What are your favourite books?

[guest]

I've been obsessed with baseball history since high school and I'm usually in the middle of a new baseball history-related book at any given time so I've read a fucking ton on the subject. Right now I'm reading the Curt Flood book. Disappointing how we've gone from the likes of Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood, actual heroes who made enormous sacrifices, to the likes of bullshit artists like Kaepernick and Rapinoe.

Cobb by Al Stump -mostly bullshit but still entertaining

Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty -less bullshit, still entertaining

The Glory of Their Times

Eight Men Out

Ball Four

I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist

The Old Ball Game

Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues

A Well Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency

What's the best one out of these in your opinion? Enjoy old timey sports shit but never took the time to read a whole book about it.

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

I've been obsessed with baseball history since high school and I'm usually in the middle of a new baseball history-related book at any given time so I've read a fucking ton on the subject. Right now I'm reading the Curt Flood book. Disappointing how we've gone from the likes of Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood, actual heroes who made enormous sacrifices, to the likes of bullshit artists like Kaepernick and Rapinoe.

Cobb by Al Stump -mostly bullshit but still entertaining

Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty -less bullshit, still entertaining

The Glory of Their Times

Eight Men Out

Ball Four

I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist

The Old Ball Game

Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues

A Well Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency

Ball Four is one of the greatest books ever written.

Rube Waddell was the original Brothaman.

 

[Monk]

What's the best one out of these in your opinion? Enjoy old timey sports shit but never took the time to read a whole book about it.

The Glory of Their Times is a definite classic and has a nice broad range of stories. Would go for that first.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

I devoured books as a kid - Roald Dahl, Just William and then later the Flashman novels, Thackeray, Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Steinbeck, Salinger, Hemingway anything I could get my hands on. That dissipated around 13/14 years old, when I discovered girls. Got into James Ellroy/Elmore Leonard type books for a bit in my late 20s but haven't had the time or energy to really sit down and read since I started a family. Or maybe it's the faggot smartphone tech that's robbed me of my ability to concentrate on more than two pages of text at a time.

I feel the same. I "always had my nose in a book as a kid" and was a voracious reader who would read old classics buried deep in my grandpa's damp root cellar as a 12 year old and would even frequent libraries. Now, I have about 4 books that i've only read half of on my nightstand and spend more time here.

Probably not for the best, but the internet rules.

I read "Kitchen Confidential" last Christmas and definitely enjoyed it, but it's a bit cringe in that it makes working in a kitchen sound like surviving the trenches in WWI. All in all, very entertaining and well-written though.

I really liked Irvine Welsh and "Trainspotting" and one of his books about a corrput cop called "Filth" in my 20s, but I assume if I read it now I wouldn't enjoy it.

The James Herriot books are my favorite, are wholesome and have great re-readability.

 

[Coonskin]

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Just kidding glad that shitheads worm food

 

[DeadWithoutMyDavid]

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. It's about man's insatiable need for young pussy.

 

[fricklefrackle]

 

[Meownaw]

Boat Hack. I like to take this book with me into the bacowza. I've had the best time reading it. There are a couple of pages in here, there's one line that's worth the price of admission. Can't wait for a Boat Hack 2.

 

[Will Tate]

How was it?

I read the first one, it's not bad. They're all pretty short, mainly because Mr. Tate doesn't really doesn't spend a lot of space describing the settings. The main character will come into the corridor of a spaceship, but besides maybe the color of the walls, there's not much description of where the characters are. If I had one complaint, it's that, but it's far from a deal-breaker because the plot keeps moving along and the characters aren't cardboard cut-outs reciting his greatest Twitter hits.

 

[Dani's Thick Legsters]

“Based On A True Story” by Norm MacDonald

The Audiobook is legendary and cements Norm as a creative and comedy genius

 

[TomFromNawlins]

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a damn masterpiece even though Marquez was a commie sympathizer and may have lusted like a Cumia.

 

[Not bad]

Where we at with listening to audiobooks at 120-130% speed? Normal speed usually doesn't emulate your reading pace very well, so many times it's easy to get bored after a while. I can't believe publishers haven't realized this and increased the default speed of recordings.

 

[guest]

My favorite book of all time is One flew over the cuckoo's nest because it's so much better than the movie

 

[ShutYourCakeHorn]

 

[guest]

 

[ShutYourCakeHorn]

 

[O&AWOWSTICKERSTOP!]

Actually just finished Brave New World last night. I enjoy 1984 more. But, there are a lot of parallels to what’s going on today. MmmmmmmAaaaaaNnnnnnn!

 

[Mustard]

boats.... down there

 

[Jen_Tomlinson]

Lotta fawkin prawblems in the Hughes’ household

 

[Turk February]

Honestly if you're looking for good but obscure Sci Fi you can probably find Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin. It's an insane rollercoaster ride. Super emotional. Super abstract. No spoilers cuz my stupid dad spoiled the ending for me.

Edit 1: it's also super short. So you can probably finish it in an afternoon.