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Originally Posted by Falcon20
(Post 3004160)
+1 on Baldacci just make sure you start at the beginning of a series
“The Winner” is a great stand alone by him. The Martian Ready Player One both better than their movies were. |
Originally Posted by Humboldt
(Post 3003393)
“In the Garden of Beasts”
Ambassador to Germany in the 1930’s story. |
Originally Posted by velosnow
(Post 3003696)
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
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Originally Posted by deltabound
(Post 3004163)
The Death of the West - Oswald Spengler (org pub 1918, so basically free on a kindle)
Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shosana Zuboff And Forgive Them their Debts; Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year - Michael Hudson (fascinating look at how societies have managed debts over the centuries) Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business - Neil Postman (pub 1985, highly prescient) Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert M. Sapolsky The Way of the Knife (The CIA, A Secret Army, And a War At the Ends of the Earth) - Mark Mazzetti Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety - Eric Schlosser Bad Blood - Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou Haven't read each one, but those I have are great. Anything by M. Hudson |
Originally Posted by StartngOvr
(Post 3004396)
"I'm a Stranger Here Myself" - also by Bill Bryson. Use caution with this one. When I read it, I was literally laughing out loud. Can't read it in public without getting some strange looks!
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-Fate is the Hunter - If it hasn't been said already, I can't believe it. I've read it three times...A must read for any pilot.
-ChickenHawk - Helo pilots in Vietnam -Flying Through Midnight - C-123 pilot doing the Candlestick mission in Vietnam -I'll second anything by Bill Bryson...great stuff. If you're interested in nerding out about Pan-Am in the early days...very interesting books. You'll learn that Pan-Am got to where they did essentially because of illegal backroom deals with the government. -The Long Way Home (Dover) - Pan Am Clipper Crew on their own to get their clipper toe NYC after WW2 starts. -China Clipper -Pan-Am at War |
gulag archipelago
Alejsandr solzhenitsyn if you want to truly understand what hard life is. a world undone G J Meyer best WW1 book you’ll find. enlightenment now steven pinker why/how we are so blessed to live in today’s times the Righteous mind Johnathan Haidt discrimination and disparities Thomas Sowell Free to chose Milton Friedman power to save the wold if you want to understand why nuclear is the key to green energy |
Originally Posted by crewdawg
(Post 3004539)
-Fate is the Hunter - If it hasn't been said already, I can't believe it. I've read it three times...A must read for any pilot.
-ChickenHawk - Helo pilots in Vietnam -Flying Through Midnight - C-123 pilot doing the Candlestick mission in Vietnam -I'll second anything by Bill Bryson...great stuff. If you're interested in nerding out about Pan-Am in the early days...very interesting books. You'll learn that Pan-Am got to where they did essentially because of illegal backroom deals with the government. -The Long Way Home (Dover) - Pan Am Clipper Crew on their own to get their clipper toe NYC after WW2 starts. -China Clipper -Pan-Am at War |
Originally Posted by velosnow
(Post 3003972)
That one has been sitting on the shelf for awhile waiting for a good opportunity, this might be it.
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Originally Posted by Dorn
(Post 3004601)
gulag archipelago
Alejsandr solzhenitsyn if you want to truly understand what hard life is. |
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