Lately the book kept coming up in conversations, and it seems a lot of people had read it... as kids. But when I listened to them I'd hear things that I didn't remember being in the book.

So I went looking and found this...

That really wasn't what I remembered of that book.

And I looked some more, and found more and more people with even more different memories of what that book was about. Even some really smart people with big followers.

Because the title of that book is getting pretty top of mind, I figured it was probably a smart idea to go get my own facts straight.

So I bought it on my kindle and I read it.

I read it all the way through.

And you know what?

I honestly thought that I had read that book. I was almost sure that I had. But it had been a few years.

Guess it's like how Bugs Bunny "changes" over time, or how there are some movies that you make a point to watch once a year, every year, because you have learned that over time you will see different things - or the same things differently. It's not that I hadn't remembered some of it right, but more that I only remembered the very small visual pieces that the person I was at the time had experience enough to grasp.

Through the eyes of more experience, books, too, can become different.

And this one is now a very different book.

I'm so glad I took the time to do the checking before jumping into another tech or energy or space forum thread half-cocked.

- Barbicane