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c . . . d . . . ?I've only ever listened to them as MP3's and I was able to transfer to an MP3 player and keep forever as far as I can tell (though I haven't tried to go back lately). They file on the computer does expire, though, so it's possible that they have some encryption preventing you from burning to a cd, but I doubt it.
Be sure to read the footnotes in the back as you go through the book, it's almost like reading two books at once. The amount of time & research Coll puts into the book is amazing.Click the below link to here some short interviews with Coll regarding what happens next for Al Qaeda after bin Laden's death
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/2011/05/coll-likely-bin-laden-successor-will-struggle.html
I started these out of order. Am I screwed? I started with the girl who.played with fire. I'm halfway thru it. Should I stop.'JFT Ben said:I finished these not too long ago as well. The stories themselves were pretty good but I thought the writing left a little to be desired. My wife, who lived in Denmark and can speak swedish, said some of this is due to the translation and writing style than poor writing per se, but I tend to disagree. Either way, I still give the books an overall
Sure, it's possible. But I am very surprised it happened to you reading that list after not liking to read.
That's a lot of reading. The Brothers Karamazov took me more than a month to fully digest by itself. To read that AND 5 other classics something else.
I loved TBK. I actually plan on reading it again one of these days. I did go back and read the Grand Inquisitor for a second time. That is just an unbelievably great piece of literature.
Just finished up Ghost of Cape Sabine. Thanks for the recommendation.
Very good story. I wasn't a big fan of the writing style. It seemed choppy and I had to reread quite a few sentences because they just didn't seem right. The political back-story was pretty dull but I guess it was necessary to tell the whole story. Very interesting how differently the two commanders, Greely and Shackleton, were viewed by their men. Shackleton could do wrong and had the complete trust of his men while Greely was being constantly questioned and was rather hated. One would think it would have been opposite considering that Greely had soldiers while Shackleton did not.
That's a lot of house.
Oh that again?Made complicated financial matters very easy to understand and made a book about the economy seem like an edge-of-your-seat thriller. I've never read a Michael Lewis book that wasn't top notch.
I am a finance/economy ninny.
Just bought The Man in the Grey Flannel Skirt and hooked in spite of myself... and the book. Imagine a La Jolla born, NYC bred, muscle-bound but androgynous, heavily tattooed Woody Allen but without any fame or even a job, rife with sexual/pschological hangups he gleefully and hilariously shares in his memoir.
just started this. finished the first chapter. I thought he made an excellent point about how disdain for "big government" may have merit for local, main street issues, but that populist anger is misguided because too many people extrapolate that disdain to all things. IOW, "if government over-regulation and over-burdens are bad for my small business, then it must also be bad for the big businesses on WallSt."As someone more likely to read IBD than RS, I am really hacked off at what these so-called capitalists are doing and have done.
so far. double at the $139 price point.
Had just reserved that from the library yesterday, sounds cool.Getting into some spiritual stuff: audio of Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and Mastering your Hidden Self: a guide to Huna by Serge King. Both have some really interesting stuff in them, PoN had over 1,200 reviews on Amazon, mostly positive (70% were 5-star). If you feel like delving inside, I'd recommend both.
I'd also recommend Why We Get Fat and Good Calories Bad Calories By Gary Taubes as well. Since converting to the Primal Lifestyle, I have dropped 20 Lbs. in 4 months while adding quite a bit of lean muscle.
I am planning on getting this and a few others I saw this on Mark's Daily Apple suggested reading list Why Zebra's Don't Get Ulcers, The Biology of Belief, The Omega Diet, Food Politics and The Vegetarian Myth. I have already read Omnivore's Dilema, Paleo Diet, Fast Food Nation, Guns, Germs & Steel. I figure with so many books that I enjoyed and respected in common, the others are worth a look.
No. I don't know what my deal is. I can't read more than 2-3 pages before fallign asleep anymore.
Actually read Anna Karenina instead. Just a phenomenal read. Next up , Huck Finn for something a little lighter.
Richard Evans' "The Coming of the Third Reich" is more of a general book on Germany from end of World War I, through the days of the Weimar Republic until the Nazis consolidate their power. That might be what you are looking for.You can also just such around on the Weimar Republic and see if anything catches your eye.ETA: I should also mention that Evans book is the first of a trilogy. The second book is "The Third Reich in Power", which goes from ~1933 to 1939 -- so will take you up to start of WWII.
Read Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Getting ready to open up Utopia now.
Wouldn't you like to see them turn their talents in the direction of something more useful instead? (which they're doing, BTW)
Ask the folks in Egypt and other places with so-called "social" revolutions how useful social is. Don't get me wrong, I don't buy that Twitter and Facebook played as big a role as at the media likes to portray, but it's still very useful.Social is way more profitable than automated cars for a company selling ads. Social is the new search. Just like Google helped define the move from the desktop to the cloud, we're seeing the paradigm shift from search to social. People are at their base social.
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I must be old; I don't understand a thing you're saying.Ask the folks in Egypt and other places with so-called "social" revolutions how useful social is. Don't get me wrong, I don't buy that Twitter and Facebook played as big a role as at the media likes to portray, but it's still very useful.Social is way more profitable than automated cars for a company selling ads. Social is the new search. Just like Google helped define the move from the desktop to the cloud, we're seeing the paradigm shift from search to social. People are at their base social.
It's funny that someone would post in a book recommendation thread on a message board that social is less useful than other things
I'm no spring chicken myself, but what I see is damn near everyone under the age of 25 using social sites damn near all the time. Which means that Google is doomed to Microsoft status if they don't do something innovative in the social space. Google effectively stopped the growth in desktop computing. Social will do/is doing the same to search.I must be old; I don't understand a thing you're saying.Ask the folks in Egypt and other places with so-called "social" revolutions how useful social is. Don't get me wrong, I don't buy that Twitter and Facebook played as big a role as at the media likes to portray, but it's still very useful.Social is way more profitable than automated cars for a company selling ads. Social is the new search. Just like Google helped define the move from the desktop to the cloud, we're seeing the paradigm shift from search to social. People are at their base social.
It's funny that someone would post in a book recommendation thread on a message board that social is less useful than other things
OK, I think I'm starting to understand what you're saying now, though "doomed to Microsoft status" is an allusion that I don't get. It just seems to me that Google has the intention of moving into many different types of technologies, like automobiles, for example. Software is destined to be ever more important in car technology and they reportedly have visions of being the "Microsoft" of that software market. Which is pretty big, with 200 million cars on the road just in this country.And in the spirit of this thread, in which I have most definitely not carried my fair share of the load (sorry, everybody), I am currently reading The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today, a collection of essays from some high-achievement people in different fields from all over the world. Opinions are, interestingly, all over the place, from Nobel Prize-winning economist Thomas C. Schelling stating that, technologically, the world won't be much different than it is now, to inventor Ray Kurzweil, winner of the nation's National Medal of Technology, who says that we won't hardly recognize the place because of the rate of change, which is only increasing.I'm no spring chicken myself, but what I see is damn near everyone under the age of 25 using social sites damn near all the time. Which means that Google is doomed to Microsoft status if they don't do something innovative in the social space. Google effectively stopped the growth in desktop computing. Social will do/is doing the same to search.I must be old; I don't understand a thing you're saying.Ask the folks in Egypt and other places with so-called "social" revolutions how useful social is. Don't get me wrong, I don't buy that Twitter and Facebook played as big a role as at the media likes to portray, but it's still very useful.Social is way more profitable than automated cars for a company selling ads. Social is the new search. Just like Google helped define the move from the desktop to the cloud, we're seeing the paradigm shift from search to social. People are at their base social.
It's funny that someone would post in a book recommendation thread on a message board that social is less useful than other things
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