Book recommendations
03-19-2020 | 01:48 PM
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Second on 'The Martian' and 'Ready Player One'. Both are WAY better than their respective movies.
03-19-2020 | 02:46 PM
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03-19-2020 | 02:50 PM
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03-19-2020 | 03:56 PM
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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
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
03-19-2020 | 04:04 PM
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Anything by Bill Bryson is excellent. If you like him also consider McCarthy’s Pub by Pete McCarthy. A story about a mans journey to have a pint in every bar named McCarthy’s in Ireland. Starts a bit slow but becomes one of the funniest books I ever read!
03-19-2020 | 05:11 PM
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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
-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
03-19-2020 | 06:06 PM
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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
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
03-19-2020 | 06:37 PM
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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
-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
03-19-2020 | 07:54 PM
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03-19-2020 | 11:05 PM
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