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on almost any forum the off-topic section tends to be one of the busiest/most active sub-forums. posters get to "know" each other and branch out. similar interests and all.
young, idealistic, a dreamer. had he lived I am sure by his 30s or 40s he would have a different outlook.
To be fair I read it 12 years ago haha
Enemy at the Gates is a great military history book about the battle for Stalingrad in WWII. (It’s very different from the movie of the same name.) The battle was insane and considered to be the turning point of the war. Consider 729,000 died in this one battle. (Compared to 407,000 Americans in the entire war.)
I don't disagree that he doesn't come across particularly well at times. but I view him as intelligent, a dreamer, very idealistic, disillusioned with the modern world and wanted to escape. I think a lot of young people feel that to varying degrees. but very few actually give up everything (he came from an upper middle class family and graduated from Emory) and chase that feeling. most of us rebel in our own way and then eventually grow up
Agreed. I think the movie works better than the book. Or at least that’s how I remember it
Just finished Bad Blood, a nonfiction account of the Theranos blood testing scandal. I was first drawn to it because I work in a similar industry but it's actually a very compelling read, written by the guy from the Wall Street Journal who originally broke the story back in 2013.
There's an HBO documentary on it as well that just came out.
Enjoy reading Hemingway. I'm partial to A Farewell to Arms which is a favorite. I even remember where I bought that book. Got Farewell and Moveable Feast, ironically, at Shakespeare and Company when I was in Paris Christmas 1988.
My favorite Hemingway work, though, is The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Great short story.
Talking about Krakauer books but I may be unpopular in that I liked Missoula: the book about the rape scandal with the Univ of Montana football team. Well, I won't say I liked or enjoyed it, but it was a strong work IMO.
I've spent some time in Montana and been to Missoula a couple of times so maybe that's why I paid more attention to it, but if you can read it and not have a bit more empathy for the victim anytime something comes up about football players being accused of bad stuff, then I wonder about ya. This didn't happen at a power 5 billionaire program with 5 star future NFL players. People get tribally protective of Div 2 hometown boys just the same.
Good book on how the mind works:
https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214484/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=range&qid=1564165894&s=gateway&sr=8-3
Thought it was fantastic. Essential read for anyone who wondered why a certain young woman would wait to come forward with her allegations
Have you read "Death in the afternoon" it's Hemingway's treatise on bullfighting from 1900- 1930 . Never read anything about bullfighting before but found it fascinating.
Been reading books by Robert Caro since I like history. The author himself has an interesting story. He says that he is not a biographer but interested in how men obtain power. Robert Moses built much of NYC and he also wrote a few books on LBJ.
I'm a history buff myself..not so much recent stuff but I've heard that Caro's LBJ books are incredible so I'm planning to give him a shot one of these days.
I probably posted this a long time and many pages ago but I'll refresh it.
If you haven't read Ron Chernow's biography on George Washington and you enjoy such historical biographies I implore you to read it. Don't expect any sanitized yarns involving cherry trees or a saintly, selfless man only concerned with others though. This is a magnificent warts and all chronical and for my taste 1000 times more rewarding than some dishonest fantasy.
Another good read is John Toland's last 100 Days, it's a chronical of the final 3 plus months of The European Campaign ending in Germany's surrender.
On the other side of the world William Manchester was fighting with ''The Raggedy Assed Marines in The Pacific which he wrote about 30 years later resulting in the wonderful book Goodbye Darkness.
I'll end this post with a strong recommendation for E.O. Wilson's On Human Nature. It won a Pulitzer for nonfiction. No other book has influenced my thinking on the nature of we human critters like this one did.