Going to the local book store tomorrow. Give me some books to check out. Don’t care about the genre, only requirement is it’s a book you enjoyed reading.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Fwiw I’m 1/1 on CFMB book recommendations. Several years ago bigfan suggested See No Evil by Robert Baer and I thought it was excellent. So you folks need to meet that standard.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Marketing to GenZ

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That sounds god awful from the title. Sorry but I’m gonna need some salesmanship from you.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Nardi how dare you recommend a book and then delete your post

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

What Truth Sounds Like

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For you? Something with a lot of pictures.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Glad to see you survived last night. Water and Advil must have done wonders.

Anyway, I’m not surprised you suggested a picture book. I didn’t expect more.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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I'm reading The Poisoned City right now, about the Flint water crisis, and it's as rage-inducing as you would expect. The Best American Short Stories anthologies will never steer you wrong, even the bad ones like the Junot Diaz one have enough worthwhile selections in them to make it worth your time if not your money (I assume you're going to the library). It's the best downtime reading.

Earlier this year I read Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein (Chicago guy!), about Barry Goldwater, the '64 election, and the modern conservative moment he spawned. Outstanding book, highly instructive, but I'm not gonna lie, it took me a very long time to hack through it. Perlstein is like Robert Caro in that if you ask him what he had for lunch, he will tell you that it all began when Mesopotamian cultures first learned to cultivate grain, but this is a net positive.

On the novel side, I read Normal People by Sally Rooney in about two days this summer. It's basically ratcheted-up YA lit, but I still liked it a lot. If there's a fatal flaw, it's that Rooney can't hide her brushstrokes in writing a male lead: the guy is so clearly a pastiche of every guy she has ever dated and ultimately been disappointed by, such that the finished character is wildly incoherent and unrecognizable as a guy in his late teens/early twenties. He's somehow the star soccer player at his high school (or whatever you call it in Ireland) who is also a devoted Marxist who is also the most popular student who is also able to ace all his tests with ease with no interest in the subject matter just because he did the reading who is also a tortured literary genius who yearns to write short stories but hates the publishing world because everyone is so fake. I dunno, I went to a small-ish high school where everyone necessarily had to wear a lot of hats at once, but I don't think any of us ever checked that many boxes at once. Our devoted Marxists were anything but extremely popular, of that much I can assure you. But hey, for how long have male novelists struggled to write women? Call it equality.

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Storm Front by Jim Butcher(First of the Dresden Files)

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Not the library. The used book store a couple blocks away. The prices are cheap and I don’t mind wasting a few bucks if the book sucks.

That novel sounds awful imo(not really a YA guy from what I can tell) but I’ll take a look at the other two.

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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It’s a little on the nose that you’re suggesting a book called StormFront my friend

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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Win Bigly by Scott Adams.

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Promise Me, Dad
Bible

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Whatever Tall Midget isn’t reading.

Otherwise, Devil in the White City is a good read if you’re into non-fiction.

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You know me like that.

Hulu is making a tv show based on that. I’ll look for it. It’s definitely better than Nas’s “how to sell shit to 14 year olds” recommendation.

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You can wait a couple weeks for Anonymous.

Yeah, I’m probably buying it. No probably - I’m reading it.

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Any Jack Reacher book by Lee Child. Great action and easy reads and you don't have to read them in any particular order. As an ex-military guy you will love them.

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It's pretty good: the most basic synopsis is that it's about a working-class guy who mom cleans for an upper-class girl, and how their friendship expands and contracts around high school graduation and college. The guy is one of the most loathsome characters I've read in a while. All I wanted to do was hit him really hard over and over.

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I changed oil and fixed brakes on 5 ton trucks while being classified as an electrician when I was in the army so not sure I’ll identify a lot but I’ve heard those books are good.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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If it’s under $5 there I may give it a shot, if it’s there at all. From my experience they’ve had some obscure books and not had some fairly well known ones.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You will still relate - it isn't about combat but rules and order. He was an MP and uses that skill to make things right when he sees wrong. Great series and every book is different but highly enjoyable.

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Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner;
The Bird Artist, Howard Norman; and
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch.

Look them up on goodreads. If they sound like your cup of tea, check them out. I've read them all, they're all excellent.

Appreciate the suggestions guys. I’ll see what they have and post what I get here tomorrow.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Fat ass factory worker living in some shitty apartment is a scholar now. If I need a bitch titted loser with no education to discuss something, I’ll find you passed out somewhere. Otherwise shut up you fat fuck loser.

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Lol.

I’m 6’4” and 230 so I’m ok with that. I work for a tech company. I’m not a scholar, I’m looking for some cheap books to buy to pass time.

Work on your anger my friend. There’s a good person lurking somewhere in you.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I missed this WFR vs FF thing.

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Ruffcorn is quite the piece of work.

FF you better be careful or he will start PMing you really idiotic things

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

It wouldn’t be the first time.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul