The Official Book Thread

[crandc]

More info, Maris? Why should this be on everyone's list?

RR7, off topic, but where I work a number of folks home brew as a hobby, so the company is hosting a home brew contest. After work hours.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

^nice i gotta remember to read that

I'm looking for a book to read that is either 1. a novel about the 60s and the hippie movement or 2. a nonfiction book about the 60s and the hippie movement....any suggestions?

"the electric kool aid acid test" by tom wolfe is pretty great

 

[Run BJM]

More info, Maris? Why should this be on everyone's list?

RR7, off topic, but where I work a number of folks home brew as a hobby, so the company is hosting a home brew contest. After work hours.

I'd also like to know. Want to read up on it more but don't know what book to start with. My best friend has been brewing since he was 16 and has been on a tear drafting a business model for a micro brew since he graduated from college. I never invested time to learn much about it, but I'd definitely move this to the front of my book queue if you recommend it.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I came here just to look at the pictures

 

[RR7]

I'd also like to know. Want to read up on it more but don't know what book to start with. My best friend has been brewing since he was 16 and has been on a tear drafting a business model for a micro brew since he graduated from college. I never invested time to learn much about it, but I'd definitely move this to the front of my book queue if you recommend it.

I liked it primarily because I have been brewing for a couple of years, but most I have read are books for beginners, and after brewing for a bit, those are worthless, except as reference materials. This one goes into more detail, without being way too detail oriented to bore you. Also gives some good tips on using fruit, spices, and a good breakdown of lots of different styles of beer, and how to experiment with them. It seems to have hit a perfect middle ground for me, where it isn't a beginner book, with info I no longer need, but also not too over the top on scientific details that I also likely don't need.
Cool that you have a buddy looking to build a brewery. Have been exploring the same for myself, on a little 2-3 year plan to start from where I am now, brewing in my backyard, and go to a small scale disrtibution locally. We'll see what happens. Sorry so OT.

 

[Run BJM]

Yeah hes made some really great beers over the years and actually made a couple kegs for his brothers wedding. He just got a job bartending which kind of curbed the micro-brewery thing, but on the other hand he had no money and no foot in the door to the industry before so it might be for the best.

I'll definitely check out that book. I sort of know whats going on with the brewing, but there are some major holes that I don't understand (though its not all that complicated).

I'm currently reading Where Men Win Glory, the Pat Tillman book by Jon Krakauer. So far its really good. Next on the list is The Last Boy and then I might get around to reading A Dance With Dragons.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Anyone else getting 'No easy day'?

 

[jlprk]

I should have known that some intellectual thread about literature would turn into a beer thread!

 

[BrianFromWA]

Anyone else getting 'No easy day'?

Thinking about it.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Free Will by Sam Harris

A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, and Free Will. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.

Mr. Harris's writing has been published in more than 15 languages. He and his work have been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, Newsweek, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere.

Mr. Harris is a cofounder and the CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

Couple of my favorite quotes from the book:

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.

You are not in control of your mind—because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

Just finished "White Fang" by Jack London. I affectionately referred to it as "The racist wolf book" while I was reading it. But it wasn't too bad.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Just finished "White Fang" by Jack London. I affectionately referred to it as "The racist wolf book" while I was reading it. But it wasn't too bad.

old school! read that when i was 10 or so

just read "the monster from jekyll island" check it out, not bad