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 Posted: Jul 22, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject: Must read/see non fiction |
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| I've been getting into reading auto biographys along with biographys and non fiction lately. As well as documentary movies. I read Anthony Kiedis' "Scar Tissue", Currently read "John Lennon: The Life" and watched movies like the woodstock diaries, surfwise, and am going to watch the endless summer tonight. What are some other good movies or books I need to check out? |
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nmballa
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Richard Branson's biography is pretty descent. Other than that I stick to fiction most often.
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Have you ever seen the movie Defiance? It's based one a group of Jewish people who evaded the German's in WWII by living in the forests in Poland. I watched the movie first and decided to buy the book(two months ago) and I am still trying to finish it.
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| I have been reading the Carlos Castaneda series, and have really enjoyed it. The first one was the worst, and each one has gotten better. With two you kids I only get to read about 15-20 pages a night so it takes me awhile to get through a book. |
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I love books like that. You should check out "Planet Rock" by Lonn Friend (Famous rock journalist),
"Slash" by...eh Slash,
"How To Make Love Like A Pornstar" By Jenna Jameson,
"The Dirt" by Motley Crue,
"Ron Jeremy The Hardest (Working) Man In Showbiz" by Jon Jeremy.
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| Posted: Jul 23, 2009 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| I think Harry Potter had the best series of autobiographies. Even when he was knocked out by Voldemort he was still able to recall what happened for the sake of his book. |
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| It depends on what kind of books you like to read. I've read several books by Ben Mezrich (Bringing Down the House, Rigged, Busting Vegas) and they have all been entertaining. I'm currently reading Inconvenient Truth by Glenn Beck and it's definitely a good read. Something tells me it may not be your cup of tea though. |
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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Here's a little sample...
| Quote: | Straddling the top of the world, one foot in Tibet and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently at the vast sweep of earth below. I understood on some dim, detached level that it was a spectacular sight. I'd been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
It was the afternoon of May 10. I hadn't slept in 57 hours. The only food I'd been able to force down over the preceding three days was a bowl of Ramen soup and a handful of peanut M&M's. Weeks of violent coughing had left me with two separated ribs, making it excruciatingly painful to breathe. Twenty-nine thousand twenty-eight feet up in the troposphere, there was so little oxygen reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child. Under the circumstances, I was incapable of feeling much of anything except cold and tired.
I'd arrived on the summit a few minutes after Anatoli Boukreev, a Russian guide with an American expedition, and just ahead of Andy Harris, a guide with the New Zealand-based commercial team that I was a part of and someone with whom I'd grown to be friends during the last six weeks. I snapped four quick photos of Harris and Boukreev striking summit poses, and then turned and started down. My watch read 1:17 P.M. All told, I'd spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world.
After a few steps, I paused to take another photo, this one looking down the Southeast Ridge, the route we had ascended. Training my lens on a pair of climbers approaching the summit, I saw something that until that moment had escaped my attention. To the south, where the sky had been perfectly clear just an hour earlier, a blanket of clouds now hid Pumori, Ama Dablam, and the other lesser peaks surrounding Everest.
Days later—after six bodies had been found, after a search for two others had been abandoned, after surgeons had amputated the gangrenous right hand of my teammate Beck Weathers—people would ask why, if the weather had begun to deteriorate, had climbers on the upper mountain not heeded the signs? Why did veteran Himalayan guides keep moving upward, leading a gaggle of amateurs, each of whom had paid as much as $65,000 to be ushered safely up Everest, into an apparent death trap? |
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| Posted: Jul 23, 2009 11:20 am Post subject: |
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The steve jobs biography was very good. iCon
Also i've been reading Michael lewis - he wrote Liars Poker (about the bond market in the 80s - picture boiler room) and Money Ball.
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| Wow.. I have a lot of choices when I finish this book. Anyone read Motorcycle Diaries? I've heard of the book, but don't know anything about it. |
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Chad H, I had that book recommended to me by a teacher of mine that I respected a great deal. I don't remember much more than the positive review for the book. He loved it though.
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| wakeboarderdave1 wrote: | | Have you ever seen the movie Defiance? It's based one a group of Jewish people who evaded the German's in WWII by living in the forests in Poland. I watched the movie first and decided to buy the book(two months ago) and I am still trying to finish it. |
How was the movie? I don't remember hearing any reviews.
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MojoPin, have you read Tommyland by Tommy Lee? You would probably like it judging by the books you listed. It has an introduction written by his penis, and also his penis chimes in with witty remarks here and there throughout the book. The guy did a little too many drugs, I think.
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| tball wrote: | | wakeboarderdave1 wrote: | | Have you ever seen the movie Defiance? It's based one a group of Jewish people who evaded the German's in WWII by living in the forests in Poland. I watched the movie first and decided to buy the book(two months ago) and I am still trying to finish it. |
How was the movie? I don't remember hearing any reviews. |
I thought the movie was great. I enjoy about any type of WWII/history genre movie. Everyone in my family and some people I work with also thought the movie was great. If I didn't know how to rip/burn dvd's I would have bought it after renting it.
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2009 7:08 am Post subject: |
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| Defiance was definitely a well done movie. Apparently they followed the true events very closely also. Kind of throws in a little Lord of the Flies feel too, because they are establishing their own country in the woods. |
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