Kolek planning to go pro
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. This guy's theory about how the world came to be divided up the way it did... why Europe and China developed a lot faster than the rest of the world. As he says, its his search for ultimate causes of why things shook out the way they did... and it covers everything fro plant and animal domestication, its connection with creating nasty strains of germs, early access to resources, etc...It's really interesting. It's pretty value free too, which is hard for a topic like that it attempts just to be an explanation, not a condemnation.
Decision Points by Bush 43. Never was much of a Bush fan, but he has more class in his pinky than Obama does in his whole body. His story of 9-11 is gut wrenching.
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Really enjoyed, "Playing to Win" by Brent Williams.
TV sucks so much nowadays, I find reading is quickly taking its place for me.
I doubt any of that will happen
I left the Old Yeller for SNL slide but WTF? This is the golden era of TV. It is the first time TV is better than movies. Drama: Wire, Dexter, Boardwalk Empire, Madmen, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy. Comedy: Office, Parks and Rec, CommunityScifi: BSG, Trueblood, Lost, FringeHow old are you that you don't like TV now?btw, as soon as I saw this thread I was going to post about the next 100 years. It is a great book. People who think it's far fetched don't realize how far fetched a perdiction of the 1900's would have sounded if it was half way accurate.
I love Cormac Mccarthy, but for some reason, I hated the road. I loved no country for old men, and child of god, but I really hated this novel. I am definitly in the minority for this one.
just got done with unbroken..very good book. Anybody read any good ones lately?
Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (historical fiction; the first two parts of a planned trilogy about Thomas (not Oliver) Cromwell, Thomas More and Henry VIII). I am an old school book guy, but these were fantastic on the iPad if, like me, you have only passing knowledge of that period of English history--with an eReader like the iPad, you can look up terms/people instantly without losing too much flow. Wouldn't read those if you are a big Thomas More fan, as the author takes great liberties (it is fiction) and a much different view than the traditional Catholic (and secular historic) love of More (he is, after all, a Saint). And, speaking of books of which the Church takes a dim view, I just gave my son who is on his way to college (and then re-read it before he picked it up) The Last Temptation of Christ. Never saw the film, but the book was assigned reading at my amazing Jesuit high school and it had a powerful impact on my religious and spiritual formation. Don't believe what you remember from the popular and Church criticism of the movie; the book is Kazantzakis's meditaion on the gospel story, focusing on the struggle he imagines Jesus the man to have had in accepting that He also was the Son of God (with Judas the Zealot as the protagonist [well, along with the devil, I suppose], encouraging Jesus to lead the people in an uprising against Rome rather than preaching the gospel of love. It was the humanity of that struggle that resonated with me.