What are you reading?

[lovelydivot]

[Johnlenham]

Pressing on with Hells Angels (HST), its not really grabbed me but Im half way through at this point. If I spent less time fucking around on DSF I could finish it faster.

For some reason I bought High Fidelity, having not seen the film that came after it I guess I can go on to complain that the film isnt as good at a later date.

[wub]

52 Books in 52 Weeks - updated 31st October 2013

1) The 4hr Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
2) Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
3) The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J Stanley & William D Danko

Comments on new titles

The Millionaire Next Door - Interesting points re; frugality and asset management, but too many chapters dedicated to the thought process being purchasing big American cars. Overall message of 'big-hat-no-cattle' is a good one to incorporate into a mindset.

[kay]

Re-reading Ender's Game thanks to the movie.

[wub]

52 Books in 52 Weeks - updated 2nd November 2013

1) The 4hr Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
2) Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
3) The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J Stanley & William D Danko
4) The Hard Way - Lee Child

Comments on new titles

The Hard Way - Only Jack Reacher book I hadn't read. Fairly standard stuff, slightly more emphasis on the detective side of things than out and out ass kicking. More accurate representation of London/the UK than most authors that try this sort of thing.

[wub]

52 Books in 52 Weeks - updated 4th November 2013

1) The 4hr Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
2) Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
3) The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J Stanley & William D Danko
4) The Hard Way - Lee Child
5) Starbucked - Taylor Clark

Comments on new titles

Starbucked - Story of Starbucks and how they've essentially thrown out the hippy mentalities and 'values' they had when they first started. Interesting from a random facts point of view, but ultimately disposal, even if you are a fan of coffee or have 'barista' on your CV.

[Sonika]

Aldous Huxley - Doors of Perception (the book also has his essay Heaven and Hell in it)

crazy. I love it

[mIrReN]

fuck it, this week I'm starting to plough through my Russians
or my English books, but my knowledge has been fading

[wub]

52 Books in 52 Weeks - started 30th October 2013
- updated 11th November 2013

1) The 4hr Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
2) Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
3) The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J Stanley & William D Danko
4) The Hard Way - Lee Child
5) Starbucked - Taylor Clark
6) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
7) 61 Hours - Lee Child

Comments on new titles

Fight Club - Shorter than I was expecting, felt the vibe was captured well enough in the film, though couldn't quite disassociate from the adaptation when reading some of the sections, which was frustrating
61 Hours - One of the best in the Reacher series IMO. Ticks all the boxes.

[DRTY]

Mark Stevenson - Optimist's guide to the future

[wub]

52 Books in 52 Weeks - started 30th October 2013
- updated 19th November 2013

1) The 4hr Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
2) Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
3) The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J Stanley & William D Danko
4) The Hard Way - Lee Child
5) Starbucked - Taylor Clark
6) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
7) 61 Hours - Lee Child
8 ) The Master Of Disguise - Antonio J Mendez

Comments on new titles

The Master Of Disguise - Autobiography of the CIA agent who was behind the operation featured in the film Argo. Good description of the early monotony of spy work and how the agency develops to meet new threats.

[kay]

Finally reached the re-reading of the final book in Ender's Saga:


Mildly annoying that there are a couple continuity errors from the what I thought were key points in the 3rd book.

[magma]

Have you watched the movie yet? We keep putting it off due to V loving the book so much she doesn't want to be disappointed...

[kay]

I thought the movie was a worthwhile watch. Some of it is a bit simplified and changed around but the key bits are still there. They did leave out a whole subplot (which becomes more important for the later books) but it was probably justifiable as it would complicate the movie.

I thought the depth of the tragedy of the story might actually have been better captured in the film than the book.

[wub]

52 Books in 52 Weeks - started 30th October 2013
- updated 28th November 2013

1) The 4hr Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
2) Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
3) The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J Stanley & William D Danko
4) The Hard Way - Lee Child
5) Starbucked - Taylor Clark
6) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
7) 61 Hours - Lee Child
8 ) The Master Of Disguise - Antonio J Mendez
9) The Millionaire Fastlane - MJ DeMarco

Comments on new titles

Millionaire Fastlane - Slight overlap with # 1 & 3, good focus on moving away from the plan that's too long.

[Nihilism]

6) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Is the book better than the movie or not?

And winter is coming, so it's time for some Dostojevski and Kafka. But first i'm gonna read Dune from Frank Herbert. Ppl says it's kinda like Blade Runner, so i am gonna definitely read that.

[wub]

6) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Is the book better than the movie or not?

I'd say better, but it's different. Kicking myself for not reading it before I saw the movie many years ago, but what can you do?

Ending is different, how Bob dies is different, plus without the visual manifestation of Durden that the film has, the tone of the book varies in places to put the emphasis more on the narrator's interactions than it does Durden interacting with him.

[nousd]

I'm impressed wub.

Meanwhile I've been reading The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Rittel for months now
heeeavy going
and I'm only up to Stalingrad
makes me wonder about the French character again because it was very popular there...a touch of masochism?

[Nihilism]

I don't know of you are interested in the Holocaust, but House of Dolls of Ka-tzetnik 135633 (it's the name they gave to him in Auschwitz) is also a very good book. It's about joy division, a group of Jewish women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery.

[magma]

I don't know of you are interested in the Holocaust, but House of Dolls of Ka-tzetnik 135633 (it's the name they gave to him in Auschwitz) is also a very good book. It's about joy division, a group of Jewish women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery.

I might give that a look. Primo Levi's The Drowned And The Saved took me a little while to get over, but I think I'm ready for some more holocaust misery.