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    It's on my to-watch list!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dennis View Post
    It's on my to-watch list!
    It was quite a good book till the last 30 pages. ��. (Yes this is a joke)

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    Quote Originally Posted by GretzkysMullet View Post
    Anyone read NK Jemesin's Broken Earth Trilogy? Best fantasy books I have read in a long time, liked it even more than Rothfuss. Every book the series won a Hugo award.
    Just finished book1.
    LOL, see if takes me 50 days to finish a book... time is rare for me.

    Started enjoying it more after pg.100 and started LOVING it after pg.300-or-so.

    Great story though, loved the set-up, timeline, characters, tie-in to world-as-we-kn(_)w-it
    One needs to be focused to absorb all the new terminology the author chose - which is struggle at first, but was really well done.

    I'm gonna read the latest Stephen King as a "break"... (my wife read it, said "it was good")...

    And then onto Book #2 in series!
    Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dennis View Post
    Just finished 'Station Eleven' by Emily St. John Mandel. Absolutely loved it! No idea how this book became popular during a pandemic.
    It didn't, it came out well before to critical acclaim. She is a fantastic writer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pengwin7 View Post
    Just finished book1.
    LOL, see if takes me 50 days to finish a book... time is rare for me.

    Started enjoying it more after pg.100 and started LOVING it after pg.300-or-so.

    Great story though, loved the set-up, timeline, characters, tie-in to world-as-we-kn(_)w-it
    One needs to be focused to absorb all the new terminology the author chose - which is struggle at first, but was really well done.

    I'm gonna read the latest Stephen King as a "break"... (my wife read it, said "it was good")...

    And then onto Book #2 in series!
    Thanks.
    You're welcome! Glad you are enjoying. Her other trilogy is really good too.

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    I just finished Cory Hircsh’s book The Save of My Life. It’s a follow up to his Players Tribune piece a few years back. WOW. If you’re triggered easy, don’t read. His opening will send you off. It’s a damn good read, one of the best ones I’ve read.
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    Quote Originally Posted by finnys_fanatsy View Post
    I just finished Cory Hircsh’s book The Save of My Life. It’s a follow up to his Players Tribune piece a few years back. WOW. If you’re triggered easy, don’t read. His opening will send you off. It’s a damn good read, one of the best ones I’ve read.
    I've never heard of this book but it looks good. What does the bolded section of your comment mean though? Easily "triggered" by what?

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    I've never heard of this book but it looks good. What does the bolded section of your comment mean though? Easily "triggered" by what?
    if you suffer from anxiety issues, this one part of his book will likely be tough read for you..its intense AF, at least i thought so..
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    Humans: A Brief History Of How We ****ed It All Up - Tom Phillips
    A really fun read covering off some of histories greatest **** ups and our natural human tendency to continue to repeat the same sort of mistakes over and over. It covers things like Montezuma inviting Cortes in as a guest to Germany helping Lenin get back to Russia, to Maos Four Pests campaign, to Colonialism. But it does so in a light-hearted way. Entertaining and educational. Highly recommend giving this a read.

    Chill - The Cold Water Swim Cure - Mark Harper MD
    As someone who has been practicing cold plunging for 2 years now, this was a very insightful and interesting read on some of the benefits of cold water. I recommend it for anyone who has been curious about one of the most recent health trends out there

    A Life On Our Planet - David Attenborough
    A surprisingly optimistic read from one of the greatest men of our time. He has spent so much of his life studying nature all over our world and has seen the obvious decline of our planet in his lifetime but still remains hopeful that we can save her.


    Also should mention two Malcom Gladwell books in The Tipping Point and David and Goliath which were both fantastic and insightful. He’s always an easy read. You have to read his stuff with a critical mind though as he tends to cherry pick certain examples that suit his arguments. But his books never fail to make you think and potentially see things in a new light.
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    Mick Herron’s “Slough House” series. Just finished the first two books “Slow Horses” and “Dead Lions”. Very good reads.
    The essence is Slough House is where Mi5 agents who are washed up or have miserably messed up an op are sent. All have disgraced themselves to some extent. Mi5 hoping they quit the agency. They are referred to as Slow Horses. They’re not James Bond. They are a bunch of losers trying to get back to Headquarters.

    The Slough House series is on Apple TV. First two books anyway.

    From the book jacket , “ the world of Slough House is closer to The Office than to 007.
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    ive finished a few lately:

    Down and Back: on Alcohol, Family and Life in Hockey - Justin Bourne. interesting read about his struggles with booze and its affects on his life. if you've read a few autobiographies of hockey / sports players then its pretty cookie cutter.
    Road to Redemption - Chris Therrien. More alcohol related " i drank, nobody knew, then they did, i got help.."
    Unfiltered: Matthew Barnaby. this was actually a good book.

    currently reading The Comeback: My Journey through Heaven and Hell, Dave Scatchard. i didn't really know much about Scatchard, other than he was a general third line plugger, but its turning into a decent read.

    its funny though, through all the books Ive read by ex-NHLers (and i have about 70?), if they have ever run across MArc Crawford, Mike Keenan or Torts..they have absolutely nothing good to say about them..not one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pengwin7 View Post
    Just finished book1.
    LOL, see if takes me 50 days to finish a book... time is rare for me.

    Started enjoying it more after pg.100 and started LOVING it after pg.300-or-so.

    Great story though, loved the set-up, timeline, characters, tie-in to world-as-we-kn(_)w-it
    One needs to be focused to absorb all the new terminology the author chose - which is struggle at first, but was really well done.

    I'm gonna read the latest Stephen King as a "break"... (my wife read it, said "it was good")...

    And then onto Book #2 in series!
    Thanks.
    Another vote for the Broken Earth trilogy. Loved, loved it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by metaldude26 View Post
    The TV show on HBO was phenomenal, which I'm sure helped.
    The book and TV show are both elite-tier materials, although wildly different! If you read/watched one, you will want to read/watch the other because a large chunk of the story goes in a much-different direction.

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    A good fantasy novel I'd recommend is The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman. Sword and sorcery with some new ideas and twists. Same author wrote a good medieval angels and demons on earth book called Between Two Fires, which I would also recommend.

    Reading the latest David Grann book, The Wager, about British sea wrecks and castaways. Good so far. And given today's release of the Killers of the Flower Moon trailer, Grann's book of the same title is excellent.

    If you're into hearing about how crappy human beings can be, read the Sumner Redstone/Les Moonves story in the book titled Unscripted.

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    I have started watching Silo on apple tv - read the book years ago by Hugh Howey - was pretty good.

    Any of the series by Raymond Feist are good for light reading. The Magician, rift war etc. - I use Scribd for these - over 20 of his books there.

    The stormlight series by Brandon Sanderson is one of my all time favourite series.

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    Quote Originally Posted by senryu View Post
    Reading the latest David Grann book, The Wager, about British sea wrecks and castaways. Good so far. And given today's release of the Killers of the Flower Moon trailer, Grann's book of the same title is excellent.
    I just started this. Very good so far. Co-sign this recommendation.
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