Anybody read a good book lately?

rjs246 · June 21, 2010, 08:52:37 PM

Parts of that book are fascinating and others are a little dry, but it is an exceptional book overall.

SunMo · June 22, 2010, 08:28:21 AM

just finished "Grasping for Airtime" by Jay Mohr about his two years on Saturday Night Live. it's a decent read, little short. a lot of it ends up being him talking about his panic disorder and how the disorganization of the show enhanced that. good stories about Chris Farley who appears to be every bit of the good guy people say he was. David Spade and Rob Schneider appear to be douches, which is not hard to believe.

starting War Without Death now, the book RJS recommended about the NFC East in 2006.

phattymatty · June 22, 2010, 10:01:25 AM

i've been trying to read chuck palahniuk's new one, pygmy, but it's easily the hardest book in the world to read. it's from the point of view of a 12 year old foreign kid, so you literally have to translate his literal english every sentence. its like the entire book was translated from a different language to babelfish and then on to the page. it gets easier as the book goes on but it doesn't seem like a fun enough read to even bother anymore. i'll finish it but farg this guy.

Diomedes · June 22, 2010, 10:08:53 AM

the same feeling I have for Joyce: farg this smug icehole.

PhillyPhreak54 · June 22, 2010, 01:46:36 PM

Quote from: SunMo on June 22, 2010, 08:28:21 AM
just finished "Grasping for Airtime" by Jay Mohr about his two years on Saturday Night Live. it's a decent read, little short. a lot of it ends up being him talking about his panic disorder and how the disorganization of the show enhanced that. good stories about Chris Farley who appears to be every bit of the good guy people say he was. David Spade and Rob Schneider appear to be douches, which is not hard to believe.

starting War Without Death now, the book RJS recommended about the NFC East in 2006.

War Without Death is $4.48 on Amazon.

I'm ordering it.

Rome · July 13, 2010, 04:10:44 PM

It took three weeks to finish it but I'm finally done Solar.

Nothing happens in the end. NOTHING. It just ends.

angerragehatemurderdeathkill.

SunMo · July 13, 2010, 04:13:58 PM

Quote from: SunMo on June 22, 2010, 08:28:21 AM
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starting War Without Death now, the book RJS recommended about the NFC East in 2006.

very good book. my only complaint is that it dealt a little too much in labor relations and the offseason. that was two-thirds of the book. the regular season was really glossed over and i would've liked a little more detail about locker room interactions during the year and stuff like that.

ice grillin you · July 17, 2010, 11:08:24 AM

been reading this book lately called the evolution of artificial light...which pretty much traces the history of man made light and its intended and unintended consequences...sounds really boring but its pretty fascinating

ice grillin you · July 17, 2010, 11:19:10 AM

just figured out that something cant be pretty fascinating....the book is really interesting

Diomedes · July 17, 2010, 11:28:15 AM

tool

SD · July 17, 2010, 12:46:51 PM

Started reading Hunter Thompson's Hells Angels. Great so far.

ice grillin you · July 17, 2010, 12:50:07 PM

hunter thompson writes some non fiction doesnt he...like a lot of his books are biographical and memoirs arent they...or am i way off and they are all novels

Rome · July 17, 2010, 12:55:44 PM

please tell me you're kidding.

please?

ice grillin you · July 17, 2010, 01:02:56 PM

i dont get it

hbionic · July 19, 2010, 02:48:36 PM

Just finished RJS's recommended "McMafia".

Definitely one of the best books I've read in terms of opening your eyes on how the world works. There are so many subjects you can delve into just from this book alone. You'll be smarter for having read this book.

Some parts of the book that I found interesting:

1. The correlation of the growth of organized crime and the fall of the Soviet Union
2. Post-Apartheid South Africa and how it is divvied up.
3. The impotence of law enforcement throughout the world to in regards to organized crime
4. The willingness of Gov'ts to turn a blind eye when it favors them in regards to organized crime
5. The Yakuza in Japan (also the fact that japanese prostitutes are off limits to foreigners...and the number of Columbian women trafficked into Japan)
6. Canada. How High?
7. China. Scary.
8. Columbia. Made it seem like mission impossible there.
9. U.S. Policy and its effects throughout the whole world on crime, money laundering, financial networks, etc.
10. The Balkans
11. Israel and human trafficking and its brothels

I can continue...I recommend this book as did rjs. If anything you'll have a better grasp of what is going on out there.

9 of 10 for overall value it gives you.