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2017 Sep 26, 2:37am   3,707 views  12 comments

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What are you currently reading or plan to read in the future ? Any favorites from the past ?

Reading is one of the great pleasures of life either for entertainment or knowledge and like writing letters (actually handwriting letters) being replaced by summaries and videos etc. and fading in popularity.




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How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living. It releases May 1st 2018 and is available for pre-order right now.

What’s it all about?

How to Be a Perfect Christian is 208 pages of brand-new Bee material which will transform the sad excuse for a believer that you currently are into an absolutely Perfect Christian. The experts at The Babylon Bee will take you by the hand and lead you on this journey, helping you achieve perfection in all aspects of the Christian life. This book truly is Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living, and you will not be the same after you have read it.

Is this a joke?

This is not a joke. We really did sign a deal with Multnomah and we really did write a book and it really is coming out May 1st and you really can pre-order it right now. And it really will change your life.





People Who Eat Darkness. Paperback - May 22, 2012, Most other formats as well. by Richard Lloyd Parry

An incisive and compelling account of the case of Lucie Blackman. Lucie Blackman -- tall, blonde, and 21 years old -- stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.



Have read the last book twice now. Excellent read with various avenues of the human psyche to explore and consider while reading it.

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1   mmmarvel   2017 Sep 26, 7:03am  

anonymous says
How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living


There is already a book out that does that (How to be a Perfect Christian), it's called The Bible.
2   Patrick   2017 Sep 26, 7:18am  

anonymous says
An insider reveals what can—and does—go wrong when companies shift production to China.


I read this one and found it very enlightening.

US executives gave away America's manufacturing advantage to China for short-term gain and long-term harm to the country.
3   NuttBoxer   2017 Sep 26, 8:46am  

Especially relevant given today's precarious economy...
4   anonymous   2017 Sep 26, 8:52am  

The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes.
5   bob2356   2017 Oct 6, 5:57am  

Good list so far. A couple there I haven't read yet that I will have to search out.

Hera are some Non fiction that would be worthwhile reading released in the last year or two.

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS - Joby Warrick
Impossible to intelligently discuss the middle east or terrorism without reading this book.

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer
Documents in great detail how, where, when, and how much the libertarian ultra rich spent to successfully buy the political process in the last 50 years..

The Case Against Sugar - Gary Taubes
In addition to being actually scary when you think about your own diet it's a great insight into how pervasively industries can control congress, set narratives, and dictate public policy even when they know they are lying through their teeth. A lot on tobacco as well as sugar. I never realized how much the 2 industries were intertwined.

The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives - Jesse Eisinger
Want to know why no one got prosecuted for the 2007 meltdown? It's all here.

Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street - Neil Barofsky
Older but goes nicely with The Chickenshit Club. Barofsky was the special inspector general who was in charge of overseeing the spending of the bailout money, protecting against fraud, and holding the big banks accountable. Sort of like being Custer at the little big horn.

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race - Margot Lee Shetterly
Unfortunately people (including some on patnet) don't have a clue that the movie is highly fictionalized.. The book tells the real story. Many people today really don't realize how recently it was that the America south was no better than South Africa.

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars - by Nathalia Holt
Like hidden figures but white women in CA. Lots of great information about JPL and early days of rockets.

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War - Fred Kaplan
Comprehensive history of cyber war and state sponsored hacking from the very beginnings. No technical. Just history and policies.

Required reading the the age of trump and the radical right. 1984 - George Orwell. Orwell was either a psychic or had a time machine.
6   NuttBoxer   2017 Oct 6, 10:47am  

The main link for this post is now going directly to the book page instead of the chat.
7   WookieMan   2017 Oct 6, 11:01am  

NuttBoxer says
The main link for this post is now going directly to the book page instead of the chat.

It's intentional. Patrick is trying to make it similar to other forums. If there's no link in the original post, it will just go to the comments page. If there is a link, it will open in a new tab. To view comments on those posts just click the comments link or the time posted link.
8   NuttBoxer   2017 Oct 6, 11:04am  

Guess I should have read about the new changes...
9   FortWayne   2017 Nov 25, 10:01pm  

Patrick says
anonymous says
An insider reveals what can—and does—go wrong when companies shift production to China.


I read this one and found it very enlightening.

US executives gave away America's manufacturing advantage to China for short-term gain and long-term harm to the country.


I really thought the same thing. China was behind, but than we shifted all our production there, raising China and teaching them everything we know. End result, China is stronger, they act adversarial toward us, while fucking us over in the process. And how did we as a nation get there? Let greed sell America down the river to Chinese.

It's shameful.
10   Ceffer   2017 Nov 25, 10:58pm  

Sapiens A Brief History Of Humankind by Uval Harari: A bit preachy and editorialized in a flaming liberal kind of way but interesting read nonetheless

Alien Agenda by Jim Marrs: If you don't care for the UFO stuff, he still manages to capture a great deal of mysterious cultural history as well as cover a lot of conspiracy ground from recent history if you want a general conspiracy reader

The Dictator's Handbook: Recommended by erstwhile Dan of all people, but a fascinating book about the realities of holding political power, written by think tank guys

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
Book by David Talbot and The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
Book by Stephen Kinzer: Both books are good and accentuate each other. You'll piss on their graves after you read about them, Kinzer's book is less conspiracy oriented.

Guns, Germs, and Steel
Book by Jared Diamond: Another great history and cultural examination about who, what and why got technologic supremacy in history as well as in the modern age.

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Ridley, Matt: Biology, if that is of interest, and of course any of the books by Richard Dawkins

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Of course, the book every day trader who believes they are gifted by fate to win in the investment casinos should read, though it probably wouldn't make any difference because gambling is a religion.
11   Ceffer   2017 Nov 26, 10:38am  

"The Dictator's Handbook" is one of those loose, case history type inductive thought exercise thingies. Politics has unpredictable chaos effects, like weather, that can't be explained by mere inductive reasoning, but many points of the book are about as good as you can get for standard reasoning.

Why do "public service unions" always trend away from public benefit to serve a polity at public expense, for example. "The Federalist Papers" was kind of a Founding Father's Dictator's Handbook with its queries on how to preserve the general character of a democracy against the destructive activities of factions.

Why do some of the most resource rich countries have the poorest people and the worst living conditions?

Why do politicians often cater to depraved thinking of interest groups etc.? If you mail a letter with a "great idea" to your local politician, you'll be ignored with a polite form letter brush off or bum's rush. If you mail a letter pointing out a voter bloc and financing that you hold power over, you will get immediate, undivided attention.

The politician might use great ideas as campaign props, but he/she/it serves a coalition that operates in it's own interests, usually at pubic expense. Leadership is always at its heart a battle between outright parasitism and enforced or necessary symbiosis between politicians and populations.


The book does live up to it's ironic promise to cast light on why bad behavior is rewarded in politics.

The book could just as well be titled "Animal Behavior of Political Psychopaths".
12   anonymous   2017 Nov 26, 4:22pm  

Fake News - by Mark Dice

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