Teacher Man -Frank McCourt. One of the best books I’ve read in a long, long time. If you went to high school, you’ll like this book.
Die Broke- S. Pollan. Haven’t finished it yet, so far some interesting thoughts
on investing and financial advice.
Reefer madness- Eric Schlosser. Highly recommended. Discussion on porn, ganja and illegal immigration
Point of Attack - Harry Carson. For hardcore football fans only. NY Giants inside linebacker discusses their 86 Championship season.
The Narrows, City of Bones- Michael Connelly. IMO, the best mystery writer out there…except maybe for Lehane.
Shutter Island- Dennis Lehane. Brutal and disturbing.
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder- M. Savage. Some interesting thoughts, but really a waste of time.
Upright Man- Michael Marshall. I enjoyed it, has serial killer and Stephen King elements to it.
Fat of the Land- Fumento. Nothing T-Nation readers don’t already know, some interesting stats on obesity and why people are getting fatter. Some funny parts, especially a chapter where he rips apart about a dozen fad diets.
The transcripts of the debates on the Cuban Constitution of 1940.
The Federalist Papers
A ton of law review articles for an article I’m writing.
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk - I haven’t finished it, but to be honest, I’m kinda disappointed so far after reading Fight Club…so far meandering and kinda pointless - let’s see if he can bring it together…
Livy - The War with Hannibal (coming along very slowly)
Stephen Pressfield - The Tides of War (very slowly as well)
Takedown is a non fiction book about the garbage industry in N.Y.C., very interesting.
Feast of all Saints, just starting. I have read most of Anne Rice?s other stuff. I have read most of Stephen King?s early stuff. I think my favorites would be Norman Mailer
(Ancient Evenings) Stephen King (The Stand) Carl Sagan (Dragons of Eden)
I’m currently reading ‘Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking’ by Malcolm Gladwell is pretty interesting. It’s all about how we undervalue split-second judgements and how they are actually extremely valuable and effective. He backs this up with lots of interesting examples to demonstrate this.
A book about how the people with “old wealth” really think differently about how they make/spend/invest their money and how they relay that to their children. Also goes into how our society doesn’t teach about money issues and that we “are bringing up good employees, but noone to be good employers.”
I am also searching for a book on human energy field control and/or buddhist books on energy flow and how to control it. So if anyone has any good recommendations I’d greatly appreciate it.
The novel by Steven Pressfield, based upon the true story of 300 Spartans who, along with about 7,000 allied Greeks, held back an army of over 2 million Persians (you read that right) for several days in 480 B.C. at the Battle of Thermopylae. Though they lost the battle, they held back the Persians long enough for the Greek states to rally together. The key to success were the “Gates of Fire”, a narrow pass in the mountaintops where the Spartans positioned themselves, acting like a valve, keeping the Persians from passing, even as their own dead served as shields.
The novel by Steven Pressfield, based upon the true story of 300 Spartans who, along with about 7,000 allied Greeks, held back an army of over 2 million Persians (you read that right) for several days in 480 B.C. at the Battle of Thermopylae… [/quote]
Frank Miller (Sin City) has an award-winning graphic novel called 300 about the same battle.
The novel by Steven Pressfield, based upon the true story of 300 Spartans who, along with about 7,000 allied Greeks, held back an army of over 2 million Persians (you read that right) for several days in 480 B.C. at the Battle of Thermopylae. Though they lost the battle, they held back the Persians long enough for the Greek states to rally together. The key to success were the “Gates of Fire”, a narrow pass in the mountaintops where the Spartans positioned themselves, acting like a valve, keeping the Persians from passing, even as their own dead served as shields.[/quote]
One of the all time great T-Men books. Pressfield’s seminal work. His other stuff is not as good- including Tides of War- which I had to put down after about 200 pages because it was too convoluted.
Some studio is making a movie about the “Hot Gates”- but I don’t know if they are using Frank Miller’s or Pressfield’s version of the story for the basis of the movie.
Hmmm… just watched the trailer of 300 and I say it looks like bad news! all the actors playing Spartan warriors look like baby smooth Chippendale strippers. I have plenty of friends who are Greek and they are hairy mofos for sure. I hope to God Clooney gets his version made and does the book justice.
if you ever get the chance; read enders game. it is by far my favorite book of all time. there are also sequals to the book but enders game is the best. woohoo quote time-
-“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.”
-“That’s a lie.”
-“No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.”
Colonel Graff and Ender
“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.”
Valentine to Ender
“We may be young, but we’re not powerless. We play by their rules long enough and it becomes our game.”