NT Book Club Vol. WDYRTD

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Originally Posted by calikev34

Reading 

seriously though, been doing a lot of it lately. This week:

Da Vinci Code- You. Can't. Put. This. +$#!$. Down. Haven't been completely enthralled by a book since HP7 sonnn. A must read!

Assh\oles Finish First- I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell is the most entertaining book I've ever read. I don't typically laugh at books, TV, or stuff like that. It usually seems too forced. I dieeed reading that book man.Tucker Max is hilarious, and a good writer. You can't not love that book. Now, I said that book. IHTSBIH was classssic. !+%*$@%+ finish first was: hilarious. Less "legendary" stories in this book. But the comedic writing is spot on. And that's why I read these books.The quips in this are just too much, toooo many quotables man. 

Sacred Hoops- Phil Jackson's Book. I wanted to read Maverick, Phil's biography type *+#, but I heard about this book in Hard Sell in an interesting reference, so it jumped up the list

Great book! In a sports-psychology-that-can-relate-to-life type of way, it was provocative and it inspires a different type of thinking. I'm into liberalhippebull**** though 

 zen/buddhism 

I wanna get into meditation man

Hard Sell(the book that Love and Other drugs was based on)- eh. Book was cool. But the author just screamed "CORNY", coupled with "I try to hard to be cool

" type. Interesting though

I started reading Killing Pablo last week. It read like a dull anthro book, had to put it down. Too slow for me. I wanna continue it later though, I like the subject and I've heard good things.

Picked up Catcher In The Rye from the library for nostalgic purposes. Innocence 

 

Along with another Salinger book; a short story collection I've heard nothing about

I'm trying to get into The Outsiders, The Alchemist, Monster (LA-gang-related book), Flashfoward by Robert Sawyer, Autobio of Malcom X, and Freakonomics (sp?)

Those are off the top of my head, I have a decent sized read list in my phone.

Any recommendations?

As i mentioned, Ima fan of Harry Potter, and anything to do with sex, hard drugs, and hip hop. I also appreciate well written autobio's of interesting people. Annnd I'm a business/marketing

major, so sales? Maybe? I'd love to read a good Boiler Room type of book 

Head to your local underutilized library, grab some books n *!!$. Keep reading bros, it's something we don't do enough. 

read Timothy Leary's autobiography 

 

[genius44]

Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person

 

[ihust1e]

Crazy what the Japanese did around WWII 

 

[nocomment6]

Albert Gleizes- Cubism

 

[patrick bateman]

Originally Posted by calikev34

Reading 

I'm trying to get into The Outsiders, The Alchemist, Monster (LA-gang-related book), Flashfoward by Robert Sawyer, Autobio of Malcom X, and Freakonomics (sp?)
Those are off the top of my head, I have a decent sized read list in my phone.

 [color= rgb(255, 0, 0)] I suggest you get all 3. I enjoyed them.

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[dgk3188]

Originally Posted by MeloVP

Originally Posted by dgk3188

Also reading this

Just picked this joint up

Have you read any of the other books by Supreme-Understanding/Supreme Design Publishing?

 

[airmissionretro]

Currently Reading:

The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porforio Rubirosa

The Mis-Education of The Negro by Carter G. Woodson

Stolen Legacy by George G.M. James

Golden Age of The Moor by Ivan van Sertima

Our Kind of People by Lawrence Otis Graham

The Isis Papers by Frances Cress Welsing

Clothes and the Man by Alan Flusser

 

[nealraj006]

Just finished:
'My Ishmael' and 'Beyond Civilization' by Daniel Quinn. Brilliant pieces of work to say the least.

Currently reading:
"Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human" by Richard Wrangham. Interesting argument for how fire drove evolution of our species.
"Stretching Scientifically" by Tom Kurz

Next books:
"Myth of the Holy Cow" by D N Jha
"The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity" by Michael Maren
Might read "What the Dog Saw" by Gladwell. Anyone read this? Any input?

 

[hendrix watermelon]

Who has read Ulysses by James Joyce?

 

[kickstart]

Originally Posted by Patrick Bateman

Originally Posted by kickstart

Currently reading Brainwashed by Tom Burrell
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Book has me pretty pissed so far...

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail.. Pretty pissed? Elaborate![/color]

I'll be finished with it this week and when you're done let's discuss it. 

So far, the book offers gross generalities, downplays the outstanding AAs, and the author fails to offer up greater solutions to the "problems" he's so greatly outlined. Oh, and the book screams victimization, but this opinion could all change when finished reading... though, I doubt it (half-way through). I had to ask a friend to pick it up because I wanted to make sure I wasn't protecting master and em....

*Edit: Finished the book and I def. feel better about it overall. I still stand by what I  initially wrote, but I understand what the author was trying to accomplish. His execution was flawed in some chapters but it's a great effort to spotlight "problems" within the AA community.  

 

[liban906]

I just went to the bookstore today to get some more summer reading material and picked up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

I heard it's really good so I'm looking forward to reading it.

While I was there I also ran into Jane Slayre which takes the classic Jane Eyre and puts her in a setting of vampires, werewolves and zombies 

 It looked pretty good so I picked it up. I started on it first and so far its 

 

[miniojw]

I heard nothing but good things about these books. Just got this yesterday

 

[jordanpp30]

Half-way through "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson.

 

[timcity2000]

^ great read!

picked up "ender's game" today. apparently a sci-fi classic. we'll see.

 

[fog]

I don't know why, but I especially love reading books that are (or will become) movie adaptations. Does anyone know of any books that inspires an upcoming movie? 

 

[los angeles fresh]

there you go, just picture every michael bay movie in the future

 

[lazyj10]

The Warren Buffet bio was good...his relationship with Graham (of Washington Post) and his wife are interesting in and of themselves.

Birth lottery

 

[mf doomer]

Been reading this as of late. Great book, and highly recommended.

 

[supersaiyan415]

Originally Posted by FOG

I don't know why, but I especially love reading books that are (or will become) movie adaptations. Does anyone know of any books that inspires an upcoming movie? 

The Tree of Life?

 

[los angeles fresh]

Originally Posted by SuperSaiyan415

Originally Posted by FOG

I don't know why, but I especially love reading books that are (or will become) movie adaptations. Does anyone know of any books that inspires an upcoming movie? 

The Tree of Life?

the devil in the white city, i believe this will be a dicaprio movie

 

[uknowdonti]

Originally Posted by Hendrix Watermelon

Who has read Ulysses by James Joyce?

Right here.

I'm currently reading Richard III.  I'm only through the first few scenes but this guy already reminds me of Iago as incredibly conniving, which has been great so far.  Iago being one of my favorite Shakespearean characters.

 

[luckyp90]

 

[Bad Religion]

 

[saint lt]

currently reading: the time traveler's wife. i'm 1/4th through and this book is already so much better then that crappy movie

 

[Chad Hugo]

the art of seduction by robert greene