| 451. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Mon, 9/17/2018, 7:07PM EST | |
Failure Is An Option ~ H. Jon Benjamin
Jewish guy with irritable bowel syndrome grows up in Worchester Ma. Frank should read this and would get the jokes better than I did. |
| 452. Author: frankj1 | Date: Mon, 9/17/2018, 7:38PM EST | |
deadeyedick wrote:Failure Is An Option ~ H. Jon Benjamin
Jewish guy with irritable bowel syndrome grows up in Worchester Ma. Frank should read this and would get the jokes better than I did. gonna look, thanks! Worcester, by the way..."woostah" woo as in wool. tho some do say wister |
| 453. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Tue, 9/18/2018, 12:42PM EST | |
The Garden of Eden - Hemingway |
| 454. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Wed, 9/26/2018, 4:35PM EST | |
Barrel Aged Stout And Selling Out ~ Josh Noel
Story of craft beer becoming big business. IE Goose Island bought out by Anheuser-Busch |
| 455. Author: MCAddict | Date: Wed, 9/26/2018, 8:03PM EST | |
Robert Ultley's SITTING BULL |
| 456. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Sun, 9/30/2018, 5:57PM EST | |
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
So far, not fun |
| 457. Author: MACS | Date: Sun, 9/30/2018, 6:02PM EST | |
frankj1 wrote:gonna look, thanks!
Worcester, by the way..."woostah" woo as in wool. tho some do say wister Idiots say that. It's fahhhkin Woostah! |
| 458. Author: frankj1 | Date: Sun, 9/30/2018, 7:19PM EST | |
MACS wrote:Idiots say that. It's fahhhkin Woostah! yessir! |
| 459. Author: Gene363 | Date: Sat, 10/6/2018, 2:39PM EST | |
"Why Socialism Works"
By: Harrison Lievsley
An excellent read.
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Socialism-Works-Harrison-Lievesley/dp/1521531218/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538854743&sr=8-1&keywords=Why+Socialism+Works%22
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| 460. Author: Ewok126 | Date: Sat, 10/6/2018, 3:02PM EST | |
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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| 461. Author: Phil222 | Date: Sun, 11/18/2018, 2:43PM EST | |
The Superpower Myth - Soderberg |
| 462. Author: ZRX1200 | Date: Sun, 11/18/2018, 3:56PM EST | |
My daughter is reading my future with Tarot cards.....
I just finished reading The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. |
| 463. Author: RMAN4443 | Date: Sun, 11/18/2018, 8:01PM EST | |
future so bright you gotta wear shades????  |
| 464. Author: stogiemonster | Date: Wed, 11/21/2018, 12:30PM EST | |
Best answer! |
| 465. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Wed, 11/21/2018, 1:08PM EST | |
Chasing Hope ~ Richard Cohen
About Stem Cell research and use. I'm looking to get treatment for my bum knee and stem cells look promising but not covered by insurance. |
| 466. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Wed, 11/21/2018, 11:43PM EST | |
Finished Dirty Northern ****, Soft Southern Batards, and Other Tales From the Terraces.
Fun, quirky book. |
| 467. Author: MCAddict | Date: Mon, 12/10/2018, 4:38AM EST | |
Just wrapped up McCarthy’s “Suttree” for my second time.
Started “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown |
| 468. Author: Phil222 | Date: Wed, 12/12/2018, 2:49PM EST | |
Finished these recently...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey
Prayers for Rain - Lehane
Moonlight Mile - Lehane |
| 469. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Thu, 12/13/2018, 9:25PM EST | |
Encyclopedia Blazertanica- M. Davies & R. Bennett. |
| 470. Author: opelmanta1900 | Date: Thu, 12/13/2018, 9:36PM EST | |
Started reading my copy of Dickens Christmas Carol... I'm gonna read it to the family When we get settled back in...probably put the kids to sleep, and me and the wife love the Muppets version of the movie... |
| 471. Author: MACS | Date: Fri, 12/14/2018, 4:19AM EST | |
MACS wrote:I read all the Demon Cycle books by Peter V Brett. The final book, infuriatingly, is still being written.
I am now onto Brent Weeks' Night Angel Trilogy. Quite interesting so far. I'm finally reading the final book of the Demon Cycle. The Core, by Peter Brett. |
| 472. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Sat, 12/15/2018, 9:24AM EST | |
A New Reality ~ Jonathan Salk
Updated version of a book by Jonas Salk that predicts the evolution curve of the human race. |
| 473. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Sun, 12/16/2018, 9:29AM EST | |
Geoengineering ~Jennifer Swanson
Easy read on the options being tested/considered for resetting earth's thermostat. |
| 474. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Tue, 12/18/2018, 6:04PM EST | |
Climate Change - What Everyone Needs To Know 2nd edition 2018~ Joseph Romm
I have read probably a dozen books that delt with Global Warming/Climate Change over the past 10 years and this, so far, is the best. The first 20 pages have changed my thinking somewhat.
Highly recommended. |
| 475. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Mon, 1/14/2019, 6:38PM EST | |
Keeping At It ~ Paul Volcker |
| 476. Author: Sunoverbeach | Date: Mon, 1/14/2019, 6:57PM EST | |
Finishing (I think) S.M. Sterling's Emberverse series |
| 477. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Mon, 1/14/2019, 9:42PM EST | |
deadeyedick wrote:Climate Change - What Everyone Needs To Know 2nd edition 2018~ Joseph Romm
I have read probably a dozen books that delt with Global Warming/Climate Change over the past 10 years and this, so far, is the best. The first 20 pages have changed my thinking somewhat.
Highly recommended. You make this retirement thing sound kind of good. -Reading books. -Mountain cabins. -Looking for Corvettes. All you need is a beautiful woman from the Midwest!.... wait a minute! What is it about this book that changed your perspective? |
| 478. Author: ZRX1200 | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 1:54AM EST | |
Swapping Cousins by Duncan Fox |
| 479. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 9:12AM EST | |
8trackdisco wrote:You make this retirement thing sound kind of good.
-Reading books.
-Mountain cabins.
-Looking for Corvettes.
All you need is a beautiful woman from the Midwest!.... wait a minute!
What is it about this book that changed your perspective? Ha! It's all good. Esp that Midwest girl. My perspective on (anthropomorphic) global warming was always that the earth has gone through warming/cooling cycles for billions of years without our help. Why is the science so settled now? Some of that was explained. |
| 480. Author: dstieger | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 12:39PM EST | |
The Case Against Impeaching Trump ~ Alan Dershowitz
Good, but.....I enjoy the constitutional discussions, but not much I hadn't already heard or reasoned. The other 'but' talks to the sense of feeling a little cheated....(more than?) half the 'book' is a collection of article and interview transcripts, most of which I've seen/read/heard or can find online easily enough. |
| 481. Author: ZRX1200 | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 1:32PM EST | |
How do you think he turned that product out so fast with the election looming? |
| 482. Author: delta1 | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 3:14PM EST | |
been dealing with floaters and flashers in my right eye for the past couple of years...there is an annoying floater smack dab in the middle of the focal point in my right eye which is extremely distracting...my left eye has a rare defect that prevents sharp focus of printed material or objects up close ... hell getting old... gave up reading awhile ago, but the floater seems to be getting smaller...hopefully it'll disappear, get smaller, or move... |
| 483. Author: Phil222 | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 3:49PM EST | |
Maybe give "SCRIBD" a try. I recently started listening to books during workouts. Two birds and a stone, and all that jazz...lots of books to choose from. |
| 484. Author: dstieger | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 3:58PM EST | |
That's a great idea. In fact, I recently got my first library card in years because the locals have lots of audio books for download.
In fact, the digital ones might be ok on the eyes, as well - reading on a tablet is better than I thought it was going to be. |
| 485. Author: delta1 | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 9:49PM EST | |
thanks guys...if this continues, I may have to look into that...
optometrist recommended some eye exercises that might help to move the floater to another part of the eyeball...the one in my line of sight has moved slightly but another smaller one has come into the picture... |
| 486. Author: frankj1 | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 9:53PM EST | |
delta1 wrote:thanks guys...if this continues, I may have to look into that...
optometrist recommended some eye exercises that might help to move the floater to another part of the eyeball...the one in my line of sight has moved slightly but another smaller one has come into the picture... so, they really aren't on the eyeball. it all starts in the back of the eye with the retraction of the gel-like substance...not sure how they can move. |
| 487. Author: delta1 | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 10:10PM EST | |
they are small objects, debris, that float in the vitreous body, the gel-like substance that fills the interior of the eyeball...they can and do move and when they are in between the lens and the retina, they become visible as a dark spot...this one is right in line with where my focal point is for reading, and I have to blink and look slightly off center to read.
Exercises call for moving my head up and down, left and right, and around while moving my eyes/looking in the opposite directions...I get a little dizzy if I do this too vigorously... |
| 488. Author: frankj1 | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 10:39PM EST | |
yeah, I have the PVD. Never heard there were actually bodies that could be relocated though.
I see the flashes once in a while, but the dark thingies are more tiny spider webby and seem to float with eye movement. I see them clearly when laying in the sun with my eyes closed and they "move" when I roll my eyes. |
| 489. Author: RMAN4443 | Date: Tue, 1/15/2019, 11:25PM EST | |
Flashbacks from the seventies....I'm still waiting for mine....they promised me flashbacks dammit |
| 490. Author: Burner02 | Date: Sun, 1/27/2019, 11:29AM EST | |
Just started The Aviators by Winston Groom.
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| 491. Author: Sunoverbeach | Date: Sun, 1/27/2019, 11:45AM EST | |
Let me know if the flashbacks hit. I'm due a few from the 90s. I'd like to get my money's worth |
| 492. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Sun, 1/27/2019, 12:38PM EST | |
Future Crimes by Marc Goodman
"Everything is connected, everything is vulnerable" Scary chit for sure. Not a novel. |
| 493. Author: moonman | Date: Sun, 1/27/2019, 3:07PM EST | |
I've been binging on books since the start of 2019. Finished "Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters" by Meg Meeker, M.D., "Nonsense" by Jamie Holmes, "The Call Of Sedona/ Journey Of The Heart" by Ilchi Lee and the Kenmore Canister Vacuum Cleaner Manual. Next up "A Field Guide to Lies" by Daniel J. Levitin. |
| 494. Author: moonman | Date: Sun, 1/27/2019, 3:11PM EST | |
Fantastic thread, Thank you! |
| 495. Author: moonman | Date: Thu, 2/14/2019, 4:13PM EST | |
I just finished "Braving The Wilderness" by Brene Brown. I am now into "Kidding Ourselves" by Joseph T. Hallinan and just started "Born To Run" by Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen helped make my first name more tolerable in middle school. However it didn't last for long when the **** started calling me Bruce Stringbean.  |
| 496. Author: ducati996 | Date: Thu, 2/14/2019, 6:59PM EST | |
I am reading this post..  |
| 497. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Thu, 4/25/2019, 7:06PM EST | |
The Elephant In The Room by Tommy Tomlinson
A 460 lb guy tries to lose weight. Pathetic, poignant but also funny. |
| 498. Author: frankj1 | Date: Tue, 5/21/2019, 10:06PM EST | |
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
done
now reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
both written in loooong first person sentences. 9/11 factors into both.
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| 499. Author: Cigarlady7 | Date: Wed, 5/22/2019, 10:28AM EST | |
Grant Cardone books |
| 500. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Wed, 5/22/2019, 7:32PM EST | |
Downhill From Here (retirement insecurity in the age of inequality) by Kathrine Newman
Another lib thinks the gubment should be the answer to all our problems.
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