I went to McKay's last night and bought 5 books for $23. The place is like crack in a building and it's lucky I live on the other side of town from it.
The “new” Knoxville location is much bigger and nicer but I liked the location of the old one better. I’d be out and about and just stop in on a whim. Don’t really do that any more
I just picked up Debt: the first 5,000 years by David Graeber. I’ll start on it when my wifi inevitably seizes up (f comcast). I couldn’t resist the purchase after coming across this excerpt: “Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him profusely. The man objected indignantly: "Up in our country we are human!" said the hunter. "And since we are human we help each other. We don't like to hear anybody say thanks for that. What I get today you may get tomorrow. Up here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs. ... The refusal to calculate credits and debits can be found throughout the anthropological literature on egalitarian hunting societies. Rather than seeing himself as human becausehe could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began "comparing power with power, measuring, calculating" and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt. It's not that he, like untold millions of similar egalitarian spirits throughout history, was unaware that humans have a propensity to calculate. If he wasn't aware of it, he could not have said what he did. Of course we have a propensity to calculate. We have all sorts of propensities. In any real-life situation, we have propensities that drive us in several different contradictory directions simultaneously. No one is more real than any other. The real question is which we take as the foundation of our humanity, and therefore, make the basis of our civilization.” ― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
I like Goggins. he’s a crazy bastard for sure. I love Cam Hanes telling the story of running a marathon with him in the woods and Goggings breaking down before he went super hero mode and running by them screaming you don’t know me.
I more or less detest Seth Davis, but this is as good of a bio as I have ever read. Highly recommend.
His Bird and Magic book is really good as well. I don’t particularly like him on television, because he comes across as smug as hell, but he’s a very good writer.
I finally gave in and started the Wheel of Time. I read the first one years ago but I just needed to start over. I have always been hesitant to make the commitment
There’s just a lot of detail and minimal waving of hands saying time has passed. You pretty much experience the bulk of it. I don’t mind it if the author is any good, granted there is a pretty big drop off when Sanderson takes over to finish the last books.
I made it halfway through the fifth book. It’s such a slog but the endings are always incredible. I’ll finish them all one of these days. People keep telling me to read the red rising series. Anyone into it?
Been reading some Cormac McCarthy The Road and No Country are killer All The Pretty Horses is an easy must read Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
