Books-What are you reading?

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Originally Posted by schindlerpiste

Has anyone here read White Trash by Nancy Isenberg?
Written in Written (or published) during the 2016 POTUS campaign, The NY TIMES states, "Formidable and truth -dealing...An eloquent volume that is more discomforting and more necessary than a semitrailer filled with new biographies of the founding fathers and the most beloved presidents."

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Very good book--it explains that the US has had a white underclass since Jamestown and how that fact explains a lot about the US today. It is fairly dry and academic reading.

I recently read The Color of Law, about the history of redlining, segregation, and the barriers to home ownership by Black people imposed by Federal, state, and local laws--in places outside the South, like California. Current reading is Nature's Mutiny, which is about the Little Ice Age, and blames it for the switch from European economies based on subsistence tenant farming to economies based on agriculture for profit, capitalism, and the Industrial Revolution. That may be true, but halfway through the book the author hasn't made the case. I need to read more fun stuff.

Just started American Prometheus. Robert Oppenheimers life story.

2 years ago I bought a kindle. Using the overdrive app I can check our books from the library online. Total game changer. Not only do I have online access to a huge amount of books. Kindle allows me to read in bed without a light that disturbs my lady. I can read until I fall asleep (like literally fall asleep with kindle in my hand) and the device keeps the page where I fell asleep. Also has ability to cross reference/look up via online search engine events, people, definitions. Also with my Amazon prime subscription I can read the Economist. Highly recommend purchasing one to anyone who likes to read.


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Its too bad there's not, like, a forum for Books. and Music. and Movies.

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Originally Posted by Diamond Joe

Its too bad there's not, like, a forum for Books. and Music. and Movies.

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That's crazy. What would you call it?

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Originally Posted by schindlerpiste

I don't know why I have not read this before now, but George Orwell's first book, Down and Out In Paris and London tells an interesting story that is well worth the time. It is an autobiographical account of Orwell's time spent living in poverty and homeless probably in the early '30s. It is an easy read and I enjoyed it enough to recommend here.

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that and Burmese Days have still relevant images of luxury I think

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Originally Posted by Diamond Joe

Its too bad there's not, like, a forum for Books. and Music. and Movies.

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Somebody’s whities are too tighty

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Originally Posted by Mazderati

I was just reading this thread.

https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...hlight=reading

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Seriously people

https://youtu.be/I1_6FlQfbho

Remain in Love, by Chris Frantz

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Waltzing the Cat, by Pam Houston

in process.....

The last Campaign. Sherman, Geronimo and the war for America. by H.W. Brands

Just finished "The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944" What a soap opera clusterfk of egos, mistakes and misery.

Most of the way through Peking to Paris: A Journey Across Two Continents in 1907 (after rewatching Long Way Round/Down/Up) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...eking-to-paris

About to dive into the Alexandria Quartet - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...andria_Quartet

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Originally Posted by Cisco Kid

Just finished "The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944" What a soap opera clusterfk of egos, mistakes and misery.

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Guns At Last Light is really good. I like Atkinson

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson is worth checking out. It's a true story about a heist of rare bird specimens by an obsessive fly tyer looking for feathers from extinct/endangered birds. Goes deep on both fly tying and natural history.

Old book. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Michael Chabon is a great writer

^i occasionally go back and re-read one part of that book that I especially enjoyed - don’t want to spoil it - but yeah that guy is talented.

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Originally Posted by altacoup

2 years ago I bought a kindle. Using the overdrive app I can check our books from the library online. Total game changer. Not only do I have online access to a huge amount of books. Kindle allows me to read in bed without a light that disturbs my lady. I can read until I fall asleep (like literally fall asleep with kindle in my hand) and the device keeps the page where I fell asleep. Also has ability to cross reference/look up via online search engine events, people, definitions. Also with my Amazon prime subscription I can read the Economist. Highly recommend purchasing one to anyone who likes to read.


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I too am onboard. I live overseas so it makes my access to English books that much easier as well.

Yeah, I get almost all my ebooks using Overdrive. Lots of times I'll need to place a hold and wait several weeks until the title is available, but no big deal. I've always got something to read. I very strongly prefer reading on a Kindle to reading a printed book.

I just finished and enjoyed Path Lit by Lightening, a recent book on the life of Jim Thorpe. Highly recommend.

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Originally Posted by The AD

Yeah, I get almost all my ebooks using Overdrive. Lots of times I'll need to place a hold and wait several weeks until the title is available, but no big deal. I've always got something to read. I very strongly prefer reading on a Kindle to reading a printed book.

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I use Libby but same same. I'm on the same page - I like the Kindle more than a book for so many reasons. When I find myself reading a paperback - or magazine - I sometimes end up trying to 'hightlight' the text with my finger like I do on the Kindle. :)

Unmasking The Klansman by Dan T. Carter

"Trail of the Lost" by Andrea Lankford. Searching for missing hikers on the PCT. She is also the author of "Ranger Confidential," which I edited years ago, so when I saw this in the bookstore the other day I bought it. Very interesting read so far.

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Originally Posted by fool

I use Libby but same same. I'm on the same page - I like the Kindle more than a book for so many reasons. When I find myself reading a paperback - or magazine - I sometimes end up trying to 'hightlight' the text with my finger like I do on the Kindle. :)

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I have definitely done that too lol


I’m reading Origins by Lewis Dartnell and have been highlighting the heck out of it
It basically traces how plate tectonics impacted various eras and civilizations.
I read a lot of geography and history and this one is a page turner with some new stuff I did not know prior as well as some better explanations of systems and cycles than I have read in the past
Highly rec if any of you are into that stuff

^ooh yeah thanks adding that one to the list

Serious reading: the technology trap by Carl Benedict frey is a great actual history of tech through the lens of societal and economic factors
Stand out of our light by James Williams is a cutting take on the attention economy
Fun reading:
This is how you lose the time war is a wonderful fever dream. Go in blind.
Scholomance and uprooted by Naomi Novik were delightful distractions.

Currently working through dogs of war (meh) and some of Noviks other works. Serious reading has slowed as work has gotten busy as I do a ton there.

Probably gonna try and read Doppelganger: a trip into the mirror world, by Naomi Klein.

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Originally Posted by babybear

I have definitely done that too lol


I’m reading Origins by Lewis Dartnell and have been highlighting the heck out of it
It basically traces how plate tectonics impacted various eras and civilizations.
I read a lot of geography and history and this one is a page turner with some new stuff I did not know prior as well as some better explanations of systems and cycles than I have read in the past
Highly rec if any of you are into that stuff

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Thanks for that.

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Originally Posted by babybear

I have definitely done that too lol


I’m reading Origins by Lewis Dartnell and have been highlighting the heck out of it
It basically traces how plate tectonics impacted various eras and civilizations.
I read a lot of geography and history and this one is a page turner with some new stuff I did not know prior as well as some better explanations of systems and cycles than I have read in the past
Highly rec if any of you are into that stuff

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As a student of history and geography you might enjoy this one that I found fascinating:
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World, by Simon Winchester

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I will toss in two non-fiction titles

First A Life Wild and Perilous by Robert Utley chronicles the fur trappers of the early 1800s and their role in settling the west.

Second is Mindf*ck by Christopher Wylie, a cofounder of Cambridge Analytica. He covers how CA gained access to the Facebook profiles of 87 million Americans, and how they weaponized that data, using money from Robert Mercer and strategic leadership from Steve Bannon, to fuck with the BREXIT vote and the 2016 presidential elections.

I loved The Great Alone By Kristen Hannah - Great story teller and takes place in PNW and Alaska.
Rereading for the third time The River Why. I love this book and it gets better every time. I gave it to my wife when we first started dating and told her if she understands Gus, then she'll be OK with me...

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Originally Posted by boltonoutlaw

As a student of history and geography you might enjoy this one that I found fascinating:
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World, by Simon Winchester

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Thank you for the rec- I’ve read this one already and it was excellent.
I think I’ve read all of Simon Winchester’s at this point.
I recently got pretty excited because I saw he had a new book out on the Mississippi - The end of the river- but turns out that it was just mini book. Still good and I think it was free with Amazon prime

Junior Bounous and the Joys of Skiing.

Not only should every skier read this great book, but it is a must for all Utah residents, and anyone interested in mountain history. The guy is a living legend, and a powder skiing/teaching pioneer