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    I'm reading or a have read a few good one recently.

    Cultural Amnesia
    by Clive James which I thought was a book about cultural icons but is really about totalitarian regimes. An important read and one that is easy to dip into.

    Farewell My Lovely Raymond Chandler. I've read some Chandler in the past really enjoyed this one.

    Unconditional Surrender Evelyn Waugh. Final part of a semi-autobiographical trilogy. Very different perspective of being an officer during WW II.

    Casino Royale Ian Fleming.I've read it a number of times before but possibly my favourite Bond novel. The straightforward story has a real freshness, plus it has the following quote, “Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”

    Liberal Fascism Jonah Goldberg. Some very interesting insights on the left's desire for big government. Can be a bit repetitive at times and some of his arguments a little tenuous.

    Next on my list are Eric Ambler's Passage of Arms, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and John Crowley's Little,Big.

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    Rereading Extreme Ownership, How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead and Win. This is the only book on leadership that cites principles I've actually adopted. In additon to having illustrative business case studies, the war stories are awesome! Very engaging.

    As an aside, Jocko Willink, one of the authors has favorably mentioned Starting Strength several times on his podcast (although he belongs to the "ass to grass" squatting school).

    Quote Originally Posted by 1200cc View Post
    I am reading, The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith. Coincidentally, I finished The Moon is a Harsh Mistress last October. Heinlein is much easier reading than Smith, it's a brutal effort, for me at least, to finish this Adam Smith book.
    P.J O'Rourke wrote a wonderfully short book called "On the Wealth of Nations". He read it so "You don't have to". Smith's 18th century Scottish prose is VERY difficult to read and I believe I'm one of the few people on the planet that's read over half of WON. Good luck to you 1200cc! Theory of Moral Sentiments is even more difficult. I've only read a few pages of that one. Let us know how it goes. If I get a favorable report, I may give it another run.

    Quote Originally Posted by Johnsonville View Post
    “The Road To Serfdom” by Friedrich Hayek. A classic but unbelievably relevant for today.
    I refer the forum's readership to the end of this, my erudite post on Hayek.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ads View Post
    Can't convince my 15 yo to read 1984.
    Don't feel bad. My experience with my daughter is that if it's not a "graphics novel" you can't convince a 15-year-old to read anything that's not required.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ads View Post
    Can't convince my 15 yo to read 1984.
    Bribe the kid $50 to read the book and write a book report. Some books are worth paying your kids to read.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    By popular demand (primarily Bre) we shall discuss your reading. I am rereading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. A very important book, fit to start what I'm sure will be a long and popular thread. (Just so's you'll know, it is proper to italicize titles.)
    My good sir, you must read All You Zombies and By his Bootstraps (written under the pen name Anson MacDonald). I've read a fair amount of mid-century science fiction and those two texts are the only examples I can think of of perfectly consistent time travel paradoxes.

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    I'm reading The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan. Jay Livsey from SS Denver turned me on to this guy. Very interesting global perspective from a "geopolitics" point of view i.e. how geography influences the rise and fall of empires. Fascinating stuff.
    As a geographer, I cringe when policy wonks like Zeihan abuse farcical theories of geographic determinism in defense of this sort of jingoistic nonsense. Also, anyone who thinks their grandkids won't be speaking Chinese actually has zero knowledge of contemporary geography and geopolitics. Here's a sobering anecdote that may help to partially explain why this will likely be the future: I teach more online geography classes in China at Chinese Universities than I do in the US. That is to say, China takes geography far more seriously than Americans do (the US has never taken it seriously as an academic subject, even compared to Europe).

    As for me, I'm just finishing up Say Nothing a new book about the Troubles which focuses on the role the IRA leadership had in the disappearance of a single mother of 10. Not a particularly flattering portrait of the IRA, but not a bad read either.

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    Currently reading Indestructible, which is about Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn and his actions/heroism in WWII.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noah Ebner View Post
    As a geographer, I cringe when policy wonks like Zeihan abuse farcical theories of geographic determinism in defense of this sort of jingoistic nonsense. Also, anyone who thinks their grandkids won't be speaking Chinese actually has zero knowledge of contemporary geography and geopolitics. Here's a sobering anecdote that may help to partially explain why this will likely be the future: I teach more online geography classes in China at Chinese Universities than I do in the US. That is to say, China takes geography far more seriously than Americans do (the US has never taken it seriously as an academic subject, even compared to Europe).
    Does that same disdain carry over to
    Jared Diamond’s work as well?

    My profession has a whole lot of overlap with physical geography, with has been co-opted largely by geology in the US. A lot of seminal work in hydrology and geomorphology has been done by physical geographers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JFord View Post
    Rereading Extreme Ownership, How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead and Win. This is the only book on leadership that cites principles I've actually adopted. In additon to having illustrative business case studies, the war stories are awesome! Very engaging.

    As an aside, Jocko Willink, one of the authors has favorably mentioned Starting Strength several times on his podcast (although he belongs to the "ass to grass" squatting school).
    His podcast about this particular topic comes up a lot on my YouTube "recommended" feed. I'll have to read it, based on your endorsement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noah Ebner View Post
    As for me, I'm just finishing up Say Nothing a new book about the Troubles which focuses on the role the IRA leadership had in the disappearance of a single mother of 10. Not a particularly flattering portrait of the IRA, but not a bad read either.
    That would be like expecting a flattering portrait of Al Qaeda.

    I'm currently reading the Jack Mars Luke Stone thrillers at the moment. It's another series of generic Navy Seal/Delta operator saves the world books. Not high art, but entertaining.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JFord View Post
    P.J O'Rourke wrote a wonderfully short book called "On the Wealth of Nations". He read it so "You don't have to". Smith's 18th century Scottish prose is VERY difficult to read and I believe I'm one of the few people on the planet that's read over half of WON. Good luck to you 1200cc! Theory of Moral Sentiments is even more difficult. I've only read a few pages of that one. Let us know how it goes. If I get a favorable report, I may give it another run.
    I read the entire book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, about 7 years ago. I was able to get into it and learned some things. You're right about The Theory of Moral Sentiments
    it's more difficult than Wealth of Nations.

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