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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Don Breezio on December 02, 2005, 03:46:07 AM
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i wanna start reading more...the first book im gonna buy is called Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story Of The Irish Mob
it looks really good
but anyways...tell me some other really good books...i don't like reading fiction...non fiction only...i like political books (don't suggest the michael moore books cuz i've already read them all). i love books about the mafia (if anyone knows a good book about gotti that would rock). and i also like books about history...
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have gun will travel... is a book depicting the rise and fall of death row.. soo much detail about waht actually went on behind the scenes.
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playboy....entertaining and educational
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The Fab Five by Mitch Albom, great stuff even if it's outdated - interesting given what went down with UM basketball.
Now I Can Die in Peace by Bill Simmons - about the Red Sox, pulls from his old columns on Page 2 - seriously lough out loud good.
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Orders to Kill - by Dr. William Pepper its about the assassination of MLK Jr and how it was not JER with facts to prove it, a great read, dr. pepper was close friends wtih mlk, and wound up being james earl rays attorney. great book.
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X- By Malcolm X and Alex Haley its obviously about X, great book, gives insites into what he was going through, the power of his movement, just an all around awesome book.
The Iceman Cometh - By Eugene O'Neill its a play thats a book, and its a pretty intersting read, on broadway it was done a few years back with kevin spacey, tony danza, paul giamatti, it was a great cast and the book itself is pretty good. it "exposes the human need for illusion as an andtidote to despair."
Cocaine Politics - by Peter Dale Scott and John Marshall it shows documents, and tells of a time in the 1980s how the CIA had a major part in the cocaine trade in and out of America.
hope you read one or some of them.
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I actually just finished Alan Alda's memoirs/autobiography last night called "Never have your dog stuffed and other things ive learned", it was a really good read its full of anectdotes and stories of the things hes been through you should check it out it keeps you reading. Oh its a pretty light read by the way, its like 250 pages.
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You should read some self help books too. The first should be How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale CArnegie. Also Positive Personality Profiles - Dr. Robert A. Rohm, and The 5 Love Languages. Awesome books
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An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human
By Richard Zacks
Here's a quick review I found:
You must think you are the cat's patoot, so sure you know everything. You paid attention in class, got good grades, and everything Mr. or Mrs. Insert Teacher's Name Here said was true because they had a college degree and the bravery to stand in front of a bunch of slack jawed kids and try to teach them something. Well, have I got the book for you.
Richard Zacks explodes our often mythic look at the world. This is not just another "your teacher lied to you in school" book. Zacks backs up his own history with actual primary source documentation. As he writes, "I started muttering, 'You can't make this stuff up!'."
Zacks has divided the book into ten different sections: Arts & Literature, Business, Crime & Punishment, Everyday Life, Medicine, Religion, Science, Sex, World History, and American History. While each section can be read separately, it may be hard to put down the book after just one helping. Zacks covers a wide range of topics, but always keeps his writing simple and unpedestrian. You quickly realize that all of these icons in history were actually people just like you and me. Mata Hari was no genius spy, her mug shot taken before her execution shows a plain woman in her early forties.
William Shakespeare used to write down to his common audiences, letting loose with filthy puns lost on today's students. Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin, two of America's greatest humorists, both worked blue, writing material that you will not see in copies of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" or "Poor Richard's Almanack." You think Iraqi war profiteering is something new? Pity the poor soldiers of the Civil War, eating rancid meat and trying to fight with ancient weaponry all sold to the United States government by greedy business tycoons.
Speaking of the Civil War, did you know that almost a million slaves held in the Union states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri were not freed until AFTER their enslaved brothers to the south? Thank the thirteenth amendment, since the Emancipation Proclamation only dealt with slaves in the Confederacy.
The material covered is immense, from the race to build the first electric chair to the world's first indoor toilet. Hermaphrodites, bestiality, and a pope pushing cocaine laced wine, oh my!
Zacks litters his text with photos, but they add to the prose. He lets his opinions be known often, from his outrage over the lynchings of the early twentieth century, to defending Amerigo Vespucci in light of criticism by others. Christopher Columbus does not get off as easily. He highlights the common as well as royal historical figures
"An Underground Education" is a very good read. Once in a while, Zacks makes his point early, and a couple of vignettes run a little long (especially privateers in the Revolutionary War, and some of the business anecdotes), but the things you discover will outweigh any boredom you feel. If education is the key to success, then Zacks takes that key and breaks it off in the lock.
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You should read some self help books too. The first should be How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale CArnegie. Also Positive Personality Profiles - Dr. Robert A. Rohm, and The 5 Love Languages. Awesome books
yeah i have the 7 habits of highly effective people that im gonna start reading soon...i bought that 5 love languages book for my girl...i prolly won't read it though
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"Eureka Street Belfast" by Robert McLiam Wilson. Good story, plenty of humour.
"The Egyptian" by Mika Waltari. A thick ass book, but it's all good. The sort of story you'd call "epic". (Plus, this is the only Finnish novel that has been made into a big Hollywood production. It was way back in the day though, the black & white days.)
Those are pretty much the only two books that I've read and enjoyed doing it. I'm the kind of person that classifies "reading" as "work". These are the only two exceptions so far.
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FUCK READING
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Life & Def - The Biography of Russell Simmons
A Season On The Mat - The Story of Dan Gable's last season coaching wrestling in NCAA
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You should read some self help books too. The first should be How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale CArnegie. Also Positive Personality Profiles - Dr. Robert A. Rohm, and The 5 Love Languages. Awesome books
yeah i have the 7 habits of highly effective people that im gonna start reading soon...i bought that 5 love languages book for my girl...i prolly won't read it though
you should man, it tell ya how to love her in her language which will make shit better in your realationship. it did mine. shes loves me in my language and i love her in hers and lemme tell ya its awesome
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Mafia:
A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno (who vito corleone was based on in the godfather)
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Bound by Honour the autobiography of Bill Bonanno (who michael corleone was based on in the godfather)
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both excellant reads and i would highly recomend them, alot better than other mafia books i've read because these are written by truely powerful men and not just journalist picking up stories and putting them together
John Gotti : the rise and fall
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if wanna read about gotti this one is ok, but is a bit all over the place at times i enjoyed reading it but no way near as much as the two mentioned above.
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia Joseph D. Pistone
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great read about the FBI angent who spent years undercover in the Bonano family, as you probably guessed its what the film Donnie Brasco was based on.
History:
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World , Niall Ferguson
Great book about the british empire its pursuit of economic and military might, which is superbly written and a little different from your normal history books...
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Mafia:
A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno (who vito corleone was based on in the godfather)
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0312979231.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Bound by Honour the autobiography of Bill Bonanno (who michael corleone was based on in the godfather)
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0312971478.01._BO01,224,223,220_PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,22,-21_SH30_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
both excellant reads and i would highly recomend them, alot better than other mafia books i've read because these are written by truely powerful men and not just journalist picking up stories and putting them together
John Gotti : the rise and fall
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0751518174.01._OU02._BO01,224,223,220_PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,22,-21_SH30_PE20_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
if wanna read about gotti this one is ok, but is a bit all over the place at times i enjoyed reading it but no way near as much as the two mentioned above.
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia Joseph D. Pistone
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0340666374.01._OU02._PE20_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
great read about the FBI angent who spent years undercover in the Bonano family, as you probably guessed its what the film Donnie Brasco was based on.
History:
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World , Niall Ferguson
Great book about the british empire its pursuit of economic and military might, which is superbly written and a little different from your normal history books...
nice i think i'll check out all of these
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The books of Mario Puzo (writer Godfather) are also very dope and good readable.
Check also some Houellebecq (French writer, controversial shit) and a book from Ayn Rand - (something with Source)(it's bout society)
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Mafia:
A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno (who vito corleone was based on in the godfather)
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0312979231.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Bound by Honour the autobiography of Bill Bonanno (who michael corleone was based on in the godfather)
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0312971478.01._BO01,224,223,220_PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,22,-21_SH30_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
both excellant reads and i would highly recomend them, alot better than other mafia books i've read because these are written by truely powerful men and not just journalist picking up stories and putting them together
John Gotti : the rise and fall
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0751518174.01._OU02._BO01,224,223,220_PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,22,-21_SH30_PE20_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
if wanna read about gotti this one is ok, but is a bit all over the place at times i enjoyed reading it but no way near as much as the two mentioned above.
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia Joseph D. Pistone
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0340666374.01._OU02._PE20_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
great read about the FBI angent who spent years undercover in the Bonano family, as you probably guessed its what the film Donnie Brasco was based on.
History:
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World , Niall Ferguson
Great book about the british empire its pursuit of economic and military might, which is superbly written and a little different from your normal history books...
nice i think i'll check out all of these
cool let me know what u think, i'll be interested to hear you views, i'm sure you won't be dissappointed i couldn;t put them down, since i do most of my reading in the bath it lead to me getting some very saturated skin! i'm like you i can't read fiction but i love real life stuff, i'm reading a book on russian history at the moment but its taking forever, its not exactly a small book but i've kinda had to put it on hold with all the uni work i've got on at the mo i think i'll finish it off after i graduate in may.
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^^^ yeah i think im gonna go order a couple of those right now and ill post my thoughts in a couple weeks when im done
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btw i've heard Jerry Capeci's book titled Gotti: Rise and Fall is quite good which mite be better than the one i recomended on him, but i've not read it.
If u didn't know Jerry Capeci is probably americas foremost expert on the american mafia he has been writing a weekly column "gangland" since 1989. check out his website www.ganglandnews.com
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btw i've heard Jerry Capeci titled Gotti: Rise and Fall is quite good which mite be better than the one i recomended on him, but i've not read it.
If u didn't know Jerry Capeci is probably americas foremost expert on the american mafia he has been writing a weekly column "gangland" since 1989. check out his website www.ganglandnews.com
sweet i've never heard of him...but im gonna check him out...i think i read a review on that book that was good
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i just bought that gotti rise & fall book
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those look like good books..i gotta check em out
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If you're a Beatles/John Lennon fan, Lennon Revealed is a very good book also.
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the only titles that comes to mind are
-catcher in the rye (about an adolescent and growing up)
-lord of the flies (similar to the serie lost but without the freaky stuff)
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im currently reading GRapes of WratH
its pretty amazing, and yea Catcher in the rye is probly my fav book
and if u got any intrest in law and law related stuff, John Grisham has an amazing collection of books with incredible stories
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I'm reading A Million Little Pieces, everyone said it was so good, but I'm having a hard time liking it. It's some crazy stuff, but the author capatalizes a lot of nouns and it drives me crazy. It's like, "Ken and I walked from our Room to the Cafeteria and picked up a Plate".
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Mafia Cop: The Story of an Honest Cop Whose Family Was the Mob
It's a good book by far the best book I ever read. It's a true story that happend in New York in the 70's and 80's.
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I'm reading A Million Little Pieces, everyone said it was so good, but I'm having a hard time liking it. It's some crazy stuff, but the author capatalizes a lot of nouns and it drives me crazy. It's like, "Ken and I walked from our Room to the Cafeteria and picked up a Plate".
yeah my girlfriend let me borrow that book like 8 months ago....i never even touched it lol...i probably wont ever read it
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i just finished reading it...it's a real ill book, very descriptive and pulls you in easily
i haven't seen any of the Hannibal Lecter movies so my friend recommended to read the books and watch the movies but im probably just gonna watch the movies caus the book got me hooked and i didn't wanna do anythin else but finish it
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haha dont read u pussy, go play basketball