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My contribution to book chat: If you're going to read Murakami just skip Underground or at least be prepared for it to be both shocking and highly repetitive. Read the first third of the book and then skip to the cult interviews, those are much more interesting. Modern Romance was great. Seconding that one. Banana: The fate of the fruit that changed the world is an amazing history of the banana and it's outsized effect on both the USA and central America. If you want the nitty gritty of why/how the term "banana republic" got coined, here you go. Fun fact, refrigerated shipping was invented to ship bananas. Anything by Mary Roach, seriously anything. Personal favorite is either Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal or Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War She's got a knack for finding the strangest stories and relaying them with a great dry humor. If you want a very easy to approach discussion of the problems with poor implementation of data science I can't recommend enough Weapons of Math Destruction. It's incredible. And a personal favorite Botany of Desire . Michael Pollan is super famous for a lot of his later books and I love them but this one I adore. It's a very in depth look at 4 plants and how they shaped society and culture around them. Those plants are the apple, the potato, marijuana, and tulips. Love love love this book. Relentlessboredomm fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Sep 28, 2017 |
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Hey guys, have you heard of this amazing book called... Ready Player One???
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Probably Magic posted:Hey guys, have you heard of this amazing book called... Ready Player One??? I read that book on someone's recommendation a few years ago and was so mad at them I never gave the book back to them out of spite because they loved it. I still have it. I think I did them a favor.
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3 DONG HORSE posted:The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors if you're into WW2 Pacific history. It's about a fleet battle that occurred during the American invasion of the Philippines. I don't want to spoil it because even the Wiki entry is dope but I will say that "where is, repeat, where is task force 34? The world wonders" comes from this moment. "I know this book. Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan. Halsey acted stupidly"
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Sep 29, 2017 00:22
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Its Rinaldo posted:"I know this book. Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan. Halsey acted stupidly" See also Commander Evans MOH citation, extremely dope. Big Brass ones...
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I want to do Rabbids but I am literally finishing an xcom2 run so I am stratted out
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Honestly my favorite bit is right when the Yamato shows up and opens fire on the destroyer escorts*. The American admiral orders "all small boys attack" and they loving go I think of that whenever I hear "Don't Tread On Me" *small, weak, and slow destroyers too awful for battle fleet use so they're relegated to support roles OH poo poo Another good WW2 Pacific book that dives very deeply into the Japanese side: Shattered Sword. It's basically about Midway but goes into a lot background with respect to politics, culture and economy. A huge upgrade from the solely American perspective you'd usually see in these kinda books I also just started reading Meditations by Marcus Aerilus and it's been interesting so far. Hasn't grabbed me by the balls but makes for a nice work break
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Sep 29, 2017 00:52
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The Johnston already went when that order went in.
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Flikken posted:The Johnston already went when that order went in. I do not know how I forgot about balls that massive. I gotta reread the book.
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Kalli posted:Yeah, I have like 20 hours in divinity 2 and am still on the first map area. Good(?) news, the second map area is easily twice the size as Fort Joy. It's pretty fun, though I just spent a full hour re-gearing my party after clearing out a nightmareish cave, and basically blew over 20k gold on new stuff/spells.
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Ordinary men is a good if heavy read. Currently reading "excursion to hell" it's about the Falklands war and extremely good. About to start leviathan wakes.
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The_Hat posted:Good(?) news, the second map area is easily twice the size as Fort Joy. It's pretty fun, though I just spent a full hour re-gearing my party after clearing out a nightmareish cave, and basically blew over 20k gold on new stuff/spells. I'm at about 75% done with the second area and man it is loving massive.
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There was a new jacked as poo poo couple at the gym today and they rule. They were high fiving everyone and giving encouragement
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Spoeank posted:There was a new jacked as poo poo couple at the gym today and they rule. They were high fiving everyone and giving encouragement There's a little girl at my gym who does that. Well, I say "little" but she's much stronger than me and could easily kick my rear end. She helped me with my form and stuff when I was starting out too
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3 DONG HORSE posted:The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors if you're into WW2 Pacific history. It's about a fleet battle that occurred during the American invasion of the Philippines. I don't want to spoil it because even the Wiki entry is dope but I will say that "where is, repeat, where is task force 34? The world wonders" comes from this moment. I found a documentary about this on Youtube and holy loving poo poo  The captain of the Johnston may be the craziest naval captain everhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_syMKoTsi0
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I just got the idea that if I was in charge of sound for an NFL game, if the other team was in a place where they could just kneel it out to end the game because of lack of timeouts, I would just play the anthem continuously to see if the QB would actually take a knee.
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I wound up buying The Art of Fielding, The Echo Maker and.... ....Nixonland because Fiz yelled at me
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Spoeank posted:There was a new jacked as poo poo couple at the gym today and they rule. They were high fiving everyone and giving encouragement Six months from now we read posts alluding to Spoeank and Mrs Spoeank slowing becoming swingers.
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Joey Freshwater posted:I wound up buying The Art of Fielding, The Echo Maker and.... These are all good and very different books.
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Do y'all not have libraries where you live? I read a ton and its cool to get my books for free. Plus, hardbacks are usually available.
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swickles posted:Do y'all not have libraries where you live? I read a ton and its cool to get my books for free. Plus, hardbacks are usually available. I got ruined by my Kindle and can't read real books without getting slightly annoyed anymore. And the local libraries at least don't do virtual lending that works with kindle stuff last I checked. Don't buy a kindle. Both because of that and because you'll be locked into Amazon forever.
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Kindle is pretty amazing though.
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BlindSite posted:Kindle is pretty amazing though. I loving love the goddamned thing, but it's ruined me for real books. e: I'm sending mine in for 'repairs' (they're going to be giving me a new one) because the screen got scratched and I'm dreading five days of reading actual printed material. Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Sep 29, 2017 06:39
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It is perfectly possible to load non-amazon books onto your kindle.
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Maybe I'm old but I struggle to read books that aren't physical
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Fiddling around with the size and type of font can really help. If I wanna read Atlas Shrugged in 68pt Comic Sans then by god it's my right
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Intruder posted:Maybe I'm old but I struggle to read books that aren't physical I just prefer to read off of a non glossy surface. Also, battery life isn't an issue. I use a kindle, but mostly for reading news or browsing social media and the forums.
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Blitz7x posted:It is perfectly possible to load non-amazon books onto your kindle. I know it is (and I know how to put stuff into Amazon's proprietary format if need be) but I guess I never bothered to figure out how to do that with stuff downloaded from a library which should technically not be saved. swickles posted:I just prefer to read off of a non glossy surface. Also, battery life isn't an issue. I use a kindle, but mostly for reading news or browsing social media and the forums. The Paperwhite seems decidedly non-glossy to me? It's a one purpose device though, you aren't going to be doing anything on one of those other than reading books. But I love mine to death anyway.
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BlindSite posted:About to start leviathan wakes. The whole expanse series owns if you are willing to go with humanity all over the solar system and a colonized mars. It also features a super jacked two meter tall polinesian woman in powerarmour wrecking people.
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54 hours in 4 days. On pace for 70 hour of work this week. I long for death.
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Ehud posted:Good morning. Today is my last day working for the man. For every minority you don't beat, I will beat two extras. You're welcome. glad you're out
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God drat I love my team"Doug Baldwin posted:"First and foremost, I want to go back to back to something the Reverend said earlier. He said the Boston Tea Party got this kicked off. I'm sorry, sir, you're incorrect. That was the Boston Massacre that happened three years prior to that when nine British police officers—armed police officers—gunned down some unarmed Americans. That's where this got kicked off."
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Joey Freshwater posted:I wound up buying The Art of Fielding, The Echo Maker and.... Solid choices swickles posted:Do y'all not have libraries where you live? I read a ton and its cool to get my books for free. Plus, hardbacks are usually available. Buying books is great if you are a compulsive shopper because you aren't a hoarder you are an intellectual! Also I tend to read only new releases and I don't feel like getting into the waiting list game
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Grittybeard posted:I got ruined by my Kindle and can't read real books without getting slightly annoyed anymore. And the local libraries at least don't do virtual lending that works with kindle stuff last I checked. I'm gonna ruin your life and turn you on to BookBub. You go sign up, tell them your preferences, what books you've read, etc. Every day (or week, depending on how you set it up) they send you recommendations based on your preferences. They only send you books on sale, though. I don't think I've seen a single one over $1.99. I've wound up reading some really random and good stuff because of BookBub.
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Nixonland is so drat good.
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If Fiz geeks on Nixonland any more I'm going to start thinking it's about crossfit
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I may end up having to read it myself Always been a fan of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Intruder posted:If Fiz geeks on Nixonland any more I'm going to start thinking it's about crossfit savage
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Intruder posted:If Fiz geeks on Nixonland any more I'm going to start thinking it's about crossfit I'm at Pensacola for a big comp this weekend. My girlfriend loving nailed the hotel reservation though and we're all strongly considering just skipping it and getting loaded for a few days.
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