BOOKS THREAD

Just finished T. J. English's Havana Nocturne, about Havana/The Mob/Castro, in that order.

For aficionadoes, a delight.

 

Awesome book right? What have you read that is similar to that book that you also enjoyed?

 

Has anybody read Joe Drape's new book "Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen?"

 

I'm also fond of the same author's Paddy Whacked, though I haven't finished it, yet.

 

Read "Paddy Whacked" four years ago. Outstanding book. Recommend it highly on the Birdscribe Five Eyeglass Scale.

 

No, but I passed on a job there a few years ago because, well, it's the definition of Butt Fuck Egypt. I considered it pretty damn carefully but decided Netflix and the internet was not going to be enough entertainment to hold me over for 2, three or four years.

Kind of sucks that someone turned it into a NYT article a few years ago and now a book. What could have been...

 

Guys I just finished "Ladies and Gentlemen the Bronx is Burning"
-If I liked this do you have any other recommendations? It was one of my favorite sports books that I read considering it really captured the era.

 

Just about to begin "An American Tragedy" but beginning having second thoughts. Thoughts anyone?

 

Google the name "Chester Gillette" and read up on this sad bastard. He's the real life Clyde Griffiths.

It's a pretty heavy book, but then again, so was much of Dreiser's work -- a broadside on the social conventions and class distinctions of the time.

 

Yeah, that's the dude from the 1908 case it's based on, right? I was told that Dreiser's prose can be a little difficult to slog through and I don't know if I'm up to that task for my vacation (which begins in about an hour).

Anyway, I borrowed An American Tragedy from the library yesterday (it will take at least one renewal!) but I picked up a Leonard Elmore I haven't read (Killshot) as a back-up just in case I give up on Dreiser.

Thanks, b'scribe.

 

Just finished this one on your recommendation, Buck. Terrific stuff, thanks for pointing me towards it. I'm reading Bret (Hitman) Hart's book now.

 

Excellent read right now - Seth Davis' "When March Went Mad," about the '79 Bird-Magic NCAA championship game. Even though I'm old enough to have watched it on TV, it takes you back to how different a world college basketball was then.
West Texas State a MVC member?
Penn coach Bob Weinhauer not having seen Michigan State on TV, and preparing for their Final Four game by looking over one three-month-old game tape?
Indiana State games on HBO?
Terre Haute reacting to a Bird profile in SI like nuclear secrets had been spilled?
Magic at the heart of a busing controversy in Lansing?
And does this matchup even happen if Bob Heaton doesn't heave one in from halfcourt at the buzzer to force OT at New Mexico State, and the Sycs steal it with Bird and two other starters fouled out in regulation?
Also starting in on David Petruiza's "1960: JFK vs. LBJ vs. Nixon." I enjoyed "1920: The Year of the Six Presidents," and look forward to this one.