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Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
"Kill Anything That Moves" - Nick Turse.
Vietnam told by a number of grunts that were on the ground. About a third of the way through it. Don't know I can finish it - it's very depressing but revealing. We always know that war is brutal, but reading about this kind of stuff is just gut and heart-wrenching.
Vietnam told by a number of grunts that were on the ground. About a third of the way through it. Don't know I can finish it - it's very depressing but revealing. We always know that war is brutal, but reading about this kind of stuff is just gut and heart-wrenching.
skol asylum
Footballguy
2019 Books Read:
Jurassic Park - Michael Chricton (reading)
Will update as I go.
Jurassic Park - Michael Chricton (reading)
Will update as I go.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Finished "A Ladder to the Sky." It was definitely dark and funny. A bit contrived, but still hard to put down. Not quite a book that I'd put at the top of my list for favorites from 2018, but enjoyable enough.
Started An American Marriage by Tayari Jones last night. Bought it when it was a Kindle daily deal last week.
Also bought the new translation of The Odyssey by Emily Wilson. Heading out of town this weekend and planning to take that one with me.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
Will be starting TEXAS TOUGH in the morning. This is the history of the Texas penal system.
Review
In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. A pioneer in criminal justice severity―from assembly-line executions to supermax isolation, from mandatory sentencing to prison privatization―Texas is the most locked-down state in the most incarcerated country in the world. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, explains how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became a template for the nation.
Review
In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. A pioneer in criminal justice severity―from assembly-line executions to supermax isolation, from mandatory sentencing to prison privatization―Texas is the most locked-down state in the most incarcerated country in the world. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, explains how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became a template for the nation.
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shader
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
2019 Books Read:
Jurassic Park - Michael Chricton
City of Endless Night - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Now reading:
Verses for the Dead - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Jurassic Park - Michael Chricton
City of Endless Night - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Now reading:
Verses for the Dead - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
badmojo1006
Footballguy
Red Moon - Kim Stanley Robinson.
1/3 through, moving slow
1/3 through, moving slow
ragincajun
Footballguy
So in the que:
The Alchemist
American Gods
Storm Front
One Hundred Years of Solitude
I have 2 audible credits any other suggestions?
The Alchemist
American Gods
Storm Front
One Hundred Years of Solitude
I have 2 audible credits any other suggestions?
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I just finished Borne by Jeff Vandermeer, the guy who wrote Annihilation and the rest of the Southern Reach series. I enjoyed this much more. It's tighter and easier for my pea brain to keep up with.
He's got a short story - Strange Bird - set in the same universe which I'll knock out next before moving onto Ben Winter's next novel.
He's got a short story - Strange Bird - set in the same universe which I'll knock out next before moving onto Ben Winter's next novel.
badmojo1006
Footballguy
About to start "Hidden Figures"
bigmarc27
Footballguy
Yeah, this is in my queue.
I pretty much only do iBooks now and started the Stand uncut version (apparently 400 extra pages?). Anyway, on 1100 out of 1800 or so digital pages right now. I’m completely engrossed. When finished, I’ll have to go back and see what was added. There was one particularly long chapter with Trashcan Man that had a lot of weird side stories and I found out that had originally been cut. That’s been about the only 30 pages so far where I was reading as quickly as possible to get past, but in retrospect it was ok.
After that, 11.22.63 is already bought (loved the miniseries), then maybe The Shining after.
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
All of those are great books. You are going to love 11.22.63, I did like the series but boy they left stuff out.
bigmarc27
Footballguy
Finished up The Stand uncut version. Great read - love the characters. It’s interesting that even though it was (overly) long, I was still interested in the characters and what they were doing. I cared way more about that than the plot itself. I can see why some didn’t care for the ending. It was fine, I didn’t mind it but it did feel oddly rushed considering how long the book was.
Also best character is easily Kojak.
The Man With No Name
Footballguy
Reading The Royal Road To Romance, the first book of Richard Halliburton. Have already read his second, The Glorious Adventure. Will likely read all of his travel books.
He was a traveling adventurer who wrote about them along with starring in a movie about some of his travels. He died at sea, age 39 attempting to sail across the Pacific from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
He was a traveling adventurer who wrote about them along with starring in a movie about some of his travels. He died at sea, age 39 attempting to sail across the Pacific from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
brun
Footballguy
Just finished Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. It's not a small book, but it's really a series of related stories and not something that needs to be read in a continuous start to finish mode. A North American version of bad things that people have done to other people throughout history.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
The new translation of "The Odyssey" was great. Read pretty fresh and modern, and a very accessible read. The iambic pentameter gives it a good beat. If The Odyssey is a read that anyone been meaning to get into, it's a version worth checking out.
Also continuing my way through biographies of the Presidents. Read the book on Bill Clinton from the American President Series. There's not much out there that I thought was too worthy for Clinton. I think with a lot of these most recent Presidents, I'll need to head back to them as more documents get released. I'm planning to read Jean Edward Smith's Bush on W next. Feel like I'm in the homestretch.
I'm still working my way through "An American Marriage" due to the other reads. It may be taking me awhile because it's not capturing me that much.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Someone above mention Storm Front by Jim Butcher. It's the first in a series, but is self-contained. It's short, has a lot of fantasy elements, and is also a detective novel.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
I started Blood Meridian over the weekend. I've never read any Cornac McCarthy, and felt like a hole in my reading. This is some dark stuff.
Judge Smails
Footballguy
Just finished the book about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, Bad Blood. Fascinating read, moreso because I'm in the healthcare IT/tech space.
bigmarc27
Footballguy
After finishing the Stand, I did 11.22.63 in a couple of weeks and finished it up today. I liked both the book and the series kind of independent of each other - they changed so much that there was still a ton of mystery to the book even after seeing the Hulu series.
Im guessing the Shining next for something a little shorter. Eventually want to do The Gunslinger series, but I don’t know if I’ve got 7 straight books in me right now.
Eephus
Footballguy
Recent ones:
Max Boot's 800 page tome on the history of guerilla warfare. It covers asymmetric conflicts over a huge time frame from 2330 to modern day. I don't agree with the author's politics but he was able to clearly and persuasively organize his case. I learned a lot.
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. A dreamlike novel based in WWII era New York. Highly recommended.
David Itzkoff's biography of Robin Williams. Like a lot of biographies, the story of the rise was more interesting than the fall.
Currently reading some Elmore Leonard as a palate cleanser. Nobody writes better dialogue.
Max Boot's 800 page tome on the history of guerilla warfare. It covers asymmetric conflicts over a huge time frame from 2330 to modern day. I don't agree with the author's politics but he was able to clearly and persuasively organize his case. I learned a lot.
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. A dreamlike novel based in WWII era New York. Highly recommended.
David Itzkoff's biography of Robin Williams. Like a lot of biographies, the story of the rise was more interesting than the fall.
Currently reading some Elmore Leonard as a palate cleanser. Nobody writes better dialogue.
facook
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
I declined a relo to Virginia last year so I haven't been working since late December. Paradoxically, this led to less time spent farting around on the Internet. I'm currently kicking the tires on retirement. I just turned 59 so I can loot the 401K starting in August. I honestly can say I haven't missed work a bit.
With baseball starting, I'm easing myself back into the board but I haven't opened the Political Forum.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Congrats at being to the point of considering retirement, that is awesome
It is nice to have you back, even if it is part time
No reason to wade into the political forum, it's the same as it ever was
MindCrime
Footballguy
I’ve been diving into King for the first time myself as well. In the middle of the Shining right now. May try 11.22.63 next. Working through a bunch of suggestions offered up in this thread - https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/758775-stephen-king-books/
Ilov80s
Footballguy
How did/do you like it? Dark doesn''t even begin to describe it but that is what Cormac specializes in.
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prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
I am going to politely disagree here. The Stand is a Rembrandt and Swan Song is a messy finger painting.
