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Fall of 2010 we had a topic on books we planned to read over the winter.
https://www.britishcarforum.com/bcforum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/727645/
Here's (part of) my list:
David Halberstam, The Fifties. Absolutely fascinating look at all I *forgot* about the period when I was growing up. Not as rosey as I remembered.
Marvin Harris, Our Kind. Interesting, but not outstanding, compilation of author's thoughts on various topics related to human social development.
Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart. Boy, this one hit me where it hurts. Dysfunctional family, suffering mother, distant father, three children who were "marked" by the experience for the rest of their lives. One of the kids was Gary Gilmore.
Thomas and Witts, Enola Gay. Great retrospective on the development of the B-29, and the specific aircraft that carried the first atomic bomb to Japan. And why the bombsight kept "failing".
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia. Really fascinating description of a "walking tour" of southern South America. Colorful sites, people, and legends.
Neville Shute, Slide Rule. Author's autobiography - how an engineer "thinks" and views his world, and the tragic consequences of giving aircraft development responsibility to a government ministry.
Caleb Carr, The Alienist. Fiction based on fact, telling the story of an early 20th century psychologist, working with the NYC police, and Teddy Roosevelt, to solve a string of child abuse murders.
Robert Lacey, Ford: the men and the machine. Totally recommended. The Ford family (before and after Henry), and how it's "inner psychology" formed the successes - and failures - of the Ford Motor Company.
Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City. Another "fiction on facts", this time detailing political machinations and corruption in Chicago, paralleling how an insane doctor attracted and brutally murdered young women during the days of the Great Columbian Exposition of the 1890s.
And now ... how'd you own reading go?
Tom
https://www.britishcarforum.com/bcforum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/727645/
Here's (part of) my list:
David Halberstam, The Fifties. Absolutely fascinating look at all I *forgot* about the period when I was growing up. Not as rosey as I remembered.
Marvin Harris, Our Kind. Interesting, but not outstanding, compilation of author's thoughts on various topics related to human social development.
Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart. Boy, this one hit me where it hurts. Dysfunctional family, suffering mother, distant father, three children who were "marked" by the experience for the rest of their lives. One of the kids was Gary Gilmore.
Thomas and Witts, Enola Gay. Great retrospective on the development of the B-29, and the specific aircraft that carried the first atomic bomb to Japan. And why the bombsight kept "failing".
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia. Really fascinating description of a "walking tour" of southern South America. Colorful sites, people, and legends.
Neville Shute, Slide Rule. Author's autobiography - how an engineer "thinks" and views his world, and the tragic consequences of giving aircraft development responsibility to a government ministry.
Caleb Carr, The Alienist. Fiction based on fact, telling the story of an early 20th century psychologist, working with the NYC police, and Teddy Roosevelt, to solve a string of child abuse murders.
Robert Lacey, Ford: the men and the machine. Totally recommended. The Ford family (before and after Henry), and how it's "inner psychology" formed the successes - and failures - of the Ford Motor Company.
Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City. Another "fiction on facts", this time detailing political machinations and corruption in Chicago, paralleling how an insane doctor attracted and brutally murdered young women during the days of the Great Columbian Exposition of the 1890s.
And now ... how'd you own reading go?
Tom
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