What are you Reading right now?

[lt1fire]

Audiobooks save me since I'm having to fly a lot more now. Really enjoyed Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" recently, and I also stuck with "The Good Daughter", which I'd give a B, and "Legacy of Spies" which I'd give a B-. Currently working on "Triple Agent", nonfiction story of al-Bawari, which is good and informative, but dry as you might imagine.

I use Overdrive to check out audiobooks from my local library, via phone app. Works well and $0 - simply taking advantage of my tax dollars a bit more. Sometimes there's a wait, and eventually I'll probably have to augment with Audible.

Had no idea you could check out audio books from a library.

 

[lt1fire]

Funny.

Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow will blow your mind.

Reminds me of a company I interviewed with, AI.

They do natural language generation (NLG). The computer can write a story from any structured data. Baseball stats, financial stats, call of duty stats, AP newswire uses for most of their stories now. In 10 years it will be the norm as companies start to structure their data properly.

Not many things really scare me about the future... although we are trying as the human race to kill ourselves it seems like. But AI has always been one of those things where i'm not sure we went too far until Arnold shows up. LOL

 

[uzj100]

Thank you for the overdrive.

The ai is crazy.

When ai + ml + bc + vr + ar come together some weird stuff is going to go down.

The homo deus talks a lot about super humans mating with super humans and the rest are left to die off. Much healthier and live much longer because all health issues are getting fixed a lot quicker.

 

[jamesurq]

What are you Reading right now?

 

[lt1fire]

What are you Reading right now?

I see what you did....

 

[lumbee1]

We used a combination of overdrive and audible when we drove to the Grand Canyon last year. The Martian is freaking awesome on audio book. Artemis, by Andy Weir, was entertaining and I wouldn't be surprised if they made it into a movie. The Maze Runner series was significantly better than the movies but just ok. We really enjoyed Ready Player One on audio book.

 

[lt1fire]

These are free for kindle right now


Graeme Robert Bell


I've read the first one already but just got the second one for free....not sure how long it will last.

 

[weejub]

Listened to one of the best READERS ever in MacLeod Andrews and Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson.

Steelheart

 

[RedHeadedStepChild]

 

[uzj100]

This one. Audible. Outstanding.

 

[lumbee1]

Bram Stoker's Dracula

 

[weejub]

This one. Audible. Outstanding.

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I wonder if that would help me lead my Wife in our 2 person business?

 

[uzj100]

I wonder if that would help me lead my Wife in our 2 person business?

The first book is extreme ownership. I recommend both. They would help.

I would think a Husband / wife business would take extreme patience.

 

[lt1fire]

I know lots on here like Art of Manliness website.
I've started to model my future reads on this

100 Books Every Man Should Read | The Art of Manliness

I've most likely read close to 50% of these but many were at my prep school during elementary so I could re-read quite a few of them as well.

Any books that you think shouldn't be on this list or should be added to it?

 

[roadstr6]

Great Civil War book. The book is a series of memoirs written by a Confederate Private who survived the war from start to finish and lived to tell about it. Written in the perspective of an actual foot soldier. Watkins wit, speech pattern and literary style remind me a lot of Mark Twain. Brilliant little book. Quick read. Worthy of your time.

 

[roadstr6]

Ruark's novel as published in Field and Stream Magazine in the 1950's. Ruark was from North Carolina and his grandfather (the old man) lived in Southport. The book is a true classic. It's something every boy / man should read. Lots of good times. Lots of hard lessons. Lots of hunting and fishing in the woods, streams and salty marshes of the NC coastal areas. Good stuff.

 

[lt1fire]

Ruark's novel as published in Field and Stream Magazine in the 1950's. Ruark was from North Carolina and his grandfather (the old man) lived in Southport. The book is a true classic. It's something every boy / man should read. Lots of good times. Lots of hard lessons. Lots of hunting and fishing in the woods, streams and salty marshes of the NC coastal areas. Good stuff.

Thanks for the suggestion..... i'll add it to my list.

 

[65swb45]

My son just told me a couple of weeks ago about this sequel to “Zen”. Like the first book, it gets weighted down in parts by Pirsig’s inability to surmount self-inflicted semantic issues with some of the themes. Like Zen, it’s often easier to skip past them and wait for his inevitable concrete examples that really help illustrate his more elusive points.

What caught me be surprise, even after reading Zen at three different points in my life, is that both books are very autobiographical.

 

[JohnVee]

Boy genius. Pilot; EARLY licensed pilot. Complete unknown to pretty much everybody nowadays.

 

[mtweller]

Amazon product ASIN 0593139135
This was a good read, well listen. I never really respected MM all that much, but I've really changed my tune. Even if you are more of a reader than audiobook listener, I'd still recommend it because he reads it himself... his voice and storytelling is well worth the price of admission. Some crazy adventures and a really good outlook on life.