I've still just read his first book.@eddy
Just finished up In the Lives of Puppets… TJ Klune’s newest book. Not nearly as good as his other work.
House in the cerulean sea is a 9 for me.
Under the whispering door is a 7.5 or 8.
This one is a 6.
Red Rising OG Trilogy is my favorite set of books. The subsequent 3 have been really good too, but the first 3 were my perfect Sci-Fi.I've still just read his first book.@eddy
Just finished up In the Lives of Puppets… TJ Klune’s newest book. Not nearly as good as his other work.
House in the cerulean sea is a 9 for me.
Under the whispering door is a 7.5 or 8.
This one is a 6.
Just finished Red Rising by Pierce Brown, it's great and I'm looking forward to the next books. Don Winslow's city on fire was also a good read. I had problems with Demon Copperhead bc just too depressing for me.
I added it to my queue. I am intrigued.Just finished Legends and Lattes.... what an enjoyable book. A bounty hunting orc retires to open a coffee shop in a town that doesn't know what coffee is. Basically goes through her struggles of leaving her past life and starting a new one. It's pretty short too.
Added as well, this sounds great, thank youI added it to my queue. I am intrigued.Just finished Legends and Lattes.... what an enjoyable book. A bounty hunting orc retires to open a coffee shop in a town that doesn't know what coffee is. Basically goes through her struggles of leaving her past life and starting a new one. It's pretty short too.
Check out his Collapsing Empire trilogy, I thought they were terrificI liked Old Man's War, but otherwise I didnt really enjoy his work. This looks interesting though.
Added to the list.Check out his Collapsing Empire trilogy, I thought they were terrificI liked Old Man's War, but otherwise I didnt really enjoy his work. This looks interesting though.
I finished the 2nd book. I am very much enjoying these and will continue to read. The back and forth good guy to bad guy million cross back and forth gets a little tedious, but it hasn't hampered my enjoyment yet. Waiting for my wife to finish the 3rd so I can start it up.Red Rising OG Trilogy is my favorite set of books. The subsequent 3 have been really good too, but the first 3 were my perfect Sci-Fi.I've still just read his first book.@eddy
Just finished up In the Lives of Puppets… TJ Klune’s newest book. Not nearly as good as his other work.
House in the cerulean sea is a 9 for me.
Under the whispering door is a 7.5 or 8.
This one is a 6.
Just finished Red Rising by Pierce Brown, it's great and I'm looking forward to the next books. Don Winslow's city on fire was also a good read. I had problems with Demon Copperhead bc just too depressing for me.
updating prior posti made a goal this year to 'read' more books. i put 'read' in quotes because most of them are via audible when i am driving around but still counts.
2023 litt book tour
Ron Chernow - Washington - biography on George Washington. Always wanted to learn more. the 42 hour audiobook didnt disappoint. i learned a number of things that were novel to me about GW and our nation
Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary - from author of The Martian. interesting book about an intersterllar bacteria that uses energy from the sun to reproduce and substantially decreases the luminosity of the sun leading ot potential ice age. would recommend if you liked the martian
Bob Iger - The Ride of a Lifetime - Iger's autobiography. very interesting about his career and some fruitful examples that pertain to leadership and business
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin - Extreme Ownership - Willink and Babin were navy seals that served in Ramadi in 2006. they started a leadership consulting group and relate leadership principles to the combat tactics the seals employ. excellent book and have used many of the tactics and examples in my day to day. highly recommend
Chris Vos - Never Split the Difference - was the lead international hostage negotiator for the FBI for several years (spent time in pittsburgh, apparently), worked in the NYC joint terrrorism task force before FBI. tactics and strategies for how to effectively negotiate. not sure if i would recommend or not. some useful nuggets about the psychology behind negotiating and what to look for in your mark
James Clear - Atomic Habits - how to change your habits, break down habits in to small, digestible bits, and how to identify triggers and tactics to protect yourself from yourself
Michael Lewis - The Big Short - didn't really know much about the workings of this before reading but enjoyed learning about it. its interesting to consider the groupthink that occurred in so many board rooms that something like that could ever happen
Phil Knight - Shoe Dog - great book. really enjoyed understanding the history of nike, the risks they took, their unwillingness to go public for so long.
Jim Collins - Good to Great - this book sucks.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Fooled by Randomness - only made it about 3 hours in to this book and had to stop. just insufferably boring to listen to. almost wrecked my car falling asleep
Bethan McLean - The Smartest Guys in The Room - similar to the big short, wanted to learn about Enron. so much to unpack about corporate culture, intentional and unintentional misinformation, negligence. very interesting how far they were able to take it.
Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential - just randomly popped up on my audible. loved it.
Patrick Radden Keefe - Empire of Pain - chronicling of the family (Sackler) of medical doctors behind Purdue pharma (oxycontin) and it's role in the opioid epidemic and rise of heroin and fentanyl use worldwide. morally reprephensible group of individuals who thought they could whistle past the graveyard by being in bed with the FDA, making donations to charities and foundations, and 'distancing' themselves from the operations of their company via installing figurehead CEOs they could control. the family siphoned cash from the company annually (they talked about taking 700M distributions annually for 7 years) and never really invested in r&d oustide of oxycontin so its pretty clear they knew exactly what they were doing.
several clever maneuvers to extend the patent as well. cunning business folks. would highly recommend.
up next
don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements - mrs litt told me to read this and it will make me a better person
I snapped out of my personal funk and ended up really liking the book in the end. Much better than the movie. There is a very specific part of the ending of the movie that lacks balance and renders the whole thing kind of moot and that was a disappointment.I read Cuckoo's Nest in college and loved it. It doesn't exactly suddenly become a happy book, though. I'd say if you're not feeling it, move on to something else and revisit it later. It's too good to force yourself to slog through it.
I’m a big fan of the two Patrick radden keefe books (empire of pain and say nothing)updating prior posti made a goal this year to 'read' more books. i put 'read' in quotes because most of them are via audible when i am driving around but still counts.
2023 litt book tour
Ron Chernow - Washington - biography on George Washington. Always wanted to learn more. the 42 hour audiobook didnt disappoint. i learned a number of things that were novel to me about GW and our nation
Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary - from author of The Martian. interesting book about an intersterllar bacteria that uses energy from the sun to reproduce and substantially decreases the luminosity of the sun leading ot potential ice age. would recommend if you liked the martian
Bob Iger - The Ride of a Lifetime - Iger's autobiography. very interesting about his career and some fruitful examples that pertain to leadership and business
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin - Extreme Ownership - Willink and Babin were navy seals that served in Ramadi in 2006. they started a leadership consulting group and relate leadership principles to the combat tactics the seals employ. excellent book and have used many of the tactics and examples in my day to day. highly recommend
Chris Vos - Never Split the Difference - was the lead international hostage negotiator for the FBI for several years (spent time in pittsburgh, apparently), worked in the NYC joint terrrorism task force before FBI. tactics and strategies for how to effectively negotiate. not sure if i would recommend or not. some useful nuggets about the psychology behind negotiating and what to look for in your mark
James Clear - Atomic Habits - how to change your habits, break down habits in to small, digestible bits, and how to identify triggers and tactics to protect yourself from yourself
Michael Lewis - The Big Short - didn't really know much about the workings of this before reading but enjoyed learning about it. its interesting to consider the groupthink that occurred in so many board rooms that something like that could ever happen
Phil Knight - Shoe Dog - great book. really enjoyed understanding the history of nike, the risks they took, their unwillingness to go public for so long.
Jim Collins - Good to Great - this book sucks.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Fooled by Randomness - only made it about 3 hours in to this book and had to stop. just insufferably boring to listen to. almost wrecked my car falling asleep
Bethan McLean - The Smartest Guys in The Room - similar to the big short, wanted to learn about Enron. so much to unpack about corporate culture, intentional and unintentional misinformation, negligence. very interesting how far they were able to take it.
Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential - just randomly popped up on my audible. loved it.
Patrick Radden Keefe - Empire of Pain - chronicling of the family (Sackler) of medical doctors behind Purdue pharma (oxycontin) and it's role in the opioid epidemic and rise of heroin and fentanyl use worldwide. morally reprephensible group of individuals who thought they could whistle past the graveyard by being in bed with the FDA, making donations to charities and foundations, and 'distancing' themselves from the operations of their company via installing figurehead CEOs they could control. the family siphoned cash from the company annually (they talked about taking 700M distributions annually for 7 years) and never really invested in r&d oustide of oxycontin so its pretty clear they knew exactly what they were doing.
several clever maneuvers to extend the patent as well. cunning business folks. would highly recommend.
up next
don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements - mrs litt told me to read this and it will make me a better person
I finished Book 8 on vacation and ordered Book 9 so it would be home when I arrived. Easily a Top 2/3 series for me, the perfect combination of hard science fiction, great character development, and a solid premise/world building.Oh boy, you are in for a treat. It only gets better from there. Try to get the novellas as well, they are now in one collection with a new ending novella:
https://www.amazon.com/Memorys-Legion-C ... 447&sr=8-1
Obviously, read the novellas in the right order to avoid confusion/spoilers etc.
And done. This is the first series that I've been legit sad to finish in a long time. Very happy with the ending even though it was a tough one.I finished Book 8 on vacation and ordered Book 9 so it would be home when I arrived. Easily a Top 2/3 series for me, the perfect combination of hard science fiction, great character development, and a solid premise/world building.Oh boy, you are in for a treat. It only gets better from there. Try to get the novellas as well, they are now in one collection with a new ending novella:
https://www.amazon.com/Memorys-Legion-C ... 447&sr=8-1
Obviously, read the novellas in the right order to avoid confusion/spoilers etc.
Over eight thick books in five months is certainly a record for me.
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