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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1725 on: June 13, 2018, 06:44:27 PM »
The Revelation Space books by Alistair Reynolds are very good Pete. Don’t know if you’re into a lot of space stuff but I liked them a lot.


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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1726 on: June 13, 2018, 07:08:42 PM »
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1727 on: June 17, 2018, 06:38:45 PM »


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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1728 on: June 19, 2018, 04:44:56 PM »
I really enjoyed Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee



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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1729 on: June 20, 2018, 08:00:19 AM »
I really enjoyed Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee



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I enjoyed smoke and pickles.  Is this more memoir than cookbook?

He also had a great story about a benefit auction with Anthony Bourdain.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1730 on: June 20, 2018, 09:17:32 AM »
I really enjoyed Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee



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I enjoyed smoke and pickles.  Is this more memoir than cookbook?

He also had a great story about a benefit auction with Anthony Bourdain.

It's more food travel writing with a couple of recipes per chapter.

Fairly formulaic, and kind of Bourdain-esque, but well done:
1.  Lee goes to place and eats ethnic/regional food, frequently one you might not expect (i.e: Nigerian in Houston, Peruvian in New Jersey)
2.  Gets to know the restaurant owner/chef, learns culinary and cultural history for the area
3.  Relates observations to own experiance.

Does something like this in 10-15 different places.  Really interesting, and added a lot of restaurants I would like to visit to my list. He is a good writer, and is pretty insightful.
 
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1731 on: August 20, 2018, 02:26:11 PM »
I just finished reading 1984, so now I need a book to read on my next vacation.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1732 on: August 20, 2018, 02:35:05 PM »
Did you like it?
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« Reply #1733 on: August 20, 2018, 02:44:50 PM »
Did you like it?

Yes, except that Gooch wanted to watch the movie right before I got the book so it ruined it a little - of course the book is much better than the movie and more detailed. There are a lot of things happening inside Winston's head that can't be translated into a movie very well.

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« Reply #1734 on: August 20, 2018, 02:46:11 PM »
Also if you throw a handful of 1984 quotes and a handful of Trumpers quotes into a bag, it is hard to figure out which is which.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1735 on: August 20, 2018, 02:47:38 PM »
I've never seen the movie, but read the book probably 5 times. It's my favorite  :thumbs:
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« Reply #1736 on: August 20, 2018, 02:49:05 PM »
I've never seen the movie, but read the book probably 5 times. It's my favorite  :thumbs:

The idea of Newspeak was interesting to me.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1737 on: August 21, 2018, 07:09:43 PM »
The Revelation Space books by Alistair Reynolds are very good Pete. Don’t know if you’re into a lot of space stuff but I liked them a lot.


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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1738 on: August 21, 2018, 07:56:29 PM »
I also read a couple of Ken Follett books recently.
A Column of Fire (third in the Kingsbridge trilogy)
Night Over Water

Both very good.


Has anyone in here read A Brave New World?

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1739 on: August 22, 2018, 07:30:30 AM »
Non-Fic:
I am enjoying Michael Pollan's How to Change your Mind.  All about LSD & magic mushroom research as well as him trying them.

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« Reply #1740 on: August 22, 2018, 07:45:09 AM »
I’m halfway through “The Bitcoin Standard” and it’s very good.  I really liked how he author structures the book.  The first third of the book maybe mentions Bitcoin a handful of times, saying it will be explained later.

He goes through the entire history or money and what eventually made the gold standard the best way of having sound money.  When we got away from it during WWI and how even though we don’t use it anymore, all money is still tied to it.  Countries hold amounts of US Dollars in their vaults the same way they used to hold gold, and the US Dollar was originally based on gold, so everything is still connected.

The way Bitcoin was created, hows you interact with it in the world, and having no boundaries are all great points.  The book really does a good job of explaining money in general and more specifically why Bitcoin may be an even better money system than gold ever way.  Very good read.
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1741 on: August 22, 2018, 07:58:55 AM »

Has anyone in here read A Brave New World?
Has anyone here not?
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1742 on: August 22, 2018, 09:29:36 AM »


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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1743 on: August 22, 2018, 09:58:18 AM »
Started listening to ready player one yesterday. Balls hooked firmly
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1744 on: August 22, 2018, 03:03:19 PM »
Started listening to ready player one yesterday. Balls hooked firmly

I have heard the most polarizing reviews of this book I can imagine. I'm probably staying away.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1745 on: August 22, 2018, 03:12:45 PM »
I just have to take a moment to say that I found it pretty humorous that TBT's debut in this thread involved a book about Bitcoin.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1746 on: August 22, 2018, 03:22:01 PM »
I just have to take a moment to say that I found it pretty humorous that TBT's debut in this thread involved a book about Bitcoin.



My only complaint about names so far in HP & TSS is that Hedwig/Hagrid are too similar and Mrs Norris is a really dumb name for a cat.

Don't get me started on LOTR with Sauron and Saruman.  I don't think it was until I watched the movies that I got they were a different thing.
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1747 on: August 22, 2018, 03:23:11 PM »
I just have to take a moment to say that I found it pretty humorous that TBT's debut in this thread involved a book about Bitcoin.



My only complaint about names so far in HP & TSS is that Hedwig/Hagrid are too similar and Mrs Norris is a really dumb name for a cat.

Don't get me started on LOTR with Sauron and Saruman.  I don't think it was until I watched the movies that I got they were a different thing.

I knew it might be wrong, but it just sounded a lot funnier that way.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1748 on: August 22, 2018, 03:24:20 PM »
:D
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1749 on: August 22, 2018, 09:08:38 PM »
Started listening to ready player one yesterday. Balls hooked firmly

I have heard the most polarizing reviews of this book I can imagine. I'm probably staying away.

Old balls nerds (like me) love it.