Book recommendations?
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Mods?Pitchfork51 said:
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Boys in the Boat...LOL at taking a recommendation from the alt right.GrundleStiltzkin said: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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The kind of book you should be reading is this gem:
- Boys in the Boat
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At least put the title in English you fuckhead. No wonder he lost.Pitchfork51 said: -
I also liked Stephen King’s 11/22/63. Good read and not his normal horror genre. More of a historical fiction book with the idea being how would the world be if someone could go back in time and stop Lee Harvey Oswald from assassinating Kennedy.
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This is one that was recommended to me by a UW poly sci prof that I have on my radar...
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@GrundleStiltzkin.... "I, Fatty" skews much more towards fiction, but it's based on a historical figure and it's a hell of a read. It's written by Jerry Stahl who penned Permanent Midnight and some other good chit.
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I actually just read two of the Beartown books by Fredrik Backman. I enjoyed them. Beartown and Us Against Them; fags, hooligans, hockey, lots of drinking and fighting, the first six inches are consensual.....pretty decent.
Mrs. Throbber just tossed me a Man Called Ove by Backman but I don't think I've gone gay enough to start that one yet.
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People forget Nicole Kidman showed her perky nips....because, well, it was a Cold Mountain.BearsWiin said:
Good book. Did a great job of letting the reader understand what it was like to slog through the jungle.spuden said:Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Fantastic book about the Vietnam War as seen through the lens of a Marine company in the bush in the late 1960s. Explores the themes of brotherhood, humanity, race relations, leadership and power. This is a historical fiction novel that is one of the best I’ve read. Top 5 book ever for me, and far above any other Vietnam book I’ve read. A little bit similar to Band of Brothers HBO series, but better in my opinion. The battle descriptions are horrific and captivating, but the bonds between Marines is reminiscent of team sports and the trust of others required to succeed. The caveat being, in this situation kids die. It’s serious and yet very relatable.
People forget that Cold Mountain was a great book because of the mediocre Jude Law/Nicole Kidman movie they made out of it
Currently rereading the Dune series. Magnificent, sprawling, probably the best science fiction ever written
I can't quite get out of my head that Tom Cruise got inside that - but give her credit for going full-frontal in pretty much everything she appears in.
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by "that" I assume you mean the contract they signed to be seen together in public. No way he was doing what you would have done with her.PurpleThrobber said:
People forget Nicole Kidman showed her perky nips....because, well, it was a Cold Mountain.BearsWiin said:
Good book. Did a great job of letting the reader understand what it was like to slog through the jungle.spuden said:Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Fantastic book about the Vietnam War as seen through the lens of a Marine company in the bush in the late 1960s. Explores the themes of brotherhood, humanity, race relations, leadership and power. This is a historical fiction novel that is one of the best I’ve read. Top 5 book ever for me, and far above any other Vietnam book I’ve read. A little bit similar to Band of Brothers HBO series, but better in my opinion. The battle descriptions are horrific and captivating, but the bonds between Marines is reminiscent of team sports and the trust of others required to succeed. The caveat being, in this situation kids die. It’s serious and yet very relatable.
People forget that Cold Mountain was a great book because of the mediocre Jude Law/Nicole Kidman movie they made out of it
Currently rereading the Dune series. Magnificent, sprawling, probably the best science fiction ever written
I can't quite get out of my head that Tom Cruise got inside that - but give her credit for going full-frontal in pretty much everything she appears in.
