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    Blood and Thunder : The story of Kit carson and the final indian wars in the west.

    God damn nonfiction reads like this make me think 95% of us wouldn't make it in the gritty murderous world that was here just a few generations ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Asspen View Post
    God damn nonfiction reads like this make me think 95% of us wouldn't make it in the gritty murderous world that was here just a few generations ago.
    I'll be the first to admit that in the coming apocalypse, I'm a dead man.
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    I love tiny library's. Picked up and dropped off a few great reads over the years

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    Quote Originally Posted by Asspen View Post
    Blood and Thunder : The story of Kit carson and the final indian wars in the west.

    God damn nonfiction reads like this make me think 95% of us wouldn't make it in the gritty murderous world that was here just a few generations ago.
    Agreed. I read a lot of historical ahit like that and feel like a pansie ass.
    "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mazderati View Post
    Word

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Reverend Floater View Post
    Agreed. I read a lot of historical ahit like that and feel like a pansie ass.
    Like John Wesley Powell with one fucking arm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by byates1 View Post
    I love tiny library's. Picked up and dropped off a few great reads over the years
    yup, i usually swap 4 books at a time sometimes you find a gem,

    but even if you don't just quit reading the book

    cuz it costs you zero to go back and exchange for another book or 4
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    The last traverse, about hiking in the white mountains in NH. The hikers seem kinda gumby though.

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    I stare at my ballsack a lot you illiterate jackass.
    Good thread in right forum when you learn how to read you piece of shit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mazderati View Post
    Heya

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodsy View Post
    I stare at my ballsack a lot you illiterate jackass.
    Good thread in right forum when you learn how to read you piece of shit
    Is that one book or two?

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    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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    In the past year-ish:

    PIHKAL, Alendander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
    TIKHAL, Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
    Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties, Tom O'Neill
    Breath, James Nestor
    Superlative, Matthew LaPlante
    Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To, Dr. David Sinclair
    Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky
    Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic, Sandra Kahn and Paul Ehrlich
    Drug Use for Grown-Ups, Dr. Carl Hart

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    Just finished book 2 of revelation space trilogy by Alastair Reynolds. Great hard scifi.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by schindlerpiste View Post
    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."
    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.

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    Just started American Prometheus. Robert Oppenheimers life story.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamond Joe View Post
    Its too bad there's not, like, a forum for Books. and Music. and Movies.
    That's crazy. What would you call it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by schindlerpiste View Post
    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.
    that and Burmese Days have still relevant images of luxury I think

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamond Joe View Post
    Its too bad there's not, like, a forum for Books. and Music. and Movies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mazderati View Post
    Seriously people

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    Remain in Love, by Chris Frantz

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