What are y'all reading now?

[torelli]

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall


Came across this, bought it out of curiosity, and it is a fascinating look at the end of East Germany and communism there and how the youth and punks played a part in ending a oppressive dictatorship there. I'm sure there is more to the story but it's crazy how the Stasi's were paranoid enough to keep tabs and spy on a bunch of teenagers that looked like they came from another world and do whatever they wanted to try to control them.

[alexihnen]

This helps me feel better about my lack of yard work and imperfect lawn.

[William]

Interesting read, and far ahead of when I thought this went on. That speaks to the effort to keep this under wraps for as long as they did. Also an interesting example of gov oversight and how it drives up costs.




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[retropean]

Originally Posted by torelli

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall


Came across this, bought it out of curiosity, and it is a fascinating look at the end of East Germany and communism there and how the youth and punks played a part in ending a oppressive dictatorship there. I'm sure there is more to the story but it's crazy how the Stasi's were paranoid enough to keep tabs and spy on a bunch of teenagers that looked like they came from another world and do whatever they wanted to try to control them.

Great book, now you will enjoy watching B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989, a pretty good movie from 2015. I wish they went into more how the same folks that were punks kind of started the techno scene there, seemed kind of just tacked on the ending. The techno scene there still feels raw and when I learned about it’s roots, it really made sense.

Originally Posted by oliver1850

I've been trying to work my way through some of the numerous books that I bought on closeout 20 years ago. The last one I read was Hemingway's "Across the River and into the Trees". I got through it but I didn't take away much for the effort.

I'm sure that I bought the Warhol book because of his association with the Velvet Underground. I'm only about 1/3 into it now and the VU are still in chapters unread, but it's been an interesting read.

Is that the one where he talks about his smell memory collection? If i was rich id love to do that. Some colognes still bring back intense memories from my youth… when I bothered.. the museum in Pittsburgh is a lot of fun if you can ever go.

I’m reading 2666 by Bolano and it’s pretty heavy and I promised myself something less complex (or, long) after finishing DFW’s Pale King but here we are… plus it’s better to tackle it in sunny summer than the depressing winter months.

[nortx-Dave]

I've just scratched the surface regarding mindfullness, meditation and flow, and their impact on effort induced pain tolerance, breathing control and overall endurance.

[bigbill]

I'm a historian who works as an engineer for a day job. I'm reading Empire of Shadows, The Epic Story of Yellowstone by George Black. Most of the events start during the Civil War and tell horrific tales of massacres of tribes.

Next I will read Twilight of the Gods, War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945, by Ian W. Toll. It is the final book of the trilogy that started with Pacific Crucible and continued with The Conquering Tide.

I was saddened by the passing of my favorite naval historian, James D. Hornfischer.

[reuben]

Originally Posted by bigbill

I'm a historian who works as an engineer for a day job. I'm reading Empire of Shadows, The Epic Story of Yellowstone by George Black. Most of the events start during the Civil War and tell horrific tales of massacres of tribes.

Good book with some great tales but also some tough sledding as the massacres pile up.

The tale of its "discovery" is interesting. This is a similar book about Yosemite.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0939666502/

[Miller76]

Surprise gift from my wife today, let’s see how this works out…




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[2metalhips]

Originally Posted by Miller76

Surprise gift from my wife today, let’s see how this works out…




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I'm about halfway through this, excellent so far. I heard about it on the Paceline Podcast on the Cycling Independent.

[Peter P.]

Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou. Just finished this book. About a Silicon Valley startup company created by a Stanford University dropout (nutcase, in my opinion) who bamboozled many well known individual investors/board of directors with a product that never worked. She went from first "self-made" female billionaire ($9 Billion company market value) in her twenties, to closing the company and being charged with federal crimes. She's currently on trial.

Losing the Garden by Laura Waterman. True story about a rock climbing couple that get married and leave the corporate life for homesteading in Vermont, ending in tragedy. Just finished this book.

Currently in front of me: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini, Ph.D.. If you want to read why fraternity pledges overindulge during Hell Week, ending in hospitalization or death, or how prisoners of war are subtly coerced to write confessions or letters of contrition, or why laugh tracks on sitcoms cause you to laugh at jokes that aren't funny, this is your book. Littered with real-life references.

Have I persuaded you to read any of these?

[cash05458]

1.The Panopticon Writings by all around fun guy Jeremy Bentham...Bentham's ideal of the perfect prison...good stuff.

2. Wanderer by Sterling Hayden. Hayden played General Jack D. Ripper in Doctor Strangelove but this is far more about the sea...he was a Master Seaman.

3. The Great Transformation by Ployanyi...all time classic about the changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution...good economics theory stuff.

4. For lighter, reading The Hoax by Clifford Irving...the fellow who fooled pretty much everyone with his Fake Howard Hughes autiobio...

[jamesdak]

Working my way through At Dawn We Slept.

[nortx-Dave]

Originally Posted by Miller76

Surprise gift from my wife today, let’s see how this works out…




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I ordered this last week. Looking forward to some direction for pushing my 60 year old body.

[dustyrider]

Originally Posted by Peter P.

Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou. Just finished this book. About a Silicon Valley startup company created by a Stanford University dropout (nutcase, in my opinion) who bamboozled many well known individual investors/board of directors with a product that never worked. She went from first "self-made" female billionaire ($9 Billion company market value) in her twenties, to closing the company and being charged with federal crimes. She's currently on trial.

Losing the Garden by Laura Waterman. True story about a rock climbing couple that get married and leave the corporate life for homesteading in Vermont, ending in tragedy. Just finished this book.

Currently in front of me: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini, Ph.D.. If you want to read why fraternity pledges overindulge during Hell Week, ending in hospitalization or death, or how prisoners of war are subtly coerced to write confessions or letters of contrition, or why laugh tracks on sitcoms cause you to laugh at jokes that aren't funny, this is your book. Littered with real-life references.

Have I persuaded you to read any of these?

I’ll be looking into Cialdini now for sure, thanks!

Right now I’m half way into, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson. But I got caught up in rereading All The Light We Can Not see by Anthony Doerr. I have The Road by Cormac McCarthy(not sure how I missed this one what with a movie and everything) and Redwall by Brian Jacques(I’m not sure how deep I’ll go with this one, but I’m a bit of a sucker for mice protagonists for whatever reason) on deck.

[NHAero]

Bad Blood, a real life page turner! She comes off as a total sociopath. Will be interesting to see how the trial ends. The more intriguing part of this story is how bullying and creepy her law firm is, the famous Boies Schiller Flexner.

Wonder how you found the Waterman book?

Just finished Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller, an excellent thriller with an unforgettable main character in 82 year old Sheldon Horowitz.

Originally Posted by Peter P.

Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou. Just finished this book. About a Silicon Valley startup company created by a Stanford University dropout (nutcase, in my opinion) who bamboozled many well known individual investors/board of directors with a product that never worked. She went from first "self-made" female billionaire ($9 Billion company market value) in her twenties, to closing the company and being charged with federal crimes. She's currently on trial.

Losing the Garden by Laura Waterman. True story about a rock climbing couple that get married and leave the corporate life for homesteading in Vermont, ending in tragedy. Just finished this book.

Currently in front of me: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini, Ph.D.. If you want to read why fraternity pledges overindulge during Hell Week, ending in hospitalization or death, or how prisoners of war are subtly coerced to write confessions or letters of contrition, or why laugh tracks on sitcoms cause you to laugh at jokes that aren't funny, this is your book. Littered with real-life references.

Have I persuaded you to read any of these?