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I’ve read both Black Hawk Down and Guests of the Ayatollah. Both are excellent. He also wrote “Killing Pablo” about Pablo Escobar. Another excellent read.
LOL.
Have you read 'On the Wings of Eagles'? It's about EDS employees taken hostage by Iranian's during the start of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. It's the only non-fiction book Ken Follett every wrote. Absolutely amazing story and must reading.
for those who read/listened to the Bobiverse books and enjoyed you should know the 4th book in the series dropped today/last night. I have 12 minutes left in The Great Gatsby and then I am listening to the Bobiverse book. I also saw on Reddit it will be exclusive to Audible for awhile, I think I saw Jan 1, but then it will be available in print.
Finished it Sunday. A lot of fun.
started infinite jest the other day...I have it on my apple books which makes going to the end notes easier. I'm about 6% through haha...
if anyone wants to join @AnotherDawg and I as we read feel free...
Nice start! I'm picking up my copy today.
I am still slogging through Ulysses
I am going to finish, even if I don't understand it and can't give a decent recap.
I gave up on infinite jest. It just got to be too much for me
I'm currently reading Erik Larson's latest, The Splendid and the Vile, about Churchill's first year as PM during the War, and it is a great read, like all of his books.
Read it last spring. Very good.
Anyone who says they didn't slog through a James Joyce novel at some point is a pretentious prick.
reminds me a bit of some Jazz music I've heard...I listened to it, sometime several times, but then could never hum it back to myself. Waylon and Willie, now that I can hum after hearing it once. Not sure what all that means....
A little off the beaten path for me, as I read a lot for pleasure (fiction - military/crime thriller stuff), but just finished reading a book called LikeWar by Peter Singer. It is about the weaponization of social media.
It is a historical account of the rise of social media, the companies that developed the tools (for good intentions), and then like a lot of tools, get manipulated for different purposes.
It was a great read, very relevant and even applied in different areas of our lives (e.g. recent Gamestop reddit based stock manipulation). There is a little political bias in the author (he leans a little left), but it wasn't so bad that you didn't see the reality behind how social media is being used as a weapon on many fronts.
SPOILER ALERT!
Jay Gatsby dies.