What book are you reading?

dankind

Purple Fairy Tree

dankind

West Coast Dreamgirl said:

dankind

Purple Fairy Tree

dankind said:

West Coast Dreamgirl said:

Hahaha!

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F Me In The Brain

erebus

F Me In The Brain said:

On my list
hope to pick it up soon

Yarden

R.F. Kuang - The Poppy War

reditalian

Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. This guy will change your life

F Me In The Brain

reditalian said:

Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. This guy will change your life

This book for sure changed a number of things in my life.  I know he doesn't embrace being inspirational (although his stance on this has changed somewhat in the years since releasing the book) Goggins was certainly an inspiration to me.  He is a fucking beast in the best sense of the term.
The most impactful book I've read in the last ten years, at least.

reditalian

F Me In The Brain said:

reditalian said:

Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. This guy will change your life

This book for sure changed a number of things in my life.  I know he doesn't embrace being inspirational (although his stance on this has changed somewhat in the years since releasing the book) Goggins was certainly an inspiration to me.  He is a fucking beast in the best sense of the term.
The most impactful book I've read in the last ten years, at least.

100% agree with you. I'm training for a marathon right now and all I hear when I'm tired is him yelling shit at me lol. Don't stop when you're tired stop when you're done...awesome

RiotZact

F Me In The Brain

Been "the next book" in line since the new year, but I kept leapfrogging it for other books.  Now, I finally started.

Read originally back when it came out (early 90s I believe) but not since.  Loved it, then.

Starting to get really good a few hundred pages into the re-read.  Years away from visiting a Clive Barker-created world is never a good thing, to me.  His imagination and world-building is totally his own - and the best, imo.

ST66483

Jane Jacobs that’s a blast from the past.  I reread it a few years ago.  Some parts still remain true today and others have not aged as well.  Hope you enjoy it.

RiotZact

ST66483 said:

Jane Jacobs that’s a blast from the past.  I reread it a few years ago.  Some parts still remain true today and others have not aged as well.  Hope you enjoy it.

I stumbled upon it pretty randomly. It’s not normally something I would be into but I heard such great things about it. I moved to Philly about 2 years ago after living in the middle of nowhere for my first 26 years of life. It’s fascinating to read some of the things she says as if they are controversial (because apparently they were at the time) when they seem so obvious. 

Loujoe

F Me In The Brain said:

Been "the next book" in line since the new year, but I kept leapfrogging it for other books.  Now, I finally started.

Read originally back when it came out (early 90s I believe) but not since.  Loved it, then.

Starting to get really good a few hundred pages into the re-read.  Years away from visiting a Clive Barker-created world is never a good thing, to me.  His imagination and world-building is totally his own - and the best, imo.

May check that out. He killed me with one of his books. I actually had to throw it out so no one else read it! I never did that before.  'Mister B. Gone'. It is written directly to the reader. I may get it again and try to finish it if i get enough 'guts'.

F Me In The Brain

Hahaha.  I've never read that.
His greatest work, by far, is The Great and Secret Show 
Probably the book I've reread the most times.

It is one of the strangest stories but it is totally amazing.  So complex and fun, to me, that every time I read it I find I've forgotten how much I enjoy some of the plot points.