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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Gogol - Plays & Petersburg Tales

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  • loadedgun
    loadedgun Indiana Posts: 1,398
    Saving the world at work. It's about changing your companies impact on society & the environment. Very interesting, things I've never thought about.
    Midwest. Indy/Lafayette.
  • Green Circle
    Green Circle Posts: 5,192
    The Last Hero by Rick Riordan (on my new Kindle)
    "...And I fight back in my mind. Never lets me be right.
    I got memories. I got shit so much it don't show."
  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    I'm about 2/3 of the way through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Great read if you like investigative drama/mystery. Gonna have to check out Steig's other novels when done.
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,024
    About to finish up "To Big To Fail" this evening. Great book actually. Never knew 500+ pages on the finanical crisis could be so compelling.
  • voidofman
    voidofman Posts: 4,009
    Learning The Tarot, wife got it for me for Christmas including a nice deck. Anyone want a reading done? Only $3.99 a minute, da cards don't lie! :lol:
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,520
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    About to finish up "To Big To Fail" this evening. Great book actually. Never knew 500+ pages on the finanical crisis could be so compelling.

    I've heard good things. I've been wanting to get my hands on this.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,024
    Jearlpam0925 wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    About to finish up "To Big To Fail" this evening. Great book actually. Never knew 500+ pages on the finanical crisis could be so compelling.

    I've heard good things. I've been wanting to get my hands on this.

    It's really good. I highly recommed it. Quick read too. So much stuff going on behind the scenes with the government, it's really interesting and written very well.
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,520
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Jearlpam0925 wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    About to finish up "To Big To Fail" this evening. Great book actually. Never knew 500+ pages on the finanical crisis could be so compelling.

    I've heard good things. I've been wanting to get my hands on this.

    It's really good. I highly recommed it. Quick read too. So much stuff going on behind the scenes with the government, it's really interesting and written very well.

    Yeah, I've been trying to get my hands on as much as this stuff as possible because it's essentially what I plan on doing with the rest of my life. The more the better as I see it. Last night we went out and saw 'Inside Job'. I already knew 90% of what they were talking about, and I'm sure if you've read that book it's not telling you anything new, but it's really good. Very concise, and a great way to break it down to the average joe.
  • loadedgun
    loadedgun Indiana Posts: 1,398
    We need to start a book club where we trade each other books that we own. I hate buying and never remember to look these up once everyone has mentioned it.
    Midwest. Indy/Lafayette.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,024
    Jearlpam0925 wrote:
    Yeah, I've been trying to get my hands on as much as this stuff as possible because it's essentially what I plan on doing with the rest of my life. The more the better as I see it. Last night we went out and saw 'Inside Job'. I already knew 90% of what they were talking about, and I'm sure if you've read that book it's not telling you anything new, but it's really good. Very concise, and a great way to break it down to the average joe.

    Yeah, I think I remember you saying you wanted to get into Economics, right? I heard good things about that this weekend, I would definitely like to see it. The book is great because it deals with all the dealings around the companies and the government and how they were all obviously working together. I am sure the book just probably adds a bit more detail around everything than a documentary can. It's incredibly interesting stuff.
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    loadedgun wrote:
    We need to start a book club where we trade each other books that we own. I hate buying and never remember to look these up once everyone has mentioned it.

    http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php

    ....

    Just finished East of Eden, Steinbeck. FANTASTIC book and one of my all time top 5 for sure. It really put my recent lifestyle changes in perspective.

    Currently reading Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut. I'm only about 50 pages in but hope to finish it this week.

    Then, who knows? I haven't read non-fiction in so damn long...
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Colossus by Michael Hiltzik about the building of the Hoover Dam. It's great so far.
  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Gogol - Plays & Petersburg Tales

    The book i was reading (The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri) mentions Gogol a lot. The main character is named after him. Wierd haha

    I'm reading

    Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    Got a few books for xmas. I'm really excited to read 'Where Men Win Glory', which is Jon Krakauer's take on the Pat Tillman story. I also got Hot Stove Economics, which is about the economics of baseball's offseason. I'm excited to read that too...mainly because I'm a huge dork.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    The Fixer wrote:
    Got a few books for xmas. I'm really excited to read 'Where Men Win Glory', which is Jon Krakauer's take on the Pat Tillman story. I also got Hot Stove Economics, which is about the economics of baseball's offseason. I'm excited to read that too...mainly because I'm a huge dork.

    I got "Where Men Win Glory" for Christmas too! Along with "An Objecy of Beauty" by Steve Martin, "What the Dog Saw" by Malcolm Gladwell, Sean Payton's book (which I read in two days).

    Right now, I'm reading "In the Woods" by Tana French. It's a book I've thought I would like for a long time but haven't got around to reading till now. It's really good, I don't know why I put it off.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • PJPixie
    PJPixie Posts: 3,026
    I'm reading:

    "This All Encompassing Trip" by our very own Jason Leung!!


    :D
    The best use of Life is Love.
    The best expression of Love is Time.
    The best time to Love is Now.


    I'm never as good as when you're there.........
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,024
    Where men win glory is fantastic, read it when it first came out. Fucked up story obviously.

    Will have to check out that baseball book fixer. Let me know what you think of it.
  • iamica
    iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    I've been reading the Time Series by Madeline L'Engle, and I'm currently re-reading Voyage of the Dawn Treader after seeing the movie.
    Chicago 2000 : Chicago 2003 : Chicago 2006 : Summerfest 2006 : Lollapalooza 2007 : Chicago 2009 : Noblesville (Indy) 2010 : PJ20 (East Troy) 2011 : Wrigley Field 2013 : Milwaukee (Yield) 2014 : Wrigley Field 2016
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Hm, haven't posted in this thread in a while. Recently read:

    Columbine by Dave Cullen, very well researched and written although sad
    The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, about the Dust Bowl in the 1930s

    After so much heavy stuff I read Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart, about various kinds of toxic plants from all over the world. Sounds dry but was very entertaining and amusing.

    Currently reading The War That Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander, a discussion of The Illiad. This one probably also sounds dry but it's fascinating.

    loadedgun, you said you had trouble remembering all the books people recommend. I keep a list of what I want to read at http://www.librarything.com/. My To Read list gets longer all the time!
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."

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