Slash & Anthony Bozza + It's So Easy: And Other Lies by Duff McKagan are a good read if you are into Rock and Roll
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Slash & Anthony Bozza + It's So Easy: And Other Lies by Duff McKagan are a good read if you are into Rock and Roll
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+1 for"Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" - I read that a few years ago as well, excellent.
+3 or however many others recommended it - "Empire of the Summer Moon" - saw this on one of Joe Rogan's podcast, very interesting, good take on the Comanche and other tribes, who actually didn't live in a peaceful utopia with rivers of chocolate and flowers, and gardens tended by happy children, all ruined by the arrival of the evil white man.
"Dune" as well, the first book is great, I read further into the series but it kind of lost me along the way.
+3/4 for "Leviathan Wakes", James SA Corey. (Sci-Fi book as requested, by many others in the thread as well). The first book in the series the TV show "The Expanse" is based on. 2 Authors, one writes one group/location, one writes the other. Works out very well IMO, seamless perspective changes in the book.
I agree as well with the many nods to "Old Man's War" in the thread too. I can't stand the author, but he wrote a couple fantastic books.
Books nobody else I saw in the thread recommend yet.
In the same US Navy theme as Tin Can Sailors, "Six Frigates" by Ian Toll, is another great book about the US Navy, specifically its inception and the first 6 frigates they built, which were pound for pound the best warships of their era, for non "ship of the line" types. The film "Master and Commander", the enemy French vessel is actually American in the book, and is based on one of these 6 frigates.
"Azincourt" by Bernard Cornwell. Historical fiction book about the battle of Agincourt, where a vastly outnumbered English force under Henry V pretty much wiped out most of the French nobility/chivalric knights/etc in a single afternoon battle, with 6000 archers launching over a million arrows into piles of French heavy infantry and cavalry all stuck in a muddy quagmire. Great book, lots of humor where I laughed out loud as well.
"Red Storm Rising" Tom Clancy. I re read this book every year, I was 13 when it came out and I must have read it dozens of times back then. I had the latest "Stealth Fighter" game and the "Red Storm Rising" game among others for my Commodore 64 at that age, and it at least somewhat helped to launch a lifetime interest and also steered my career path into the aviation and defense/etc fields. Clancy's best book, period - It's outside of the "Jack Ryan" universe, the characters and whatnot are only in this one single book about a conventional war between Nato and the Soviets in the mid/late 80s right before the wall in Berlin came down and the Soviet union dissolved.
"Black Tulip" by Erik Schmidt. Biography of Eric Hartmann, the world's highest scoring fighter ace, in World War 2 in 1400 missions he shot down 352 enemy aircraft, and never had his wingman get killed. Hartmann was captured by the Russians at the end of the war, and withstood nearly a decade of torture and brutal conditions in a prison camp until he was released/traded.
"The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program". This is an easy to pick up speed reading system, where you can learn some simple techniques for greatly increasing your reading rate. There is several levels and methods, you don't need to progress to the higher levels, just learning the first few methods is more than enough IMO, without missing any retention or enjoyment of the material you read.
TIREBOB - I've been on disability for years now, which = a lot of time to read, and my need for reading material is insatiable as well. I have thousands of books, fiction, non fiction, manuals, etc. I'm happy to lend you anything you want, shoot me a PM if you're interested.
I love threads like this, I'm always surprised to see others have read and recommend some of the books I too have read recently. Plus, every time I pick up a bunch of recommendations in the thread for myself. Good times.
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Red Notice
I Am Zlatan
Tyson, Undisputed Truth
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Open, Andre Agassi
The Dirt. (I’ve read this like 5 times, over the last 15 yrs, a bible of sorts)
Sean Avery, Offside
Joey Barton, No Nonsense
I just can’t do fiction much anymore.
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Just about anything from Bill Bryson
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Not a book, per se, but still something I could not stop reading as fast as I could.
Search for "the untold story of the silk road" to find the two articles from Wired Magazine. It's something like 20,000 words, so not a novel.
I found it to be gripping.
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I've been getting into some of Neal Stephenson's books. Snow Crash is a good sci-fi/cyberpunk novel.
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Anything by Vince Flynn, his main character is a CIA operative, Mitch Rapp. Read the whole series, there are several books and they are all great
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Who reads books here?
I've recently started reading books as a hobby, both to combat years of digital eye strain and also to try something new...just wondering if any of Beyonders read and if so, what do you like to read? I'm looking for things to read...
So far I've read:
-Playing with Fire
-Cujo
-some Kevin Hart autobiography (pretty good)
-American Radical (also good)
-a couple books my wife lent me (one written by a Buddhist monk, and The Tattooist of Aushwitz)
I like a variety of stuff but tend to enjoy non-fiction, biography type stuff, I like reading about other people's fascinating lives.
I'm also wanting to buy the new Jerry Seinfeld book full of all his best jokes over the decades...looks awesome.
Also, what's a good E Reader to buy that won't strain my eyes?
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Just finished 'The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After' about a week ago. Interesting story and quick easy read. Not the best writing/story telling.
Just started 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents' yesterday. Only on chapter two and seems very well written and interesting.
As for ebook reader my wife uses a kindle and loves it. I still buy books.
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Roopi thanks for posting. Sound like interesting reads.
Ive read the Bosch series from Michael Connoly, really enjoy those. Also, "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari".
For self improvement... The Greatness Guide by RobIn Sharma. I am re reading it right now.
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I finished Michael Dunlop's autobiography a while back. It was pretty good up to 2008, and then after that it was less good. It might not be as good a read for someone who doesn't know who he is but I liked it.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Nikki Sixx Heroin Diaries ~ crazy!
Flea - Acid for the Children. Written more like poetry than a regular book
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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft
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Just finished book #3 of the Mistborn series.
Now starting “principles” by Ray Dalio
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How did you enjoy Mistborn? I thought it was fantastic for the genre.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Storm light book four is out Tuesday I think. Gonna be a mammoth read.
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Big fan of the Mistborn series, I thought the author did a great job with character development.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I still have a few more to read to finish the series
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The wax and Wayne series are really good too. They go another direction however.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft
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