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chiaThePet -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/9/2009 1:03:01 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol So, you didn't get the reference... that's okay :-) . Google "Desire and the Black Masseur" by Tennesee W. I just came up with a Porno starring some black stud named Long Dong Silver and his bitch Desire. Produced by Tennesee Wankers.[:D] chia* (the pet)

kittinSol -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/9/2009 1:26:39 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rulemylife I no longer read books. I was able to free myself of that horrible addiction through the George Bush/Sarah Palin 12-step program. It saved my life. You remind me of... is it a Bill Hicks' sketch? "Watcha readin' a book for? Are you a communist?" PS: I found it! Some lovely genius listed Bill Hicks' quotes on Wiki... Gotta love the interweb. So, this one's for you, ruly: "I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country; since about 1980, oddly enough. … I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and after the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, but I was hungry. And I'm sitting there eating and reading a book. I don't know anybody, I'm alone, so I'm reading a book. The waitress comes over to me like, [gum smacking] "What'chu readin' for?" I had never been asked that. Not "What am I reading?", but "What am I reading for?" Goddangit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress. "

kittinSol -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/9/2009 1:31:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: chiaThePet quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol So, you didn't get the reference... that's okay :-) . Google "Desire and the Black Masseur" by Tennesee W. I just came up with a Porno starring some black stud named Long Dong Silver and his bitch Desire. Produced by Tennesee Wankers.[:D] chia* (the pet) Desire and The Black Masseur is a short story by Tennessee Williams. A frail white man seeks the services of a hefty masseur, each session growing in violence (with limbs broken) until the little white guy begs the big black guy to beat him to death. It's certainly not on the list of any high school readings, I reckon. I fished it out from my mother's library when I was fourteen: a precocious reader, I was. And I enjoyed no censorship. It was helpful for my understanding of the world I live in: no Walt Disney for me. ~ Yoda

Tantriqu -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/9/2009 2:03:28 PM)
Back to OP: The Great Influenza by John Barry, about the Spanish 'flu epidemic of 1918-19. Even if you just see the photos of the tent hospitals which took over the Mall in Washington: worth the cover price. The Letters of Samuel Beckett: struggled through in French, then found out it's been translated. D'oh! The Cartoon History of the Modern World by Larry Gonick: no schoolroom should be without the whole series.

Moonhead -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/9/2009 2:45:11 PM)
Mary Woronov's whining self righteous autobiography Strokes by John Clute The one volume '60s abridgment of Gibbon's Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire Other stuff I can't remember...

kittinSol -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/9/2009 6:41:51 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Moonhead Other stuff I can't remember... Quand on en est la, quand on ne peut pas se souvenir, c'est un signe pur et dur qu'on est un intellectuel. Terrible, pas de retour, c'est la fin. La fin des fausses nouvelles :-). Et puis, doivent être actualisées en fonction des orientations définies par la présente circulaire. Je vous demande de procéder à cet examen en lien avec la MIVILUDES. Ha!

slaveluci -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/9/2009 7:08:45 PM)
Picking Cotton : our memoir of injustice and redemption / Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, with Erin Torneo. My dark places : an L.A. crime memoir / James Ellroy. In the sanctuary of outcasts : a memoir / Neil White. The corner : a year in the life of an inner-city neighborhood / David Simon and Edward Burns. The devil's tickets : a night of bridge, a fatal hand, and a new American age / Gary M. Pomerantz. The anatomy of evil / Michael H. Stone. Texas blues : the rise of a contemporary sound / Alan Govenar. Most evil : Avenger, Zodiac, and the further serial murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel / Steve Hodel with Ralph Pezzullo. Bury me standing : the Gypsies and their journey / Isabel Fonseca. The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale. Red lobster, white trash, and the blue lagoon : Joe Queenan's America. Zeitoun / by Dave Eggers The State boys rebellion / Michael D'Antonio. Stuff white people like : the definitive guide to the unique taste of millions / Christian Lander. After Etan : the missing child case that held America captive / Lisa R. Cohen. Obscene, indecent, immoral, and offensive : 100+ years of censored, banned, and controversial films / Stephen Tropiano. Zero at the bone : the playboy, the prostitute, and the murder of Bobby Greenlease / John Heidenry. Shake the devil off : a true story of the murder that rocked New Orleans / Ethan Brown. High on arrival / Mackenzie Phillips ; with Hilary Liftin. Miss O'Dell : my hard days and long nights with the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the women they loved / Chris O'Dell with Katherine Ketcham. Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris. Sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs : a low culture manifesto / Chuck Klosterman. Outliers : the story of success / Malcolm Gladwell. The baby thief : the untold story of Georgia Tann, the baby seller who corrupted adoption / Barbara Bisantz Raymond. Just a few to getcha started[:)] luci

slaveluci -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/9/2009 7:16:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol Desire and The Black Masseur is a short story by Tennessee Williams. A frail white man seeks the services of a hefty masseur, each session growing in violence (with limbs broken) until the little white guy begs the big black guy to beat him to death. It's certainly not on the list of any high school readings, I reckon. I fished it out from my mother's library when I was fourteen: a precocious reader, I was. And I enjoyed no censorship. It was helpful for my understanding of the world I live in: no Walt Disney for me. Thanks for this info. I love Tennessee Williams but have never read this short story. I will be reading it soon. BTW - I also enjoyed no censorship as a child. I read whatever I liked and definitely wasn't into Disney either[;)] luci

Silence8 -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/9/2009 10:57:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Moonhead Mary Woronov's whining self righteous autobiography Strokes by John Clute The one volume '60s abridgment of Gibbon's Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire Other stuff I can't remember... quote: Strokes I'm looking for 'Eating Raoul' as we speak... you know, at my local, er, 'store'. Yes, I've been meaning to brush up on my Roman history, at least to process all the comparisons with the United States.

Brain -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 1:30:18 AM)
Amazon.com: Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves (9780670021253): Andrew Ross Sorkin: Books A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy. “We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were “too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail. http://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Fail-Washington-System/dp/0670021253

SilverMark -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 2:47:14 AM)
Easily The War Within by Bob Woodward and The Gamble by Thomas Ricks(also the author of Fiasco)...also read one earlier in the year that for the life of me I cannot remember the title of on WW II from the Japanese point of view....of course the moment this posts I'll remember the title.....

Silence8 -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 6:11:46 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Brain Amazon.com: Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves (9780670021253): Andrew Ross Sorkin: Books A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy. “We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were “too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail. http://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Fail-Washington-System/dp/0670021253 Did you read 'House of Cards'? I had to return it to the library before I finished. 'The Great Financial Crisis' by John Bellamy Foster also gives a strong account of what's been going on in America/ abroad since the 1970s. What's most impressive, is that I found another book of his actually written during the 1970s, that made some startlingly accurate predictions. Compare that to the economists who couldn't predict the crash a year or two, or even months, in advance.

Moonhead -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 8:23:10 AM)
Another one I should have mentioned: White Bicycles by Joe Boyd. Wonderful book.

breatheasone -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 9:23:25 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Silence8 The year's coming to a close. Most Americans will not have read any books, notably, but I'm holding Politics and Religion stalwarts and lovable sociopaths to a higher standard. What were the best non-fiction books you read this year? The Bible[:)]

slvemike4u -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 9:26:55 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: breatheasone quote: ORIGINAL: Silence8 The year's coming to a close. Most Americans will not have read any books, notably, but I'm holding Politics and Religion stalwarts and lovable sociopaths to a higher standard. What were the best non-fiction books you read this year? The Bible[:)] Perhaps you misunderstood,the thread asked speciffically for non-fiction books.

slaveluci -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 7:38:35 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u Perhaps you misunderstood,the thread asked speciffically for non-fiction books. First of all, that's really uncalled for. It's baiting and not the point of this thread. Secondly, I don't think the OP is really into the thread anyway, to be honest. I listed nearly 25 kick-ass books and he failed to comment on one of them. Sorry I wasted my time.........luci

slvemike4u -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 8:49:36 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slaveluci quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u Perhaps you misunderstood,the thread asked speciffically for non-fiction books. First of all, that's really uncalled for. It's baiting and not the point of this thread. Secondly, I don't think the OP is really into the thread anyway, to be honest. I listed nearly 25 kick-ass books and he failed to comment on one of them. Sorry I wasted my time.........luci Yes you are right it was uncalled for and I guess it was baiting,but whether you beleive me or not it was only done in the interest of a laugh.There really was no rancor meant. Despite my perhaps hard earned reputation I meant no harm here.

rulemylife -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 10:12:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slaveluci quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u Perhaps you misunderstood,the thread asked speciffically for non-fiction books. First of all, that's really uncalled for. It's baiting and not the point of this thread. Secondly, I don't think the OP is really into the thread anyway, to be honest. I listed nearly 25 kick-ass books and he failed to comment on one of them. Sorry I wasted my time.........luci Bullshit! It was completely called for. I even typed the same comment before I saw Mike had already posted it. If someone wants to parade their beliefs before me in a thread that has nothing to do with religion then they better be prepared to hear those who disagree.

alwayssummer -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 10:27:23 PM)
Terry Paupp's EXIT FROM EMPIRE.

breatheasone -> RE: Best Non-fiction Books You Read This Year? (12/10/2009 10:30:51 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u quote: ORIGINAL: breatheasone quote: ORIGINAL: Silence8 The year's coming to a close. Most Americans will not have read any books, notably, but I'm holding Politics and Religion stalwarts and lovable sociopaths to a higher standard. What were the best non-fiction books you read this year? The Bible[:)] Perhaps you misunderstood,the thread asked speciffically for non-fiction books. Ouch Mike, if you were trying to zing me....got me... i know now....

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