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Author Topic: Looking for a few books to read...  (Read 15464 times)

mu-rara

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #50 on: November 14, 2014, 04:51:47 PM »
If your looking for a review of Jesuit principles read The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything.  James Miller, SJ.  Not too heavy with lessons that apply to many aspects of life.
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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #51 on: November 14, 2014, 05:03:54 PM »
If your looking for a review of Jesuit principles read The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything.  James Miller, SJ.  Not to heavy with lessons that apply to many aspects of life.

That's a good read.
 

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #52 on: November 14, 2014, 05:15:03 PM »
That's a good read.
 


Reading it on the plane to Vegas as we speak.
Have some patience, FFS.


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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #54 on: November 14, 2014, 08:30:41 PM »
A couple of awesome books off the top of my head
*A random walk down wall street
*Nicomachean Ethics

And for a joking answer

http://www.amazon.com/Earn-Your-MBA-Toilet-Unlimited/dp/1607744244/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416018397&sr=8-1&keywords=mba+from+the+toilet

^I never read this book, but the cover and title are hilarious.

mu-rara

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #55 on: November 17, 2014, 09:56:12 AM »


Reading it on the plane to Vegas as we speak.
I must have missed Fr. Miller's chapter on winning in Vegas, but he is a Jesuit.

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #56 on: November 17, 2014, 10:10:40 AM »
If your looking for a review of Jesuit principles read The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything.  James Miller, SJ.  Not too heavy with lessons that apply to many aspects of life.

Martin, not Miller. Good book, and I highly recommend seeing him speak in person if you ever get the chance. Hilarious.

Benny B

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #57 on: November 17, 2014, 10:26:13 AM »
The Book of Bunny Suicides and Return of the Bunny Suicides are a good, light read when you're looking to power down for the night.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny.  Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #58 on: November 17, 2014, 10:33:33 AM »
Oldie but very goodie:  THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien.  40 something narrator revisiting/remembering his life up to and including his combat experiences in 'Nam.  Haunting.
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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #59 on: November 17, 2014, 10:39:08 AM »
If your looking for a review of Jesuit principles read The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything.  James Miller, SJ.  Not too heavy with lessons that apply to many aspects of life.

Its James Martin. But yeah, great read.

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #60 on: November 17, 2014, 01:35:29 PM »
Martin, not Miller. Good book, and I highly recommend seeing him speak in person if you ever get the chance. Hilarious.
You are correct sir.

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #61 on: November 17, 2014, 03:23:19 PM »
Oldie but very goodie:  THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien.  40 something narrator revisiting/remembering his life up to and including his combat experiences in 'Nam.  Haunting.

Another outstanding book.

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #62 on: November 18, 2014, 08:24:39 AM »
DWade's book, A Father First, is an option if you're looking for a MUBB connection.\

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #63 on: November 18, 2014, 08:53:44 AM »
Oldie but very goodie:  THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien.  40 something narrator revisiting/remembering his life up to and including his combat experiences in 'Nam.  Haunting.

O'Brien is one of my favorite writers. "Going After Cacciato" "July, July" "In The Lake Of The Woods" and, of course, "The Things They Carried". Phenomenal, insightful stuff that captures the actual Viet Nam War, its aftermath and the human fallout like no one else. If you can only read one, "The Things They Carried" is at the top of the list - but if you do read one you'll want to read more by this guy.

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #64 on: November 18, 2014, 02:05:01 PM »
I just started to read this book. 

The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Battle-German-Soldiers/dp/0306822962

From Wikipedia:
The Battle for Castle Itter, the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol, was fought in the final days of World War II in Europe, five days after the death of Adolf Hitler. Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the US 12th Armored Division led by Lieutenant John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr., anti-Nazi German Army soldiers, and imprisoned French VIPs defended the castle against a small force from the 17th Waffen-SS Panzer Grenadier Division. The French prisoners included former prime ministers, generals, and a tennis star. It may have been the only battle in the war in which Americans and Germans fought as allies. Popular accounts of the battle have called it the "strangest" battle of World War II.[2]

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #65 on: November 18, 2014, 03:46:18 PM »
Another Amazon favorite:

How to Avoid Huge Ships by Captain John W. Trimmer
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny.  Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #66 on: November 18, 2014, 04:42:49 PM »
Another Amazon favorite:

How to Avoid Huge Ships by Captain John W. Trimmer

$165 for a paperback book???    :o  :o  :o  :o

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Re: Looking for a few books to read...
« Reply #67 on: December 30, 2014, 12:08:06 PM »
Latest fiction recs?

 

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