What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

[BB73]

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Three interesting books. The Boz tries to make you believe that "Brian Bosworth" is really a decent guy; who knows, maybe he really is? He does make Barry Switzer out to be a real jerk though. Big Papi was OK, just a basic autobiography that mentions all the player's good points and no bad ones. The surprisingly good book was the Notre Dame one. Amazing what a "cult" they had at Notre Dame back then. It chronicles the 1964 season through the lives of a few key players. That was the season that Ara Parseghian was hired and "resurrected" a dying football program. Apparently the Notre Dame president Father Theodore Martin Hesburgh thought that the football program was too big and powerful, and Notre Dame should focus more on academics, etc. He reduced the number of football scholarships and hired incompetent football coaches. To his chagrin he got wanted and wasn't happy with it. With the football team losing, donations to the university dried up.

(Spoiler): Supposedly in 1964 a few bad referee calls in the last game of the season (at USC) cost them an undefeated season and a national championship.

I can remember listening to that 1964 Domer-USC game on the radio with my Dad, we couldn't even see a huge game like that on TV at the time.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Was an OK book. Jackson is really into that Zen/Buddha/native american philosophy/meditation "spiritual stuff".

 

[Jagdaddy]

 

[BayBuck]

Just finished "The Stand", 2nd time since I read it 18 years ago in HS:

Reading a 1200-page novel is always an experience that stays with you. One of King's best ever, the story is just so ... big.

Seems like a good time for 1000+ pages of The Stand again...

The first third, when the “superflu” appears and spreads around the world, is not only peak King but actually still pretty timely (it was first published in 1978). I’m just at the part where radio/TV broadcasters who are dying anyway give their lives to expose the failed government coverup... so, just a few steps ahead of us on the pandemic curve. Can’t wait to see what comes next!

 

[BuckBackHome]

Atomic Habits. I've avoided this book for some time but requested it from the library to read during this downtime. So far a great book.

Also, just finished rereading Saturn Run by John Sandford. Pretty decent sci-fi book from someone who writes great detective novels.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Just finished Woody's Boys this week....just started What it Means to be a Buckeye

That reminds me I have about a dozen Ohio State football books in my closet that I've never read, maybe I should break them out and read a few.

I buy used sports related books to read on vacation and just leave the books at the resort or on the ship. I don't take the Ohio State ones since I wouldn't want to leave them nor do I want to pack them up to bring them back home, etc.



Read it, that was a good one......

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

This book makes me so angry. It is a great read though.

 

[BayBuck]

Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, maybe his most iconic short-story collection, which really shows his prescience and preoccupation with space travel (edit: including space Jesus), nuclear war, and the psychological effects of automating technologies. I first read it as a teenager and some of them have always stuck with me.

One story, “The Other Foot,” about a Mars populated by Black former-earthers finally “welcoming” the first white visitor to their planet, is a particularly interesting read right now.

 

[Jagdaddy]

Just finished “Hollywood Park” by Mikel Jollet.

 

[BayBuck]

Just finished “Hollywood Park” by Mikel Jollet.

 

[Jagdaddy]

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Hell of a read. I’ve noticed that we tend to like similar music, and while his book is mostly about other stuff, I think you’d like it.

 

[Taosman]

"State of Denial by Bob Woodward." I like his writing. I want "Fear".

 

[calibuck]

BayBuck, the original cover of the Illustrated Man, showed the back of a guy that was all tatted up. Each tat was the story line for one of those shorts....just human interest. Have been Kindling for the last several months, and spending my beer money on books. Have been entranced by the James Rosone books, depicting how/why/when WWIII takes place. Pretty compelling (at least to me), and keep buying the next and the next and the next. FYI, as one gets older, one can pick up a book from the bookcase and reread it, and sometimes (?) feel like it's a brand new book. Not me of course, just sayin'....

 

[BayBuck]

BayBuck, the original cover of the Illustrated Man, showed the back of a guy that was all tatted up. Each tat was the story line for one of those shorts....just human interest. Have been Kindling for the last several months, and spending my beer money on books. Have been entranced by the James Rosone books, depicting how/why/when WWIII takes place. Pretty compelling (at least to me), and keep buying the next and the next and the next. FYI, as one gets older, one can pick up a book from the bookcase and reread it, and sometimes (?) feel like it's a brand new book. Not me of course, just sayin'....

I have seen that old cover, and the tattooed wanderer is of course the framing device for the disparate stories in the book, and was brought, umm, memorably to life by Rod Steiger:

 

[BayBuck]

Also, fuckin 2020:



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