Book list

[LORENSWIFE]

my wife sure seemed to enjoy 50 shades of grey.... just sayin

My inner goddess thinks you might want to take a peak SBG...

[Bob Holmes]

Hmmmm, I didn't get the pissed at god vibe. I'll have to pull it out and give it another read.

[SuperBuickGuy]

My inner goddess thinks you might want to take a peak SBG...

what makes you think I couldn't teach her a few things?

I should introduce you to my wife's friend who writes those style of books

[SuperBuickGuy]

Hmmmm, I didn't get the pissed at god vibe. I'll have to pull it out and give it another read.

Stephen Hawkings makes a number of presumptions and every last one of them presumes there is no Creator; it's that absence that gets me that vibe. Hawkings is interesting in this, he was pressed awhile ago about the origins of matter and he said that he cannot imagine there wasn't an intelligent, creative force in the beginning. Surprisingly, he wasn't disowned by the more militant of atheists, because that makes him agnostic, not atheist.

Still, I love the study of people and what makes them the way they are - so reading his stuff, and anything else, has to have that element of themselves for me to be interested in what they write.

[tedly]

Started the second book in the Hunger Games series, "Catching Fire". The first one was a good enough read, we'll see how this one goes. It's aimed at teens but a good story well told, to me. Then again, I liked the "Harry Potter" books so take my opinion for what it's worth.

Picked up Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club" today. I've heard tales of people puking and passing out at readings of some of his other books, can't believe it's taken me this long to get around to reading any of his stuff! I'm curious how the book differs from the movie. I'll let you know if it's any good, just give me a few days to finish some of the other books I'm working on.

"Brief History Of Time" was cool but way over my head in spots, never did finish it but stuff like that fascinates me.

Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" was a good read, slow to start off but well worth it if you can stick it out until it starts rolling. "The Man in The Iron Mask" and "The Count Of Monte Christo" were also really good.

"The Prince" by Nicholo Machiavelli was intriguing but got repetitive so I put it down and never finished it. Going to have to pick it back up again. It's interesting watching politics after reading even part of it, it is required reading for many political science classes and I can see his words in the actions of many politicians.

"How To Talk Dirty And Influence People" by Lenny Bruce was kinda cool. It's a semi-autobiographical account of his life. It veers off into political and public persecution towards the end but the first chunk of it is entertaining,

Been building up my humor section lately, Calvin and Hobbes is always worth a chuckle, as is Far Side. Picked up the first few Garfield books recently, it has been long enough since I read them that they were still kind of fresh but brought back memories of when I was a kid and would get one of his compilations every year at Christmas. Going to pick up the early Bloom County books soon, those were always good for a laugh.

[SuperBuickGuy]

A Dog's Purpose is another in the vein of Marley or The Art of Racing in the Rain.

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Thank you for this one, wow, I really enjoyed it; and I'll recommend "A Dog's Journey" as the conclusion of that 1st book. It's not the sucker punch of Marley (and I think the movie was even worse on that count); and it's similar in style to the Art of Racing in the Rain - even in its conclusion

And I would be remiss not to recommend "Einstein" - what an interesting life and story.

[tedly]

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I read it over a dozen years ago and liked it. Reading it again I was kinda shocked at the parallels between this 50 year old book and todays world.

[TC]

If your into Tech, then I would suggest reading some of David Vizard's books.... I bought 5 of them a few weeks back and have really enjoyed reading them.....

[tedly]

Oh yeah, just finished "Fight Club". Chuck Palahniuk is one twisted dude, the book is even more messed up than the movie. I liked it!

[PatricksDad]

I totally forgot to come back to this thread with some more:

Tech/bio:

Xerox: http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightn...s+of+lightning

Lockheed: http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Pe...=kelly+johnson

Fairchild:http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Behind...s=robert+noyce

[Racingcritters]

SBG,do you buy new,used or hit the library? Couple of these are out of print.
Truck-John Jerome;Roadster-Chris Goodrich;A Hostage to Fortune-Ernest K Gann;Looking For Calvin and Hobbes-Nevin Martell.
Shop Class as Soulcraft-Mathew B Crawford;Amazing Summer of '55-Eoin Young;Longtitude-Dava Sobel.Bill Bryson's books.

[JOES66FURY]

I have opened a buch of books lately but have finished none...none seem to grab my attention.

I really enjoyed this one (car related)

http://www.amazon.com/7th-Day-God-Created-Chevrolet/dp/0945575130

I have enjoyed Richard Marcinkos books, lots of em'

And I LOVE Louis L'amour

[Brian Lohnes]

SBG...did ya have a chance to cruise "The Great Iron Ship"?

Also, Halberstam's "The Reckoning" is an amazing book about the auto industry in the 1980s.

[Bill McGuire]

Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry by Steven Rattner, who led the govt. rescue team.

His description of what ails GM -- structurally and culturally -- is worth the price of admission. Rattner is a Detroit outsider and a non-car guy but he still nailed it.

http://www.amazon.com/Overhaul-Insiders-Administrations-Emergency-Industry/dp/0547443218

[pdub]

Been building up my humor section lately, Calvin and Hobbes is always worth a chuckle, as is Far Side. Picked up the first few Garfield books recently, it has been long enough since I read them that they were still kind of fresh but brought back memories of when I was a kid and would get one of his compilations every year at Christmas. Going to pick up the early Bloom County books soon, those were always good for a laugh.

For the humor section, don't miss Herman. It may not have been a syndicated comic strip in a newspaper near you but back in the day, but we'd buy my daddy a Herman collection book for Christmas every year. He loved those Herman comics so much, in the vein of the Far Side, almost always one frame per each. The one I think he laughed at the hardest ever, dude was in front of his lawyer in a jail room interview. Lawyer says, "If you plead innocent and are found guilty, you'll get 20 years. If you plead guilty you'll get ten years."

Dude in jail stripes answers, "What if I plead very, VERY guilty?"

And I won't try again to promote the Arbinger Institute books to anybody. They got lost down the road somewhere real soon in the BangShift Book Club fray.