What are you reading now?
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Interesting. My bedside read is a very academic book called The Nazi Seizure of Power that goes into great detail of how a single town (Northeim) got Nazified. Down to what local personalities, businesses, newspapers, etc did at the end of the republic through the transition and terror and finally through the end of the regime. It was written within 15-20 years of the war’s end and relies on months of local interviews as well as archives.
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@jon-nyc It was interesting to read about the "hyper inflation" and how incredibly bad it was. Prices were initially changed monthly, then weekly, and then hourly. There was a story about how a diner went to a restaurant, and when they got the bill, it was like twice what they thought. They complained, and the waiter asked what time they arrived, and gave them that price. LOL
I think I mentioned before that I knew a guy who was in Brazil during the early 1990's when they had a similar (but not as bad) inflation. He was with TECO (Taiwan Economic and Cooperation Office) and they would regularly have to carry in large amounts of cash (US$) as most places stopped accepting credit cards as the period of time between charging and getting reimbursed meant that their money was worth so much less. When they would go buy something, the money would be changed right before purchasing anything so as to get the current "best" rate.
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A friend of mine lived in Argentina during their hyperinflation. Grocery stores would announce new prices on a loud speaker throughout the day. He remembers seeing a woman crying while putting back some groceries she could no longer afford after the latest announcement.
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I’ve read the whole series. In general I like king, not because I’m a horror fan, I’m not, but I find his literary style so accessible, readable. Just a great story teller.
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When I was in my late teens and 20's I read everything King wrote as soon as it came out. I absolutely love his storytelling, and his description of characters. Now I read him occasionally. I might give that one a go.
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Quite an interesting book. The guy is an equal opportunity cynic on who is at fault; slams pretty much every administration in the 2000's. Soldiers get addicted to drugs (both prescribed and illegal) and alcohol to keep them energized. Then they need other drugs to help numb the pain from the things they see and do.
Focusing on Fort Bragg, N.C., home to Delta Force and other elite military units, Harp uncovers a culture steeped in drug trafficking, weapons theft, and cover-ups. Drawing on extensive interviews and documentation, Harp alleges that soldiers returning to Fort Bragg from Afghanistan smuggled opioids and other narcotics into the U.S., sometimes in collaboration with Mexican cartels, and engaged in reckless, often violent behavior on the base—much of it fueled by substance abuse—that the military swept under the rug. A detailed history of the Army's entanglement with Afghanistan's opium trade and harrowing accounts of drug-fueled parties at Fort Bragg full of racist behavior frame Harp's discovery of a shocking number of deaths on the base: 109 from 2020 to 2021 alone, many of them unexplained. Harp's investigative rigor and visceral storytelling make this a disturbing must-read for anyone seeking to understand the full cost of America's overseas conflicts.
It was a good companion to the book I read about the drug trade in the Gold Triangle in Myanmar.
https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/95/what-are-you-reading-now/777?_=1774917935468
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Interesting. How do you like it so far?
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I’m still very early in the book . The year 9 CE. Lots of blood and gore in the coming 150 years. But he is an easy read. It’s written as an interesting narrative. Not dry history.
I first read his book on the naval battle of actium. ( Octavian vs Marc Antony and cleopatra. ) Which was fascinating.
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Just finished listening to this.
I really enjoyed it. Hearing about how he grew up poor in the projects and made it to Harvard than HLS and then how he stumbled into Goldman through the back door was interesting. And his inside take on the great financial crisis was interesting and brought back a lot of my own memories.
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My favorite author after the creator of Middle Earth but having a hard time getting into it with all my spare time filled with denouncing Trump. I had an interesting discussion with copilot about Kings earliest works, which I thought were his masterpieces but it ran well over 100 words so I will pass on sharing. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha suffice to say the batting order goes like this for me, the shining the stand Salems lot and It
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Saw a couple of videos which recommended the best/easiest translations of the Iliad and The Odyssey.
Gonna dive into that.
The podcast I recommended is great for background for explaining all the gods and their motivations.
Saw a couple of videos which recommended the best/easiest translations of the Iliad and The Odyssey.
Gonna dive into that.
The podcast I recommended is great for background for explaining all the gods and their motivations.
Let me save you the trouble take it down to the lowest common denominator. Those gods have the same motivations of most humans, pride and greed.
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