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Just finished Lies My Teacher Told Me. Like any other history book, it can be a bit dry but it is very revealing about what most of us do not know about American history.

I am now reading Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle (read it when I was a teen, so this is a re-read).
 
Final Confessions of NFL Assassin Jack Tatum by Jack Tatum

It is a very hard to find tome that I thankfully found in a box of Dad's old books that never got unpacked after his last move. I also found an old book of the early days of the Saints by. Wayne Mack (Saga of the Saints). Looking forward to reading that one, too.

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Found my next read.

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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words are the tool used to convince people to pick up the sticks and stones.
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Bleu Raeder said:
Just finished Lies My Teacher Told Me. Like any other history book, it can be a bit dry but it is very revealing about what most of us do not know about American history.

I am now reading Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle (read it when I was a teen, so this is a re-read).
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Finished up Cat's Cradle and The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece and have moved on to the Star Trek Coda trilogy and I am now mostly through book one.
 
Kinda’ random, but I’ve been getting back into TTRPGs (tabletop role playing games) so I’m reading “ The Monsters Know What They’re Doing” (by Keith Amman). Also still slogging through John Lyndon’s autobiography “Anger is an Energy”

Tough read as it is in need of serious editing.
 
Just finished Watergate - A New History by Garrett Graff. Recommended by Superchuck. It was great. I learned a lot about a scandal that happened before my time. It runs such parallels to the Trump Presidency.

Looking for a recommendation of a J. Edgar Hoover book. Something tells me that's also a fascinating read. I'm sure there are a tons of them, so wondering what's your favorite?
 
Recent books on tape
The prequel to His Dark Materials

Before that was the inside Marvel book

Before that was the second of the First Law series- I’d read the trilogy years before and I heard the narrator was good (he is). Enjoyed revisiting the first one, but for some reason I got meh halfway through the second- won’t be finishing the trilogy

Before that was Inverting the Pyramid- a history of soccer formations - pretty fascinating

Before that was Memory’s Legion - it’s a collection of ancillary short stories from The Expanse 9 book series (great books great narrator)
Before that were books 7-9 of that series
I’d watched the six seasons of the show and read the first book- went to the books on tape when Amazon decided they weren’t going to finish the series
 
Finishing up Brave New World (re-reading, first read as a teenager) and then will go with something lighter.
 
Currently on a Hard Sci-Fi bender.

Just finished The Sparrow. Not great. A poor attempt at hard sci fi. Barely good enough to finish it.

In the middle of The Black Cloud. Better, fairly realistic, at least the human side so far. A classic.

Just bought Three Body Problem. Can't wait to start it.
 
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FWIW, I thought

Book 1: pretty dull and difficult to understand
Book 2: Amazing - great build up, great hook
Book 3: pretty dull and rambling
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Yeah Sparrow has
planet around Alpha Centari growing plans that we can eat cause they have the same DNA. That’s weak “hard” sci fi. And the Jesuit angle petered out.

Disappointed to hear 3BP is dull - I thought it was supposed to be good…
 

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