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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1050 on: February 13, 2015, 08:15:00 AM »

I just read "Gang Leader for a Day" by Sudhiir Venkatesh (sp?). It was very good and I'd recommend to anyone.

He has another book about the underground economy of Chicago that includes a bit more technical writing but also includes a lot more interesting stories of poor entrepreneurship and how incredibly closed and removed the ghetto economy is from the rest of the economy.
Read it on your recommendation in this thread a couple years ago :thumbs:
what's it's called? Sounds awesome

PM me your address and I will send it to you.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1051 on: February 13, 2015, 08:53:13 AM »
I already checked and it's at my library, I'll save you the postage!

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1052 on: February 13, 2015, 08:53:42 AM »
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1053 on: February 17, 2015, 11:27:45 AM »
My current work duties don't require much mental strain for a good portion of the day. I've taken to listening to audio books during this time. I started listening to 1Q84 yesterday, and holy crap, it's got me by the balls.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1054 on: February 17, 2015, 11:37:52 AM »
Just starting Gone Girl.  Want to knock it out before the movie hits rentals.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1055 on: February 17, 2015, 11:40:18 AM »
My current work duties don't require much mental strain for a good portion of the day. I've taken to listening to audio books during this time. I started listening to 1Q84 yesterday, and holy crap, it's got me by the balls.

man, thats gotta be a long listen.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1056 on: February 17, 2015, 11:41:41 AM »
I listened to that one last week (Gone Girl). It's great too. Ready Player One narrated by Will Wheaton was very fun also.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1057 on: February 17, 2015, 11:43:11 AM »
My current work duties don't require much mental strain for a good portion of the day. I've taken to listening to audio books during this time. I started listening to 1Q84 yesterday, and holy crap, it's got me by the balls.

man, thats gotta be a long listen.

~48 hours, but you can adjust the pace in audible without changing the pitch so it will go a bit quicker.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1058 on: February 17, 2015, 12:24:31 PM »
also known as the Trim method

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1059 on: February 17, 2015, 01:32:45 PM »
My current work duties don't require much mental strain for a good portion of the day. I've taken to listening to audio books during this time. I started listening to 1Q84 yesterday, and holy crap, it's got me by the balls.
I just started reading this yesterday!   :thumbs:
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1060 on: February 17, 2015, 01:51:17 PM »
i bought this book (hardcover), very interesting


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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1061 on: February 17, 2015, 05:02:51 PM »
Currently reading

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pépin

It's pretty damn good.  He has some great stories. 

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1062 on: February 19, 2015, 08:23:10 PM »
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1063 on: February 27, 2015, 04:14:08 PM »
Just starting Gone Girl.  Want to knock it out before the movie hits rentals.
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1064 on: March 02, 2015, 08:05:41 PM »
Anyone read any biographies of David Livongstone?  Any one in particular you might recommend?

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1065 on: March 03, 2015, 10:56:15 AM »
Just finished The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan.  It contained a surprising amount of very graphically depicted hardcore gay sex.  Like a geez guy amount of it.  I suppose it was okay on the whole. 
My prescience is fully engorged.  It throbs with righteous accuracy.  I am sated.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1066 on: March 03, 2015, 11:52:01 AM »
guys I have sucked so bad at reading lately. motivate me.
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1067 on: March 03, 2015, 11:53:36 AM »
guys I have sucked so bad at reading lately. motivate me.

Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high.
Take a look, it's in a book, a Reading Rainbow!
I can go anywhere.
Friends to know,
and ways to grow.
A Reading Rainbow!
I can be anything.
Take a look,
it's in a book.
A Reading Rainbow.
A Reading Rainbow.
A Reading Rainbow.
A Reading Rainbow!
A Reading Rainbow!
Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high.
I can go anywhere.
Friends to know,
A Reading Rainbow!
I can be anything.
Take a look,
A Reading Rainbow.
A Reading Rainbow.
A Reading Rainbow!
Take a look, it's in a book, a Reading Rainbow!
I can go anywhere.
and ways to grow.
A Reading Rainbow!
I can be anything.
it's in a book.
A Reading Rainbow.
A Reading Rainbow!
A Reading Rainbow!

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1068 on: March 03, 2015, 12:39:45 PM »
guys I have sucked...

I thought this was in reference to the gay porn book for a second.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1069 on: March 03, 2015, 12:44:24 PM »
My current work duties don't require much mental strain for a good portion of the day. I've taken to listening to audio books during this time. I started listening to 1Q84 yesterday, and holy crap, it's got me by the balls.

man, thats gotta be a long listen.

Just started reading 1Q84 too.   Pretty good so far, didn't realize how long it was before I started (Kindle).   :runaway:

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1070 on: March 03, 2015, 01:13:12 PM »
Life, Keith Richards' autobiography

All the Stones wanted to do when they first started was to make enough money to pay Charlie Watts to join them and to buy their own guitar strings.

Mick was/is suprisingly insecure for one of the most successful lead singers ever.  At one point  Mick wanted to retitle the band as Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones.

And the urban legend of Keith snorting his father's ashes was addressed.  Did he?  Yes, but not mixed with coke like the rumors said.  He was moving his father's ashes and some of them fell out of the container and onto a table.  Instead of just brushing the ashes onto the floor he swiped them up with his finger and then snorted.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1071 on: March 05, 2015, 03:21:08 PM »
Reading Off the Books - the author's got an interesting style. Like it.

Also reading Shift omnibus. Incredible combination of a great story with horrible prose.
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1072 on: March 05, 2015, 03:47:32 PM »
Also reading Shift omnibus. Incredible combination of a great story with horrible prose.
yup, just like ASOIAF imho

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1073 on: March 05, 2015, 03:48:42 PM »
For those in a history groove:

The Cheese and the Worms

pretty interesting stuff

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1074 on: March 05, 2015, 09:04:12 PM »
Also reading Shift omnibus. Incredible combination of a great story with horrible prose.
yup, just like ASOIAF imho

And also would make a great hbo show!
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