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BOOKS THREAD

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Moderator1, Apr 22, 2005.

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  1. Cousin Jeffrey

    Cousin Jeffrey Active Member

    Yeah, that's on my list too. I just got a copy of Dr. Z's Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football in the mail. It's the first revised one from the 70s, the updated one was too expensive....
     
    Cousin Jeffrey, Sep 8, 2005
    #313
  2. Lone_Star_Speed

    Lone_Star_Speed Guest

    Just finished Superstud by Paul Feig.  One of the funniest books I've read in some time. 
     
    Lone_Star_Speed, Sep 9, 2005
    #314
  3. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    My pop just sent me a copy of 'The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York' by Robert A. Caro.
    I've been wanting to read it for a long time but had never gotten around to buying it for myself.
     
    Buck, Sep 9, 2005
    #315
  4. JohnnyChan

    JohnnyChan Member

    Buck, I think you'll find "Power Broker" to be an astonishing book. Unless your an Evelyn Wood alum it'll take you a while to get through at over 1,100 words, but Caro humbles you with what he's done here. It really is the best biography I've ever read and there isn't a close second.
     
    JohnnyChan, Sep 10, 2005
    #316
  5. JohnnyChan

    JohnnyChan Member

    Um ... make that 1,100 PAGES ...
     
    JohnnyChan, Sep 10, 2005
    #317
  6. freak

    freak Guest

    This thread is one of the best. I have purchase plenty of books that have been mentioned. Thanks to all.
     
    freak, Sep 10, 2005
    #318
  7. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    Every now and then - about as often as we elect a president - we throw a thread out there with some actual value.
     
    Moderator1, Sep 11, 2005
    #319
  8. friend of the friendless

    friend of the friendless Active Member

    Sirs, Madames,

    Just 200 pages into Sons of Mississippi by Paul Hendickson--uneven, at times too "creative" but never dull history of a single moment, J Meredith's arrival on Ole Miss campus and the state "lawmen" who were there to block it.

    YHS, etc
     
    friend of the friendless, Sep 11, 2005
    #320
  9. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    I just finished 'The Last Emperor' by Edward Behr, and I'm moving the Moses biography up in the rotation and starting it tonight.
    Like I said, I've been wanting to read it for some time now.
     
    Buck, Sep 11, 2005
    #321
  10. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    HoopsMcCann, Sep 12, 2005
    #322
  11. Sly

    Sly Active Member

    Sly, Sep 12, 2005
    #323
  12. Bill Brasky

    Bill Brasky Active Member

    King Kauffman did an interview with Barra on Salon a week or so ago...the book sounds really interesting. I didn't know Bear Bryant almost became coach of the Dolphins in the late 1960s...he was so disgusted with George Wallace and Alabama being all-white that he damn near jumped to the NFL.
     
    Bill Brasky, Sep 15, 2005
    #324
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