death tribble Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 The Outsider. The autobiography of Jimmy Conners. The all time tournament winner talks about his life and it is an entertaining and fast read. I recall his 2nd Wimbledon title against McEnroe with great affection. It's very good but it helps if you liked Conners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 I just finished Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines. It had superheroes and zombies! What more could you want? It really was an exciting and compelling book. It was a fast read, and truly a lot of fun. I loved the character of St. George. bigbywolfe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 Blood Work, A Tale of Medicine and Murder Essentially the story of how the development of blood transfusion was delayed for 150 years by massive freakouts at the idea. The murder part comes with an experiment in using transfusion to treat a violently crazy guy who was then poisoned by his wife who was not thrilled to have her violently insane spouse back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 I just finished Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines. It had superheroes and zombies! What more could you want? It really was an exciting and compelling book. It was a fast read, and truly a lot of fun. I loved the character of St. George. I see now that I have not read the title of this thread very well. Obviously, Ex-Heroes is not a Non-Fiction book. Oh well...sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaze9999 Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 [h=1]The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities [bargain Price][Hardcover][/h] Matthew White Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 I listen to audiobooks when I'm in the car and get through a lot of material I would never have taken the time to read. For example, my most recent autobiography was Just a Guy by Bill Engvall. It wasn't spectacular but it was entertaining and had a bit of real emotion mixed in with the humor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaze9999 Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 [h=1]The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities [bargain Price][Hardcover][/h] Matthew White I liked it alot! Wry humor in the writing and nice statistical survey of history by biggest body count countdown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 Rod Stewart's autobiography. This is pretty upto date as well. It details all his bad behaviour as well as things you did not know. Very entertaining. bigbywolfe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 Wings The RAF at war 1912-2012 by Patrick Bishop. From the founding of the service as the RFC to the modern day. Very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg Good inside look at prison from a rarely seen perspective. Pimps make the best librarians...who knew? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 Total Recall the autobiography of Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's very good but you can see why some people don't like him. A good read of a long life in the spotlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 "Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right", the autobiography of Claire Conner, who was raised by fanatical supporters of the John Birch Society. More on that at my review blog: http://www.skjam.com/2013/08/26/book-review-wrapped-in-the-flag-a-personal-history-of-americas-radical-right/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 25, 2013 Report Share Posted October 25, 2013 Homicide: A Year on the Killing streets by Dan Simon. This is the book that became the TV series Homicide with Yaphet Kotto. If you are familiar with The Wire then a lot of names and things come into the series from the book. Very good and very human. Dan spent a year with the Baltimore Homicide squad and saw all sorts of things. From the politics to the coroner work to the way the detectives make and break cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted October 25, 2013 Report Share Posted October 25, 2013 "Rot, Riot, and Rebellion" by Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos, a history of the University of Virginia's early years. If anyone tells you that today's college students are lazy, entitled, disrespectful and violent, refer them to this book. A full review at http://www.skjam.com/2013/10/14/book-review-rot-riot-and-rebellion-mr-jeffersons-struggle-to-save-the-university-that-changed-america/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Last three books I've finished - Dad is Fat - Jim Gaffigan: amusing look at life with six kids and a tiny New York apartment. He works a bit of his stand up into it. Goodmorning Nantwich - Phil Jupitus: Autobigraphy of UK comedian/radio DJ mainly concerned with his radio show. Fun and interesting. Backstory - David Mitchell: another autobiography about a UK Comedian. Funny and sentimental. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Krakatoa, by Simon Winchester. Quite possibly very useful for getting atmosphere details for a steampunk/Victorian campaign set in the colonial tropics, even without the rather interesting geophysics . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 I haven't actually finished it yet but I am reading "The Comic Book Heroes" by Gerard Jones and Will Jacobs. I find it fascinating because it is not so much about the heroes themselves than about the industry of comics and the people who created, write and draw the characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 Just finished chapter 18 of "Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice" (American Psychiatric Press)... Oh wait, this is for reading. I actually wrote that. Never mind. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 The Wire. Truth be Told. A guide to the series, the people, the episodes and the place. If you love The Wire, and I do, then this is brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 "The Rookie's Guide to Guns & Shooting: Handgun Edition" by Tom McHale. Exactly what it sounds like. And as long as it sticks to guns and shooting, it's pretty good. Everything else... See my full review at http://www.skjam.com/2014/03/07/book-review-the-rookies-guide-to-guns-shooting-handgun-edition/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 CompTIA Network+ (Exam N10-005) author tries to give the subject some pep, but it's a text book on a dry subject. I passed so it did its job well enough. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 "Will to Live" by Les Stroud, perhaps better known as "Survivorman" on the Discovery Channel. Les recounts several instances of people stuck in survival situations, including himself, and comments on what they did or could have done better during their ordeal. These include the Andes plane crash survivors who had to resort to cannibalism to survive; Chris McCandless, who sought to live on his own in the Alaskan wilderness; the Robertson family who were adrift at sea for 38 days; and others. The main takeaways from the book are the importance of recognizing when you're in a survival situation, constantly working proactively to better one's situation in those circumstances, and above all maintaining a determination to survive. A pretty gripping read that does what it says on the jacket, but seems slightly incomplete, as though it needs to be supplemented with some more complete straightforward survival advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 100 Battles. From Ancient times to modern. Includes the obvious like Waterloo, Stalingrad, Alesia, Gaugalama, Pearl Harbor, Boradino, Midway and Inchon and ones that will have you going what ? like Panipat and Lepanto. Some have nice maps showing the way the battle went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 ... ones that will have you going what ? like Panipat and Lepanto.??? How could you possibly not know about Lepanto?!? Woof, of the ones you name, Pearl Harbor doesn't belong at all, as a battle, anyway. As arguably the greatest strategic blunder ever made, perhaps it does, but as a battle, not so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Sure it does. It was rather one-sided but had huge strategic and historic ramifications. Spence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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