I strongly recommend people refrain from discussing politics, past or present, as it endangers the thread.MP173 wrote:Valuethinker...regarding President Johnson's motivation . . .
Brian
I strongly recommend people refrain from discussing politics, past or present, as it endangers the thread.MP173 wrote:Valuethinker...regarding President Johnson's motivation . . .
Is that really a political observation?Default User BR wrote:I strongly recommend people refrain from discussing politics, past or present, as it endangers the thread.MP173 wrote:Valuethinker...regarding President Johnson's motivation . . .
Brian
Obviously, I'm not a mod, but I know that Alex thinks this thread is of marginal topicality and he specifically does not want it to be a discussion of books. Everything should be in the context of book recommendations.MP173 wrote:Notice my post and my reference was to the book Passage to Power and I referenced what the author stated. This is not a political discussion, this is a forum on books.
I'm enjoying Jonathan Kellerman's "Mystery".MP173 wrote:Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman. His books are always like a good pot roast....slowly developed but enjoyable and flavorful.
Has anyone read Linda Fairstein? I heard her interviewd.
On the list for "The Amateur" by Ed Klein...hope mentioning that doesnt get the thread locked.
Ed
Yes, we Bogleheads knew.Fallible wrote:A new book young Bogleheads might be interested in is Zac Bissonnette's "How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents." The teenage grandson of a friend of mine liked it (Bissonnette is 23, so that's one reason he read it) so I skimmed over his copy and thought it looked pretty solid, though I was surprised when he wrote: "I am part of a tiny, fringe cult of people who think we should only buy cars with cash." Did we Bogleheads who pay cash for our cars know were were part of a tiny, fringe cult?
chaz wrote:Yes, we Bogleheads knew.Fallible wrote:A new book young Bogleheads might be interested in is Zac Bissonnette's "How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents." The teenage grandson of a friend of mine liked it (Bissonnette is 23, so that's one reason he read it) so I skimmed over his copy and thought it looked pretty solid, though I was surprised when he wrote: "I am part of a tiny, fringe cult of people who think we should only buy cars with cash." Did we Bogleheads who pay cash for our cars know we were part of a tiny, fringe cult?
I have a zoology degree and I think it's fine. Melville defines "whale" as "a spouting fish with a horizontal tail," and I think that's a pretty good definition.Regal 56 wrote:...he keeps calling them "fish."
It's even better if you find whales interesting.On the bright side, it's a page turner, if you're willing to wade through all the interruptions to the plot.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was impressed by it. In "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys," in one of the interludes the narrator is telling the kids about the literary Berkshires and mentions "On the hither side of Pittsfield sits Herman Melville, shaping out the gigantic conception of his 'White Whale,' while the gigantic shape of Graylock looms upon him from his study-window." But it didn't actually become recognized as an important book until the 1930s or thereabouts. A version illustrated by Rockwell Kent was published by the Book-of-the-Month Club was a best-seller, but the illustrations contributed to it--so much so that people sometimes erroneously referred to "Moby-Dick, by Rockwell Kent."It's fun to watch Melville striving to write the great American novel.
Ishmael and Queequeg get married and live happily ever after.Please don't tell me how it ends. I want to be surprised.
I don't deal with the future, only the past or present, and the crime genre. But thanks anyway.CaliJim wrote:Just finished Daemon by Daniel Suarez.
Excellent cyberpunk futurology. I think Chaz would like it.
The Union Pacific? Wasn't that a bit of a mess in itself--Hoax Ames and the Credit Mobilier scandal?MP173 wrote:Union Pacific - The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present by Maury Klein.
This is volume 3 of Klein's look at the Union Pacific (celebrating it's 150th year of operation). The volume looks into the issues facing the railroad industry in the late 60/s / early 70's and how UP steered around the mess.
Ed
A very fine novel, as usual for this author.bluemarlin08 wrote:Lee Child's The Affair