WMcD Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 On 4/18/2020 at 3:15 PM, NADman said: Dead Wake, Thunderstruck and Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson in the last couple of weeks. I give them 5 stars. Devil in the White City is a must-read for any Chicagoan. It got me hooked on Larson. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxman Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Now this is a topic I can sink my teeth into. I spend more time reading and writing than perhaps anything else. I am a nerd by choice and oddly strange by confession. Most of what I do and read resonates with few others and a lot of my humor and opinions are very different from my peers. With that said, I am currently nearing the end of : The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God by Tim and Kathy Keller https://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Marriage-Facing-Complexities-Commitment/dp/1594631875/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1587391362&sr=1-1 A handful of books on deck: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 I don't keep novels around the house once read, they are either returned to the library or dropped off at the friends of the library bookstore. Though I have kept 3 for various reasons and have re-read two of them recently during this time. All still good. Enders Game - Orson Scott Card Lord of the Rings, Return of the King- Tolkien Robots of Dawn- Asimov 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cincymat Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 GRANT, by Ron Chernow. Good read. Cincy 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 See https://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/ for a preview of this subject. I find it's a timely discussion of a recent aspect of our recently emerging world society that is overdosing on our information-rich environment (i.e., the now-accepted wiki-world views of easy information). This is the root problem the book explores. The book looks like it's the real deal (I haven't gotten very far into it yet), (EDIT: I don't recommend the book now that I've read it because it has very little backup for the author's assertions) ...it's written by a guy that teaches [foreign policy] at the Naval War College. It looks a little light on technical subjects (like typical psychology--decision sciences), but heavy on political environment and policy making worlds. BTW: another really interesting read on the subject of expertise (much better, IMO, than Thinking: Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - the Nobel prize winner):. This is the real book that the book Blink ripped off by Malcolm Gladwell, and who did such a poor job plagiarizing...badly, and whose fallout from doing it badly is the subject of the above book. Gary Klein's first real book is not a new book (1999), but it's still the leading book on the subject, IMO: Chris 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NADman Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 High Quality Horn Loudspeaker Systems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebse2a3 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 13 minutes ago, Edgar said: High Quality Horn Loudspeaker Systems Let us know your thoughts on the book after you’ve had some time reading it... miketn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 22 minutes ago, mikebse2a3 said: Let us know your thoughts on the book after you’ve had some time reading it... The first portion of the 1000+ page book is historical, and rather encyclopedic, but quite interesting. The most intriguing part to me is the realization that my own father, who was born in 1922, witnessed first-hand so much of the progress that took place even before the days of electronic amplification. I'm in chapter 5 right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 That book is interesting. It's really two books--one written by a horn historian (about 40% of the book) which is the most complete reference that I've seen on early horns and compression drivers, and the other by a academic. Both serve their purpose. Taken in bite-sized doses over time, the second part of the book is very much like Beranek's Acoustics or Olson's Acoustical Engineering, albeit updated with information from the last 70+ years. I've found useful information there, but I also find that I need to ruminate on each section a bit to digest the usefulness of the information for my own use. Much of it reads like a college textbook (just like the other two books I mentioned were). I assume that the material came from the second author's class notes, etc. Chris 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Greg, when you get to chapter 24 (System Considerations) of the Horn Loudspeaker book, let me know. This should be the punchline for the entire book, and well... By the way, in chapter 15 of the Horn Loudspeaker book are some discussions of horn directivity vs. the different kind of horn profiles. This is an interesting discussion--and supremely important...from my knothole. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, Chris A said: Greg, when you get to chapter 24 (System Considerations) of the Horn Loudspeaker book, let me know. This should be the punchline for the entire book, and well... By the way, in chapter 15 of the Horn Loudspeaker book are some discussions of horn directivity vs. the different kind of horn profiles. This is an interesting discussion--and supremely important...from my knothole. Thanks, Chris. It's been slow-going. I've been on furlough from work recently, but had so many other chores lined-up that I've only managed about 100 pages. So chapter 24 may also mean 2024! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC39693 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Working on reading all 25 of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels. My goal last year and this year is one book per week. Made it last year and I’m at 26 already this year, I should be able to make it again. I prefer paper books, but with all libraries closed here, I’ve been reading ebooks. Also a few Roman history thesis and audio musings. This internet thing might catch on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NADman Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 2 hours ago, MC39693 said: Working on reading all 25 of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels. My goal last year and this year is one book per week. Made it last year and I’m at 26 already this year, I should be able to make it again. I prefer paper books, but with all libraries closed here, I’ve been reading ebooks. Also a few Roman history thesis and audio musings. This internet thing might catch on. If you haven't already, give John Sandford's "Prey" and "Virgil Flowers" series a shot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KlipschFish Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 On 4/20/2020 at 7:39 AM, cincymat said: GRANT, by Ron Chernow. Good read. Cincy Finished watching the Discovery Channel program from this book. Endlessly fascinating and very well done production. I am now reading "Don't know Much About The Civil War". I found out there's a lot I don't know about the Civil War. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NADman Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Travis In Austin Posted June 6, 2020 Moderators Share Posted June 6, 2020 On 4/19/2020 at 1:29 PM, ssh said: I'm re-reading a textbook that I used to teach English in the 90s: BRITISH AND WESTERN LITERATURE A Thematic Approach. SSH What are the themes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssh Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Conflict of Wills, Choice and Consequence, Foibles, Critics of Society, and Know Thyself. I liken the "themes" to a string threaded through a necklace of pearls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 "Winter's Tale" Mark Helprin, "The Things They Carried", Tim O'Brien, "The Blues in Gray", Roger S. Durham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Nothing for the head here. John Sanford, Jeffrey Deaver, Robert Parker. Found a used paper back The Art of War by Sun Tzu on ebay for $2. Didn't read the add closely enough and when it arrived it was the "chump change edition" about 40 pages! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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