Between the Front & Back: Grundle’s Book Club
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I ordered it. Not hear yet.GrundleStiltzkin said:If anyone is doing this thing, discussion starts last week of March or so. In true HCH fashion, I can't think of any structure to the discussion, just let it rip. It's tempting to say, "keep down the malarkey," but that's the fun in that.
I just finished having the book read to me, didn't disappoint. -
I’m in too.
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I'll be starting it next week, along with Yellowstone
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I'm I don't know a chapter or two in. Listening in the car. I miss some parts, but less than if I were reading. Very interesting so far. Especially the sex parts.
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I might listen again, for comprehension, and take some notes.huskyhooligan said:I'm I don't know a chapter or two in. Listening in the car. I miss some parts, but less than if I were reading. Very interesting so far. Especially the sex parts.
This guy's approach is more straight analysis, versus the mild-to-explicit advocacy books on energy I've read lately, and I dig that. -
This may be my only participation because tim is short but the segment on Chinas' energy exploration in the South China Sea, and how they are causing so many international tensions to do it, are supremely interesting. Oil still shaping geopolitical intrigue and the clash of powers all these years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to sustain oil rich war gains in the Pacific. I am enjoying this, but speed reading in snatches probably makes me miss half the points. Good chit though.
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Nobody goes to war over solar panelsSwaye said:This may be my only participation because tim is short but the segment on Chinas' energy exploration in the South China Sea, and how they are causing so many international tensions to do it, are supremely interesting. Oil still shaping geopolitical intrigue and the clash of powers all these years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to sustain oil rich war gains in the Pacific. I am enjoying this, but speed reading in snatches probably makes me miss half the points. Good chit though.
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Why don't you either pull out or finish and THEN read the book. You'll retain more information that way.Swaye said:This may be my only participation because tim is short but the segment on Chinas' energy exploration in the South China Sea, and how they are causing so many international tensions to do it, are supremely interesting. Oil still shaping geopolitical intrigue and the clash of powers all these years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to sustain oil rich war gains in the Pacific. I am enjoying this, but speed reading in snatches probably makes me miss half the points. Good chit though.
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I read it. "It" meaning the first 3 chapters online. Chinteresting. Will continue.
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So far so good. Read the free 8 chapters online, bought the book.
Very interesting. Seems to be written factually, apolitically - which is refreshing tbh. After GRUNDLe saying so, I wish I took notes. Some real gems. Certainly creating a new understanding of the geopolitics in play.
(TTTTT - after seeing that Saudi Arabia only sends us a low single-digit percentage of our actual fossil fuel use as a country, it's a head-scratcher that Trump and Biden gave MBS a free pass for the Khashoggi assassination. Slightly more understandable under Trump since we weren't quite yet energy independent though certainly trending that way, but still ...)
Really hope @HoustonHusky partakes in this book report. I would love to hear his take as he is likely familiar with all of subject matter.
