The Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related

[StickyHands]

just starting this:

 

[Green Squall]

Shantaram: A Novel

https://www.amazon.com/Shantaram-Novel-Gregory-David-Roberts/dp/0312330537

 

[jumpincactus]

Salt , Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss

I guarantee that once you read this you will never view your groceries the same again or the meg giant industries that feed the population......... Buy it read it and share it with everyone you know and love.......

 

[GET MO]

Extreme ownership: how us navy seals lead and win.

 

[MintyMick]

I’m currently reading:
Sapiens by Noah Yuval Harari - good summation of human history if you are so inclined.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. A comedy book about the antichrist/end times. It’s hilarious.

 

[Mr.Miner]

I just picked up 'The Road to Eleusis. Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries' by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Carl Ruck. Looking forward to this one for sure.

 

[Green Squall]

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

by Robert Leckie

This book, along with E.B. Sledges With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, formed the basis of the HBO Miniseries The Pacific.

 

[Mr.Miner]

Michael Pollan's new book "How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence" just arrived. I've been looking forward to this one.

 

[pop_rocks]

a favorite of mine is oryx and crake,fiction by Margaret Atwood
/its one of those books i will reread at least once every year

 

[kaochiu]

I'm hooked on Comisario Montalbano stories, by Andrea Camilleri. I even got to learn italian to read it VO. And that's after watching the TV series, so most of them i know what's going to happen, but still can't stop reading. For those who like classic detective stories this is 24K gold.

 

[Green Squall]

Not really a fan of Stephen King, but I love the Shinning movie. Has anyone read the book?

 

[GET MO]

Holy shit, the power of now! If u read no other book read that one!

 

[Green Squall]

Opium Culture: The Art & Ritual of the Chinese Tradition

 

[Mikell]

Not really a fan of Stephen King, but I love the Shinning movie. Has anyone read the book?

No, but I did very much enjoy reading It. Both movies are a good watch.



Currently reading (thanks to a tolerance break followed by reduced use, I have picked up books again) The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer after finishing Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (pictured in avatar).

There is a terrible Russian movie of the latter. An American film company picked up the script a few years ago, but then Crimea, and our current state of affairs with the East.

 

[Green Squall]

Just preordered "The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States." A speculative novel by Jeffrey Lewis.

In the meantime, I'm thumbing through "Foreign Devil: Thirty Years of Reporting in the Far East" by Richard Hughes

 

[Green Squall]

Fair Blows the Wind by Louis L'Amour. One of his few Non-Western Novels.

I can also recommend "Last of the Breed."

 

[MintyMick]

Just picked up Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. And just finished the Cannabis Breeders Bible by Greg Green. Would recommend the latter 10/10. Not sure about the former yet, but am cautiously optimistic...

 

[DenverVaultBoy]

Coworker brought in a bunch of great books, i'm getting started on the Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-94 omg the data!!!! I'm reading the dryest text in the world and still grinning like a madman.

 

[St. Phatty]

Coworker brought in a bunch of great books, i'm getting started on the Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-94 omg the data!!!! I'm reading the dryest text in the world and still grinning like a madman.

Any recipes ?

I wonder what they would do if they had a tooth problem and couldn't smoke.

Drink Bhang I guess ? Guess they didn't have Gummi Bears back then.

 

[Kozmo]

Forest Gardening in practice. By Tomas Remiarz

Any permiculturalists in here?