anyone interested in Forensics?

[Holly]

i just started the class today... and it seems interesting! for those of you who dont know what it means it's crime scene investigation. like the science of finding out how someone died and who did it.
anyways... i need suggestions:
we have to read 2 books having to do with Forensic science. anyone know of any good ones? like a couple she listed are: Cruel and Unusual and From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell...
and then we have to watch 6 TV show episodes of shows about Forensics like CSI, Medical Detectives... any other good shows?

[LimeTwister]

i probably couldn't take that class i would get lost or throw up, which ever came first.

[eclv]

CSI:Crime Scene Investigation" is good!! and on now. I love Vegas!! Four more days

Other shows I love:
"The New Dectives"
"Secrets of Forensic Science"
"Cold Case Files"
"Medical Detectives"


most of those shows are on the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel or A&E

[tricia]

Patricia Cornwell is amazing.

If you're going to read her books though, you'll have to start with Postmortem.  Another good author is Kathy Reichs (hers are more about forensic anthropology).  I think her first book is Deja Dead.

All the shows Let recommended are awesome.

Also old school episodes of the X-Files.  Scully was a forensic scientist.

[Holly]

i probably couldn't take that class i would get lost or throw up, which ever came first.

yeah... it probably isnt a good class if you cant handle that kinda thing... but i think i'll be alright. we have to watch a lot of video, but the teacher will warn us if its going to be really gory and wont make us watch.

CSI:Crime Scene Investigation" is good!! and on now. I love Vegas!! Four more days

Other shows I love:
"The New Dectives"
"Secrets of Forensic Science"
"Cold Case Files"
"Medical Detectives"


most of those shows are on the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel or A&E

thanks Let!!! ive watched a couple episodes of CSI. forensics hasnt really interested me in the past... but i thought it sounded like a cool class (it was either that, Anatomy or Astrology. and i cant disect animals or see the dead body they have to visit. and studying stars just seems boring to me).
i was actually just watching TV and channel surfing and i came across "Secrets of Forensic Science" so i watched it! it was pretty interesting, like how they used a cat to prove a case. the cat hair was found on the owners jacket at the crime scene!
ooo... Vegas! have fun  :wink:

Patricia Cornwell is amazing.

If you're going to read her books though, you'll have to start with <i>Postmortem</i>.  Another good author is Kathy Reichs (hers are more about forensic anthropology).  I think her first book is <i>Deja Dead</i>.

All the shows Let recommended are awesome.

Also old school episodes of the X-Files.  Scully was a forensic scientist.

thanks Tricia!! i'll read "Postmortem" then if i find it! it's actually on the list of books that my teacher gave us... but i dont know anything about the authors or the books so i'd have no idea what to pick! lol, thanks for the suggestion!!!  
the full list of books she gave us is:

Patricia Cornwell
Black Notice
Postmortem
Body of Evidence
All That Remains
Cruel and Unusual
The Body Farm
From Potter's Field
Cause of Death
Hornet's Nest
Unnatural Exposure
Point of Origin

Kathy Reichs
Deja Dead
Death Du Jour
Deadly Decisions
Fatal Voyage

Aaron Elkins
Dead Men's Hearts
Make No Bones
Icy Clutches
Old Bones
Muder in the Queen's Armes
The Dark Place
Fellowship of Fear

she said we could choose other books tho... as long as theyre about Forensics[/b]

[tricia]

I've never read anything by Aaron Elkins...so I have no idea

I've read all the Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.  The only PC I would tell you not to read is Hornet's Nest.  It's boring and really doesn't follow the forensics as much as the others.  Like I said above, those two authors are great, but I do recommend starting with the beginning of the series.  It makes it that much easier to follow the action.

[Holly]

I've never read anything by Aaron Elkins...so I have no idea

I've read all the Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.  The only PC I would tell you not to read is Hornet's Nest.  It's boring and really doesn't follow the forensics as much as the others.  Like I said above, those two authors are great, but I do recommend starting with the beginning of the series.  It makes it that much easier to follow the action.

ok! thanks Tricia! i'll start at the beginning. what is Kathy Reich's first one?

[superscientific]

Yup Forensics is pretty cool , but is one hard subject to study!!!
take it from meeeee!! lol
I don't really watch any of those shows, and it is funny bc all our professors hate those shows haha..


danny

[eclv]

those who can't teach!!  :wink: :razz:

Yeah, Holly, you would be surprised at what they can do.

[tricia]

Hmmm...Kathy Reichs...let me check *goes to look up*

Deja Dead...geez...our book site is slow.  *kicks*

[Steveau]

you people that read annoy me.

[tricia]

o_O

I work in a bookstore...of course I read

LMAO

[Holly]

i dont think the forensics introduction i'm taking should be too hard... everyone last year said the class is easy atleast, lol. which is why i'm taking it as a 2nd science, Physic's should be the tough subject for me this year...  but in that class we get to go to Six Flags as a field trip! so thats a perk!
my fun classes will be forensics and film studies, the rest... not fun, lol.

and i dont like to read... lol, but i have to! just this semester i have to read like a dozen books for all my classes combined... *dies*

[PIBby]

I think Forensics is interesting. Quite scary and disturbing though.

[LimeTwister]

o_O

I work in a bookstore...of course I read

LMAO

if i worked in a bookstore, i wouldn't read unless i had too...