What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

[WolverineMike]

Francona: The Red Sox Years: Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy: 9780547928173: Amazon.com: Books

thanks for the link, already have it reserved at the library though.

 

[Apache]

Close to 8,000 miles by foot, by horses acquired from native Americans, by longboat and canoe. Reports of 45 degrees below zero. Mountains to cross, whitewater rapids, hostiles. Only one man in the party died.

Much better men than I have ever thought about being.

Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

Again!

 

[Muck]

Al Gray, Marine
The Early Years, 1950-1967 Vol. 1

One of my personal heroes.

 

[buckeyegrad]

"Common Sense and the Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine
This is such amazing writing/thought by one of the Founding Fathers that I keep going back to it from time to time. Highly recommended!

What exactly did Paine "found"?

"this Writer [Paine] has a better Hand at pulling down than building" - John Adams

 

[RugbyBuck]

I've been reading The History of the Irish Race for two months and am only up through the death of St. Patrick. I'd be further along if I could stay out of the pubs.

 

[Muck]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Them-Us-Neanderthal-predation-ebook/dp/B006QE9X8E"]Them and Us: How Neanderthal Predation Created Modern Humans[/ame] - Danny Vendramini

LINK to the author's page

The book posits that rather than the modern kinder/gentler interpretation of Neandertals:

...instead they were vicious carnivorous predators and the source of many of our atavistic fears:

The support for most of the claims are pretty weak but at least it's entertaining.

Next two on the list:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Ota-Benga-The-Pygmy-Zoo/dp/0312082762"]Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo[/ame] Phillips Verner Bradford & Harvey Blume
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Flamingos-Smile-Reflections-Natural-History/dp/0393303756/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361866898&sr=1-1&keywords=hottentot%2C+gould"]The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History [/ame] - Stephen Jay Gould

 

[Buckeye513]

...instead they were vicious carnivorous predators and the source of many of our atavistic fears

Your move, vegans.

 

[Poe McKnoe]

Good historical perspective on value investing and Warren Buffett. Down side, it's nothing more than Fortune mag articles published over the past 40 years, and each has a new introduction.

 

[muffler dragon]

 

[CentralMOBuck]

I just finished this.

 

[OneBuckeye]

I just finished this.

Thoughts on both plz.

 

[CentralMOBuck]

Thoughts on both plz.

Band of Brothers has been one of my favorite shows for quite a while, although I've never read the book (it's now on my list). This book did a a good job telling Winters and his companies story from when he first joined the Army up until the end of the war. I highly recommend reading it if your a Band of Brothers or WW2 fan.

 

[muffler dragon]

Thoughts on both plz.

Only in on the first chapter so far, but enjoying it. I'll give better feedback when I finish it.

 

[BigJim]

I'm "reading" this too. Just over 36.5 hours of audio book.

Do you buy the audio books? I finished listening to A Game of Thrones audio book (gift) and want to go through the rest of them but can't find it cheaper than like $150-$200 for the 5-book set.

 

[BayBuck]

Do you buy the audio books? I finished listening to A Game of Thrones audio book (gift) and want to go through the rest of them but can't find it cheaper than like $150-$200 for the 5-book set.