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02-08-2017, 08:00 PM
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Currently on deck...and very interesting so far.
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#632
02-08-2017, 08:13 PM
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3 books in various states. All pretty interesting and entertaining.
#1  Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy by Tim Moore Link: http://a.co/69GIpmt #2  The Rules - The Way of the Cycling Discipline by W.W. Norton & Co Link: http://a.co/1d16Ezm #3  How to Make Coffee: The Science Behind the Bean by Lani Kingston Link: http://a.co/2I47Zji
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#633
02-08-2017, 08:19 PM
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I'm working my way through a couple--
Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others: https://www.amazon.com/Existentialis...entialist+cafe Second, a hard slog, but fascinating: Frank Trentmann, Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Things...d+of+consumers Bakewell wrote the book on Montaigne that is probably my favorite serious read of the last 10 years--the existentialist book is not up to the same high standard but it is a very good line through some modern material that I don't know well. The Trentmann book is daunting, and like a lot of surveys it really covers a lot of controversies and a lot of countries--but the tidbits that he throws out about countries about which I know virtually nothing are worth the price of admission... Last edited by paredown; 02-08-2017 at 09:46 PM.
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02-09-2017, 11:23 AM
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something a bit different
enjoyable so far.
In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers pair their series characters in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). The stories in FaceOff feature: -Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch in “Red Eye,” by Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly -John Rebus vs. Roy Grace in “In the Nick of Time,” by Ian Rankin and Peter James -Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast in “Gaslighted,” by R.L. Stine, Douglas Preston, and Lincoln Child -Malachai Samuels vs. D.D. Warren in “The Laughing Buddha,” by M.J. Rose and Lisa Gardner -Paul Madriani vs. Alexandra Cooper in “Surfing the Panther,” by Steve Martini and Linda Fairstein -Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport in “Rhymes With Prey,” by Jeffery Deaver and John Sandford -Michael Quinn vs. Repairman Jack in “Infernal Night,” by Heather Graham and F. Paul Wilson -Sean Reilly vs. Glen Garber in “Pit Stop,” by Raymond Khoury and Linwood Barclay -Wyatt Hunt vs. Joe Trona in “Silent Hunt,” by John Lescroart and T. Jefferson Parker -Cotton Malone vs. Gray Pierce in “The Devil’s Bones,” by Steve Berry and James Rollins -Jack Reacher vs. Nick Heller in “Good and Valuable Consideration,” by Lee Child and Joseph Finder
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I don't race. I ride. Last edited by cdn_bacon; 02-09-2017 at 11:39 AM.
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#636
02-09-2017, 12:15 PM
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"Priceless" by Robert Whitman
A doc written by an FBI agent on the world of art crime. It's pretty goofy but a fun read. My wife saw him speak at a lecture and bought the book - I guess the book tour is working then?!
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#637
02-09-2017, 12:35 PM
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The Dog Stars
The Dog Stars, a novel by Peter Heller, set in post-apocalyptic Colorado, about a guy's quest for meaning in a world that at first blush doesn't seem to have a lot of it. Great writing, lots of adventures as well as quiet meditations on relationships and "meaning", friendship, purpose. The writer writes a lot of travel and adventure nonfiction, and the nuts and bolts of flight, flyfishing, marksmanship, and physical place are done very nicely.
Also reading "The New Jim Crow," which I'm not ready to describe yet, it gets me to angry right now. About the criminal justice system and how it's stacked against African American people. Very, very troubling, and well done.
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#639
02-09-2017, 01:11 PM
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The Ego is the Enemy, by Ryan Holliday.
http://egoistheenemy.com/ Helping me through life, and possible divorce.
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"I have always loved riding bicycles, especially for the feeling of freedom and self-sufficiency that they give." --Sheldon Brown
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#640
04-26-2017, 02:41 PM
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04-27-2017, 02:35 AM
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Just finished the second Trisolaris book: The Dark Forest.
Currently reading the new Cory Doctorow: Walkaway.
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#643
04-27-2017, 01:22 PM
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I'm revisiting Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I always feel wanderlust this time of year...
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#644
04-27-2017, 01:34 PM
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Me, after reading Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich I decided I'd read if from the horse's mouth, Mein Kampf. I'm about a quarter of the way through. He certainly laid it all out for the world to see long before he rose to power. Once in power he seems to have been faithful to his twisted vision. Amazing.
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#645
04-30-2017, 11:33 PM
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