Whatcha reading?

[Silent Majority]

10) Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson. Audiobook. What an irredeemable piece of shit. Arch capitalist, union hater, abusive to his staff. He is redeemed in the eyes of the author by the products his company created. Written awkwardly at times and suffering from a dearth of interesting characters (when Bill Gates brings colour, you know you're in ta-rouble), it's still a compelling narrative.

[Dr. Medulla]

10) Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson. Audiobook. What an irredeemable piece of shit. Arch capitalist, union hater, abusive to his staff. He is redeemed in the eyes of the author by the products his company created. Written awkwardly at times and suffering from a dearth of interesting characters (when Bill Gates brings colour, you know you're in ta-rouble), it's still a compelling narrative.

Jobs is a good test for whether your worldview is to emphasize the result or how it was achieved. Ends or means. Generally speaking, ends people worship power and means people are wary of it.

[revbob]

Hell no Im not reading/listening free or not. This just popped up as an ad in an article I was reading about Bernie.

[Silent Majority]

Hell no Im not reading/listening free or not. This just popped up as an ad in an article I was reading about Bernie.

Is that the folk pop guy? Why's he sitting round like a mob enforcer?

[revbob]

Hell no Im not reading/listening free or not. This just popped up as an ad in an article I was reading about Bernie.

Is that the folk pop guy? Why's he sitting round like a mob enforcer?

Career change to gangsta folk pop.

[JennyB]

Wolt's gonna be first in line for this. He LOVES JT.

[101Walterton]

10) Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson. Audiobook. What an irredeemable piece of shit. Arch capitalist, union hater, abusive to his staff. He is redeemed in the eyes of the author by the products his company created. Written awkwardly at times and suffering from a dearth of interesting characters (when Bill Gates brings colour, you know you're in ta-rouble), it's still a compelling narrative.

Jobs is a good test for whether your worldview is to emphasize the result or how it was achieved. Ends or means. Generally speaking, ends people worship power and means people are wary of it.

It depends what the end result is, some ends justify the means, consumer products don’t.

[Dr. Medulla]

10) Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson. Audiobook. What an irredeemable piece of shit. Arch capitalist, union hater, abusive to his staff. He is redeemed in the eyes of the author by the products his company created. Written awkwardly at times and suffering from a dearth of interesting characters (when Bill Gates brings colour, you know you're in ta-rouble), it's still a compelling narrative.

Jobs is a good test for whether your worldview is to emphasize the result or how it was achieved. Ends or means. Generally speaking, ends people worship power and means people are wary of it.

It depends what the end result is, some ends justify the means, consumer products don’t.

Exceptions that prove the rule, imo. Monstrous, coercive behaviour is never normally justification.

[Low Down Low]

Hell no Im not reading/listening free or not. This just popped up as an ad in an article I was reading about Bernie.

Is that the folk pop guy? Why's he sitting round like a mob enforcer?

Career change to gangsta folk pop.

Think the only song of his i consciously know is Fire and Rain, think thats what its called anyway. Truly exceptional song, tears me up whenever i hear it.

[Silent Majority]

11) Wiseguy - Nicholas Pileggi. Audiobook. Odd that it's taken me this long to read the book that the film that's been my favourite since I was a teenager was based on. I read a cash in follow up about Henry Hill's time in Witness Protection where he continued to sell drugs and guns. This book is sheer comfort food for me, Hill's violently smooth raconteur style coming off the page just like Liotta's narration. Detached from the seductive images, it is suspicious how Hill is just out of frame as the biggest heists take place and murders are done. Less a reliable narrative than Pileggi seems to take him as. It's a fun book that sketches out more the film could fit in, but I'm delighted by how close Scorsese's picture hews to the truth as told by this total scumbag.

[Dr. Medulla]

Just finished up re-reading Y: The Last Man. Anybody who reads the whole thing and doesn't have a choked up throat for the final issue is a piece of stone. I pray that that adaptation that's been on again, off again somehow pulls it off, but it seems a recipe for garbage. But that series deserves much better. Really beautiful stuff.

Up next is a book I skimmed when writing my lecture on nuclear apocalypse in rock music (and is being delivered on Thursday). Wanted to give it a proper read, so I bought a copy.

[Silent Majority]

12) True Grit - Charles Portis. Audiobook. At one point, I considered this at least the equal of To Kill a Mockingbird as an American novel. Rooster Cogburn only makes sense as a character as a very young woman's memory of someone she met and admired, many years ago. Otherwise he's a John Wayne character, a cartoon. The writing is fantastic, the story exciting and the jokes funny and true.

[Kory]

Pretty disappointed by this book. I was hoping for a real book, but it's just an EXTREMELY dry, chronological list of anything that ever happened in the history of the band with no critique or insight. Are there any actual biographies of the group?

[Marky Dread]

Pretty disappointed by this book. I was hoping for a real book, but it's just an EXTREMELY dry, chronological list of anything that ever happened in the history of the band with no critique or insight. Are there any actual biographies of the group?

Not as such. I've got the one above. But I would recommend Diggles "Harmony in My Head" book. That's a great fun read.

[Kory]

Pretty disappointed by this book. I was hoping for a real book, but it's just an EXTREMELY dry, chronological list of anything that ever happened in the history of the band with no critique or insight. Are there any actual biographies of the group?

Not as such. I've got the one above. But I would recommend Diggles "Harmony in My Head" book. That's a great fun read.

Shit, maybe I should write one.