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11 November 2010
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Finished The Emperor of All Maladies. Currently reading this:
7 Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin by James Sullivan (2010)
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It’s that time of year again. These are books I’ve read this year.
-Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden (2017)
-It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The 7 Secrets of Awakening the Highly Effective Four-Hour Giant, Today by The Gang (2015)
-My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World by Jeff Garlin (2010)
-Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (1953)
-Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine by Paul A. Offit, M.D. (2015)
-Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku (2011)
-Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado (2015)
-Skeptoid 5: Massacres, Monsters, and Miracles by Brian Dunning (2013)
-Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat by Edward McPherson (2005)
-Crossworld: One Man’s Journey into America’s Crossword Obsession by Marc Romano (2006)
-Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine by Paul A. Offit, M.D. (2013)
-I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne (2010)
-The History of Science by Peter Whitfield (2010)
-Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pick-up Lines and Other Existential Puzzles by Dan Ariely (2015)
-Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (2016)
-Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend by Susan Orlean (2011)
-Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music by John Fogerty (2015)
-The Universal Tone: My Life by Carlos Santana (2014)
-Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship With a Remarkable Man by William Shatner (2016)
-The Emperor of All Maladies: a Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
-7 Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin by James Sullivan (2010)
-Batman: Facts and Stats from the Classic TV Show by Y.Y. Flurch (2016, currently reading)
-The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (1997, currently reading)
-The Chicago White Sox by Warren Brown (1952, continued from 2016, currently reading)
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Offline Re-read You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming not long ago. I first read it at a young age and I could not appreciate it. I found it boring and kept wanting Bond to get to that damn castle. Now at age 29 I can really understand it, relate to it and enjoy it as a wonderful work of literature and not just a thriller.
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9.A Hard Day’s Night 10.Please Please Me 11.Beatles For Sale 12.With The Beatles 13.Yellow Submarine
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8.15pm
11 April 2016
Offline I just recently finished reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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15 November 2018
Offline I’m finishing up Carry On Simon by Rainbow Rowell. It’s kind of fluffy and it reads like a Harry Potter fanfic, but it’s refreshing.
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26 January 2017
Offline My Christmas book haul:
Dominic Sandbrook – Never Had It So Good – A really detailed and interesting history of British life from the mid 50s to about 1963. I’m about halfway through, I’m hoping for some good Beatles coverage later on.
Miles Davis – The Autobiography – Kinda cheating since I did buy this one myself but wow, what a crazy and wild read. I love Miles’ music but in no way did I realise the roller coaster his life was. His tone is earthy and graphic but very sincere and enjoyable.
Jon Sopel – If Only They Didn’t Speak English: Notes From Trump’s America
Luke Harding – Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House
Tony Benn – Arguments for Socialism
Lucy Worsley – Jane Austen at Home
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
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Offline ^ Oh what the hell @QuarryMan we got quite similar books. I read both of Sandbrook’s books about 2 years ago, and I got 2 Worsley books for Christmas:
Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother , Widow
My Name is Victoria
(Can you tell I’m interested in Victoria, a woman who I greatly admire yet despise at the same time).
I am currently reading
I am too early in to give my verdict on it yet.
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26 January 2017
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I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
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17 October 2013
Offline Re-reading Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life.
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15 March 2017
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My first book for 2019 is Appetite for Destruction: Legendary Encounters with Mick Wall by Mick Wall.
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5.35pm
15 November 2018
Offline I am reading an amazing funny book called I Could Pee On This.
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11 April 2016
Offline A recent acquisition, that I was very much inspired to pick up by this song, which I will begin reading soon:
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@WeepingAtlasCedars said
I just recently finished reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Nice, what’d you think? I thought it was depressing as heck. Some of the writing was really beautiful though. 
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15 November 2018
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3.32pm
15 November 2018
Offline Just finished rereading Ender’s Game. I forgot how good it was.
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QuarryMan said
Miles Davis – The Autobiography – Kinda cheating since I did buy this one myself but wow, what a crazy and wild read. I love Miles’ music but in no way did I realise the roller coaster his life was. His tone is earthy and graphic but very sincere and enjoyable.
That was great, but I think I liked Jack Chambers’ bio better. Some of Miles’ opinions are odd – doesn’t he claim that avant-garde jazz was created by white jazz critics to kill the popularity of more mainstream jazz (and reduce black recording artists’ power?) Or something similar…
Bought “The Disaster Artist” yesterday but don’t wanna start it until I finish Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House, which Von Sister gifted me with.
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Elementary PenguinGEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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15 March 2017
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QuarryMan said
Miles Davis – The Autobiography – Kinda cheating since I did buy this one myself but wow, what a crazy and wild read. I love Miles’ music but in no way did I realise the roller coaster his life was. His tone is earthy and graphic but very sincere and enjoyable.That was great, but I think I liked Jack Chambers’ bio better. Some of Miles’ opinions are odd – doesn’t he claim that avant-garde jazz was created by white jazz critics to kill the popularity of more mainstream jazz (and reduce black recording artists’ power?) Or something similar…
Bought “The Disaster Artist” yesterday but don’t wanna start it until I finish Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House, which Von Sister gifted me with.
I quite enjoyed The Disaster Artist when I read it last year.
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12.28pm
26 January 2017
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QuarryMan said
Miles Davis – The Autobiography – Kinda cheating since I did buy this one myself but wow, what a crazy and wild read. I love Miles’ music but in no way did I realise the roller coaster his life was. His tone is earthy and graphic but very sincere and enjoyable.That was great, but I think I liked Jack Chambers’ bio better. Some of Miles’ opinions are odd – doesn’t he claim that avant-garde jazz was created by white jazz critics to kill the popularity of more mainstream jazz (and reduce black recording artists’ power?) Or something similar…
Bought “The Disaster Artist” yesterday but don’t wanna start it until I finish Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House, which Von Sister gifted me with.
Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff along those lines.
The Disaster Artist is brilliant! The film is really great too, I have the poster in my room.
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
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