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Books I Am Reading
Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years
Reading for 24 days after waiting 7 months to read

I Want to Read

  1. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer - 1 month
  2. Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash - 1 month
  3. Rock Bottom: A Novel by Michael Shilling - 1 month
  4. Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis - 4 months
    Been meaning to read this one for a long time. Matt's read it.
  5. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy) by Cormac Mccarthy - 9 months
    Bought this as soon as i started reading "All The Pretty Horses". And this time i'll try to translate the spanish passages.

I Have Read

  1. 28.
    Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America by Brian Francis Slattery - 24 days ago A-
    Read like a screenplay to a possibly awesome movie. Loved the characters, the moving around in the story from one paragraph to the next, the splicing of the old life with the new life. And in the end it was about going back to the beginning... the very beginning.
  2. 27.
    Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age by Steve Knopper - 1 month ago B-
    Suing your own fans; failing to make a deal with Napster while it was in its infancy; bitching about Steve Jobs getting the best of them; forcing people to buy $18.99 CDs to listen to 2 songs; digital rights management; and it goes on and on. These music executives are the biggest bunch of backward blowhards any industry has ever seen. I've known most of these issues from techdirt but it was nice seeing it all in one place. Bunch of idiots.
  3. 26.
    Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling by Bret Hart - 1 month ago B-
    It was an ode to wrestling and a kiss off at the same time. At parts he comes off like a whiner, and at other parts the whining is justified. Loved all the stories from the good days of wrestling, but the last 100 pages was just filled with too much tragedy. Here's to hoping Bret Hart finds some happiness. And i think this book helped him find it.
  4. 25.
    Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox by Bill Simmons - 2 months ago A-
    I have read most of the columns since 2005... i enjoyed the footnotes though as they added to the content. I liked the early year stuff about growing up and his family.
  5. 24.
    The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits by Erik Sass - 3 months ago C+
    Not as funny as I thought it would be. Way too many facts thrown out for anything to stick. But i liked reading about the last half of the century, like i was reading about ancient history. And its funny how years skip on the recent timeline. Like nothing happened in 1993.
  6. 23.
    Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell - 5 months ago B+
    Interesting stuff. All about how successful people are not just successful because of who they are but because of where they are from and when. Liked the stories about the Canadian hockey team all being born in Jan, Feb, Mar and Bill Gates and the Beatles putting in 10,000 hours of practice before getting a chance to make it big. Now i want to look at myself and see what circumstances got me to where i am today...
  7. 22.
    Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash by Pat Gilbert - 5 months ago B+
    Not too well written, felt like it skipped parts at some point... or it just assumed i knew certain things about the band already. But i do love the story of this band.. all the contradictions about what they stood for and who they were. Mick Jones being a dick to everybody. Strummer being a weirdo. I want to read more about Strummer himself though. Real interested in his character and what he's all about. Love how they're tied in with the Sex Pistols. Pretty good read.
  8. 21.
    All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy - 6 months ago
    Had trouble understanding it as i read it, but it began to come together towards the end. Look forward to reading the next two books in the Border Trilogy.
  9. 20.
    Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know Instructions for Life From the Everyday to the Exotic by Lauren Smith - 6 months ago B
  10. 19.
    Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz - 6 months ago B+
    Blew through the book so fast. Lots of cool pics and stories about the pics. She was able to adapt to different situations as they came up, whether she was on location or in a studio. She never forced anyone to smile, just let things happen.
  11. 18.
    The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss - 7 months ago B+
    Makes me want to travel and go on mini-retirements. Always had a goal of ditching the 9-5 scene at some point. This gets me pointed in the right direction. Like the 80/20 rule, and i need to revisit for various online tools and links that could make more productive and save money.
  12. 17.
    A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - 8 months ago
  13. 16.
    Conversations With Tom Petty by Tom Petty - 1 year ago B+
  14. 15.
    Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sport by Barbara Smit - 1 year ago
  15. 14.
    Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America by Richard Zoglin - 1 year ago B+
  16. 13.
    Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield - 2 year ago
  17. 12.
    Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond by Paul Shirley - 2 year ago B+
  18. 11.
    The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs - 2 year ago
  19. 10.
    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell - 2 years ago B
  20. 9.
    Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner - 2 years ago A-
  21. 8.
    The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds by Pete Axthelm and Rick Telander - 2 years ago A
  22. 7.
    Chuck Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman - 3 years ago
  23. 6.
    Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die by Michael Largo - 3 years ago
  24. 5.
    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman - 3 years ago
  25. 4.
    dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath by J. David Kuo - 4 years ago
  26. 3.
    The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - 5 years ago
  27. 2.
    1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell and Erich Fromm - 8 years ago
  28. 1.
    Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy by G. Gordon Liddy - 9 years ago

I Have Given Up

  1. The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Robert I. Sutton - 8 months ago