oh yea ! I read a couple neg reviews on it but that don't ever mean shit really

def trying to fit that into my list somewhere


right now my first 2 backlogged books are the selfish gene by dawkins and darwins doubt by Meyers

still trudging thru psychological types by jung.....talk about dense. fucking book is a brick. he just got finished defining my entire existence with a handful of pages he wrote 100yrs ago tho so I am going to oblige him lol.

It falls off a bit at the end, but otherwise solid

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)

"Fishes" is a historical account (nonfiction) of Hawaii. It incorporated a lot of different primary texts and interviews from legit experts, and put together a smart narrative about how Hawaii came to become an American territory. Vowell is known for her humor and insight, and there were definitely funny moments here, especially how she portrayed the missionaries. It's a short book, and I actually didn't like it for the first 30-40% of it. Partially because I was really familiar with the information, and also because she bounced between (what I think) was snark as a substitute for substance, and cringeworthy sentimentalism - lines like "I wish I could marry Hawaii" coming from someone not from Hawaii is face palm shit to the third power. But once she started getting into the political and economic forces that led to the overthrow of the monarchy, Vowell felt much more authoritative and in her element. Her humor was pointed and purposeful, and she incorporated a lot of perspectives that I wasn't aware of previously. She was exceedingly fair. It wasn't another "white man=evil, poor native victims" account. Instead she put the foreigner/American actions into context, as well as showed how well-intentioned political reforms ultimately led to the undoing of Hawaii's independence. Def a good pickup for anyone curious about the macro history of Hawaii, especially if you don't know much of it.

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)

1. Alive in Christ - Stuart Olyott 3/5
2. Dare To Stand Alone - Stuart Olyott 4/5
3. God Strengthens - Derek Thomas 4/5
4. Exodus For You - Tim Chester 3/5
5. Born Before Midnight - A.W. Tozer 4/5
6. Memoirs of Thomas Boston 5/5
7. 2000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 3 - Nick Needham 4/5
8. Glory of Christ - John Owen 4/5
9. Desiring God - John Piper 4/5
10. The Great Ejection - Gary Brady 3/5
11. The Holiness of God - R.C. Sproul 5/5
12. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 1 - W.A. Chriswell 4/5
13. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 2 - W.A. Chriswell 3/5
14. Confessions - Saint Augustine 5/5
15. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 3 - W.A. Chriswell 4/5
16. Expository Sermons in Revelation Vol. 4 - W.A. Chriswell 3/5
17. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie 5/5
18. The Two Covenants - Andrew Murray 5/5


New Graphic Novels for this year:

1. Batman Eternal Vol. 1 - Scott Snyder 4/5
2. Batman Eternal Vol. 2 - Scott Snyder 3/5
3. Flashpoint - Geoff Johns 4/5
4. Flash: Savage World - Robert Venditti 3/5
5. Flash: Zoom - Robert Venditti 3/5
6. Justice League: Origin - Geoff Johns 1/5
7. Old Man Logan - Mark Millar 4/5


I was given a copy of the original Peter Pan story (not the Disney paraphrase) for free by a local school library that was having a clear out, so I figured I'd give it a read. Peter Pan is one of THE great fictional characters - its his childishness that gives him his strengths as well as his flaws - and although this is definitely a children's book, its still a great example of creative writing, and how I like it, with the absurd passed off as just as natural as the eminently plausible. A classic work of fiction no doubt.

Two Covenants was a great book. The Old Covenant being "Obey My voice and I will be your God" and the New Covenant being "I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put My fear into their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me" - thus being a better Covenant, where God will not only keep His part (as He did in the first), but will also undertake to ensure that we will keep ours (whereas previously we could only break it) by giving us everything we need to keep it. This theology was pretty ground-breaking for me, to see it put together so clearly like it was in this book. Gonna keep going back to it, I think, as a point of reference.

Up next for me - The 5th and final volume of Dr Chriswell's series on Revelation, and The Word of God And The Word of Man - Karl Barth.

1. Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell (5/5)

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell (pending)
Neoromancer by William Gibson (pending)
Russia: The People and the Power by Robert G. Kaiser (pending)

Economic Facts and Fallacies was an interesting read, and it's just what I was looking for to get more oriented with the language of economies and commerce. He has a reader-friendly style and ultimately knows how to explain things to the layman.

Bags, did you ever peep Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States?”
That shit will blow your mind
It’s long though, as it literally covers everything from the colonies to 9/11

nah never heard of it....dope.


weeding thru all the shit I have downloaded to try and choose what I wanna read.....currently reading fooled by randomness I finished veritas book too lol

ill have to grab it....I have guns germs & steel also on deck

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy

seems unfair to rate him with classic and mainstream authors but I will say it was leagues beyond anything I assumed it would be and I WANTED to read it when I wasn't which I found to be a pretty significant indicator of its enjoy ability. some fun twists in it as well.

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)

Interesting memoir about long-distance running. It's also really short, which is probably my biggest knock against it. I enjoyed a lot of the comparisons between running and writing a novel. Overall, a breezy, fun read that could easily be read in a day, and well worth it.

btw @Bags tell vertias to get his book on iBooks and I'll cop it.

word heard. theres a kindle version on amazon. you like the ipad better? I don't have any apple shit....but when I upgrade my phone this year im switching to apple. tired of people treating me like swine for being an android user lol.

Being an android user has a subconscious negativity to it that you can't counteract. Our brains have been conditioned, subsconsciously, to know/fear certain things. You can say that you know this and that you're aware enough to not be troubled by the negative stigma of an android phone but you're not; the subconscious is too powerful for that. The negativity will manifest itself in other areas of your life without you even knowing. Just switch to an iPhone.

Read some articles yesterday. Overall, they were shit.

lmao way gone

not a preference so much as I just have an iphone and not a kindle lol. the kindle app on iphone is super wack, too, but yeah. make it happen. can't be too hard.

i thought about going iphone, the only thing that makes me want one is the laughable app. (still waiting on an android release wtf)

but LG gave me a google home and a 49'' TV so android won the day.

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy


bobby fischer
fooled by randomness


ill update that proper later just dpont want to forget



that's 52 BTW

52 books in a year lol whyd I think that shit was hard tho

on pace to read 100

holla

Liar.

You can't read.

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)

Read this because my mom really loved it as a child and gave me a handful of MacDonald's books. It was fun, similar tone and style as Tolkien (who was, as I understand it, greatly influenced by MacDonald). It's a story about a princess who is pacified in her home to keep her safe from the goblins who live in the nearby mountain. Magic and bravery and life lessons ensue. It was a fun read, though the goblins were so bumbling and oafish that they never felt like real threats, and their plan to capture the princess was foiled pretty quickly and effortlessly. Probably not worth reading unless you're really into the for-all-ages fantasy genre.

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)



the righteous mind was insane fire. it should be prerequisite reading for every keyboard political genius that hops on facebook to solve the worlds problems w google search engine and never ending circular arguments with every1 they disagree with.

reading really any single book I think would be better time spent than absorbing the literal mind pollution that is social media though.

reading 5 other books and learning chess tactics.

lmao what why me

that's too fast?

also...bb said beating u is first challenge on my road to greatness. apparently ur some mid level chess gatekeeper to him. I thought youd appreciate that :)

i commend you on getting through V's book. i will read it one day. i got past the prologue and maybe 2 chapters but it did nothing for me.

its not so much a condemnation of v's skills as much as my own ability to be drawn in

Was a pretty easy read

Took me like 3 days I think ?

Whatd it take u 5min to read 2 chapters? Lol cmon son

lol yea i gave it one shit session. i went to read it again on another but didnt

and phones are too convenient.

i should give it more of a shot.

but like i pointed out its hard for me to want to read things. but when something is good and captures me there isn't much i enjoy more

No rating on James book?

I reviewed it on the last page. Said I wasn't going to give him a rating based on the scale I'm using for authors like Charles Dickens & Stephen King etc....doesn't seem fair.

Word went back

Also from last page feeling bad about owning an Android is poor people stuff stop giving into social media telling you what to own it isn't even an exclusive thing or hundreds more dollars or even on par slightly with Android devices I don't get the continued aura around Apple products

They're garbage

I don't follow social media trends....I follow women....they do not approve of my android ways...I will not sit here and defend nor pretend they have any logic worth value....that is irrelevant to my purposes.

Lmaooooo

Seriously?

Theyre useless cretins by the sounds of it find you a real woman man

You need to complete this full cycle of becoming a better man with a better woman

I won't.

1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)



read shoe dog too I knew I was forgetting something
guns germs an steel too

1. On Writing by Stephen King (4/5)
2. Your Republic is Calling You by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
3. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
4. The Guest by Hwang Sok Yong (4/5)
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (4/5)
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4/5)
7. American Nations by Collin Woodard (5/5)
8. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
9. I'll Be Right There by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5/5)
11. Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim (4/5)
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (5/5)
13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)
27. The Bittersweet Science by various writers (4.5/5)

This is probably my favorite book of sportswriting. Every essay was good, and several were outstanding. Essays about being an amateur boxer, what it's like to throw in the towel for a fighter, the philosophy and psychology of violence, unearthing little-known stories from boxing history, and of course a lot of profiles of fighters and fights. You don't need to know much about boxing to enjoy it, and you'll know a lot more after reading it. If you're at all interested in boxing, can't recommend it enough.

AIGHT so i'll make my list too

1. 1177 BC the year civilization collapsed by Eric Cline(4/10)
2. How Great Generals win by Bevin Alexander (7/10)
3. Game Of Thrones by George RR Martin (9/10)
4. A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin (9/10)
5. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin (10/10)
6. A Feast For Crows by George RR Martin (8/10)
7. A Dance of Dragons by George RR Martin (8/10)
8. The World of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (7/10)
9. Rogues by a bunch of people (6/10)
10. Dangerous Women by a bunch of people (6/10)
11. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin (7/10)

word. the first book, 1177 was a borefest so i only gave it a 4/10 even though it was pretty interesting to me. i wanted to delve deeper into "the sea peoples" but so little is known about them it was fruitless. that said there was alot of shit about civilizations of the time in general, and it goes into depth about reasons why there was a big "collapse" of overall society towards the end of the bronze age and beginning of the iron age. so while boring i give it the 4 for its interesting bits.

how great generals win is more of the same, but it goes indepth on some strategies and tactics employed by the greatest generals in human history. from hannibal and scipio to more modern dudes and the ghengis khans in between. there was a decent amount of opinion and HYPOTHESIS' regarding future wars which i couldve did without but there were dope chapters. but all the robotics could be the future leading to precision strike teams being the only soldiers although ringing of truth couldve been left out.

everything else was a re-read. obviously the song of ice and fire series. the only reason i gave the first and second books 9/10 instead of the full 10, was because imo a storm of swords was the best book of the series so far. it was just better then the others so i dropped them to 9's. a feast for crows and a dance of dragons were both MASSIVE, and really only 1 book. each was just so massive with so many new characters it was split into two, but as far as story progression goes it was one book. for this reason i dropped each to 8, but the re-read was well worth it. my first read through i kind of skimmed it seems past character chapters i didn't care for to get to the tyrion/jon snow/jamie lannister etc's but i took my time with the read through this time and the newer characters, victarion, arianne martell, even sansa chapters had dope shit giving a wider understanding of the world and goings on.

the world of ice and fire again was a dope read, but its more a history book of a fake world, so while i enjoyed it, its not really a page turner. but more knowledge on things was cool. wish they wouldn't have stolen my book of sha'bat style (pages smeared can't read) tactic for the summerhall bit, but it makes sense because of dunk and egg still being a thing

which leads me to a knight of the seven kingdoms, which i re-read in one sitting yesterday while my internet was bogged down downloading nonsense. its 3 novellas following duncan the tall and a young aegon targaryen, brother to aemon who was the maester at the wall in modern game of thrones books. they read like teen novels, except for the language, (cunt, fucks, rape your face etc.) but they are quick and enjoyable and help flesh out the world as well. with appearances by brynden rivers (the blood raven/three eyed crow that teaches bran) and some others. i enjoyed them but its quick and easy writing for martin.

rogues, and dangerous women, are compilations of short stories by modern fantasy writers. i got rogues for patrick rothfuss' story as well as martins. rothfuss followed bast, the demon dude innkeep assistant to kvothe, it was aight. martins short stories in both books couldve been in the world of ice and fire. written like a history not a story. both following targaryens of the past, and i guess both are going into his next big book about the targeryans pre-dance of dragons im pretty sure

but word figured i'd add this since i sat and read that knight of the seven kingdoms horseshit yesterday

tried to rep but couldn't @uh-oh

Got a few I can add here sometime in the next day or 2

Good shit uh oh

So...ur sayin...u like game of thrones? Lmao


Nah but good to have some1 beside fsgot oats itt...

Speaking of homie fagit oatmeal

YO

Currently reading hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world or whatever by Murakami and YOOOOOOOOOOOOO this shot is so fire lol

Idk what I was really expecting from this guy but legit nothing like this. Absolutely floored. I'm like 7 chapters in and already know it's gonna be a 10/10 for me

yea, this is what i read this year THO

i tried other shit last year, joe abercrombie, scott lynch, robin hobb. it was all meh though. so i re-read those this year when im crashing out or shitting.

@Bags Murakami is dope man. super weird in all the right ways.