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Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 2:48 pm**

Salt Fat Acid Heat

I suspect at least some of you already are familiar with this and may have it, but I'm just now getting to it. I enjoy reading cookbooks and this one is definitely one that I'm liking.

It won the 2018 James Beard Award for Best General Cookbook, and was named Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

Not quite at the level of The Food Lab, but similar to that book, this one explains the how and why, instead of merely the what that most cookbooks provide. And now I've learned that it was made into a four episode series on Netflix that I'll have to check out.

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:07 pm**

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:30 pm**

Table for Two by Amor Towles

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:35 pm**

Good Energy by Casey and Calley Means

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease by Thomas Seyfried

The Book that Made Your World by Vishal Mangalwadi

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:48 pm**

Just finished a pretty decent murder mystery novel called Stay Close by Harlan Coben. Had never read any of his stuff before. The Acknowledgments mentioned names of characters in the book, which I thought was odd until I read further that Coben will use your name as a character in one of his books if you donate generously to an approved charity. Not sure how widespread a practice that is, but it’s kinda cool.

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:10 pm**

The Canadian Mounted.

-Del Griffith

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:22 pm**

Biggie wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:10 pm The Canadian Mounted.

You sure you’re not a closet Canuck?

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 5:29 pm**

Biggie wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:30 pm Table for Two by Amor Towles

I just finished A Gentleman in Moscow and thought it was great, will add this to my list.

Just started The Heaven & Earth Grocery store by James McBride.

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 5:41 pm**

I just got done reading Nothing. The T1B board.

It leaves plenty of room in my head for... If you tell me three or four more times. It might convince me.

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 7:44 pm**

From Eternity to Here by Sean Carroll

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:39 pm**

Daily Refresh

"Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you."

Phillippians 4:9 NIV

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:53 pm**

A couple of VietNam war books: Matterhorn ( Karl Marlantes) and Chickenhawk (Robert Mason), good reads.

Just tried to read Naked and The Dead (Norman Mailer) but its way too thick for me. Bailed at 1/3.

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 9:33 pm**

Roach wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:53 pm
Just tried to read Naked and The Dead (Norman Mailer) but it’s way too thick for me. Bailed at 1/3.

I read it a year or 2 ago. Good read. Highly recommend Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song about Gary Gilmore, but if a book’s thickness is the issue, not sure you’d be a fan. It runs to about 1,100 pages.

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 9:37 pm**

The Barn by Wright Thompson

Posted: **Wed Oct 16, 2024 10:18 pm**

Been into some fairly lightweight fiction lately. A couple of weeks ago I finished Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard. Now I’m into A Time to Kill by John Grisham. Not sure why, because I read it already about 20 years ago. Next up: Unsettled.

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:49 am**

The Whistle Is Screaming wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 5:29 pm
Biggie wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:30 pm Table for Two by Amor Towles
I just finished A Gentleman in Moscow and thought it was great, will add this to my list.

Just started The Heaven & Earth Grocery store by James McBride.

Heaven and Earth GS is excellent. One very tough story line but so good.

Read Rules of Civility before Table for Two. And read The Lincoln Highway also. Towles is awesome.

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:53 am**

Mikey wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 10:18 pm Now I’m into A Time to Kill by John Grisham.

That’s a beauty. Read The Testament and The Brethren or better yet listen to them with Frank Muller (RIP) on narration.

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:58 am**

The Wager
Killers of the Flower Moon
Project Hail Mary

Out

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:23 am**

Biggie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:53 am
Mikey wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 10:18 pm Now I’m into A Time to Kill by John Grisham.
That’s a beauty. Read The Testament and The Brethren or better yet listen to them with Frank Muller (RIP) on narration.

I used to read a lot of attorney fiction. Multiple books by Grisham and Turow and always enjoyed them, but it’s been a while, and I’m not sure why. Maybe I get enough by reading 88’s posts on T1B.

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 3:49 am**

'The Killer Trail' on the Voulet-Chanoine mission. It's said to have inspired Heart Of Darkness as the story broke the same year Conrad published his book.

1889 French military column around Lake Chad grew to thousands with local stragglers hanging on and it's officers just ran amok, devastating the entire area, then wiping out other French units sent to arrest them. It presaged Conrad's book in a frightening manner.

Top notch stuff in a little researched corner of history.

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:45 pm**

Hospital gibberish. Signed without reading it all. May have given them my house. Not sure. Don’t care.

Last night was nasty as all fuck. The colonoscopy prep crap was the nastiest ever. Thick, salty. Awful. Irie would love it.

Talked nurses and anesthesiologist to death. Waiting to get probed. Board libs would love it.

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:10 pm**

Enjoy the anesthesia (I assume they sedate you for this in ‘Bammy, unless you refuse it).

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:52 pm**

Worst part is over with Sam.

And when it is over, you will have the longest fart of your life in the recovery room.

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 4:29 pm**

All good. Greatest buncha operating room folks I’ve ever dealt with.

Asked for and got photos to replace the framed ones that disappeared from my shed wall years ago. Will lose more friends once these are framed and hung.

No sign of cancer. Will begin treatment for stomach probs if biopsies look good. I may finally get back to going to ballgames and concerts. Whoohoo!

Actual books I’m reading:

Re-reading RESET (Stephen Kinzer). LIVING ON THE BLACK (Feinstein). DEMON BOX (Kesey).

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 6:40 pm**

Sudden Sam wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 4:29 pmAsked for and got photos to replace the framed ones that disappeared from my shed wall years ago. Will lose more friends once these are framed and hung.

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 6:42 pm**

Roux wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 6:40 pm
Sudden Sam wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 4:29 pmAsked for and got photos to replace the framed ones that disappeared from my shed wall years ago. Will lose more friends once these are framed and hung.

Quite a few friends would lean in looking at those pics and ask, “What is this?”

When I told them, mostt were pretty pissed. Loved it.

Posted: **Fri Oct 18, 2024 3:57 am**

Catch22 again

Just about to meet Nately's Whore's kid sister.

Posted: **Mon Oct 28, 2024 8:13 pm**

Don Quixote

Posted: **Mon Oct 28, 2024 10:02 pm**

Posted: **Mon Oct 28, 2024 10:16 pm**

Lots of windmill tilting either way.

Posted: **Tue Oct 29, 2024 8:47 pm**

The Hun.

Posted: **Wed Oct 30, 2024 1:59 pm**

Finished this a couple weeks ago:

Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America

By Jack Barsky (real name Albrecht Dittrich)

Just prior to that I read Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus by Matt Taibbi

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2025 2:52 pm**

Biggie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:49 am
Heaven and Earth GS is excellent. One very tough story line but so good.

Read Rules of Civility before Table for Two. And read The Lincoln Highway also. Towles is awesome.

H&E GS was really good, I think IB would love it.

I read Lincoln Highway, enjoyed it, but did not see that ending.

Just started The Splendid and the Vile.

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2025 3:57 pm**

The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War

by Alan Philps

Journalists in Russia to cover the German invasion. Stalin keeps them loaded with caviar and vodka and away from the battles.

Among other books.

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2025 4:20 pm**

The Whistle Is Screaming wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 2:52 pm Just started The Splendid and the Vile.

You will love it. Really good writing.

Just finished The God of the Woods. Very good.

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2025 4:37 pm**

Biggie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 4:20 pm
You will love it. Really good writing.

Wait, no pictures?

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:35 am**

Gettysburg by William Forstchen & Newt Gingrich. It might not be commonly known, but Gingrich has a PhD in history and is a former professor. He did the research.

It's alt history, but not ridiculous alt history. Just a couple of decisions made or not made. The largest departure is that Lee is not having heart problems and is active. A common conjecture is what would have happened if Jackson hadn't been killed at Chancellorsville and was present at Gettysburg on the first day. Historically, Lee issued Ewell vague orders to attack Cemetery Hill if practicable. Ewell deemed it not practicable. Jackson would have attacked with everything he had. In the book, Lee rides to Ewell's position and issues peremptory orders to attack immediately. It's close, but Ewell's attack is blown to pieces by Union artillery. The rest of the operation is increasingly divergent from actual events.

Interesting read and well written.

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2025 10:54 am**

mvscal wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:35 am Gettysburg by William Forstchen & Newt Gingrich. It might not be commonly known, but Gingrich has a PhD in history and is a former professor. He did the research.

It's alt history, but not ridiculous alt history. Just a couple of decisions made or not made. The largest departure is that Lee is not having heart problems and is active. A common conjecture is what would have happened if Jackson hadn't been killed at Chancellorsville and was present at Gettysburg on the first day. Historically, Lee issued Ewell vague orders to attack Cemetery Hill if practicable. Ewell deemed it not practicable. Jackson would have attacked with everything he had. In the book, Lee rides to Ewell's position and issues peremptory orders to attack immediately. It's close, but Ewell's attack is blown to pieces by Union artillery. The rest of the operation is increasingly divergent from actual events.

Interesting read and well written.

Along with heart problems-he was in bad shape over the winter of 1862-63, a fact kept hidden by his Lee and his staff, he may have been suffering from the hershey squirts as they had arrived in Pennsylvania during cherry season. Richard Ewell was in Corps command for the first time-himself recovering from an amputated leg and bouncing all over the country in an 'amboolance' (Dale Earnhardt pronunciation) and using laudanum to kill the pain. Decision making by the Confederate high command due to health was not at it's finest on the first day of battle and the ultimate in poor decisions was still to come.

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2025 5:57 pm**

Company K. Again.

If you are into war books, this is a must.

https://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/2 ... iam-march/

:bode:

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2025 6:38 pm**

The Incredible Hulk: Laboratory of Horror

Hulk not fear evil bald scientist. Scientist call Hulk tiny, Hulk get mad. Smash.

I thought this story delivered what it promised, fantastic read. The only thing I found unnerving is the prevailing notion that all scientists are evil madmen, hellbent on destroying the world. Personally, I've never met a scientist with these attitudes.

8/10

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