The Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related

[hempluvr]

True Living Organics.....The Rev

 

[Scottish Research]

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Micheal Lewis.

Recommended.

R.Fortune

 

[Capt.Ahab]

I usually have a few books going.
Just started King Phillips War. The history and legacy of America's forgotten conflict . By Shultz and Tougias.

Also just started Monuments Men .

. An account of the Allied soldiers charged with finding the priceless art stolen by the Nazis during WWII.

 

[Hermanthegerman]

Don Winslow - Kings of cool

http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Cool-Pr...383&sr=1-1&keywords=Don+Winslow+Kings+of+cool#_

 

[Rob547]

Next on the list:

Have read Brave New World and Doors of Perception/Heaven&Hell great books

Just finished Killing Lincoln too, good read as much as I'm not a huge fan of Bill OReilly

 

[Max Headroom]

yeah, doors of perception/heaven+hell is very interesting.


just finished:

Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test
(Audiobook version - read by the author)

another very interesting book concerning a most important subject from ronson, but he loses his focus in the last third.

 

[Max Headroom]

Knight & Lomas - The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus

very interesting...

 

[Max Headroom]

Alongside Night - Neil J. Shulman

failed to excite me...

 

[Jorge Cervantes]

Super-Charged" How Outlaws, Hippies, and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana by Jim Rendon, Timber Press 2012 is an outstanding history of cannabis in the USA.

Jim interviewed many of the cannabis growers on the West Coast, a lot of them my friends. Please check out the book published by the most prestigious horticultural press in North America.

The Russian edition of Marijuana Horticulture just arrived from the printer. We now have it in our warehouses in Spain and USA.

We are all very proud of the first cannabis cultivation book published in Russian language. Check out www.dzagi.ru and www.marijuanagrowing.com for more information.

We have also started a forum at www.marijuanagrowing.com where you can post information about my books and everything else.

 

[Max Headroom]

this thread should really be in the toker's den then it would probably get more posts...

i really enjoy seeing what other people are reading at the moment!


me, i just finished

Jim Bouton - Ball Four - The Final Pitch (+ updates) - audiobook version read by the author

this was a great listen. him reading it takes it to another level. funny and emotional. check it out if you can.



Antony C. Sutton - America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones

probably the least interesting of his books i've read so far, but only because the others are so jam-packed with important information.


and i'm nearly done with
John Seymour - The Forgotten Arts

a fascinating collection of how things were made before the industrial revolution and oil powered machinery.
i'm gonna check out some of his other books after this one...

 

[Scottish Research]

Just finished the following:

Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
By James Rickards

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
By Doug Stanton




R.Fortune

 

[Scottish Research]

Just Finished:

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
By Jon Gertner

River of no reprieve: descending Siberia's waterway of exile, death, and destiny
By Jeffrey Tayler

Currently reading:

The River War
By Winston Churchill


R.Fortune

R.Fortune

 

[toughmudderdave]

I'm currently reading "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz...

According to Don Miguel Ruiz, everything we do is based on agreements we have made — agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is not such a problem, but we have many agreements that come from fear, deplete our energy, and diminish our self-worth.

In The Four Agreements, don Miguel reveals the source of self-limiting agreements that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. When we are ready to change these agreements, there are four deceptively simple, yet powerful agreements that we can adopt as guiding principles. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

The Four Agreements are:

BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

DON'T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are tired as opposed to well-rested. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

 

[chubbynugs]

I haven't read much the past few years so i thought i would pick the habit back up again with an easy read. Almost finished with "POT PLANET Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture" author Brian Preston. The book so far has been a fun read. The author seems honest in his descriptions of the places he goes. Kinda felt sad that in some countries he had some bad experiences when looking for pot. Easy book to pick up where you left off if you cant put in hours of reading in at a time.

 

[paulo73]

Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins.
Essential reading if you are interested in Economics, Politics or Social Agitation.

 

[lost in a sea]

Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins.
Essential reading if you are interested in Economics, Politics or Social Agitation.

does that go into the "jackels" at all? and the whole process of destabilising/attacking nations through different agents for the bankers ?,, how east and west were basically won..

the title just sounds familiar

recently i read through

i suppose explaining why the information in this book is so important would really depend of what lens you were viewing things through, the bigger picture i mean,, in most of our lifetimes i hope that the electrical nature of life and the universe is broken to the masses like the suns (electrically generated not thermonuclear) rays through some very dark cloud cover..

the work of scientists like Mae-Wan Ho, an extremely talented and intelligent lady with a wealth of work and patents behind her, shunned naturally by the mainstream church of "science", in books like this takes big steps in the right direction for literally understanding everything but mainly getting the future of the human race back on track..

 

[paulo73]

Yes, it goes deep into that. John Perkins worked for the "banksters" for many years.
Nice tip on Mae-Wan Ho, i need to check her out, thanks.

 

[SeaMaiden]

I just finished What a Plant Knows. It was alright, but definitely not worth the non-shareable $20. I'm going back to my historical fiction.

 

[paulo73]

I dread that "non shareable" policy on culture and i´ll never abide by it.
Sorry for the rant, nothing to do with you SeaMaiden.
Much respect for another fellow grower/reader

 

[SeaMaiden]

It puts a hair across my ass, paulo. I mean, let's say I went ahead and did my usual and bought the hardcopy, hard or soft cover, right? Now, I read that book and I'm done. I tell my mom about it, or my sister, and one of them says they'd like to read it. I can then either take it to them or put it in the mail, whatever, either way I can physically lend them the book. Why not in this context? And why the 2 week time limit in any event? Sometimes I can't get back to reading, and so they've got this time limit and it expires, well guess what! You can only lend the book ONCE anyway!

It generates a lot more money for them, which is why I've always limited the cost of the ebooks purchased to <$10. That one book is the one book I went ahead and spent more on, and I regret purchasing it as an ebook because this is one I'd pass along to others.