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What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

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BayBuck said:
Finished JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy over the weekend:
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I'm not usually one for modern memoirs, but this one came through my office and the Ohio/OSU connection intrigued me (Vance graduated from Middletown HS and tOSU). It's a breeze of a read about Vance's Kentucky hillbilly roots and the culture that followed his family to Ohio, and he has a lot of compassion for the type of poor white folks who are not getting much of that these days.
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I downloaded the audio version of this and am about 75% through it. Solid, though I don't know if I would like it as much had I not grown up in similar fashion and geography, attended OSU, etc.
 
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jwinslow said:
With my work, I drive a lot and let someone else read to me :lol:

Ender's Game (Alive): http://a.co/eNYbHzT

Full Cast Audioplay. This was free for Amazon prime members awhile back, not sure about now (it gets confusing with Audible membership trumping the prime access).

Really enjoyed this book and audio production (which are two very different things). The movie was average at best, but there's a lot of depth and social commentary built into this unique sci-fi classic.


Speaker for the Dead - far less accessible, so I get why it wasn't that popular, but this dives much deeper into the sociological issues and fallout of the first book. The author said he wrote Ender's Game just to be able to write this book, and in a lot of ways I think this is a much stronger installment.
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I read Ender's Game and have been contemplating the full cast audio version. I'll probably listen to it over the holiday. Really good book, ok movie.
 
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They are OK sports books, but you can really detect the bullshit of "look how great I am" in Johnson's book. Amazing how he professed that his players at daU were all fantastic human beings, of high character, outstanding students, and just misunderstood by others. In addition, he claims that they had a higher graduation rate and got in less trouble than the general population of students at daU; and those that thought otherwise were just racist.
 
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BayBuck said:
Finished JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy over the weekend:
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I'm not usually one for modern memoirs, but this one came through my office and the Ohio/OSU connection intrigued me (Vance graduated from Middletown HS and tOSU). It's a breeze of a read about Vance's Kentucky hillbilly roots and the culture that followed his family to Ohio, and he has a lot of compassion for the type of poor white folks who are not getting much of that these days.
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Finished that one myself a few weeks ago. I am from that area and nothing about that book was new or shocking. In fact when he talks about his Mom taking him to Prebble county like it was worse than Middeltown I laughed because i am from Prebble county.

I did find the part about too many trigger events in early childhood leaving your flight or fight switch in the permanent "on" position (and the consequences) very interesting.
 
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