lmao
“the things we carried” by tim o’brien
I read Slash’s book about a month ago. It was pretty good but just seemed to end. I know his life isn’t over but the book just seemed to stop for some reason to me. I bought “The Chris Farley Show” today. I’ll let everyone know how that goes.
the game, by neil strauss notch dc5 told me about this book and its great, i hate reading but i usually find myself reading some of it everyday
I just read Double or Nothing: How Two Friends Risked It All to Buy One of Las Vegas’ Legendary Casinos.
Amazingly good book. I actually read the whole book in two sittings, and usually I get bored with books, and never end up finishing them. Definitely a must read.
From Publishers Weekly
In less than a decade, friends Tom Breitling (the conservative one) and Tim Poster (the risk taker) founded a successful Internet travel business and sold it for millions. Then in 2003, the pair bought the legendary and past-its-prime Golden Nugget casino for $215 million. Las Vegas has always been a magnet for anyone who wanted to take his life to a new place, Breitling explains. It embraced anyone who wanted to take a risk and wanted to make it better. His account of those heady, hardworking times features a doomed reality show; an arrogant, very lucky gambler dubbed Mr. Royalty; and appearances by the likes of Steve Wynn and Andre Agassi. It’s astounding, with such volatile circumstances and a Vegas backdrop, that Breitling’s book is so bland. His average-guy approach loses its flavor quickly as his narrative trades insight for clunky, oft-repeated metaphors in which the author compares himself to a point guard in basketball. What should be a story of two young guys trying to steer a risky business in America’s playground reads too often like a business seminar transcript with hint of a scandal.
I just started “The Brothers Karamazov” by Dostoyevsky. So far its been a really great book.
At home:
It’s a study of the industrialization of food. Animals fed things that they haven’t evolved to eat, crops that get their fuel from fossil fuels instead of nature, is half the stuff on the labels of most of what we eat really “food?”
At work on my lunch break:
Yeah. Kinda boring. Not too bad.
Next on the list:
Maybe grow until you die or take over the world isn’t the best way afterall?
While some of you are barely literate, I’m sure there are others who choose to enrich their minds in their spare time. What are YOU reading right now?
I read these and more about 3- 10k times a night.
Just recently finished…
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Found it to be INCREDIBLE. Very gripping and interesting.
Currently I am reading a book for the upcoming school year.
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas by Diane Wilson.
It’s not all that great. Not horrible, but it has yet to involve me much.
^^^ beat me to it by 5 mins
The Last Town on Earth
and
Intellectual Devotional (sporadically)
this thread :gotme:
Do you even know how to read?
edit: this again
then this
and im not religious one bit