The Official HH Book Club List
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When I see this pop up on the board, my first reaction is always the same. The people on here can't read...
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I can't, but I can listen.alumni94 said:When I see this pop up on the board, my first reaction is always the same. The people on here can't read...
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I also love how it's always really smart sounding historical fiction or biographies. Psheah.alumni94 said:When I see this pop up on the board, my first reaction is always the same. The people on here can't read...
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Started this one.
Another breezy explainer/debunker book. I like to read these. It's something I like to do. The author reads it for the audiobook, and he sounds like a less-annoying John Oliver. -
If one likes this genre, strong recommend. I enjoyed it quite a bit and learned some things.GrundleStiltzkin said:Started this one.
Another breezy explainer/debunker book. I like to read these. It's something I like to do. The author reads it for the audiobook, and he sounds like a less-annoying John Oliver. -
My first reaction is “fuck, I have to update the list.”alumni94 said:When I see this pop up on the board, my first reaction is always the same. The people on here can't read...
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@swaye @GrundleStiltzkin if you liked the canal book, the Brooklyn Bridge book is just as essential. Bodies being stacked like cordwood from the bends in the caissons.GrundleStiltzkin said:
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Pretty sure I did read this one. In an actual book no less.YellowSnow said:
@swaye @GrundleStiltzkin if you liked the canal book, the Brooklyn Bridge book is just as essential. Bodies being stacked like cordwood from the bends in the caissons.GrundleStiltzkin said: -
Props, Pod. I'm proud of you.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Pretty sure I did read this one. In an actual book no less.YellowSnow said:
@swaye @GrundleStiltzkin if you liked the canal book, the Brooklyn Bridge book is just as essential. Bodies being stacked like cordwood from the bends in the caissons.GrundleStiltzkin said: -
How are you still around old manRaceBannon said:I wondered why we were able to avoid the Spanish flu during the Bush administration
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Reading/listening to Truman by David McCullough currently.
He's a wordy son of a bitch but he spins a good yarn.
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Shoutout to @YellowSnow for reco on this. Love TR and book delivers. However, listening to it during this election week was kinda sad. -
Book better than movie, and I liked the movie despite the cheese. The book’s tone is inspirational and aspirational. My interest tailed off a little after the midpoint. Much less focus on space race than you’d expect. -
Went on a little STEM jag a couple months ago. Should have read all in book than listen but I can’t read. Doomsday was probably best of these.
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I can’t remember whether I’ve brought this one up before. Before I lost the ability, read this one in the Gutenberg fashion. Basically an overview of nuke weapons fuck ups over the years, centered around the Titan missile accident in Arkansas in early 80s.
https://share.libbyapp.com/title/1265394
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Here are some of my favorites; books that are very well written with very interesting story linesRoadDawg55 said:Would love some recommendations that don’t have to do with war or sci-if, fantasy type shit.
The first is a recommendation from the venerable drunk of the month book club and it
Is a classic book about the slums and underworld of India titled Shantarum
Also the following are some of the best novels out there
Brideshead revisted
grapes of wrath; the long valley and also Cannery row by Steinbeck
Snow falling on cedars
Songbird
cold mountain
Iron coffins
The thousand autumns of jacob de zoet
The border trilogy books by McCarthy there are 3 novels
Love in the time of cholera
A fine balance
fortress of solitude
Anything by David McCullough; just look him up and pick your subject
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Libby tells me I bombed through this in 4 days in early August. History of cyberwar. Lowkey terrifying.
https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2508029
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You can comfort yourself know around half the country hated Ted and the campaign was dirty. Time cleansesGrundleStiltzkin said:
Shoutout to @YellowSnow for reco on this. Love TR and book delivers. However, listening to it during this election week was kinda sad.
Abe Lincoln faced a country of Mike Damones and some of the lowest campaign materials you can find
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Lincoln was right to suspend the writ of habeus corpus and lock up @MikeDamoneRaceBannon said:
You can comfort yourself know around half the country hated Ted and the campaign was dirty. Time cleansesGrundleStiltzkin said:
Shoutout to @YellowSnow for reco on this. Love TR and book delivers. However, listening to it during this election week was kinda sad.
Abe Lincoln faced a country of Mike Damones and some of the lowest campaign materials you can find
We? have always been us
But @RaceBannon Ted did win 56.4% to 37% in 1904. He was popular enough to get the last spot on KKK Mt Rushmore. -
Election of 1800 was really dirty.RaceBannon said:
You can comfort yourself know around half the country hated Ted and the campaign was dirty. Time cleansesGrundleStiltzkin said:
Shoutout to @YellowSnow for reco on this. Love TR and book delivers. However, listening to it during this election week was kinda sad.
Abe Lincoln faced a country of Mike Damones and some of the lowest campaign materials you can find
We? have always been us
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Take it to the Tug guysm
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Now I’m ready to update the list.tacotrojan said:For @HHusky
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Real talk, I own that book.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
Now I’m ready to update the list.tacotrojan said:For @HHusky
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Breezed through this over weekend. Ironically, Sheryl includes many anonymous sources within media industry in the book. I can get why they’d want to be unattributed but it sorta undercuts the substance.
On the other hand, she’s got enough attributed sources, previously published content, and sound reasoning to make it very worthy of you’re tim.
Anecdote, she brings up something I knew but forgotten about: ‘Fake News’ was originally a Clinton campaign tag to go after conservative media before Trump co-opted it. -
The only tim I really see commercials anymore is during football season. The one that makes me chortle right now has the line, “You know who reads submarine books?” “My dad.”
Damn straight. This one isn’t some scholarly work but a compendium of first hand accounts of WW2 submariners. Two are about guysm who got left above decks when boat submerged. Best story was a crew that presumably hit a mine. 15 guys were thrown out of conning tower by explosion, 7 made it to an island. -
USN Submariners >>> Kriegsmarine. We? actually cut off another nation completely from raw materials via submarine warfare.GrundleStiltzkin said:
The only tim I really see commercials anymore is during football season. The one that makes me chortle right now has the line, “You know who reads submarine books?” “My dad.”
Damn straight. This one isn’t some scholarly work but a compendium of first hand accounts of WW2 submariners. Two are about guysm who got left above decks when boat submerged. Best story was a crew that presumably hit a mine. 15 guys were thrown out of conning tower by explosion, 7 made it to an island. -
This one was disappointing. Don't remember much of it. The topic deserves better.
