What are YOU reading?
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Okay done with Chekhov and other lite reading. Now for the deep deep stuff. Razor Girl by Hiaasen.
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Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" . Boy did the editor failed to do their job. It goes on and on.
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Do you have time to read?
I know the voices in my head aren’t real, but sometimes they have really good ideas…..
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In between the Jones Beach show tracks.
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OK... as long as you have your priorities straight!
I know the voices in my head aren’t real, but sometimes they have really good ideas…..
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The Mismeasure of Man. Stephen J Gould rebuttal to the bell Curve.
Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day Of The Locust and A Cool Million.
Next Jane Austen, Emma.
Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day Of The Locust and A Cool Million.
Next Jane Austen, Emma.
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you should be reading the Concert Thread
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I do. In between breaths.
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Just finished Invitation to a Beheading, and my first Nabokov book. What a ride that was. I'm amazed that I don't see more people talking about this book though. It seems too be overshadowed by Nabokov's Lolita.
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Interesting, what would you say are the biggest points that this book counters in The Bell Curve? Just the race-related IQ conclusions, that low IQ results in poor living conditions, or that IQ is genetic?
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Here’s what I’m in the middle of. Excellent read. The book was purchased by our Veterans Court team and autographed. We will have it available for our veterans court participants if they want to read it.
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In a nutshell Gould says the fault of The Bell Curve is that intelligence is genetic. He argues that the data is distorted by political beliefs. He compared it to the 19TH century in which scientist based intelligence on cranium size.
Now I am reading about writing fiction. Including some Jung and "The Writers Journey" based on Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With A Thousand Faces", which I am also rereading.
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Just finished it. Good book, little repetitive at times. The section on the worker’s suicide reminded me of Bourdain’s suicide.
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Just finished 'Roadies' by Stuart Coupe.
It documents the history of road crews in Australia by looking at the famous and infamous roadies from the 60's to now.
I didn't get a mention (thankfully) but there are quite a few names I did work with or meet in the book.
It documents the history of road crews in Australia by looking at the famous and infamous roadies from the 60's to now.
I didn't get a mention (thankfully) but there are quite a few names I did work with or meet in the book.
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In a surprise two sitting effort I have just devoured From Snow to Ash by Anthony Sharwood.
The blurb:
At the start of the hellish, fiery Australian summer of 2019/20, Walkley Award-winning journalist and suburban dad Anthony Sharwood set off on a journey. Abandoning his post on a busy news website to clear his mind, he solo-trekked the Australian Alps Walking Track, Australia's most gruelling and breathtakingly beautiful mainland hiking trail, which traverses the entirety of the legendary High Country from Gippsland in Victoria to the outskirts of Canberra.
The journey started in a blizzard and ended in a blaze. Along the way, this lifelong lover of the mountains came to realise that nothing would ever be the same - either for him or for the imperilled Australian Alps, a landscape as fragile and sensitive to the changing climate as the Great Barrier Reef.
The blurb:
At the start of the hellish, fiery Australian summer of 2019/20, Walkley Award-winning journalist and suburban dad Anthony Sharwood set off on a journey. Abandoning his post on a busy news website to clear his mind, he solo-trekked the Australian Alps Walking Track, Australia's most gruelling and breathtakingly beautiful mainland hiking trail, which traverses the entirety of the legendary High Country from Gippsland in Victoria to the outskirts of Canberra.
The journey started in a blizzard and ended in a blaze. Along the way, this lifelong lover of the mountains came to realise that nothing would ever be the same - either for him or for the imperilled Australian Alps, a landscape as fragile and sensitive to the changing climate as the Great Barrier Reef.
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I read it - twice - and listened to the audiobook, which is the only audiobook I have enjoyed so much. Generally not a fan of those and prefer reading an actual hard copy book. But he reads/speaks it himself and it was like listening to an old friend. Mr. Lime worked in hotels for 25 years and before I got into office jobs I worked just about every front-of-the-house restaurant position there is, e.g. waitress, hostess, bartender, etc. We spent years in NYC. We just related so hard to all of it.
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Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
Light In August
As I Lay Dying
Light In August
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Children's End Arthur Clarke
Generation Of Swine Hunter Thompson
Generation Of Swine Hunter Thompson
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Our library finally just re-opened and I need to get over there. They were doing order online and pick up outside but it's just not the same as browsing the stacks.