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The Finer Things Book Club - who's up for Phil's new book?

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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#21 » by EArl » Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:53 am

I recommend the So Cal writer Raymond Chandlers: The big sleep.
I haven't read this one, but I've read: Farewell my lovely.
It's a mystery novel on fictional Los Angeles Detective Philip Marlowe.
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Post#22 » by Doormatt » Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:57 am

its important to keep in mind that we have to discuss these books. so whatever you suggest has to be something that isnt just entertaining, but also we can talk about.
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Post#23 » by dockingsched » Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:37 am

alright, i haven't read it, not sure how many of you have, but trying to go in a different direction than some of the books already mentioned and going for a topic that i assume all of us are interested in....i nominate:

The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons

http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Basketba ... ll+simmons

Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.

Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
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Post#24 » by Slava » Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:18 am

I haven't read it either and I'd be fine with Bill Simmons' book of basketball.

Edit: Do a Lakers board book club have to start with Celtics worship though?
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Post#25 » by Father Time » Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:37 am

i'll be the andy bernard of our little group. i've got a letter from rick santorum.
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Re: OT: The Finer Things Book Club - accepting applications 

Post#26 » by TyCobb » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:37 am

Honestly, I'm open to reading anything--doesn't have to be sports related for me. I read philosophy books on my own, so nothing that you guys come up with will bore me at all.

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I'm gonna search for some books to suggest. In fact, I already have a list saved from awhile ago.. :oops:

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Post#27 » by Father Time » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:08 am

6 years with god
lost boys
voices from the future
odd girl out
under the dome

Is pretty much what I'm reading right now.
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Post#28 » by Slava » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:19 am

I've found a Harris County library close to me, good to go!
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Post#29 » by dockingsched » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:25 am

guys gotta narrow it down to like 1, 2 at the most nominations. too many suggetsions there father time.
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Post#30 » by EArl » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:28 am

I'm good with the book of basketball. Ill probably have to buy it, but if its worth reading, than ill be fine.
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Post#31 » by dockingsched » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:31 am

no library near you? or not willing to read it electronically either on an e-reader or on a e-reader browser add-on?
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Post#32 » by EArl » Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:47 am

dockingsched wrote:no library near you? or not willing to read it electronically either on an e-reader or on a e-reader browser add-on?

Ill fire up my Nook(Have not used it in years). I don't think the campus library has the book, but ill check. The city library is very small, so I seriously doubt they have it. I have never found anything i'm looking for there.
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Post#33 » by TyCobb » Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:05 am

So we each come up with 2 suggestions, throw them on a poll and vote?

My two suggestions will be:

A Hunger Artist - Franz Kafka
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Post#34 » by EArl » Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:33 am

OK.
My nominations are
The Big Sleep (Mystery) by Raymond Chandler
Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior by Phil Jackson
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Post#35 » by dub81 » Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:34 am

Got a couple in mind.

Suggestions

Maybe during each month we can go for a theme? example since February is African American Month maybe we can go that route? and so on and so on?

my suggestion book which i'm starting to read today.

"the four agreements" Don Miguel Ruiz
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Post#36 » by Slava » Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:47 pm

You guys have far far better recommendations than any book I can think of, so I'll likely not nominate any books and will gladly read anything chosen by the majority. Would be great if we decide one by the end of the day with the long weekend coming up.
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Post#37 » by Slava » Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:56 pm

Nominations so far:

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Lolita - Nabokov
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
The Book of Basketball - Bill Simmons
A Hunger Artist - Franz Kafka
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Big Sleep (Mystery) - Raymond Chandler
Sacred Hoops - Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior by Phil Jackson
Te four agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
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Post#38 » by Father Time » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:01 pm

Suggestions:

Under The Dome - Stephen King
Lost Boys - James Garbarino (nonfiction)
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Post#39 » by Slava » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:05 pm

Nominations so far:

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Lolita - Nabokov
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
The Book of Basketball - Bill Simmons
A Hunger Artist - Franz Kafka
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Big Sleep (Mystery) - Raymond Chandler
Sacred Hoops - Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior by Phil Jackson
Te four agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
Under The Dome - Stephen King
Lost Boys - James Garbarino (nonfiction)
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Post#40 » by Doormatt » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:37 pm

TyCobb wrote:So we each come up with 2 suggestions, throw them on a poll and vote?

My two suggestions will be:

A Hunger Artist - Franz Kafka
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky


damn notes from the underground is a good nomination, i want to read that.
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