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12-30-2006, 09:24 AM
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Wipe My Bottom
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what's on your reading list for 2007?
i have a pile of books and movies i'd like to read/watch at some point when i can get a spare moment.
anything on your reading list for the new year?
here are a few nerdy books i've been re-reading (always good to get a re-fresher) ...
The Alchemy of Finance - George Soros 
Intermarket Analysis - John Murphy 
Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy - Thomas Sowell
Pit Bull - Marty Schwartz 
Shadow Warriors - Tom Clancy  |
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12-30-2006, 04:17 PM
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Location: Landlocked in my own prison
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"Bagpipe Brothers" and "Flags of our Father." I received both from Santa! I'll probably re-read Dibennedetto's "On the Run" as well.
Anything to get me through winter.
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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12-30-2006, 08:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Too far from sea
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I will get through Moby #^&#^&#^&#^& in 2007, it's always been on my list, but always start and can never get through it.
I want to read the Da Vinci Code, so I can watch the movie.
Striper Chronicles, Cod: Biography of a Fish the Changed the World, and Striper Wars are all on the list.
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12-30-2006, 09:33 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
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Reading "Fiasco" right now - scary, eye opening, if it is half true our government is doing (did) a worse job than I thought and have been bitching about
Next, probably Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice by David Galula
Cobra II - Bernie Trainor (and someone else)
The Iraqi Study Group 
Ben - Shadow Warriors - read it several times, fascinating. Granted just the cliff notes for us non-professionals but very interesting just the same.
Bummed Jim White's book on fishing plastics from #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&... Hope to dig in shortly... |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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12-31-2006, 08:44 AM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FittyPoundah
Striper Chronicles, Cod: Biography of a Fish the Changed the World, and Striper Wars are all on the list.
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COD was a very good book.
So was Stiffs (the curious lives of human cadavers)
I got
The Omnivores Dilemma
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The Brothers Bulger
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aim: SaltedBrian
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01-01-2007, 10:42 AM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
by Chris Anderson
Warhol: The Biography
by Victor Bockris....
Reading it now...Warhol's philosophy of "so what?" is very interesting
A bunch of other stuff...
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01-01-2007, 11:18 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Someone mentioned "Stiffs"... great, eye-opening book.
I also recommend "Shadow Divers". Some treasure divers find a sunken U-Boat right off the coast of JERSEY. How the hell did that get there? Read it to find out!
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01-01-2007, 11:49 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Reading now:
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea, by Steven Callahan
a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized.
It is amazing how he survived. It came out a number of years ago (02? I think) but I am just getting to it now.
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01-01-2007, 12:38 PM
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Registered LUser
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Mashpee, MA
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I'm going to re-read the Harry Potter series and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. No need to pretend I'm cool.
I also have alot of books on fish, fishing, survival, exploration, etc. that I will most likely get to. I could blow through probably a dozen books per month if I could find room in my bags to bring them to work with me.
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The worst day fishing is better than the best day working. ...Wait a minute, my work IS fishing. Sweet.
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01-01-2007, 01:04 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Hmmmm.....
I just had a conversation with my 6yo about always having to read/study even when you are as old as daddy. Think she is letting that sink in the past couple of days. 
Multicasting Networks
Understanding Market Data (pips, qsips, qform)
Fly Fishing the Surf
And if I can find a copy of "Fishing with the Bucktail" by Cpt. DeMaio (anyone got one I can borrow? 
That should cover the first three months. |
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01-01-2007, 01:40 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Just started Cesar's Way.. by Cesar Milan..
guys speaks dog, real good.
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01-01-2007, 02:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by timf
Fly Fishing the Surf
And if I can find a copy of "Fishing with the Bucktail" by Cpt. DeMaio (anyone got one I can borrow?
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Set up Ebay to alert you when a copy becomes available. I see them every now and again. That is how I got mine. (my bookcase is right near my office) |
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01-01-2007, 04:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
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Sandman, I read Adrift and was amazed. Great reading.
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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01-01-2007, 04:05 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
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I forgot to mention, I also read a book by John Krakauer a few years ago called "Into Thin Air." It's about climbing Mt. Everest when a storm hits and the fight for survival. That's a good read if anyone is interested.
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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01-01-2007, 04:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: cape cod
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working on the agony and ecstasy...then I will watch the movie...
taking longer because I am taking notes and outlining...
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a fifty before I go!!!!!!
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01-01-2007, 06:15 PM
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Wipe My Bottom
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,911
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i have a copy of fishing the bucktail in very good condition available for $100 shipped.
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01-01-2007, 08:42 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
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anything by Larry Flint........the periodicals mostly
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01-02-2007, 11:04 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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River of Doubt, about Teddy Rooselvelts South American journey into the interior of Brazil five years after he lost his attempt at a third term presidency. First hundred pages is o.k.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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01-02-2007, 11:12 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
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reading mayflower by philbrick- the real story about the pilgrims
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01-02-2007, 11:20 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bassturbed
i have a pile of books and movies i'd like to read/watch at some point when i can get a spare moment.
anything on your reading list for the new year?
here are a few nerdy books i've been re-reading (always good to get a re-fresher) ...
The Alchemy of Finance - George Soros
Intermarket Analysis - John Murphy
Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy - Thomas Sowell
Pit Bull - Marty Schwartz
Shadow Warriors - Tom Clancy |
BS,
Try "confessions of a street addict". High octane wall street memoirs by Jim Cramer. If you like all the financial stuff, you might like this.Follow up with "wealth of nations" by adam smith if you get bored and want a sleeper bedtime book. |
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01-02-2007, 08:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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Just came across an attractive fishing magazine...call GAFF
http://www.gaffmag.net/
check out the "girls of gaff"  |
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01-03-2007, 12:09 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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Gaff
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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01-03-2007, 12:35 PM
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Montauk for me!!!!
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Long Island
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"Interpretation of Geometric Tolerancing and Dimensioning"...not kidding!!
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"Hey...get off my rock!!!!"
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