paddynyc Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 I just finished Phil Caputo's "A Rumor of War". He appeared on Ken Burns "The Vietnam War" for those who didn't watch it was excellent. The book is about his time in Vietnam as a Marine. Can someone please fix the typo in my thread? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillyb Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 I started to read But what if we're wrong by Chuck Klosterman. It was good, but I found him a bit difficult to read. The concepts were really cool though. The subtitle is "Thinking about the present as if it were the past." I read Tina Fey's book and it was awful, but I realize I'm not really her demographic. And before that The Phoenix Project, which is a novel about DevOps and how companies' different departments don't talk to each other. But throughout the story, you follow this company and its people and see how Sales relies on IT, how Marketing relies on Sales, how the CEO relies on the workers, and how everything is related. I also only read on planes, soooooo...this was over the span of like four years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 The Da Vinci code, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaveByRichter35 Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Seal of Honor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Really looking forward to reading the Avery book. Maybe that will get me back into reading a bit more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4EverRangerFrank Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Really looking forward to reading the Avery book. Maybe that will get me back into reading a bit more. Yeah, that should be a fun read from a real nut. His outlook or rather his view of life is intriguing. I?ll read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddynyc Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 I just finished "The Snowman" by Jo Nesbo the one of the same movie about a serial killer. Eh... it was ok.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Jimmy Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 I just finished Phil Caputo's "A Rumor of War". He appeared on Ken Burns "The Vietnam War" for those who didn't watch it was excellent. The book is about his time in Vietnam as a Marine. Can someone please fix the typo in my thread? Thank you Funny you mention this but I just finished reading 'Dispatches' by Michael Herr, and I too was inspired to read it after finishing the Burns documentary. Excellent book, incredible documentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddynyc Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 Funny you mention this but I just finished reading 'Dispatches' by Michael Herr, and I too was inspired to read it after finishing the Burns documentary. Excellent book, incredible documentary. I read "Dispatches" maybe 20+ years ago and plan on rereading the book again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4EverRangerFrank Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 *bump* With a bunch of extra time to read, I've been on a pretty strong run of murder mysteries and who-dunnits. Girl Last Seen The Wife Between Us Helpless Digital Fortress Into the Water The Girl Before The Demon In The Freezer A Very Stable Genius (about 3/4 way through now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albatrosss Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 currently "The impressionists" just ordered Woody Allen's latest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddynyc Posted May 6, 2020 Author Share Posted May 6, 2020 Me: Elton John Official Autobiography, I needed something light during this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYR2711 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I started to read It again, haven't read it since I was a teenager, figured Id give it another read. Its going slowly because unfortunately I haven't had the time to really sit down and read. I want to read the new Weird Al book next, its supposed to be really good from what I've heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High and Wide Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I finished Player Piano, which, as with every other Vonnegut I've read to date, I loved. I started a Scanner Darkly and it's good so far, but I'm not compelled to read it. I'm halfway through Good Omens also, but I've hit a mental block. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4EverRangerFrank Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Thx for adding those titles to the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4EverRangerFrank Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Where the Crawdads Sing was excellent. Too Much and Never Enough - Mary Trump?s book on family dysfunction. Jesus it?s bad. Not the book but the lack of love by anyone named Trump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High and Wide Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I finished A Scanner Darkly and while it wasn't my favourite Phillip K. Dick book, it was a good read. I didn't know until after I finished that it was very much about he and his friends and their drug usage. It made me appreciate it more having known that. I'm currently reading The Oracle Year by Charles Soule, which so far is fantastic. Very easy read about a guy who is an oracle that knows like 100 specific things that are going to happen. I'll probably attempt to finish or just reread Good Omens altogether. I tried picking it back up from where I left off, but definitely reached the point where I don't remember enough that's happened to just continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddynyc Posted August 20, 2020 Author Share Posted August 20, 2020 I just finished two books: Lou Reed: A Life Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist by Richard Llyod former member of Television Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4EverRangerFrank Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Very dense reading with a ton of information and examples. I'm half-way through and will push on to the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindG1000 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Very dense reading with a ton of information and examples. I'm half-way through and will push on to the end. SO GOOD. It's a freaking doctoral thesis, but it's awesome. He's got two more books - both equally enrapturing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY Chief Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 "The Day After Roswell" - Col Philip J Corso (RET) Birnes A breathtaking expos? that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all those years ago and how the effects of this mysterious unidentified aircraft crash are still relevant today. Former member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and the Foreign Technology Desk in the United States Army, Colonel Philip J. Corso was assigned to work at a strange crash site in Roswell in 1947. He had no idea that his work there would change his life and the course of history forever. Only in his fascinating memoir can you discover how he helped removed alien artifacts from the site and used them to help improve much of the technology the Army uses today, such as circuit chips, fiber optics, and more. FASCINATING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High and Wide Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 I read Generation X by Douglas Coupland which was a solid read. It's a short glimpse into the lives of three twenty-somethings opting out of mainstream society during the early nineties. Also The Suburbs by Eric Eidelstein, which was a critical look of Arcade Fire's album and the way we view the suburbs. Just started Foundation by Issac Asimov and am loving it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodrigueGabriel Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Just finished a book called Superpower by Russell Gold, which is the story of a guy I know named Mike Skelly, who spent the 2010s trying to build a set of direct current (DC) power lines that would move abundant wind power from the central plains to eastern electricity markets. Pretty niche-y, I guess, but a pretty good story about a guy and his dream, entrepreneurship, and the difficulty of building big things in 21st century America. Sent from my SM-G970U using Blueshirts Brotherhood mobile app powered by Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunny Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Any professional or amateur historians here? Enjoy the eastern portion of both world wars? I've gobbled everything available by Pritt Buttar. I find him to be a very exciting writer in this field. Way more in depth than Kershaw or Beevor, IMO, and much less slanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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