Bomber, Len Deighton. WW2 bombing raid from every perspective. WOW is all I can say. Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain. Cooks are modern pirates. Ghost Rider, Neil Peart. Heavy and sad, but ultimately uplifting. A Night to Remember, Walter Lord. First-hand tales of Titanic. White Line Fever by Lemmy Kilmister. Lemmy really is God! King of Russia by Dave King. Life in the KHL.
and I'm obligated to hype the Master and Commander series by Patrick O'Brian (I'm hopelessly hooked - I named one of my kids after a character). It's like learning a new language.
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I just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and I highly recommend it. I've read a lot of books in my time and I feel like I just read one of the masters. I liked McCarthy's The Road and The Crossing but I didn't know he, or anyone else really, could write in such a way as this. So good.
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Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain. Cooks are modern pirates.
I just read this over the weekend. I've always loved his show, but never got around to reading anything by him. This book was fantastic. A really enjoyable read, I would highly recommend.
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Best Book? That's a really hard question to answer, how about just some of my favorites...
Dracula
Different Seasons
World War Z
1984
Les Miserable
Trainspotting (it's written in the scottish dialect but you figure it out pretty quickly)
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Freakonomics (also the follow-up book Superfreakonomics... the Podcast is great too)
Moneyball
The Big Short
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AltaGuy has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him. He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000.
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My favourite book of all-time goes to Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Interesting ideas and hilarious too... Also a neat book to read in tandem with Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.
Another book that I've read over and over that's top-5 for me is Crime and Punishment.
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As far as fiction goes, I've probably never been more moved by a book then I was by Wilson Rawls "Where the Red Fern Grows". I read it as a 8 or 9 year old boy and it completely consumed me for a few days.
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I just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and I highly recommend it. I've read a lot of books in my time and I feel like I just read one of the masters. I liked McCarthy's The Road and The Crossing but I didn't know he, or anyone else really, could write in such a way as this. So good.
I have to start this over. It's a difficult read. Had some things come up and haven't read anything in it for a good year. I was certainly enjoying it. At one time, someone had a movie planned.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Just to add a little bit to this - I think Leon Uris is tells a compelling story based on historical facts with deep and solid research. Although I have no connection to any of his common themes, I have been completely drawn in by every single on of his books. His ability to convey personal struggles/relationships in and around their environment is amazing (imo).
If you like Trinity then Redemption is the sequel.
Huge +1. Awesome book. Probably my second favourite book next to Exodus.
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As far as fiction goes, I've probably never been more moved by a book then I was by Wilson Rawls "Where the Red Fern Grows". I read it as a 8 or 9 year old boy and it completely consumed me for a few days.
Too funny- this is on my husband's night stand, it's his favourite book of all time and has several copies, and he's also a huge fan of 'Where the Red Fern Grows' and he and our boys would read it and watch the movie when they were younger. Thanks so much for sharing
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Follows the developement of the town/city, it is fiction
I loved 'London' by Rutherford, and I also loved 'Sarum' and 'New York.' I listened to Sarum on audio while jogging/walking, and if I remember correctly, it's more than 60 hours long, but very enjoyable.
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