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    Just finished American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C. White.

    Currently tackling a duo of The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer and William Tecumseh Sherman by James Lee McDonough.

    I can emphatically recommend all three.
    “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” -Krishnamurti

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      Originally posted by Grendel View Post
      "Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War" by - Ben Macintyre

      Watched the 6 episode series recently and figured I needed to read the book. So far so good (5 chapters in).
      I finished the book and enjoyed it. What was the series that you watched.

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      I started reading Anna Karenina as a joke (my wife had to read it in college and hated it). Turns out I really enjoy Tolstoy. The Mrs might have as well, if she hadn't been obliged to consume the whole thing in a few weeks.
      Dulce et decorum est pro comoedia mori

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        Dark Waters the story of the NR-1 the US Navy`s nuclear powered deep submergence research and spy sub. I actually tried to get transferred to her when leaving a stint teaching. Sadly I did not pass muster.
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          I've gone through a few David Grann books lately. The Wager, The Lost City of Z, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, Killers of the Flower Moon and The White Darkness.

          The White Darkness was my favorite but it is very short.

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            Currently reading "V" based on the tv mini series from the 80's.
            Been thinking of watching the show, then happened upon the book at the thrift shop.

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              So, if you get a chance and are into this kind of thing...

              There i was... When nothing happened

              A collection of life stories and avoiding and minimizing violence, from professionals that deal with violence all the time.
              Originally posted by MAr "... Nish deleted it..."
              Originally posted by Painthappy "...I like what nish did..."
              Originally posted by Axel "coffee-fueled, beer-cooled."
              Originally posted by Carp "Nish's two brain cells"
              Master Jar-Jar

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                Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

                Excellent book if you haven't read it. I like how he went back and forth between the Holmes and the worlds fair stories.

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                  A couple on how to build self confidence.

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                    The road to jonestown. I started reading all sorts of cult books after a few visits to “the yellow deli” and getting tricked into attending a rather cultish denomination’s church service last summer.

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                      I’m just finishing up The Count of Monte Cristo and it’s exceeding expectations.

                      I’ve been reading a lot of classics just because they’re classics, so they must be good enough to stick around, and this one really earned it.

                      Edit: Worth the read
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                      Currently reading

                      The Gulag Archipelago

                      its a three-volume non-fiction series written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet dissident. It explores a vision of life in what is often known as the Gulag, the Soviet labour camp system.

                      I read a book that references and sites this book several times and decided to dive more deeply into how society’s evolve into horrific points in history.

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                      • Chuck E Ducky

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                        “Evidently, evildoing also has a threshold magnitude. Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life. He slips, falls back, clambers up, repents, things begin to darken again. But just so long as the threshold of evildoing is not crossed, the possibility of returning remains, and he himself is still within reach of our hope. But when, through the density of evil actions, the result either of their own extreme danger or of the absoluteness of his power, he suddenly crosses that threshold, he has left humanity behind, and without, perhaps, the possibility of return.“

                        I can’t imagine what theses people went through. Imagine making it through a tour of Europe fighting nazis only to be thrown in the Gulag, so European culture didn’t expose the atrocities under Stalin. Nobody was safe from the Gulag.

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                        This is one of the slow reads I’ve been working on. Currently somewhere between half and 2/3s finished. It certainly opens one’s eyes to the reality of Soviet society.

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                        You get to the part about how they treated kids and the results? And how US aide created a Black Market.

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                        World war Z was a page turner for sure. I enjoyed that one I’m a big Zombie nut!

                      Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

                      Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

                      I know that I was supposed to read Where the Red Fern Grows as a kid in school but I never did. Figured I should finally read it as an adult, better late than never I suppose. I might go back and read some of the other books that I was supposed to read for school.

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                        I did not like to read as a kid. I never especially if I was told I had to. Now I really enjoy it. I’m glad my kids enjoy reading I fought it so hard as a kid,

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                        Where the Red Fern grows was the best book I read as a kid. Its a great one.

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                        Leave it at One, the sequel is a trap.
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