I'm thinking about reading it again: The Perfect Kill. A Personal History of Assassination, by Robert Bauer. If there's no friends in business (and there isn't) this is the a good primer to deal with annoying shits you have to put up with.
What Are You Currently Reading?
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Four I finished recently:
On Writing by Stephen King. Even if you don't want to be an author, read it. It is quite a mini memoir filled with insightful, funny, and tragic moments.
Your Life by Scot Spooner: this is a one-day read. You can go back and meditate on things chapter by chapter. If you want a kick in the ass to get help, get going or just to start thinking about what you want in life, read it. Seeing a member of a national Special Operations Unit admit he was an addict is empowering. You are not alone. (Future Havok Journal Review)
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamato Musashi (Kaufman translation): Every warrior should read this book as it is written by a champion. The last chapter on no-thing-ness is particularly liberating. Accept your Mission and go forward with it.
High Risk Soldier by Major Terron Wharton: Terron and I were classmates in college and we reconnected as I was transitioning out. Anyone who served in Iraq or Afghanistan should read his book, especially for its honesty. It's the first book I've read about the war since I got out and it took me back to those places, the sights, smells, the joes, all the memories good and bad. He does not embellish or sugarcoat anything, including a suicide attempt. It is brutal, true, and worth the one-day read. (Future Havok Journal review)
On Writing by Stephen King. Even if you don't want to be an author, read it. It is quite a mini memoir filled with insightful, funny, and tragic moments.
Your Life by Scot Spooner: this is a one-day read. You can go back and meditate on things chapter by chapter. If you want a kick in the ass to get help, get going or just to start thinking about what you want in life, read it. Seeing a member of a national Special Operations Unit admit he was an addict is empowering. You are not alone. (Future Havok Journal Review)
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamato Musashi (Kaufman translation): Every warrior should read this book as it is written by a champion. The last chapter on no-thing-ness is particularly liberating. Accept your Mission and go forward with it.
High Risk Soldier by Major Terron Wharton: Terron and I were classmates in college and we reconnected as I was transitioning out. Anyone who served in Iraq or Afghanistan should read his book, especially for its honesty. It's the first book I've read about the war since I got out and it took me back to those places, the sights, smells, the joes, all the memories good and bad. He does not embellish or sugarcoat anything, including a suicide attempt. It is brutal, true, and worth the one-day read. (Future Havok Journal review)
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Is that the Shambala Publishing version of the Kaufman translation, with the excellent artwork around the Kanji calligraphy left faced from the English?
I have 3 translations of the Go Rin No Sho, or did, I may have gifted one away.
No this is just the English text with no artwork. I've seen the artwork version before at B&N. Very nice.
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Hillbilly Elegy. Auto-biographical, semi-sociological, semi-anthropological, the author, who grew up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, joined the Marines, went to OSU and Yale Law. It's a very good book, fast read, and he does a good job explaining the mountain culture, how economics impacts families therein, etc., and how he "escaped." I do find the author a bit of a whiner from time to time (I mean, who among us doesn't have some sort of baggage??), but neither is he an apologist for how he grew up.
For anyone with hillbilly, redneck, country, yokel family, this will hit close to home. I do not have family in the mountains, but I do in rural northern Wisconsin and rural eastern North Carolina, and the "typology" fits.
For anyone with hillbilly, redneck, country, yokel family, this will hit close to home. I do not have family in the mountains, but I do in rural northern Wisconsin and rural eastern North Carolina, and the "typology" fits.
For Christmas I got two books by Ian W. Toll, Pacific Crucible and The Conquering Tide, the first two volumes of what will be a trilogy of the Pacific War. Starting to dig in to volume one and I think I'm going to like it very much.
I read both Musashi and Sun Tzu years ago and both made a profound impression on me, especially the former. (He could kill you with a wooden training sword, that's how good he was).
I'll order Major Wharton's book. War, for all its cracked up to be, for all its moments of courage, sacrifice, honor and brotherhood, is the absolutely most fucked up thing anybody can be involved in. The naked truth is a rare but necessary commodity for our future warriors to have clearer understanding.
I read both Musashi and Sun Tzu years ago and both made a profound impression on me, especially the former. (He could kill you with a wooden training sword, that's how good he was).
I'll order Major Wharton's book. War, for all its cracked up to be, for all its moments of courage, sacrifice, honor and brotherhood, is the absolutely most fucked up thing anybody can be involved in. The naked truth is a rare but necessary commodity for our future warriors to have clearer understanding.
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Just finished Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade (who also authored George Washington's Secret Six). I have a stack of books I need to read, not sure what to start on next...
Whenever I finish a book, I'm always staring at the mountain I have left wondering what to read next. I started using the Goodreads app to help me keep track of what I have and haven't read. Sometimes I just use that and pick the next one on the "To Read" shelf.
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Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris.
Interviews with people like Arnold, Pavel, etc about their habits that make them successful. Drawn in part from his past podcasts.
Must read about what drives these people.
Interviews with people like Arnold, Pavel, etc about their habits that make them successful. Drawn in part from his past podcasts.
Must read about what drives these people.
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He was on Jocko's podcast talking about it, I'm going to throw it in the queue.
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I like it. I would also go to his site or download the podcasts as I do for further education.
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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Goes back and forth between Alan Turing's team (including fictional members) in the 1940s breaking the Enigma, and the fictional grandchildren of two team members in the modern age setting up a data haven in Southeast Asia. (Cuz nothing in SE Asia ever goes to shit.
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Goes back and forth between Alan Turing's team (including fictional members) in the 1940s breaking the Enigma, and the fictional grandchildren of two team members in the modern age setting up a data haven in Southeast Asia. (Cuz nothing in SE Asia ever goes to shit.
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The book of five rings is one of my favorite books. Hagakure is another. If you liked the former, you will probably like the latter.
I recently read Whirlwind. It's an excellent book about the revolutionary war. I highly recommend it.
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Has anyone read Sidney Filson's Night-Walker?
Just finished my 5th or 6th reading of this. I own the paperback, pretty beat up and I don't think this book is in print anymore. I used to e-mail with the author from time to time and she had told me that a screenplay had been written, and a follow up to the original book, but the challenge was getting it published.
Never understand how some things get published, and a book as awesome as this cannot get a sequel put out.
Nightwalker (Onyx): Sidney Filson: 9780451401656: Amazon.com: Books
Just finished my 5th or 6th reading of this. I own the paperback, pretty beat up and I don't think this book is in print anymore. I used to e-mail with the author from time to time and she had told me that a screenplay had been written, and a follow up to the original book, but the challenge was getting it published.
Never understand how some things get published, and a book as awesome as this cannot get a sequel put out.
Nightwalker (Onyx): Sidney Filson: 9780451401656: Amazon.com: Books
Freakonomics for class. Don't waste your time. It's just a gimmicky look at economic incentives to "change the way you look at the world." All of those types of books are pretty much the same. Dont get me wrong, the first one you read is highly uselful and insightful, but essentially, they all say the same thing.
Devildoc
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Good book, a different perspective on what we already know. I have another book I think of as a companion piece, tells about the war from the British perspective, Redcoats and Rebels.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Goes back and forth between Alan Turing's team (including fictional members) in the 1940s breaking the Enigma, and the fictional grandchildren of two team members in the modern age setting up a data haven in Southeast Asia. (Cuz nothing in SE Asia ever goes to shit.
I very much enjoyed this book.
