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  • Ledbetterus
    Ledbetterus Posts: 592
    I just picked up -- '"I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and the Inside Story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Final Ride of Jimmy Hoffa'.

    I haven't gotten into it much yet, but the original book is 3 years old but it was re-released with some more information and a new epilogue.

    it's basically a confession by Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran to the author (Charles Brandt) that he indeed killed Jimmy Hoffa.

    Supposed to be a great read. And a true account of a high level mob hit man.
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  • Blind3
    Blind3 Posts: 1,149
    "The Ambler Warning" by Robert Ludlum.
    "Buy the ticket,take the ride"
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    rrivers wrote:
    I read "Saturday" by him. It wasn't the easiest read.

    I did hear the book for "Atonement" was better than the movie. The person I talked to said the movie looked nice, but there wasn't a lot to it.

    I have heard that about his books.. although would have been better to know before I started the book :o:p

    I am sure the story may be good but his style just may not be for me but I am not one to give up on a book even if it takes forever.
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,434
    just finished "covert". it's about the nba referee who was a state trooper and goes undercover in the new jersey mafia in the late 1970s.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    small town beck wrote:
    I have heard that about his books.. although would have been better to know before I started the book :o:p

    I am sure the story may be good but his style just may not be for me but I am not one to give up on a book even if it takes forever.

    Yeah I used to give up on books all the time, but now if I start a book, I'm finishing it. It took me nine months to read "The Historian" last year!
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    "Atonement" has actually turned out quite better than I had expected. It was so slow going at first but I am really enjoying it now. Once I finish this though I am off to the library... or to buy the new Stephen King book.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    xavier mcdaniel wrote:
    just finished "covert". it's about the nba referee who was a state trooper and goes undercover in the new jersey mafia in the late 1970s.

    i really wanted to read this. how was it?
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Just finished "The Road". Now reading "The Fifth Vial" by Michael Palmer.
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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    "Freakonomics"

    This book explains nonsense correlations: ie: abortion rights lower crime rates.
    (Think: unskilled, drug addicted youth offing their "doomed" offspring.)
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    I just started reading "Starlight Tour" about a kid that was left to die/murdered by police in Saskatoon back in the 90's.
  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    I'm reading a history book called "Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed The World" by Margarent McMillan.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    'Stalingrad' - Antony Beevor

    "The classic international bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the second world war'.
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    Tuesday's with Morrie. Read it halfway through and was way too cynical. Put it down and started again, amazing! Still only halfway through, but enjoying it a lot more!
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Tuesday's with Morrie. Read it halfway through and was way too cynical. Put it down and started again, amazing! Still only halfway through, but enjoying it a lot more!


    It is good isn't it? :o Don't even get me started on "Marley & Me"... I realize not the same but they both made me cry :o
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Just finished "The Terror" by Dan Simmons. Great read. Wasn't a huge fan of the last 50 pages or so, but still great for the other 700!

    Now I am reading "Son of a Witch" by Gregory Maguire. It's ok. Similiar to other books I have read by him where there are really interesting parts and then slow parts (like where I am now).

    Also started "The Flanders Panel", a mystery about art and chess.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • acoustic guy
    acoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    "No one here gets out alive"
    Biography of Jim Morrison. Best Morrison book out there.
    This is the fourth time reading it in almost 12 years
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Some english, math, and environmental science course books.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    The History of Love - Nicole Krauss

    Not liking it so far. Contrived and soulless.
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • Restless Soul
    Restless Soul Posts: 805
    I've just finished reading The Other Boleyn Girl (though I haven't seen the movie yet). Really good read. I feel like I've learnt tons about Tudor england, even all of henry VIII's wives and what happened to them. I didn't know all that much before! So much scheming and backstabbing went on back then lol.

    Now I'm starting to read the next book, The Boleyn Inheritance, which is proving just as good. What's wierd to me that while everyone knows of evil historical people like Hitler and Rasputin, no-one really thinks of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk who was just a complete twisted bastard to his family, lol.
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