Have you picked up a copy of the "Gregory script"? This will blow back your scalp.
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I was gonna, but then decided that having my nails removed sounded like more fun.
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Have you read Suess and Silverstein?
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The Man from Toronto is pretty interesting movie ( on Netflix )
And what about book, the last one I read was called The Alice Network. It's based on historical events, very interesting
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If you're into science fiction and would like to try audiobooks, I highly recommend the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson and narrated by R.C. Bray. It's 14 books so far. There's a lot of banter back and forth between the hero and a sentient artificial intelligent that's funny. Bray is OUTSTANDING as a narrator. He is the best I've ever heard and I listen to maybe 50 audiobooks per year.
If you have Amazon Prime, you can get the ebook free and it will then show an option to buy the audiobook for $7. For some reason, you have to buy it on your laptop to get this option. It doesn't appear if you buy it on your phone. Otherwise, the audiobook is $32.
Oh, with Kindle+Audible you can switch back and forth between reading and listening. The app keeps track of your location in the book.
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Book, movie, song, and food recommendation:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Fiction book: White Noise. Great novel, maybe a little dated, but seems appropriate for someone leaving LRC behind.
Nonfiction book: Into Thin Air. A harrowing adventure story that I found riveting.
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mr38 wrote:
Nonfiction book: Into Thin Air. A harrowing adventure story that I found riveting.
Good book but really just one opinion of what happened during the May 1996 storms on Mt. Everest. There are quite a number of other books out about the events of that and other expeditions that were there in May 1996. One notable book is Anatoli Boukreev's "The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest" which refutes many of Krakauer's claims.
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OP, if you're still with us I have some nonfiction recommendations. They're not recent, though.
Annals of the former world, John McPhee
The making of the atomic bomb, Richard Rhodes
Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant
Guns, germs, and steel, Jared Diamond
The last is very entertaining IMO, though a little dated and also somewhat intellectually dishonest (there was an LRC thread about this years ago). The first three are just great.
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--leaving soon wrote:
Hi, folks. For a variety of reasons I'll be (mostly) off LRC--and a lot of other sites--very soon. But before I go I want to tap LRC's collective wisdom.
Book recommendations? Could be fiction or nonfiction.
Movies? (Also TV, I guess.) Anything that's currently in theaters, or films/TV on HBO Max/Showtime/Cinemax/Prime.
Starting a job soon. Having gone down the rabbit hole at a previous job and burned out big time, I want to have some distraction/entertainment to balance things better this time.
Thanks for any recommendations. BTW I have looked at previous threads on this topic, but am interested in recommendations that are possibly more recent.
Books:
The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot. The history of the CIA and America's shadow government. The most scandalous true story of all time.
Brothers by David Talbot. Arguably the best book ever written about the Kennedy brothers. If you want to know who killed them, this book has the most likely clues to the answers to that question.
Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy. This book will explain how politics work in this country and quite amazing true stories of overwhelming courage and principle against all odds.
The Enemy Within by Robert F Kennedy. His book about his battle against the mafia corrupting labor unions across the country. This includes stories of murder, assault, domestic terrorism, and torture.
Amazon Prime: Before they take them off, Watch any films by Sergio Corbucci. The Mercenary and Navajo Joe are fantastic films that greatly influenced Tarantino.
Also on Prime the movie Marighella. This is the film multiple governments don't want you to see about a freedom fighter in Brazil.
Netflix: Watch Surviving Death episode 6. Real life cases of verified reincarnation.
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Yes, this is a good movie.
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All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best movies I've seen lately. It's war/drama, and can't say that I love such genres, but the film was amazing
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Movies: the keep, interstellar, kenntuky fried movie
Books: once a runner
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Here's a list of books to help you avoid burnout
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“If there was any doubt before, the breathtaking precision of Operation Desert Storm made it crystal clear: The U.S. military was light-years ahead of any other military force on the planet.”
Excerpt From
Day of Empire
Amy Chua
https://books.apple.com/us/book/day-of-empire/id420740015
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I like Theodore Dreiser "The Financier"
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I read different books
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Hello. I read a lot of books of different genres and authors, so I can't recommend anything specific. It helps me develop as a professional. After all, I work as a writer in an online service that provides for students and schoolchildren who have difficulty with such complex homework. Therefore, reading books allows you to develop and take as examples the ideas of great writers.00
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