book recommendations

[Stupid Fitz]

Currently reading "we promised you a great main event". Its ok if you were in to rasslin' as a kid or during the Monday Night Wars in the 90's. Some of these dudes were batshit and Vince did his best to keep a lot of it under wraps. He was also a lunatic. Its a decent read, but slow in parts. I loved wrestling as a young kid so there is def some nostalgia. 

[Cire]

Hell on a half Acre

About the bloody benders

Must read if you’ve ever been interested

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/bloody-benders-true-story-kate-bender-crimes-susan-jonusas.html


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[Sandstone Outcropping]

Just finished re-reading Call for the Dead by John LeCarre. Very good, short spy novel.

[CHONGS]

The 7 1/2 Murders of Evelyn Hardcastle was a fun read. Def a page turner.

[ben ji]

Just started this last night

[cfbandyman]

O boy bet that's interesting.

Related side note, I am absolutely fascinated with the Soviet Union history recently, though admittedly post Stalin. Living under the moustache had to just be brutal, but after that just like, how the USSR worked internally is just fascinating. It's so much richer (and weirder) than just thinking of it as the "evil empire." Not an endorsement of it, but from living arrangements, to education, work, shopping (and black markets) is just interesting af.

[ben ji]

O boy bet that's interesting.

Related side note, I am absolutely fascinated with the Soviet Union history recently, though admittedly post Stalin. Living under the moustache had to just be brutal, but after that just like, how the USSR worked internally is just fascinating. It's so much richer (and weirder) than just thinking of it as the "evil empire." Not an endorsement of it, but from living arrangements, to education, work, shopping (and black markets) is just interesting af.

I agree, it's fascinating.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

If you ever want to feel really great about humanity and the depravity we can commit read Bloodlands by Snyder

Currently listening to the audiobook. Provides helpful context for current events.

[ben ji]

If you ever want to feel really great about humanity and the depravity we can commit read Bloodlands by Snyder

Currently listening to the audiobook. Provides helpful context for current events.

Yeah, it's mumped up. Also Dan Carlin has a great 4 series podcast about the Eastern Front in WW2 and they are $1 each.

[Pete]

If you ever want to feel really great about humanity and the depravity we can commit read Bloodlands by Snyder

Currently listening to the audiobook. Provides helpful context for current events.

Yeah, it's mumped up. Also Dan Carlin has a great 4 series podcast about the Eastern Front in WW2 and they are $1 each.

That's a good one.  The ostfront.  Dan Carlin's Mongolian Khan's series was amazing as well.  Very long, but perfect for a long road trip.

[Brock Landers]

Burning through Dave Grohl's, The Story Teller. It's pretty great. I'm always fascinated with people that find their thing at an early age and make it happen. He's pretty great at putting his memories into words. Good book so far.

Just finished this last night, very enjoyable.  I thought there would be more stuff about Nirvana.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

If you ever want to feel really great about humanity and the depravity we can commit read Bloodlands by Snyder

Currently listening to the audiobook. Provides helpful context for current events.

Yeah, it's mumped up. Also Dan Carlin has a great 4 series podcast about the Eastern Front in WW2 and they are $1 each.

Ghosts of the Ostfront was my second favorite Dan Carlin series (after the WW1 series).

[Spracne]

If you ever want to feel really great about humanity and the depravity we can commit read Bloodlands by Snyder

Currently listening to the audiobook. Provides helpful context for current events.

Yeah, it's mumped up. Also Dan Carlin has a great 4 series podcast about the Eastern Front in WW2 and they are $1 each.

Ghosts of the Ostfront was my second favorite Dan Carlin series (after the WW1 series).

His WWI series was so grueling and brutally long that I felt like I was in the trenches facing constant shelling.

[Cire]

Mongols
Ostfront
WWI

[CHONGS]

I am tearing through the Masters of Rome series.  Very enjoyable reading so far.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Just finishing up the audiobook of Operation Mincemeat. Would recommend if you are interested in WW2 history. Tells the story of how British spies planted a body with faked documents on a beach in Spain to mislead the Axis about plans for invading Italy. Craziest part of the book suggestion that one of the German intelligence chiefs who looked over the planted documents was secretly anti-Hitler (and later executed for being antiNazi) may have spotted the operation as a fake but passed the information on to Hitler / German high command to undermine the Axis war efforts.

https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Mincemeat-Bizarre-Fooled-Assured/dp/0307453286

[Stupid Fitz]

Guys, need a book recommendation ASAP. On vacation in 5 days so I want a book for the trip. Has to be non fiction. Pretty much any topic as long as its a good story or about someone interesting. I know that's pretty broad, but that's all i got. I loved Shoe Dog, American Kingpin, books about music, baseball, stock market, etc. Anything that is non fiction and interesting. My only other requirement is that it isn't 800 pages. If it isn't fantastic, i'll tap out. Plus its a beach vacay and I don't want to drag around an encyclopedia. If anyone has anything, shoot it my way. Thanks

[Rage Against the McKee]

Empire of the Summer Moon

[Rage Against the McKee]

Or if you've already read that one, The River of Doubt is also really interesting.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Guys, need a book recommendation ASAP. On vacation in 5 days so I want a book for the trip. Has to be non fiction. Pretty much any topic as long as its a good story or about someone interesting. I know that's pretty broad, but that's all i got. I loved Shoe Dog, American Kingpin, books about music, baseball, stock market, etc. Anything that is non fiction and interesting. My only other requirement is that it isn't 800 pages. If it isn't fantastic, i'll tap out. Plus its a beach vacay and I don't want to drag around an encyclopedia. If anyone has anything, shoot it my way. Thanks

Killers of the Flower Moon if you haven't read it yet

[ChiComCat]

The Only Rule is it Has to Work - baseball book

[Stupid Fitz]

The Only Rule is it Has to Work - baseball book

Winner, thank you sir

[Brock Landers]

Hard to Handle by Steve Gorman

Spoiler alert:  Chris Robinson is a lunatic who almost singlehandedly torpedoed The Black Crowes successes and prevented them from being bigger than they should have been.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Just finished A Perfect Spy by John LaCarre. I normally like his novels but I hated this one. Would not recommend.

Currently listening to The Reckoning by John Grisham. The audiobook narrator is great but unlike most Grisham novels, I have yet to encounter any likeable characters.

[mocat]

Just finished A Perfect Spy by John LaCarre. I normally like his novels but I hated this one. Would not recommend.

i am reading A Perfect Spy and it's unlike any other Le Carre. i mean there is still spy stuff, but so far a good bit of it reads like Great Expectations

yeah he kind of meandered around too much with his coming of age retrospective junk but whatever. i still liked it