fish82;1339726 wrote:Nice. I found them surprisingly good.

Agreed. It is amazing how close the movie followed the book. Most of Bond's backstory, the drink name, and his mannerisms were in the book. Plus, the crash scene with the car, and the torture. I loved the ending, "The bitch is dead."

I am now reading Chris Brown's The Essential Smart Football. About 50 pages in, really good and insightful. A very analytical take on football.
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Smart-Football-Chris-Brown/dp/1470125595

fan_from_texas;1349481 wrote:I don't watch much TV. And I have a newborn, so I'm stuck sitting there holding him often. I also try to read before I go to bed while Mrs. FFT is still getting ready. All told, I aim to read 1,000-1,500 pages a month. It's a good way to get away from the rest of what I do in my daily life.

Minus the kid, I am the same way. I usually read in the evening before bed, a nice way to focus on other things.

I've recently started reading the following:

The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul. This book should be mandatory reading. I've got about a 3rd of the book to finish still.

1984 by Orwell. Only a few chapters in to it.

Since Christmas i finished:

Gentleman Bastards: About Army special forces. It wasnt very good. The unit the imbed reporter was with didnt see much action and the book was rather boring.

Act of Valor: Already watched the movie 4-5 times and loved it. Got it as a gift from wife's kids so felt I had to read it. I skimmed through the stuff that was exactly like the movie and read the stuff that wasnt. Book isnt too bad.

No Easy Day: Excellent book. Isnt just about the Bin Ladin raid. Def recommended it.

Just starting The Outpost about the tenth mountain division at some remote outpost in Afghanistan that never should have been built and how they got attacked . So far...so good.

Recent reads:

-Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (I developed a passion for reading about high altitude climbing years ago after reading Into Thin Air and The Climb - a good start, in that order, if the subject appeals to you)
-No Easy Day (for those who enjoyed this you should pick up Lone Survivor)
-Argo

Just started Master of the Mountain which will be followed by Into the Fire.

I'm kinda gradually working through Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series (finished by Brandon Sanderson, as Jordan died a few years ago).

One of those obscenely long fantasy series like A Song of Ice and Fire, but with more magic stuff and less of the diplomacy/plotting. I'm near the end of book 11...which means I have three more to go through. Must be 10000 pages altogether. The kind of thing where I'd be mostly lost if not for very extensive online sites that work really well for freshening my memory on exactly who a character is for those occasions when one appears in book 4 and doesn't return until five books later.

February 2013 edition of Maxim.

Crimson and Gray Hair;1383555 wrote:Recent reads:

-Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (I developed a passion for reading about high altitude climbing years ago after reading Into Thin Air and The Climb - a good start, in that order, if the subject appeals to you)
-No Easy Day (for those who enjoyed this you should pick up Lone Survivor)
-Argo

Just started Master of the Mountain which will be followed by Into the Fire.

I concur. Great, great book. Read it a few years ago. I can remember when that happened. It was the first weekend my brother got to his Team for the first time. Goin in ya knew it was dangerous stuff, but that just made it hit home.
Great, great book. Wish it woulday became a movie. I knew he was trying to get it made into one and wanted control over the accuracy and such. Maybe someday.

Crimson and Gray Hair;1383555 wrote: -Argo.

My wife and I loved the movie. She's currently reading The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Antonio Mendez. She wants to read Argo next.

Currently Reading:
-The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond- I just started this one, but it's really interesting so far, the other two Diamond books I've read (Collapse and Guns, Germs, & Steel) are some of my favorite nonfiction books.

-Arcadia by Lauren Groff- For some crazy reason I've been trying to read as many of the Tournament of Books nominees as possible this year. I'm a quarter of the way through this one, and actually really like it so far. The writing style is great, and I'm sucked into the story. This is a book that never would have interested me just by looking at the subject matter (Hippie Commune), but it's a very worthwhile read so far.

-River of Doubt by Candice Millard- History book covering Teddy Roosevelt's journey down a river in the Amazon. I've got 100 pages left, it's well written, but so far I'm bored by it and slogging through it very slowly. I always tend to struggle with historical accounts of journeys, for some reason the genre just tends to bore me...


Recently Finished:
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver- Covers the art of prediction in a variety of fields (weather, climate, baseball, politics, etc.) Very interesting read, my only complaint was that I wish he would have gone more in depth on the predictive models used, he really just touched on the surface...

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain- This has been my favorite book I've read in the past year. I really like the way Fountain writes and will be reading anything else I can find by him.

The Fault in our Stars by John Green- If this hadn't been a quick read, I never would have finished it. I hated this book. Take the kids from the movie Juno, and instead of them being pregnant, give them terminal cancer. All of the characters had the exact same personality- an attempt at quirky/funny. My wives friends who recommended this book to me talked about how sad and funny the book was, while the only thing I felt close to an emotion was relief when a main character died. I think I might have only finished this book because I was hoping everyone in it would die....

Just finished "Destiny of the Republic" about the rise to power and assasination of James Garfield. I didn't know much about Garfield and I found the book very interesting. His death was very needless as it was the result of poor hygiene common to the medical practice of the day as opposed to the damage fo the assassin's bullet.

I am now reading Shogun by James Clavell. I've just started it, so I can't really comment.

I read Reflected in You by Sylvia Day (girly book) and reread Columbine by Dave Cullen over my "Christmas break" from work.

Just finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last week and will be moving on to The Girl Who played with Fire in the next couple days. After I finish that trilogy, I will be reading American Sniper.

Currently reading "Boomerang" by Michael Lewis. Its about the global economic crisis. Good read. Picked it up at the airport last month and am about half way done with it. First book I have read not related to school in a while.

"The Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun."

hasbeen;1383747 wrote:"The Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun."

You boning up to apply for mod?

Crimson and Gray Hair;1383763 wrote:You boning up to apply for mod?

It's in my five year plan.

Finished The Revolution: A Manifesto last night. Read it. There will be a quiz.

I believe I would have voted for Ron Paul in the last election had he been a viable option.
I'd like to see the US back off a bit from intervening in everyone's business worldwide. However, I have some reservations that Paul's perspective may lean too far toward isolationism. As much as I'd like to believe that if we'd just leave those people who hate us alone they will leave us alone I'm not that naive.

So for now...thank God for drones!

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek who has done Kennedy.
http://www.amazon.com/Nixon-Kissinger-Partners-Robert-Dallek/dp/B002FL5FGG

About a 1/3rd of the way through and it really good. Really goes into how interconnected they both were.

Fab4Runner;1383643 wrote:Just finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last week and will be moving on to The Girl Who played with Fire in the next couple days.

Top 10 books all time for me.

justincredible;1383393 wrote:I've recently started reading the following:

The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul. This book should be mandatory reading. I've got about a 3rd of the book to finish still.

1984 by Orwell. Only a few chapters in to it.

I read Orwell's book in the 70's. He wrote it I think in the late 40's. He had a lot of accurate preminitions. Might want to read the bio of the author, I forget his real name. His writings reflected his own demons on his political beliefs.

He also wrote Animal Farm....which mocked communism.....but also makes a mockery of capitalism at the same time.

Halfway through Republic Lost by Larry Lessig. Was good in the beginning, but very monotonous now.

Bad Money by Kevin Phillips was good.

Freakanomics and Blood Meridian. Both for the second time.

Pick6;1383735 wrote:Currently reading "Boomerang" by Michael Lewis. Its about the global economic crisis. Good read. Picked it up at the airport last month and am about half way done with it. First book I have read not related to school in a while.

Good author.

I liked his book..

Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity.

I Wear Pants;1385606 wrote:Freakanomics

Interesting, I've also read it twice, have you seen the movie?