What Book(s) Are You Currently Reading?

[Mororvia]

[joeking1978]

Darker Than Night by Tom Henderson

In 1985 two metro Detroit hunters go missing in Iosco County and for 18 years there were rumors of murder.
Henderson is a former Detroit News columnist and does a nice job on the background of all the players.

sounds interesting...


I just finished The Shack, which surprised the "hell" out of me. Great book and easy to see why it has been on top of the best seller chart for so long and with only $500 in advertising.

[Madman]

sounds interesting...


I just finished The Shack, which surprised the "hell" out of me. Great book and easy to see why it has been on top of the best seller chart for so long and with only $500 in advertising.

I need to pick that up. You are the 4th person that has recommended it.

[A2_Machiavelli]

If you enjoy that book, check out one of his other works:

[joeking1978]

im reading 3 books for class

7 habits of highly effective people
The fifth discipline
The leaders handbook

I enjoyed the 7 Habits... what'd you think about the Fifth Disipline and The Leaders Handbook?

On my hour long round trips to work... I enjoy some listening to books on tape and typically shoot for business related books. The only issue is that some are such terrible reads, like Sun Tsu's The Art of War... absolutely terrible book. So I'm skittish until I hear good reviews.

Here's a few are a few of my favorites. (Keep in mind the average CEO is said to read 10 biz per year )

• One Minute Manager
• 7 Habits of Highly effective people
• The 8th Habit (of highly effective people)
• The Last Lecture ** MUST READ
• The OZ Principle
• First Things First
• The Richest Man in Babylon ** Highly Recommend
• Freakonomics ** Highly Recommend
• Superfreakonomics
• 25 Ways in Win with People
• Who move My Cheese
• Arguing with Idiots

These are the one's I'm considering next and can't decide from:

1. The Big Short- by Michael Lewis
2. The Switch
3. Total Money Makeover
4. The Greatest Salesman in the World
5. Negotiations Boot Camp

Anyone read any of these, have a suggestion... or know of another must read book?

[motorcityjoe611]

I read Darker than Night and The Shack. DTN scared the hell out of me because I'd been to all those haunts many times. I have a cabin northeast of Mio and drive by Walker's all the time (see attached). Those SOBs were brutal and ran that town. I really wish the book had more photography in it. You can probably find the case from the TV show, Cold Case Files. They did an episode on it that was very interesting.

The Shack I was moved by but thought the writing style was awful. The message made it worth plodding through, IMHO.

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[MGoBlueMB]

[Mororvia]

MGoBlueMB: The overview on Amazon says this:

University of Michigan history professor and blogger Cole (Sacred Space and Holy War) takes aim at the Bush administration's Islamophobic discourse, highlighting that some of the very people who promulgated the phobia (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld) once sang a different tune. He calls instead for evenhanded and pragmatic policy changes, not least a reckoning with the heterogeneity of the Muslim world. Yet for all his expertise, Cole fails to source some of his harshest accusations; moreover, for a scholar championing greater subtlety of thought, he too often discards nuance himself. To the extent that Cole argues against painting the Middle East with overly broad strokes, he brings a constructive addition to public discourse; his failure to be consistent is a lost opportunity.

How much of the book seems to be politician bashing and how much is actual substance ?

[Madman]

I read Darker than Night and The Shack. DTN scared the hell out of me because I'd been to all those haunts many times. I have a cabin northeast of Mio and drive by Walker's all the time (see attached). Those SOBs were brutal and ran that town. I really wish the book had more photography in it. You can probably find the case from the TV show, Cold Case Files. They did an episode on it that was very interesting.

The Shack I was moved by but thought the writing style was awful. The message made it worth plodding through, IMHO.

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Joe,

I had a place in South Branch during this time. As I'm reading it I was thinking of all the people I have met through the years and could they have known about this. My family and I ate numerous meals at Timber's steakhouse.

[joeking1978]

Joe,

I had a place in South Branch during this time. As I'm reading it I was thinking of all the people I have met through the years and could they have known about this. My family and I ate numerous meals at Timber's steakhouse.

what happened there?

[pGekko]

MGoBlueMB: The overview on Amazon says this:


How much of the book seems to be politician bashing and how much is actual substance ?

A2 and UM is very right wing, so I doubt that's the case.