Book(s) you are currently reading.
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ENJOY. Pro tip, mark them read when you finish one.
Cormac McCarthy is on a different literary plain, if you didn't like the content of "All the pretty horses" whatever you do don't read "Blood Meridian".
Empire of the summer moon. Great read.Just finished:
I read it again after twenty years and was extremely impressed by how it holds up. Weiner is a great voice for scientists; he did a fantastic job with the earlier The Beak of the Finch.
Now reading, another re-read. I'm really digging this.
Just finished
Longstreet wasn't the writer that Grant was, but I wanted to get his perspective.
Longstreet wasn't the writer that Grant was, but I wanted to get his perspective.
How was this? Just saw Dalio talking on Meet the Press. Seems to know what he's talking about.
It is pretty good. It is not a bunch of opinions.
It is not a feel good story.
Was he on MtP this AM? I'll have to find it to watch.
Dalio seems to understand this as much as anyone.
I found a link to the MtP episode...
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... if anyone else wanted to see it. Dalio's interview start around 16 minutes in.
I am ashamed to admit this but prior to 2025 the last time I read a book was when I was in high school (a little over 25 years ago). I made it a goal of 2025 to read twelve books (one each month) and so far I have read six books halfway through April. I just started this guy the other day as my seventh.
Just finished #A Soldier's Story by General Omar Bradley;
Just started "The years of Lyndon Johnson, Master of the Senate" by Robert Caro
Just started "The years of Lyndon Johnson, Master of the Senate" by Robert Caro
My great uncle Godwin Ordway was a close friend of Bradley’s. They taught together at West Point, were together at Normandy. My uncle Ric Ordway (West Point ‘56, Silver Star in Vietnam) would tell me that during dinner parties hosted by his parents Bradley would go up to his room and help him with his algebra. Ric told me Bradley was the finest man he ever met.
The Caro books on LBJ are beyond awesome. Start with the first one, The Path to Power.
I’m snow day’d for the 4rth straight day. At this rate I’ll be working til July FFS. Were stacking movies vs books
I just finished Fatal Vision and loved it. I remembered the TV movie in the 80s and loved the story and found the narratives fascinating so I figured read the book. Anyway, I would highly recommend the book.Just finished:
I read it again after twenty years and was extremely impressed by how it holds up. Weiner is a great voice for scientists; he did a fantastic job with the earlier The Beak of the Finch.
Now reading, another re-read. I'm really digging this.
About halfway through Walter Mosley's newest Easy Rawlins book called Gray Dawn.
As always its very good.
Some streaming service really needs to pick these up. They would make a great series.
A young Dennis Haysbert would have made a great Easy Rawlins.
Not sure who I pick today...Common might be an interesting choice and Aldis Hodge would be my first pick but he's doing pretty well as Alex Cross.
As always its very good.
Some streaming service really needs to pick these up. They would make a great series.
A young Dennis Haysbert would have made a great Easy Rawlins.
Not sure who I pick today...Common might be an interesting choice and Aldis Hodge would be my first pick but he's doing pretty well as Alex Cross.
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When you say Chaos…… you mean like Get Smart Chaos???
Missed it by that much!!
I just finished this. I thought it was fascinating.
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Doug Stanton - Horse Soldiers - Doug Stanton
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan A New Chapter Update, Visiting The Story 20 Years Later: What did we win, what did we lose, and what did it cost? Simon and Schuster | 416 pages | May 5, 2009 Buy this book: Amazon | Barnes & […]
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Currently reading Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt. Black Elk was a Lakota (Sioux) visionary. The book is a first-person account of his experiences at the battle of Little Bighorn, the death of Crazy Horse, and various conflicts with the white man. There appears to be some question about the book's accuracy and the degree to which the text was edited by Neihardt. I picked it up last summer at the Bear Butte Educational Center in South Dakota as I was finishing a wonderful backpacking trip on the Centennial Trail through the Black Hills. I wanted to learn a little more about the Native American history and customs from the region. The book has not disappointed from that standpoint.
That's Awesome. An old girlfriend I dated was the niece maybe grandniece, of General Doolittle.
Just finished “ A Fever in the Heartland” by Timothy Egan. It explores how the Ku Klux Klan exploded in popularity in the 1920s and their plot to take over America.
This is one riveting book for you folks that like deep dives into sordid history that you could consider an inflection point in America.
Big Tgar Recommend.
This is one riveting book for you folks that like deep dives into sordid history that you could consider an inflection point in America.
Big Tgar Recommend.
Against the American Grain, a borderlands history of resistance, by Gary Paul Nabham. A history of the American Southwest and those that came to exploit it. A non white viewpoint, maybe, but certainly a new understanding of Mexican Americans.
The story of Mustafa al-Zemmouri.
The story of Mustafa al-Zemmouri.
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Exceptional erudition. If you are familiar with Hannah Arendt’s concept of the "banality of evil" this book documents how great evils are often committed not by fanatical monsters, but by ordinary, bureaucratic people who simply comply with orders and fail to think for themselves.
Just finished Vagabond by Tim Curry, it was okay. For some reason I enjoy reading about some celebrities up bringing and lives(Eric Idle, John Cleese, Norman Lear, Mel Brookes, Frank Zappa, etc).
Prior to that I read The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan which I enjoyed
and bust before that one was Prophet Song by Paul Lynch which I also enjoyed
Prior to that I read The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan which I enjoyed
and bust before that one was Prophet Song by Paul Lynch which I also enjoyed
@yeahtoasty This might be paywalled; I am reading it from the actual magazine I got in the mail fifteen minutes ago.
“Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?
David Foster Wallace’s novel, in all its immensity, became the subject of sanctification and then scorn. But the work rewards the attention it demands.
The complete works of Kahlil Gibran. I've been enjoying this for 30 years.Just finished:
I read it again after twenty years and was extremely impressed by how it holds up. Weiner is a great voice for scientists; he did a fantastic job with the earlier The Beak of the Finch.
Now reading, another re-read. I'm really digging this.
George Marshall: Defender of the Republic by David L. Roll
He was a native son of Uniontown, PA., ranked first in his class at VMI, the Chief of Staff of the Army during WWII (there was no Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time), the first Five Star General in US history, special assistant to Truman post WWII in China, Secretary of State, and creator of the Marshall Plan that rescued the economies of Western Europe after the war.
He was a native son of Uniontown, PA., ranked first in his class at VMI, the Chief of Staff of the Army during WWII (there was no Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time), the first Five Star General in US history, special assistant to Truman post WWII in China, Secretary of State, and creator of the Marshall Plan that rescued the economies of Western Europe after the war.
Just finished: A mystery set in the aftermath of the Scottish uprising of 1745.
I've read a couple of books about the Comanches. Whoa they were some fierce fighters even the Apache's were afraid of them. Yikes.
Just finished: A mystery set in the aftermath of the Scottish uprising of 1745.
