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GrundleStiltzkin
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Nonfiction book suggestions appreciated. Been back reading/listening lately. Some I've read any enjoyed lately:
- Boys in the Boat
- The Big Short
- Devil in the White City
- Dead Wake
- The Guns of August
- Friday Night Lights
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FREE PUB!!
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A must read...especially for the Squad. People that have no historical context say stoopid stuff.
And the 2 best books ever written about WWII rather easily...
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Thank you. Downloading Retribution now
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The Sleepwalkers
Too many "Why did WWI happen" books really miss the fucking poont; Clark talks about how the Balkan Wars flipped the client state structure in the Balkans and set the stage -
Have you explored the Derek Johnson canon?
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Great Grandpappy @BearsWiin and Co really cocked that whole thing up with their carte Blanche.BearsWiin said:The Sleepwalkers
Too many "Why did WWI happen" books really miss the fucking poont; Clark talks about how the Balkan Wars flipped the client state structure in the Balkans and set the stage -
I heard that the best of the collection sold out and was out of print.DerekJohnson said:Have you explored the Derek Johnson canon?
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Conrad was a first class SOBYellowSnow said:
Great Grandpappy @BearsWiin and Co really cocked that whole thing up with their carte Blanche.BearsWiin said:The Sleepwalkers
Too many "Why did WWI happen" books really miss the fucking poont; Clark talks about how the Balkan Wars flipped the client state structure in the Balkans and set the stage
Came across great grandpappy's ceremonial M1861 officer's sabre while rooting through storage last week looking for rafting equipment for our upcoming trip to Yosemite -
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics, by Jane Jacobs
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Ball Four
50th anniversary
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You like to call your collected works "canon." It's something you like to do.DerekJohnson said:Have you explored the Derek Johnson canon?
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Based on your list of recent reads I have nothing to think you will be interested in this, but I read it about a year ago and enjoyed it.
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Looks interesting, thanks
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Conrad is making a come back. My sister’s son is a Conrad and there are 2 in our preschool.BearsWiin said:
Conrad was a first class SOBYellowSnow said:
Great Grandpappy @BearsWiin and Co really cocked that whole thing up with their carte Blanche.BearsWiin said:The Sleepwalkers
Too many "Why did WWI happen" books really miss the fucking poont; Clark talks about how the Balkan Wars flipped the client state structure in the Balkans and set the stage
Came across great grandpappy's ceremonial M1861 officer's sabre while rooting through storage last week looking for rafting equipment for our upcoming trip to Yosemite
Imagine going to Yosemite in the summer. You’re nuts bruh. -
True for the hardcovers, but there's always the cherished eBook.YellowSnow said:
I heard that the best of the collection sold out and was out of print.DerekJohnson said:Have you explored the Derek Johnson canon?
Awhile back I saw someone selling a signed copy of Husky Football in the Don James Era for $300 on eBay. Kind of odd. -
You can’t ask a vinyl guy to buy an eBook?!!DerekJohnson said:
True for the hardcovers, but there's always the cherished eBook.YellowSnow said:
I heard that the best of the collection sold out and was out of print.DerekJohnson said:Have you explored the Derek Johnson canon?
Awhile back I saw someone selling a signed copy of Husky Football in the Don James Era for $300 on eBay. Kind of odd. -
YellowSnow said:
You can’t ask a vinyl guy to buy an eBook?!!DerekJohnson said:
True for the hardcovers, but there's always the cherished eBook.YellowSnow said:
I heard that the best of the collection sold out and was out of print.DerekJohnson said:Have you explored the Derek Johnson canon?
Awhile back I saw someone selling a signed copy of Husky Football in the Don James Era for $300 on eBay. Kind of odd.
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Nonfiction?
For very reality based fiction with a heavy dose of Chinese history and culture that I found fascinating, the first book in my new favorite trilogy (and great on its own):
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Anything by Michael Lewis or Timothy Egan.
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Good shit, keep them coming.
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Dammit, no audiobook that I can find. Pretty sure this has been cited by our! own @DanCarlinDwagDoog_de_Jour said:Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.
One of my most recent reads...
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What? It should be on Audible:GrundleStiltzkin said:
Dammit, no audiobook that I can find. Pretty sure this has been cited by our! own @DanCarlinDwagDoog_de_Jour said:Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.
One of my most recent reads...
https://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World/dp/B0038NLWQ2/ref=nodl_
Edit: If your public library system has Overdrive it’s on there too in audiobook format. -
Summer is the time you can raft on the Merced River through the valley floor. We have two rooms at Yosemite Lodge for several days. Hitting Glacier Point for the first time in several yearsYellowSnow said:
Conrad is making a come back. My sister’s son is a Conrad and there are 2 in our preschool.BearsWiin said:
Conrad was a first class SOBYellowSnow said:
Great Grandpappy @BearsWiin and Co really cocked that whole thing up with their carte Blanche.BearsWiin said:The Sleepwalkers
Too many "Why did WWI happen" books really miss the fucking poont; Clark talks about how the Balkan Wars flipped the client state structure in the Balkans and set the stage
Came across great grandpappy's ceremonial M1861 officer's sabre while rooting through storage last week looking for rafting equipment for our upcoming trip to Yosemite
Imagine going to Yosemite in the summer. You’re nuts bruh. -
I'll toss a few out, but I'm guessing the learned here have already consumed.
Love this book, tempted to re-read
I've mentioned several tims here. Good for historical context on Russian meddling.
Read the book, burn the movie.
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I’m making my way through Edmund Morris’ Teddy Roosevelt books now. Excellent.
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I can't read.
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The best book to understand life on earth is This View of Life by David Sloan Wilson.
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Also - “And a bottle of rum” is fucking incredible.
