What Are You Currently Reading?

[Downtown “Funky Stuff” Malone🍆]

Reading FAA-H-8083-25B, Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge. Suuuuuuper hard to put down...

 

[Gunz]

Still wading through the 400,000+ audio/video/image/document files from the Abbotobad raid. In my spare time. Still haven't encountered UBLs burka porn.

 

[AWP]

burka porn.

Let me know if you need an...uh, nevermind.

 

[CQB]

Still wading through the 400,000+ audio/video/image/document files from the Abbotobad raid. In my spare time. Still haven't encountered UBLs burka porn.

What do they yell out at Muslim strip shows? SHOW US YA FAAACE!!!

 

[Gunz]

 

[NikNifSik]

Just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, pretty awesome western taking place in the 1850s. Its fiction, but keeps a good pace, and is pretty ruthless.

 

[SaintKP]

Just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, pretty awesome western taking place in the 1850s. Its fiction, but keeps a good pace, and is pretty ruthless.

Has to probably be my favorite book next to Atlas Shrugged.

 

[NikNifSik]

Has to probably be my favorite book next to Atlas Shrugged.

Thats funny you say that, when the guy who recommended Blood Meridian to me asked for a recommendation, I gave him Atlas Shrugged. Ive only read it cover to cover once, but I've gone through and read different chapters multiple times throughout the years, depending on what i was needing to hear. d'Anconia still has some of my favorite lines.

 

[SaintKP]

Thats funny you say that, when the guy who recommended Blood Meridian to me asked for a recommendation, I gave him Atlas Shrugged. Ive only read it cover to cover once, but I've gone through and read different chapters multiple times throughout the years, depending on what i was needing to hear. d'Anconia still has some of my favorite lines.

Coincidences are abound right now, I think I've read it twice but like you I'll still go back through and reread certain parts that really stick with me. It's a toss up between d'Anconia and Rearden for me, overall it would probably have to be d'Anconia but as a character I could most identify with in certain aspects it would have to be Rearden.

 

[DC]

Reading Metis by Chris Andersen

 

[Frank S.]

Reading Machiavelli's "The Prince" once more. Appears to be a good translation.

 

[Viper1]

Reading Machiavelli's "The Prince" once more. Appears to be a good translation.

Just that one. Fascinating.

 

[x SF med]

the Chantry Guild, Gordon R. Dickson

 

[Deleted member 2517]

Anyone have a good recommendation for a Putin bio? Or even a general study on the oligarchy of modern Russia?

 

[Dienekes]

Anyone have a good recommendation for a Putin bio? Or even a general study on the oligarchy of modern Russia?

At one point this summer, I saw that Netflix had a documentary on him and his rise to power. I don’t know if it’s still there but it may be useful to you.

Disclaimer: It may or may not be in Russian but will have subtitles

 

[CDG]

Anyone have a good recommendation for a Putin bio? Or even a general study on the oligarchy of modern Russia?

Yes. This is a fascinating book that looks into how exactly Putin came to be in power, when he wasn't exactly someone you would think of as running a country like Russia.

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Without-...&ie=UTF8&qid=1521324548&sr=1-3&keywords=putin

 

[AWP]

Jackie Stewart, Winning is not Enough.

Pimp level = 10. If you are even remotely into racing, go buy this book.

 

[Sendero]

Jackie Stewart, Winning is not Enough.

Pimp level = 10. If you are even remotely into racing, go buy this book.

Do you mind sharing some cliff notes? Sir Stewart sounds like quite the character.

I don't follow F1 but recently started a doc series on Amazon about McLaren's team.

 

[Sendero]

Yes. This is a fascinating book that looks into how exactly Putin came to be in power, when he wasn't exactly someone you would think of as running a country like Russia.

Thank for the recommendation, I ordered it on Amazon.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Just finished Iron Gold by Pierce Brown, part of his Red Rising trilogy. Excellent...sort of like Game of Thrones, you just wish the next book was already written.