Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

Steve French

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Currently going through Father Goriot by Balzac. Pretty good so far. I relate to the adventure of the young provincial going to the big city and scheming to get wealthy and climb the social ladder. Reminds me of my struggle to escape from my origin of buttfuck nowhere Canada. Really been slipping on my reading. Only five books this year. Didn't crack one open until June though. Find it hard to read when I have too much times on my hands for some reason.

Also about 2000 pages into C++ How to Program by Deitel and Deitel. The actual book is only a thousand pages long so something obviously went a bit fucky with the ebook I stole by means of Libgen. Does stroke my ego a bit though. Don't know how the college kids did it back in the day. This cocksucker costs $250 for information you could find all over the web.
 

madvillian420

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I finished Chaos by Tom O'neill a couple weeks ago, a 20 year long endeavor about Charles Manson, his cult and the CIA. Great book. The author was on Joe Rogan a while back and it was a great interview

I just started the audio version of Hidden War by John Nores, a former game warden. its about illegal cartel weed grows, mostly in California. So far id say the guy is a better at giving interviews than audiobooks, but its fascinating nonetheless.
 

ilovereggae

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The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History - by James Higdon


Did a quick search and didn't see anyone had posted this yet. Forgive me if it has been. Should be required reading for everyone on RIU! Oral history of Johnny Boone and the basis of some of our best genetics today. For those that don't know, its thought that Indiana Bubblegum came out of some of the Kentucky crew's pheno selections and breeding over the years.
 
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madvillian420

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The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History - by James Higdon


Did a quick search and didn't see anyone had posted this yet. Forgive me if it has been. Should be required reading for everyone on RIU! Oral history of Johnny Boone and the basis of some of our best genetics today. For those that don't know, its thought that Indiana Bubblegum came out of some of the Kentucky crew's pheno selections and breeding over the years.
i never read any books but i saw a documentary about them, my kinda reading material thanks lol
 

curious2garden

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Currently going through Father Goriot by Balzac. Pretty good so far. I relate to the adventure of the young provincial going to the big city and scheming to get wealthy and climb the social ladder. Reminds me of my struggle to escape from my origin of buttfuck nowhere Canada. Really been slipping on my reading. Only five books this year. Didn't crack one open until June though. Find it hard to read when I have too much times on my hands for some reason.

Also about 2000 pages into C++ How to Program by Deitel and Deitel. The actual book is only a thousand pages long so something obviously went a bit fucky with the ebook I stole by means of Libgen. Does stroke my ego a bit though. Don't know how the college kids did it back in the day. This cocksucker costs $250 for information you could find all over the web.
You need C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup
His website:

On Amazon but I'm sure you can find a link on the web:
 

dannyboy602

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Been reading about Russian history and their great socialism experiment..."Understanding Socialism" by Prof Richard Wolff
I'm an admitted socialist and was really hoping Bernie Sanders would replace our fake president. Maybe next time.
 

Steve French

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You need C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup
His website:

On Amazon but I'm sure you can find a link on the web:
I would personally be inclined to go to the primary source, yes. It's on my list. I kind of like C++, despite how unintuitive it is at times (like why is there no built-in simple string splitting function with a delimiter a la Java) and think I'd like to get proficient at it. This one isn't very good. It can't decide whether it's a beginner or reference book and is far too long to justify the price like most textbooks. However, it is very useful in how the lazy bastards who crafted this course I am taking scavenged all the code and test questions directly from it.
 

BarnBuster

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When we do harm : a doctor confronts medical error / Danielle Ofri (a must read)

Whatever it took : an American paratrooper's extraordinary memoir of escape, survival, and heroism in the last days of World War II / Henry Langrehr and Jim DeFelice

The revelators / Ace Atkins.

Cajun justice / James Patterson and Tucker Axum.

Descent into darkness : Pearl Harbor, 1941: a Navy diver's memoir / Edward C. Raymer.
(Ed Raymer was the Senior Petty Officer in charge of the Navy salvage dive team that were the first ones to enter the Arizona in early January 1942. His team brought up the initial 40 some bodies from Arizona before it was decided by Navy and Congress that due to the horrific condition of the remains, it was best to leave them entombed. The team was also instrumental in raising the West Virginia, Nevada and California. The book is his story. bb)

The room where it happened : a White House memoir / John Bolton.

Muzzled / David Rosenfelt.

The rise of the G.I. Army 1940-1941 : the forgotten story of how America forged a powerful army before Pearl Harbor / Paul Dickson.
 
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BarnBuster

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Atomic Spy : The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs / Nancy Thorndike Greenspan.

Becoming Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator / Jung H. Pak. (Concise rundown of the regime, bb)

The Louvre : the many lives of the world's most famous museum / James Gardner.

The Nazis next door : how America became a safe haven for Hitler's men / Eric Lichtblau. (PAPERCLIP and the US agencies that covered everything up, bb) לגדוד השלישי, גדוד 157, אוגדת חי"ר 45 בשחרור דכאו, היה הרעיון הנכון.
 
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BarnBuster

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The hooligans / P. T. Deutermann. (Another hit by Deutermann, Fiction, WW2 Pacific. PT boats running and gunning "The Slot" bb)

Robert Ludlum's the Bourne evolution / Brian Freeman.

Deadlock / Catherine Coulter.

Poland 1939 : the outbreak of World War II / Roger Moorhouse.

Which country has the world's best health care? / Ezekiel J. Emanuel.
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BarnBuster

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Operation Vengeance : the astonishing aerial ambush that changed World War II / Dan Hampton. (The decision, planning and execution of VENGEANCE, the operation to find Yamamoto's flight and shoot him down.bb)

Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world / Lesley M.M. Blume. (How the USA limited the information that was disseminated to the public about the 2 atomic bombs, their destructive power and the devastation they caused. John Hersey revealed the true story of Hiroshima in 1946 in New Yorker magazine. The issue was entirely devoted to his article, below. Some 90,000 feet of color footage (contained on 133 reels of 16mm film) shot by the Army at both cities thru 1946 still resides at the National Archives, College Park, MD. Classified for decades because it was "too disturbing" for the American public to view. Film (most) can now be viewed by public at the Archives. bb)

Choppy water / Stuart Woods.

A private cathedral / James Lee Burke.

Cult of glory : the bold and brutal history of the Texas Rangers
/ Doug J. Swanson. (The not so "good" side of the Rangers during their early years. bb)

Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy / Edward Ball.
 

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lokie

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I'm looking for an AudioBook torrent for "Win Your Case How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time" by Gerry Spence .

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I find ebooks but nothing with substance for AudioBooks.

FREE trial accounts are abundant, but isn't that why a torrent is created?

Thepiratebay offered 0 files. :-?

If you know of a link pass it on.

Thanks
 

BarnBuster

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Beyond valor : World War II's Rangers and Airborne veterans reveal the heart of combat / Patrick K. O'Donnell.

Unacceptable : privilege, deceit & the making of the college admissions scandal / Melissa Korn, and Jennifer Levitz.
(This tells the backstory on "Varsity Blues", I'm conflicted as to whether or not the kids should have been criminally charged. Some of them had to know what was going on.bb)

“To the extent they know about it, they’re responsible,” says Rivka Weinberg, professor of philosophy at Scripps College in Claremont, California. “They’re 17, 18 years old, that’s not that young. They know they’re doing something wrong.” As teenagers, they have immature judgement and so, both legally and morally, are less culpable than their parents, notes Weinberg. They still have enough judgement to be responsible.


Eliot Ness and the mad butcher : hunting America's deadliest unidentified serial killer at the dawn of modern criminology / Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz.
 
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BarnBuster

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MS-13 : the making of America's most notorious gang / Steven Dudley.

The apocalypse factory : plutonium and the making of the atomic age / Steve Olson
Backstory of Hanford and the Manhattan Project @cannabineer

Soul full of coal dust : a fight for breath and justice in Appalachia / Chris Hamby.
The folks we forgot about, still, to this day.
 
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