Fall - Winter Reading Thread

[Shirley]

In my experience, about 80% of people who work in HR are functionally retarded, so you're probably fine.

[A_B]

I always pick up a few audiobooks if I am traveling.

Listened to Mile 81 and The Dune by Stephen King. Two short stories, of which Mile 81 was pretty meh, but The Dune was fantastic. Great short story.

Also snagged "The Monuments Men" but mistakenly picked up the Abridged Version which I guess is the movie companion. I don't like abridged versions, but I've already listed to 1/3 of it so may just plow through.

[Pruitt]

Was in the mood for a humorous novel - and Jonathan Coe is supposedly a funny writer.



Feh.

Which is Yiddish for "Meh."

Don't bother.

[Bensell]

Started and finished this yesterday:



It's not as good as Lu's Legend series but it was a nice and quick fun read.

Next up is:



and

[Pruitt]

One writer whose books I get excited for is Peter Carey.

So far his latest is top notch.

(Seriously, this guy is an absolutely amazing writer)

[Bensell]

Halfway through this:



Another well written book with terrible people as the main characters

[Pruitt]

One writer whose books I get excited for is Peter Carey.

So far his latest is top notch.

(Seriously, this guy is an absolutely amazing writer)

Nope.

About page 120 started to get a bad feeling about the book and then skimmed pages 200-260 and just put it down with 50 pages to go and no intention of finishing it.

Not a complete waste of time, but pretty close to it.

[The Sybian]

Almost finished listening to Argo, really liking it. I love tales from the CIA's Masters of Disguise. One of retired MofD did a special on History Channel, or another channel that used to be great and now shows nothing but reality shows.




Reading George Vecsey's Eight World Cups. Looking forward to this one.

[Bensell]

This was a really good read

[govmentchedda]

Pretty enjoyable so far (about 40% through).

[Giff]

The Purple Rain book was pretty decent oral history of making the album, but not as good as I was hoping for.

I read this book in one sitting, it's only 195 pages, and it was a different take on sci-fi.



Next up is it's sequel, which is twice as long and has a different narrator.

These are interesting.

[Pruitt]

I've been so disappointed by the new novels I've been reading that I took a big fat one by a great author off of the shelf.

I may be reading this one for months, but holy shit! The first hundred pages were awesome.

[Bensell]

This was one of the most entertaining reads I have had in the past year:



Started this this afternoon and it's very interesting. It's amazing how people nearly all misremember the Gary Hart campaign meltdown:

[Bensell]

I have been on a reading binge this week - something about the cold maybe. I started this late last night and basically had to force myself to go to sleep after the first 150 pages or so:



My next book is in honor of the Oscar host:

[Pruitt]

Mark Sanchez comes off well in Nick Dawidoff's 'Collision Low Crossers,' for whatever that's worth. Laid-back and goofy. (That book is a must-read for football fans, by the way. One of my very favorite sports books of all time, right next to Ken Dryden's 'The Game' or David Halberstam's 'Breaks of the Game.' That's pretty remarkable, considering it's about a nondescript New York Jets team. Or as nondescript as any Rex Ryan team could be, anyway.)

I just finished the first section of this book - the build up to the draft and the actual draft - and I heartily second this opinion.

[Bensell]

I started this while watching the early games yesterday and ended up finishing it at about 4 AM:



A very good follow up to French's Into The Woods. I've got 2 more of her books from the library today, Faithful Place & Broken Harbor, so I will probably be reading them before this:

[Rush2112]

[Pruitt]

In my experience, about 80% of people who work in HR are functionally retarded, so you're probably fine.

Just saw this quote and have to agree.

I went out with an HR woman for just over a year. She was okay (a nice chest makes up for a lot), but her HR friends were another story.

A few real bigots, but just about all of them were morons. Either heading for alcoholism or a future shared with many, many cats.

Really gives you a feeling of confidence considering that they have access to so much information of a personal nature.

[Bensell]

Finally got around to:



and it was excellent. Very well done sci fi and apparently the science is pretty dead on. I've finished my Tana French kick and hope she has a new novel out sooner than later; love the fact she uses a different person of the Dublin Police Force as her focal point for each book.

[Bensell]

Coincidently enough after the discussion of Nixon and Clinton and their conduct in the White House in the President 2016 Thread, I'm about a 1/4 way through this:



The "sequel" to Nixonland and man does almost everyone in politics come off like shit, so it's good to know times haven't changed.

[Pruitt]

Loved "The Invisible Bridge."

One of the good things about getting old is that I can remember most of the events described in the book (I was born in 1963).

Boy, you aren't kidding about things not changing. The news cycle may be faster, but so much stays the same.