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The Good Book Thread?

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Just read a bunch of Chekov's plays, wonderful and very funny. The Russians knew how to live back then, probably still do. Starting up a book of his short stories again.

Italo Svevo's Zeno's Conscience is great so far. It is in fact about a guy who is trying to quit smoking, but really only because "the last cigarette" is always the best, so he enjoys each one like it's his last. Written in the form of a confession at the suggestion of his psychotherapist, it's full of lies, deceit, infidelity, &c, all wrapped up in a greater truth about being human. Probably won't help me make money in crypto though, so I don't know why I'm bothering.

Apparently Svevo (Ettore Schmitz) was good friends with James Joyce, who lived in Trieste teaching English. James was a huge fan and took Svevo (who was much older) under his wing and had him first published in France.
 
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The only reason I have for a kindle is being able to read with the light off.
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I'm going blind as fk...increasing font and backlit is a huge selling point for me to jump ship

green font on black background was always teh goto when I was programming more...less eye strain

does the Kindle do that?!
 
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afoaf said:
I'm going blind as fk...increasing font and backlit is a huge selling point for me to jump ship

green font on black background was always teh goto when I was programming more...less eye strain

does the Kindle do that?!
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Just had my reading prescription updated and bought some 1.5X from CVS for travel. I can't see sh!t unless its huge and 10 feet away from me.
 
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Medical grade music book

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Medical Grade Music

No-one, least of all Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi themselves, expected the six-time former World Snooker champion and a British-Iranian underground rock musician to become one of the most trusted brands in British alternative music. In their weekly radio shows and as two-thirds of The Utopia...
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Just finished my 374th Jack Reacher book. It's the one where he hitchhikes to a random town with nothing but a toothbrush in his pocket, wins several fights against 5 dudes at a time, bangs the hottest chick in town, and somehow gets embroiled in and solves some bizarre organized crime conspiracy.

Totally unique, can't wait to see what the other comes up with in the next one :beer:
 
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grapedrink said:
Just finished my 374th Jack Reacher book. It's the one where he hitchhikes to a random town with nothing but a toothbrush in his pocket, wins several fights against 5 dudes at a time, bangs the hottest chick in town, and somehow gets embroiled in and solves some bizarre organized crime conspiracy.

Totally unique, can't wait to see what the other comes up with in the next one :beer:
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"Jack Reacher" bangs chicks?

Sounds more like a gay pornstar.
 
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Among the Thugs by Bill Buford. Fantastic cover:

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Dude embeds with Manchester United fans in 1984. He meets a few and ends up in Turin in 1984 for a match. Mayhem ensues. Kind of a terrifying read. Apparently it's not like this today.
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I read Heat by Buford. Same concept of immersion, different group. I enjoyed it but I wonder how it's aged now since it centers around Mario Batali. This rode the coattails of Bourdain pretty heavily from my recollection, but that might just be because I read both around the same time, which cemented my fascination with kitchen culture.

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Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo.

In a fast-paced, candid narrative, Buford describes three frenetic years of trials and errors, disappointments and triumphs, as he worked his way up the Babbo ladder from "kitchen bitch" to line cook...his relationship with the larger-than-life Batali, whose story he learns as their friendship grows through (and sometimes despite) kitchen encounters and after-work all-nighters...and his immersion in the arts of butchery in Northern Italy, of preparing game in London, and making handmade pasta at an Italian hillside trattoria.

Heat is a marvelous hybrid: a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure, the story of Batali's amazing rise to culinary (and extra-culinary) fame, a dazzling behind-the-scenes look at a famous restaurant, and an illuminating exploration of why food matters. It is a book to delight in, and to savor.
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grapedrink said:
Just finished my 374th Jack Reacher book. It's the one where he hitchhikes to a random town with nothing but a toothbrush in his pocket, wins several fights against 5 dudes at a time, bangs the hottest chick in town, and somehow gets embroiled in and solves some bizarre organized crime conspiracy.
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wait... is that the one where he buys a new shirt instead of doing laundry?
 
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I've read about 3 pages of each of these in the last 6 months

This is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life is a non-fiction book about the podcast Ear Hustle, written by Ear Hustle co-hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods and published in 2021 by Crown Publishing Group


Mac Miller bio.


I've read a few "unofficial" music bios of young artists lately. Few have been good. So far, this one follows the formula. But this one sits on my toilet, so I get to laugh every time Mac Miller pretends to not look at me when I drain the main vein or cover his nose after I flush a rancid stinker...
 
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Reading The Histories by Herodotus. Surreal given how long ago it was written and oh man do we live in easy times. Savage. Wish I had read this before but props to Theroux in Dark Star Safari putting this on my radar.
 
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Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr.

The Emperor of Scent

by Chandler Burr (Random House; $24.95)
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Really good read. Dude comes up with a new theory about how we smell and the whole world tries to shut him down. Remains to be seen if he is correct as some experiments confirm and some deny his theory.

Also read Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band, it's OK.

Flash & Filigree by Terry Southern is awesome. He's one of the great American writers, IMHO.
 
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