gmill880:

Doughty421:

Silent Don. It's about Santo Trafficante Jr the Tampa mob boss. I'll read anything mob related. Wonder if it's cause i'm part Italian?

Just ordered this today from Barnes and Noble ...be here in a week...I read a chit-ton of mob related books as well Doughty421

Let me know how it is guys. Sounds good.

Just finished 1984 yesterday and am now working through the Professor Challenger Omnibus (The Lost World, etc.)

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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (and Explosives!) should be a convenience store - not a government agency.

1984 is a great book, im reading a book called made men about the new jersey mafia. i have gotten a great deal of reading done because i get to spend 2 hours outside everyday drinking a few beers smoking a nice churchill and reading. It is the most relaxing/enjoyable part of my day

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"A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images" - George Sand, 1867

Isn't that the truth...On my weekends, I spend no less than 4 hours outside reading and smoking (not all at the same time), on the weekdays I manage 1 1/2 - 2 hours. Been plowing through books.

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I'm halfway through Dune right now. Its good =D

Catch 22 for the third or fourth time. Awesome book.

madurofan:

gmill880:

Doughty421:

Silent Don. It's about Santo Trafficante Jr the Tampa mob boss. I'll read anything mob related. Wonder if it's cause i'm part Italian?

Just ordered this today from Barnes and Noble ...be here in a week...I read a chit-ton of mob related books as well Doughty421

Let me know how it is guys. Sounds good.

So far it's pretty good. There is a chapter about his involvement in the JFK asassination. If you want first hand account on the mob, either read Underboss by Sammy the Bull himself or Gotti Rise and Fall. Another good one is Five Families. It's as big as a dictionary but it's about all of the families.

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Never take sides with anyone against the Family again.......ever.

Doughty421:

madurofan:

gmill880:

Doughty421:

Silent Don. It's about Santo Trafficante Jr the Tampa mob boss. I'll read anything mob related. Wonder if it's cause i'm part Italian?

Just ordered this today from Barnes and Noble ...be here in a week...I read a chit-ton of mob related books as well Doughty421

Let me know how it is guys. Sounds good.

So far it's pretty good. There is a chapter about his involvement in the JFK asassination. If you want first hand account on the mob, either read Underboss by Sammy the Bull himself or Gotti Rise and Fall. Another good one is Five Families. It's as big as a dictionary but it's about all of the families.

I just picked up Five Families. I'll keep an eye out for the rest.

The Vaccine Book, exciting right?

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bigharpoon:

The Vaccine Book, exciting right?

Second only to "The Anatomy of Blood Borne Pathogens". Riveting stuff right there. :D

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"Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth" Bill Hicks

as crazy as it sounds, i think a book on pathological anthropology would be great. unless ive mixed my words here that would be a book about how diseases have changed the way a society works.

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Kuzi's cigar catalog blending 101 developing your palate

Um... I think that's correct. I was premed for the longest time (IE two years, double majoring in psychology and biology) but I was burning myself out. So I dropped the biology and premed status and now I get to graduate a year early, and hopefully (if my GPA can recover) go on to a doctoral program. But, along the book lines, for the past month I've been trying to memorize the DSM-IV TR. Which is a snoozefest.

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Kuzi -- check out "The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson. Its about the plague in England and its effect on science and society there. Pretty much what you described.

Any of you mafia buffs ever read "The Valachi Papers" by Peter Maas? I think its about the FBI's first mob informant. (Same author also wrote Serpico, which is on my "to read" list with about 500 other books haha)

The Valachi Papers is on my list. I think he was the first made man to flip on the mob. Should be a good read.

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kuzi16:

as crazy as it sounds, i think a book on pathological anthropology would be great. unless ive mixed my words here that would be a book about how diseases have changed the way a society works.

A book right along this line is Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. A couple of boring parts but for the most part a very interesting and emcompassing book. Lots and lots in there about disease, its origin, its effect on society and the affect on other societies as they are introduced to it and why they didn't have it on their own, etc. etc. The main thesis of the book is why cultures evolved so differently from each other.

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