really didn't think it was going to be as good as it has turned out to be as it jumped straight into her swimming the Bering Strait , but soon dropped back to give great history of her
really didn't think it was going to be as good as it has turned out to be as it jumped straight into her swimming the Bering Strait , but soon dropped back to give great history of her
real good read
just started this one a pot smugger late 70's i believe , gets banged up in a shit hole prison in mexico
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Nearly finished "The Prodigal Daughter" by Jeffrey - have been going through every one of his books.
redred (02-12-2017)
really interesting readApril 28, 2015, West Baltimore, Maryland: Ground Zero in America's Opiate Wars.
In this crime-plagued section of the city, the death of Freddie Gray has triggered the worst domestic rioting since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and created a terrifying new breed of criminal entrepreneur.
Here, as looters and arsonists lay waste to already blighted parts of Baltimore, two of the city's brightest students are helping to carry out a historic drug robbery spree--one that will flood the city with highly addictive pain pills and heroin.
The teens' plan: to use their gang connections and computer programming skills to set up a high tech drug delivery service and Dark Web marketplace. The result: the boys became America's youngest drug lords, in the process sparking bloody gang warfare and a nationwide wave of addiction and murder. Now mixing in deadly circles, Brick and Wax soon found their own lives were on the line...
In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Newsday criminal justice reporter Kevin Deutsch chronicles the rise of these gangland upstarts as they help steal $100 million worth of high-powered opiates, and build a national narcotics empire from scratch.
As gripping and compulsive as a thriller, Pill City takes readers into the heat of the action as Brick and Wax outwit the FBI and DEA, gang members like Damage and Lyric live and die by their own brutal code, the cops battle to stop the carnage, and a high-school coach risks a bullet to get addicts into rehab.
A gritty, hard-hitting story of gangland survival, Pill City will open the world's eyes to the plague of drug-related killings rocking America, and reveal the deadly cost of the Baltimore riots.
RBP (09-13-2018)
fun fact her 300 man gangbang was faked only 30 ish people were used
Has anyone read Five Days a Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital ?
Looks fascinating and tragic. Lots of ethical dilemmas during those difficult days after Katrina.
Current read....about 1/3 of the way through it, reading it when I get a chance.
Super interesting story about two couples in 1974 that meet while boating on a small, creepy island called Palmyra. (1200 miles straight south of Hawaii)
The older couple end up dead and the younger couple show up in Hawaii with their boat.
First half of the book is a story-account of what happened up until to the murders occurred based on evidence given by multiple sources, second half is Bugliosi defending the wife who was part of the younger couple.
What's cool is Bugliosi is one of the most famous prosecutors of our time with an amazing trial record for convictions. Here he's on the defense side.
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
SyFy made this into a 3 part miniseries several years ago, and I remember that it made me angry. I thought the ending was callous and pretentious. I always meant to pick up the book since all of the reviews of the TV miniseries said it botched some things and really didn't do the book justice.
Despite being a fan of Science Fiction, this will be the first Arthur C. Clarke book I'm reading.
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Well, I finished it, and I think the miniseries reviews were right. The book was slightly different. The miniseries embellished a bunch of things, cut other things out. The book is far less insulting than the miniseries was to me. It's hard to translate the exposition onto the screen. Oh well.
On to the next one: I'm going to be tackling Joe Hill's NOS4A2. It's a big one. It's roughly the same thickness as The Stand. Let's see if Joe's a slow starter like his father is.
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Just finished (audio)
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
Finished this...
Started this...
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
How did you like The Stubtle Art? My wife bought it for me but I haven't read it yet.
I'm currently reading How to Win Friends & Influence People. It'd be on my list forever and I wasn't sure how it'd hold up give how old the book is, but I'm having a ton of ah-ha moments especially now that my role at work is changing to more b2b stuff. It's great so far.