Grand unified books thread

[Admiral Yi]

Anyone read "Flash Boys,"  by Michael Lewis?  Currently alternating that with A Muddle of Plotlines.

It's about high-speed trading.  I've never read "Liar's Poker," but I thought based on that Lewis would be an informed writer  about Wall Street.  So far I'm disappointed.

[Ed Anger]

I've grabbed the Monster Hunter books for mah trip. supposedly good readin'.

I know they aren't by some old dead fart that was jammed down my throat in 10th grade, Seedy. You can keep your Steinbeck.

[Syt]

We read Of Mice and Men in English class. Heartbreaking.

[CountDeMoney]

I know they aren't by some old dead fart that was jammed down my throat in 10th grade, Seedy. You can keep your Steinbeck.

You're obviously still there.  You plan on rereading the Dragonlance series after this?

[Ed Anger]

I know they aren't by some old dead fart that was jammed down my throat in 10th grade, Seedy. You can keep your Steinbeck.

You're obviously still there.  You plan on rereading the Dragonlance series after this?

I just might. Raistlin is so edgy.

[Ed Anger]

or Elric.

[CountDeMoney]

I can't bitch too much, every now and then I flush my brain out with a Warhammer 40K novel. 

[Razgovory]

I've been doing that with those Turtledove novels.  They seemed better when I was in high school.   I never did finish the series, but giving it the old college try now.   There are admittedly some clever little jokes like the British having a base on the Hawaiian islands called "Fort William Rufus".  There's an Army base there called Fort Shafter named for William Rufus Shafter.

Stupid autocorrect.

[crazy canuck]

I have started the Picketty book.  It is very well written and surprisingly, for a book on economics, a real page turner.

[Malthus]

Reading The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons. Very amusing, popular science account of the history of brain research.

[Ed Anger]

I've grabbed the Monster Hunter books for mah trip. supposedly good readin'.

I know they aren't by some old dead fart that was jammed down my throat in 10th grade, Seedy. You can keep your Steinbeck.

Monster Hunter International review:

Gun worship+ dead werewolves + dead vampires+ stupid Cthulhu gods= an okay book

[CountDeMoney]

Dead werewolves?  That sucks.  You should always root for werewolves, especially since stupid ass Hollywood threw their lot in with vampires for the homo and tweeter market share.

[The Brain]

Finished No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War by Onoda Hiroo. While I obviously knew of him I hardly knew anything about him before. A fascinating book.

[Eddie Teach]

Dead werewolves?  That sucks.  You should always root for werewolves, especially since stupid ass Hollywood threw their lot in with vampires for the homo and tweeter market share.

They're ruining werewolves and vampires alike.

[Ed Anger]

Dead werewolves?  That sucks.  You should always root for werewolves, especially since stupid ass Hollywood threw their lot in with vampires for the homo and tweeter market share.

[spoiler]the guy that runs Monster Hunter international is a werewolf with a government exemption. And the 4th (or 3rd) book is basically werewolves tearing the living shit out of a town in the UP.

But they end up dead too.[/spoiler]