Read any good books lately?

[metylerca]

Been meaning to start Universal Harvester.

[Urethra Franklin]

I am currently reading Jeff Pearlman's Boys Will Be Boys about the Cowboys teams of the early '90s.

I'm only about 120 pages in, but it's fascinating. I've learned a lot about an era of football that I'm a little too young to fully remember.

[Limity (BLM)]

Feb 22, 2017 18:17:21 GMT -5 Urethra Franklin said:

I am currently reading Jeff Pearlman's Boys Will Be Boys about the Cowboys teams of the early '90s.

I'm only about 120 pages in, but it's fascinating. I've learned a lot about an era of football that I'm a little too young to fully remember.

I read that last year. It wasn't bad, but I felt it glossed over a lot. The book told us over and over that the team engaged in wild and crazy shenanigans, but gave very few examples.

I would recommend NFL Unplugged, Slow Getting Up, and The Last Headbangers.

[twelvegcg]

[tartsonawire]

Last book I read, finished about a month ago was "Fate of the Tearling". Awesome ending to a fantastic trilogy.

[Mochi Lone Wolf]

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach. It's a pretty funny, yet insightful book about what the so-called "Military-Industrial Complex" does scientifically to help soldiers survive and thrive in a warzone. A lot of the anecdotes in this book sound strange, but they're true, and the discoveries are real and they work. It was recommended by my father, who works at Raytheon, to show just how vital the work that his company and others do, and to show how much it impacts the world outside of the military.



I'm also reading Aftermath:Empire's End by Chuck Wendig. It came out a couple of days ago, and it's the last of the Star Wars:Aftermath trilogy that chronicles the events immediately after the Battle of Endor, all the way to the Battle of Jakku, to the signing of the galactic concordance that officially ended the galactic civil war, and ending at the unofficial founding of the First Order by General Hux, his father, and Grand Admiral Rae Sloane. It also has some interesting connections with the sequel trilogy. That's the main reason I'm reading it. It's pretty decent. Wendig's present tense prose still irks me at times but, there are some sections of the novel where it's a benefit. Especially now that I'm near the actually Battle of Jakku itself. It's also not nearly as unreadable at times like the first Aftermath book was. At it's worse, Empire's End never brought me to a point of having to put it down and take a rest like the first book did during the halfway point. I do think there were much better options at Lucasfilm's disposal to have write these novels. I mean, if you're planning to release a trilogy of Star Wars books, wouldn't you look to Drew Karpyshyn first? He's written a series of books for the franchise before, and they are among the best Star Wars stories ever told. It just seemed like a needless risk to put a newcomer in charge of the series that fills the 30 year gap between Episodes 6 and 7.

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My brother got me a book called "Showdown: The 25 Top Feuds in WWE". It was kinda underwhelming, because they were pretty liberal what they considered a feud. Rock/Austin? Fine. Undertaker/Kane? Naturally. Shawn/Mankind? One match, really? (The guy that wrote it said his original collaborator was fired around 2009 and a lot of the notes were lost in a fire.)

I'm about to buy "Official Treasures of the National Football League", a large book with many pockets filled with facsimiles like a list of expenses for the Akron Pros football club from the 1920s, contracts, tickets, etc.

NASCAR has a similar book they call their "family album". Labontes, Earnhardts, Waltrips, Wallaces, etc. The France family was the first chapter; includes the original plans for Daytona's speedway.