The Official HH Book Club List
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Did this with a Cfetters_Nacho_Lover@gmail account.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Just create another google account like "twogaydadsintohardcore@gmail.com"(probably taken) and then have THAT account share the doc. That's what I did for the first couple of podcasts.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I’ll add them and figure out a way to post the Google sheet without Doxing myself.ThomasFremont said:Those were books I’d read recently that I liked.
Official recommendation list would include:
Blood Meridian
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1984
The Thrawn trilogy
1776
The Hunt for Red October
Moneyball
The Right Stuff
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Thanks for the vids. I love Sowell, but I'm not sure I'd read any of this books (article only previously) until this summer. He is quite accessible.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?GrundleStiltzkin said:@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lzi3t-GTE
At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV
I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.
Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.
Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ&t=112s
My real thanks, however, is for the chance to hear #MyBillBuckley say "So Nubiiiiiiile."
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Listen you queer, I outta sock you in the god damn face and you’ll stay plastered.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Thanks for the vids. I love Sowell, but I'm not sure I'd read any of this books (article only previously) until this summer. He is quite accessible.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?GrundleStiltzkin said:@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lzi3t-GTE
At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV
I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.
Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.
Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ&t=112s
My real thanks, however, is for the chance to hear #MyBillBuckley say "So Nubiiiiiiile."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8 -
Hips? Gif Going into the tbs rotation.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Thanks for the vids. I love Sowell, but I'm not sure I'd read any of this books (article only previously) until this summer. He is quite accessible.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?GrundleStiltzkin said:@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lzi3t-GTE
At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV
I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.
Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.
Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ&t=112s
My real thanks, however, is for the chance to hear #MyBillBuckley say "So Nubiiiiiiile." -
Every rotation.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Hips? Gif Going into the tbs rotation.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Thanks for the vids. I love Sowell, but I'm not sure I'd read any of this books (article only previously) until this summer. He is quite accessible.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?GrundleStiltzkin said:@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lzi3t-GTE
At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV
I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.
Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.
Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ&t=112s
My real thanks, however, is for the chance to hear #MyBillBuckley say "So Nubiiiiiiile." -
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I’ll recommend this one. “Influenza” by Dr. Jeremy Brown. Pretty lightweight book but lots of presaging about our current shitshow. Also get this bit of trivia: A Tulane prof has found that the most elderly in home cities of Super Bowl teams are 18% more likely to die of the crud. Also, Tamiflu is snakeoil.
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Irishmen are retarded Vikings.PurpleThrobber said:
Newfies are like retarded Irishmen.GrundleStiltzkin said:From a while back, it's actually a very nice feel-good story.
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This is an outstanding book. According to a WSJ article yesterday, George W. Bush read this and it had a big impact on policy.
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I wondered why we were able to avoid the Spanish flu during the Bush administration
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Seems like forever ago that I read the backstory, so I’m probably going to get this wrong. But W read that book plus a paper by a 16 year old, and it freaked him out. Result was increased pandemic prep by CDC and other agencies. This is part I’m less sure about, I think it also gave rise to the legislative template that many states used to setup their emergency powers, including Washington. That did happen but not certain if on same timeline.RaceBannon said:I wondered why we were able to avoid the Spanish flu during the Bush administration
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Either W read it or the NWO overlords 'strongly suggested' government ramping up as the solution to the upcoming pandemic 'problem'.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Seems like forever ago that I read the backstory, so I’m probably going to get this wrong. But W read that book plus a paper by a 16 year old, and it freaked him out. Result was increased pandemic prep by CDC and other agencies. This is part I’m less sure about, I think it also gave rise to the legislative template that many states used to setup their emergency powers, including Washington. That did happen but not certain if on same timeline.RaceBannon said:I wondered why we were able to avoid the Spanish flu during the Bush administration
#obk
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I’m finally starting to read this...
I saw the excellent HBO series based on this book when it aired, which I highly recommend also. I appreciate how the author takes EVERYONE.gif to task (even the gay community and medical establishment) on their response to the AIDS epidemic.
It also showed me (again) how public health issues and science and quickly become political. -
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That thrilling excerpt was from the sixth installment of the popular “A Song of Ice and Fire” series:Gladstone said:
Available in bookstores now!!!!!!1 -
I love books about man vs. nature and building incredible shit against long odds. Great read and a good chunk of it is in the PNW. Plus I'm a complete John Stevens fanboy. To think the guy who conquered the northern passage and got a railroad through where nobody else could followed that up with building the Panama Canal. Civil engineering genius. 'Murica! Back when we built shit that the world envied. Now we sell burgers. FML.
If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well:
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I’ve been meaning to read “The Path Between Seas” for awhile now. I’ll move it up in the queue.Swaye said:
I love books about man vs. nature and building incredible shit against long odds. Great read and a good chunk of it is in the PNW. Plus I'm a complete John Stevens fanboy. To think the guy who conquered the northern passage and got a railroad through where nobody else could followed that up with building the Panama Canal. Civil engineering genius. 'Murica! Back when we built shit that the world envied. Now we sell burgers. FML.
If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well: -
wtf when was freme banned
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He, like many others before him, requested to be banned due to The Tug.Gladstone said:wtf when was freme banned
Thunderdome claims another one. Why do people keep going there when they hate it???!!!?!?!? -
Freemie rage blocked me on teh twatters for a “stay home/stay safe” joke last week. It was a hurtful for a minute. Love the freemie.Swaye said:
He, like many others before him, requested to be banned due to The Tug.Gladstone said:wtf when was freme banned
Thunderdome claims another one. Why do people keep going there when they hate it???!!!?!?!? -
Added to my list. Thanks SwayeDoog_de_Jour said:
I’ve been meaning to read “The Path Between Seas” for awhile now. I’ll move it up in the queue.Swaye said:
I love books about man vs. nature and building incredible shit against long odds. Great read and a good chunk of it is in the PNW. Plus I'm a complete John Stevens fanboy. To think the guy who conquered the northern passage and got a railroad through where nobody else could followed that up with building the Panama Canal. Civil engineering genius. 'Murica! Back when we built shit that the world envied. Now we sell burgers. FML.
If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well: -
Historical picture books of logging, rail, etc are almost good as porn for me.Swaye said:
I love books about man vs. nature and building incredible shit against long odds. Great read and a good chunk of it is in the PNW. Plus I'm a complete John Stevens fanboy. To think the guy who conquered the northern passage and got a railroad through where nobody else could followed that up with building the Panama Canal. Civil engineering genius. 'Murica! Back when we built shit that the world envied. Now we sell burgers. FML.
If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well: -
Take Highway 2 instead of the 90 sometime and get a feel for what it took to get that rail in there. Coming from tuff logger stock the family would do a lot of Sunday drives through the old logging haunts
Lot of good stuff down by Tenino too. The old coal mines and a couple of ghost towns. And a power plant -
Because I am a nerd, I’ve spent full days in the library reading about this shit, in those books they won’t let you checkout. Fascinating stuff about the rail line that ran from Monte Cristo to Everett, the lodge at Big Four. Maybe it is better than porn.RaceBannon said:Take Highway 2 instead of the 90 sometime and get a feel for what it took to get that rail in there. Coming from tuff logger stock the family would do a lot of Sunday drives through the old logging haunts
Lot of good stuff down by Tenino too. The old coal mines and a couple of ghost towns. And a power plant -
The Throbber has ridden the rails from Seattle all the way to Grand Forks, ND. Some pretty crazy engineering to get that shit done- especially going up and over the Rockies.RaceBannon said:Take Highway 2 instead of the 90 sometime and get a feel for what it took to get that rail in there. Coming from tuff logger stock the family would do a lot of Sunday drives through the old logging haunts
Lot of good stuff down by Tenino too. The old coal mines and a couple of ghost towns. And a power plant
Another interesting stretch of old railroad is The Route of the Hiawathas (blatant cultural appropriation, @swaye) which runs from the Idaho/Montana state line down almost to Avery, ID. The rails have been converted to a gently sloping downward bike path that runs 15 miles including a 1.5 mile long tunnel. The route is also smack dab in the middle of The Big Burn turf for you Timothy Egan fanbois.
https://www.ridethehiawatha.com/the-trail#:~:text= the Trail 1 THE "CROWN JEWEL",to the public for hikers and... More -
Damn! I thought I was the only loser that did that sorta thing. Respect!!!GrundleStiltzkin said:
Because I am a nerd, I’ve spent full days in the library reading about this shit, in those books they won’t let you checkout. Fascinating stuff about the rail line that ran from Monte Cristo to Everett, the lodge at Big Four. Maybe it is better than porn.RaceBannon said:Take Highway 2 instead of the 90 sometime and get a feel for what it took to get that rail in there. Coming from tuff logger stock the family would do a lot of Sunday drives through the old logging haunts
Lot of good stuff down by Tenino too. The old coal mines and a couple of ghost towns. And a power plant
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Fun, breezy book. I’m a sucker for these. -
About halfway through it now. Almost turned it off at first, but enjoying quite a bit now. Thanks.UW_Doog_Bot said:
but irregardless, A Random Walk Down Wall Street will make you both hate finance but also make you marvel at the efficiency of a decentralized system.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Autisticpotd.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Wall Street stuff, I guess, not from a picking stalks standpoont, but systems & such.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?GrundleStiltzkin said:@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lzi3t-GTE
At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV
I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.
Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.
Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ&t=112s
Ps, hasn’t done much yet to change my mind that much of stock trading is little different than baseball cards. -
Individually it's not. In aggregate it is.GrundleStiltzkin said:
About halfway through it now. Almost turned it off at first, but enjoying quite a bit now. Thanks.UW_Doog_Bot said:
but irregardless, A Random Walk Down Wall Street will make you both hate finance but also make you marvel at the efficiency of a decentralized system.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Autisticpotd.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Wall Street stuff, I guess, not from a picking stalks standpoont, but systems & such.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?GrundleStiltzkin said:@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lzi3t-GTE
At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV
I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.
Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.
Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ&t=112s
Ps, hasn’t done much yet to change my mind that much of stock trading is little different than baseball cards.
That's why I don't pick stocks. -
In my simple way of thinking, owning a stock that doesn’t pay a dividend is an abstract.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Individually it's not. In aggregate it is.GrundleStiltzkin said:
About halfway through it now. Almost turned it off at first, but enjoying quite a bit now. Thanks.UW_Doog_Bot said:
but irregardless, A Random Walk Down Wall Street will make you both hate finance but also make you marvel at the efficiency of a decentralized system.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Autisticpotd.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Wall Street stuff, I guess, not from a picking stalks standpoont, but systems & such.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?GrundleStiltzkin said:@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lzi3t-GTE
At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV
I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.
Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.
Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ&t=112s
Ps, hasn’t done much yet to change my mind that much of stock trading is little different than baseball cards.
That's why I don't pick stocks.
