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Old 04-13-2008, 08:02 AM   #21
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Bret Hart's Autobiography..... if you haven't read it pick it up, great read.
A wrestling book? I thought he said non-fiction

Anything by Jon Krakauer or Sid Marty - Marty is a local author from the Pincher Creek area and hands-down my favourite author.
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Old 04-13-2008, 08:13 AM   #22
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Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson, and Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (first in a three-part biography of MLK Jr.) are favourites of mine.

Stay away from anything by Malcolm Gladwell. Unless ######baggery is your thing.
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Old 04-13-2008, 08:14 AM   #23
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HA HA HA HA. BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA

He made a non-fiction joke about wrestling. BWA HA HA HA HA HA good one.




seriously though, what makes this autobiography so good is that it comes out and tells wrestling like it really is. He talks about how the endings are planned, he talks about the steroids, womanizing and drug abuse rampant in the industry. He talks about the meatheads. He talks about the minor leagues.

And most of all he talks about the brutal family dynamic held within Calgary's iconic Hart family.

Seriously, this is a good read.
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Old 04-13-2008, 09:01 AM   #24
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Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi

This is the true story that inspired Goodfellas.
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Old 04-13-2008, 10:34 AM   #25
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LOL! Well done, fotze.

I also enjoyed the Hart biography. Tells it like it was. and leaves nothing out. The one disappointing thing is that most of the Chris Benoit content is edited out.
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Old 04-13-2008, 11:02 AM   #26
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After you read Armstrong the Fraud you should pick up The Dirty Truth of Les Habitants - by Rick Lozenger that documents the decades long proof of favoritism by NHL refereeing toward the Montreal Canadians, enlightening to say the least.


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Old 04-13-2008, 11:15 AM   #27
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http://books.google.ca/books?id=ToYx...with-thumbnail
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Old 04-13-2008, 11:17 AM   #28
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If you're a crotchety old conservative, you'd definitely enjoy Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. A bit ranty at times, but some good historical arguments about the American progressive movement's early roots and affiliations with European fascists.
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Old 04-13-2008, 11:21 AM   #29
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I'm reading:

This Is Your Brain On Music (Paperback)
by Daniel Levitin (Author)
http://www.amazon.ca/This-Brain-Musi...8107268&sr=8-1

The Conquest of the Incas (Paperback)
by John Hemming
http://www.amazon.ca/Conquest-Incas-...8107358&sr=1-2

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by Christopher Hitchens
http://www.amazon.ca/Portable-Atheis...8107415&sr=1-1
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Old 04-13-2008, 11:44 AM   #30
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I'm reading:

This Is Your Brain On Music (Paperback)
by Daniel Levitin (Author)
http://www.amazon.ca/This-Brain-Musi...8107268&sr=8-1

The Conquest of the Incas (Paperback)
by John Hemming
http://www.amazon.ca/Conquest-Incas-...8107358&sr=1-2

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by Christopher Hitchens
http://www.amazon.ca/Portable-Atheis...8107415&sr=1-1
That last one is just hilarious to me. I knew it was only a matter of time before we saw an atheist bible. I chortled for quite some time when I saw that one sitting in Chapters in the "Religion" section.
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Old 04-13-2008, 12:04 PM   #31
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Stay away from anything by Malcolm Gladwell. Unless ######baggery is your thing.
Ha ha... this made me laugh. I'm not really into true crime or sports books, so don't know if these'll pick your interest, but...

An oldie but a goodie is Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy".

I also recently read Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's last two books, both pretty short, "N**ger: the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" and "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal". Pretty interesting history of race relations in the U.S., both simple but very provocative.
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Old 04-13-2008, 01:45 PM   #32
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The World Without Us by Alan Weisman is pretty good...talks about how the Earth would look/react if humans just suddenly disappeared off the face of the planet. Stuff like how NYC subways would fill with water, streets would cave in, etc etc. Really interesting read.

I would also recommend either one of Mick Foley's first two autobiographies [Have A Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks and Foley Is Good (And the Real World is Faker Than Professional Wrestling)]. They weren't best-sellers for nothin'.
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Old 04-13-2008, 01:48 PM   #33
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If you want to read about the innards of the wrestling scene then Mick Foley's books are excellent. Brett Hart's book was also very good. I suggest you give any one of these books a read.
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Old 04-13-2008, 02:12 PM   #34
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I also recommend Brett Hart's book, very good read. Another good one is The Heroin diaries by Nikki Sixx.
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A thousans barrels a second by Peter Tertzakian

Mankinds reliance on oil from the beginning of time until now
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Old 04-13-2008, 06:17 PM   #36
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I found it a tad preachy...
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Old 04-13-2008, 06:32 PM   #38
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I said NON-fiction
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Old 04-13-2008, 06:36 PM   #39
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Anything by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Hell's Angels is great, earlier work, not quite as spaced out as some of the later stuff.
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I got my Dad the book "Outside the Wire" for Christmas, he loved it.

Stories of the war in Afghanistan.
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