I thought it was a great book, but finding ANYONE who can even wrench on an old BMW can be a chore. So as far as "good", beggars can't be that choosy you know.
Does anybody read [books] anymore?
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Depends, is it one like Cooks Illustrated where it goes through the process of testing different thinks to get to the best recipe?
Holy $hit! Yeah I read cooks illistrated all the time!
I read books!!! I always considered that a magazine?
FYI-Ministrone soup from the current issue is out of this world !
I have, I liked it a lot too! Any other reccomendations?
Mountaineering recommendations? Man... SOOOOOOOO many good books.
Everest: The West Ridge
The Shining Mountain
The White Spider
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley
K2 - The Savage Mountain
Annapurna
Well, I'll give you that.
My own experiences as a bicycle mechanic (I like one g/f who called it "My BoHo thing"), I have to deal with the general populous, for good or bad.
I have to read the book and see what I think.
Potroast88 posted up about it, so I checked it out. It was one of the better philosophical books I've read in a while and an interesting take on outsourcing and the decline of trade labor as a positive option for students.
The fact remains that not everyone was meant to go to college, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, either.
I certainly think that is a worthy topic to analyze.
However, I don't want a brainiac tinkering with my Suzuki when he said he would change the plugs by Thursday.
The other thing is that I am good at picking up weaknesses. Most people would be impressed that a philosophy fellow is also a mechanic, but I suspect that he is a dilettante.
While he may be even a talented mechanic, ultimately getting the job done when you say you will is what impresses me. While he may have the skill, I wonder if he has the fortitude to get the job done.
I just reserved the book at the library. I will have to read it for myself.
Just finished this last night. Maybe it will help my text styling skills.
I'm about half way through this one and it is not a bunch of new age bullsh1t like I suspected. It is based off some ancient eastern thought.
I'm about half way through this one and it is not a bunch of new age bullsh1t like I suspected. It is based off some ancient eastern thought.
He didn't go too much into his ability to work on bikes, or at least that's not what I took away from it. It is disappointing to learn that schools are killing shop programs along with the art programs as well.
I loved wood shop and learned a lot. I never took auto mechanics because I was in electronics. But taking 3 years of electronics (including time on the TRS80's and C-64's) is what got me thinking computers to begin with. But even though I never went into a wood craft line of work, I use the techniques and skills I learned back then on home projects.
Giant can outsource frame building to China. But if you need to have new cranks installed, you either do it yourself, or you take it to the shop. You don't box your bike up and ship it to China.
name 3 books we read ever?
or in the last week?
I am reading 4 books at the moment....
East is East by TC Boyle
A backgammon strategy book
A domino rule book & strategy guide
& a book on how to build saunas.
or in the last week?
I am reading 4 books at the moment....
East is East by TC Boyle
A backgammon strategy book
A domino rule book & strategy guide
& a book on how to build saunas.
uh, yeah. but L is a backgammon savant. I need all the help I can get.
never played I see.
I am avergaing about 3 a week right now. Gotta love the winter time. I am reading so many that I can't keep up and think I am going to have to start a reading journal this year.
Some of my most recent
I finished this one a few months back but it is too good to not share.
Some of my most recent
I finished this one a few months back but it is too good to not share.
And with that, I would kick your ****ing ass in backgammon.
After 1984, I went on a Palahniuk spree:
I'm like around 30 pages into Rant:
And just started this for a class of mine:
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. I would let you win anyway because you are a girl and beating girls is mean
I have reached critical mass in the knowledge department. Reading anymore books would be a waste of time and money. I can't know anymore stuff then I already do....
I think the blue-collar chic is cool when you can walk away from it whenever you want.
It is a little harder when you have to wrench on bikes or cars for a living. It is not as easy as working on computers or writing position papers.
I really do not like fiction
Second book on Cuba
Trying to understand this crazy country from different angles
700 pages of well written and history
Second book on Cuba
Trying to understand this crazy country from different angles
700 pages of well written and history
I agree, but I would rather do what he did and open a shop where I wrench on motorcycles (still hope to in another year or 2) rather than work in a cubicle for the man. Now working as a mechanic for someone else is almost as bad as what I do now, or could be considered worse because the pay sucks, too.
But I do this because I am good at it and it pays the bills. It's far from what i would consider passionate work, or a labor of love. I've said it before, I was happy driving a tow truck, but I wasn't happy with the pay or the hours. If I had my own tow company, it would be much different.
I've done loads of reading this last couple of years, mainly because TV is so crap these days. My GF got me into fantasy fiction and I must say that although the read like grown up childrens books they are a rollicking good time.
The Rift War saga (6 books) by Fiest has been great and I've finished Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind recently. This was the book the TV series Legend of the Seeker was based from but lets just say that alot of the things about the bad guys' in the book didnt quite translate over into prime time family viewing, like child torture and rape, and approximately 3 chapters of extreme sadomasochistic sexual torture of the hero.
I just finished last night The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stig Larrson. Quite brilliant, I'll be buying the other two books in the series.
I like non fiction also and read Naomi Kleins The Shock Doctrine late last year. Now that was a great history lesson into post WWII US foreign and domestic policy.
The Rift War saga (6 books) by Fiest has been great and I've finished Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind recently. This was the book the TV series Legend of the Seeker was based from but lets just say that alot of the things about the bad guys' in the book didnt quite translate over into prime time family viewing, like child torture and rape, and approximately 3 chapters of extreme sadomasochistic sexual torture of the hero.
I just finished last night The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stig Larrson. Quite brilliant, I'll be buying the other two books in the series.
I like non fiction also and read Naomi Kleins The Shock Doctrine late last year. Now that was a great history lesson into post WWII US foreign and domestic policy.
A good one...Holding Fast - Karen James- Wife of mountain climber Kelly James
I remember reading Texasville in the 80s - fun read.
My current book for air travel only - Executing Your Strategy; How to break it down and get it done.
My current book for air travel only - Executing Your Strategy; How to break it down and get it done.
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i liked the movie and was considering actually reading a book. was it good?Into the Wild
yes45.
Seconded
For the mountaineering guys.
Touching the Void
Climb - Another view point of Into Thin Air, by Anatoli Bourkareev (sp?), the guide who krakauer supposedly vilifies
Ill have to think some more, but Ive read a bunch of others
The book is actually quite a bit better than the movie.
Yeah - a totally different view of the events of the accident. Very good book.
my last book. very very good. its an interesting take on what civilizations worship
Can't remember 3 books, but the last two I read were:
