Book recommendations
04-10-2021, 12:56 PM
#191
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Black Earth, The Holocaust as History and Warning, by Timothy D. Snyder. Very depressing but excellent.
or,
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard. Great synopsis of American immigration since the 1600s, American regional subcultures, and some of the reasons why we fight.
or,
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard. Great synopsis of American immigration since the 1600s, American regional subcultures, and some of the reasons why we fight.
04-10-2021, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Eldee5
Black Earth, The Holocaust as History and Warning, by Timothy D. Snyder. Very depressing but excellent.
or,
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard. Great synopsis of American immigration since the 1600s, American regional subcultures, and some of the reasons why we fight.
or,
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard. Great synopsis of American immigration since the 1600s, American regional subcultures, and some of the reasons why we fight.
(It's like Albion's Seed, only you don't have to take a year off to read it. )
For the depressing: "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" David Wallace-Wells. Want to know why a whole generation of kids feels like all hope is lost, read this book.
04-12-2021, 08:12 PM
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May have already been said...
Make Your Bed by ADM William McRaven...quick read and extremely motivational. It changed some habits and got rid of some bad ones for me...
War by Sebastian Junger was good too
a big fan of all the Bill O’Reilly books too, just finished Killing the SS
Make Your Bed by ADM William McRaven...quick read and extremely motivational. It changed some habits and got rid of some bad ones for me...
War by Sebastian Junger was good too
a big fan of all the Bill O’Reilly books too, just finished Killing the SS
05-01-2021, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Scoop
Two books that will change the way you eat and shop for food for the better:
Big Fat Surprise - A great book very well written and easy to read. Tells the story of how the U.S. got it so wrong regarding food and nutrition.
Deep Nutrition- Very educational and a bit more technical but lots of important information.
I enjoyed both and wish I would have known this information 30 years ago.
Scoop
Big Fat Surprise - A great book very well written and easy to read. Tells the story of how the U.S. got it so wrong regarding food and nutrition.
Deep Nutrition- Very educational and a bit more technical but lots of important information.
I enjoyed both and wish I would have known this information 30 years ago.
Scoop
07-01-2021, 06:01 PM
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"Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty" - Patrick Radden Keefe.
Watch in horror as a very philanthropic family (the Sacklers...aka "Purdue Pharmaceuticals") donate untold millions to medical facilities (Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv, + many others), art museums (Sackler wing at MOMA Temple of Darfur, NYC; the Louve, etc.), and 1st tier universities (Harvard, and many more) all over the world from profits garnered selling:
Valium
Morphine-in-a-pill (MS Contin)
Synthetic Heroin (!) as "OxyContin"
Killing/addicting hundreds of thousands, if not millions, while pocketing BILLIONS on the profits. And successfully bamboozling the FDA and manipulating family doctors for well over 5 decades and over multiple generations of the Sackler family. "Luminaries" such as Comey, Eric Holder, Rudy Guillani all in it up to their necks. (Probably 100% "ethically", however)
Fascinating book, meticulously researched from a well respected author. Highly recommended and a great read. Get it from the local library or wait until the price comes down a bit.
Pablo Escobar looks like a piker compared to this dynasty.
https://www.bookdepository.com/Empir...0826769&sr=1-2
Watch in horror as a very philanthropic family (the Sacklers...aka "Purdue Pharmaceuticals") donate untold millions to medical facilities (Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv, + many others), art museums (Sackler wing at MOMA Temple of Darfur, NYC; the Louve, etc.), and 1st tier universities (Harvard, and many more) all over the world from profits garnered selling:
Valium
Morphine-in-a-pill (MS Contin)
Synthetic Heroin (!) as "OxyContin"
Killing/addicting hundreds of thousands, if not millions, while pocketing BILLIONS on the profits. And successfully bamboozling the FDA and manipulating family doctors for well over 5 decades and over multiple generations of the Sackler family. "Luminaries" such as Comey, Eric Holder, Rudy Guillani all in it up to their necks. (Probably 100% "ethically", however)
Fascinating book, meticulously researched from a well respected author. Highly recommended and a great read. Get it from the local library or wait until the price comes down a bit.
Pablo Escobar looks like a piker compared to this dynasty.
https://www.bookdepository.com/Empir...0826769&sr=1-2
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07-01-2021, 06:15 PM
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"Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II" - George MacDonald Fraser. (*)
Get the Audiobook, because, my god, the British wit shines through with the narrator's correct pronunciation/dialect of all the accents (British, Welsh, Scottish, Nepalese, Indian, many more) and sayings.
This is one of the best war novels I've ever listened to; a personal memoir of a British soldier in the Pacific theatre of WWII (Burma). Funny as heck; will appeal to any man born in the US under 40, doubly so to the military guys.
https://www.amazon.com/Quartered-Saf...=UTF8&qid=&sr=
I quote: [British accent] "Tsk, tsk. Clummmmsy clummmsy" - from a British captain who pulled out a mortar round of a tube that was inserted improperly and would've killed the fire team if he hadn't jumped on it immediately...then immediately continued the sneak attack on river boats with a weapon designed to take out tanks, not patrol boats.
Made me want to enlist. For WWII. With the Brits. Limey Bastards.
(*) - G. MacDonald Fraser is famous/infamous for his "Flashman" pulp fiction novels. Those are darkly humorous, describing a very fictional character of a ner-do-well British officer when the sun never set on the British Empire. Very, very problematic to the woke, and satire, for those who can't grasp a pointed critique. Start with the biography.
Get the Audiobook, because, my god, the British wit shines through with the narrator's correct pronunciation/dialect of all the accents (British, Welsh, Scottish, Nepalese, Indian, many more) and sayings.
This is one of the best war novels I've ever listened to; a personal memoir of a British soldier in the Pacific theatre of WWII (Burma). Funny as heck; will appeal to any man born in the US under 40, doubly so to the military guys.
https://www.amazon.com/Quartered-Saf...=UTF8&qid=&sr=
I quote: [British accent] "Tsk, tsk. Clummmmsy clummmsy" - from a British captain who pulled out a mortar round of a tube that was inserted improperly and would've killed the fire team if he hadn't jumped on it immediately...then immediately continued the sneak attack on river boats with a weapon designed to take out tanks, not patrol boats.
Made me want to enlist. For WWII. With the Brits. Limey Bastards.
(*) - G. MacDonald Fraser is famous/infamous for his "Flashman" pulp fiction novels. Those are darkly humorous, describing a very fictional character of a ner-do-well British officer when the sun never set on the British Empire. Very, very problematic to the woke, and satire, for those who can't grasp a pointed critique. Start with the biography.
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07-02-2021, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Bainite
About halfway through Deep Nutrition, fascinating and scary! That chick sure hates the vegetable oil!
For good reason - that stuff is nasty and marketed as Heart Healty which is totally bogus. The drug makers ( see post 195 above) got nothing on the food industry when it comes to putting profits over health.
Just released a couple of months ago is: Metabolical by Robert Lustig. If you want to become knowledgeable about nutrition related health issues check it out:
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Metabolical
07-02-2021, 10:31 AM
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Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
I myself am not a huge book reader but found this book quite informative and made me think differently about how sleep is important to our health and wellbeing. After reading this it makes me feel great about not picking an airline where I would always be on the back of the clock. I can't recommend it enough!
Another good informative book
The Obesity Code by Jason Fung
I myself am not a huge book reader but found this book quite informative and made me think differently about how sleep is important to our health and wellbeing. After reading this it makes me feel great about not picking an airline where I would always be on the back of the clock. I can't recommend it enough!
Another good informative book
The Obesity Code by Jason Fung
07-02-2021, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by SurelySerious
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
I myself am not a huge book reader but found this book quite informative and made me think differently about how sleep is important to our health and wellbeing. After reading this it makes me feel great about not picking an airline where I would always be on the back of the clock. I can't recommend it enough!
I myself am not a huge book reader but found this book quite informative and made me think differently about how sleep is important to our health and wellbeing. After reading this it makes me feel great about not picking an airline where I would always be on the back of the clock. I can't recommend it enough!
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
Amazing story of a ridiculously brave American woman who spied for the SOE and later OSS in France during WW2. Amazing story made even more amazing by the fact she did all this with a prosthetic leg. Great piece of history.
07-02-2021, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by crewdawg
Great book and one I read right as rona started while I was still on a WB. It's part of the reason I passed up reinstatement. I'm not saying I won't go back, but I'm in no hurry until I can have some good seniority to pick and choose my trips.
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
Amazing story of a ridiculously brave American woman who spied for the SOE and later OSS in France during WW2. Amazing story made even more amazing by the fact she did all this with a prosthetic leg. Great piece of history.
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
Amazing story of a ridiculously brave American woman who spied for the SOE and later OSS in France during WW2. Amazing story made even more amazing by the fact she did all this with a prosthetic leg. Great piece of history.
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