After her mother died her father remarried and I can relate to how she reacted to that fact. I am looking forward to reading her next book about her life as Secretary of State.