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What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

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Pre-ordered the audio book awhile back, and it finally drops next week. I'm really looking forward to it. Getting in the mood by going to It Chapter Two this weekend.


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The Lou Gehrig was definitely the better of the two. Never would have guessed that Gehrig was a "shy momma's boy", etc. The Michael Jordan book was kind of "lame", i.e. didn't tell much that wasn't already public knowledge. In addition, it only went up to his 1st NBA Championship.
 
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The Lou Gehrig was definitely the better of the two. Never would have guessed that Gehrig was a "shy momma's boy", etc. The Michael Jordan book was kind of "lame", i.e. didn't tell much that wasn't already public knowledge. In addition, it only went up to his 1st NBA Championship.
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I read that Gehrig book about a decade or so ago. One of the better baseball biographies I've read.
 
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Stephen King's "The Outsider"

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Whenever it's been awhile since I could get in some leisure reading, it's time for some Stephen King: he is just so readable when he's got a good one.
And this is a good one so far. I'm about halfway through and just past the 2nd or 3rd major twist in the story, and I can see how this one will make for a great miniseries. It's coming to HBO in January, and all I really know is Jason Bateman is in it, and he is a perfect fit for his character (of course that also means I keep picturing Henry Winkler as his attorney). It's been mainly a cops-and-lawyers crime drama so far, but there is the hint of something supernatural starting to make itself known...
 
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We listened to this in the car during Thanksgiving travels. My god.....I don't know the last time I laughed so hard. Probably when we listened to Lamb (also narrated by Fisher Stevens). Secondhand Souls up next for our upcoming vacation travel. I cannot recommend these audiobooks highly enough.


And while in AL, just to make the holiday extra grim.....
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Juuuuust a little bit different from Christopher Moore.
 
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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.
 
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