Book rec: The Mandibles

[vnatale]

spoiler alerts, vinny, spoiler alerts.
well, I’ll wait until I finish before I check back in.

Sorry! On the basis of what you'd written and that I'd considered that I'd barely gotten that far in the book I had assumed you'd already read what I had described and that you were now ahead of me.

And, rereading how much I did say about the book I hardly said much. But I'll refrain until you are done.

Vinny

[dualstow]

Nah, it's ok. I have no business revisiting this thread until I finish. I don't know what I was thinking.

[Smith1776]

Thanks to this thread and Rickards, I have a copy of the mandibles on hold for me at the library!

[Smith1776]

Check out what I got!

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It has been a nice day off reading today. Friggin' looove it so far!

EDIT: Why did my photo get rotated? Strange.

[dualstow]

What is that ring? Did you leave a ring on the book or is that a special edition? My library copy doesn’t have it.

[vnatale]

Thanks to this thread and Rickards, I have a copy of the mandibles on hold for me at the library!

This past Friday / Saturday / Sunday nights I went to hear live music and prior to the music went out to eat each of those three nights. The first two nights it was just me. While I was eating (and while waiting in line outside Friday night) this was the book of choice for me to read. It's much better than I thought upon initially starting it. But still not as good as one of Rickards's books.

Vinny

[Smith1776]

What is that ring? Did you leave a ring on the book or is that a special edition? My library copy doesn’t have it.

It's my gold ring that I wear daily!

It's my last resort, bottom dollar, deep deep deep deep emergency gold.

[dualstow]

I have to admit, this book is coloring everything I read now. (coloring book )
I have reread Vinny "All I want to do is exhume exhume zoom and-a boom boom"'s latest thread resurrection, 'Why the PP is better in accumulation than you think' Read the first eight pages of it, anyway.

I had forgotten how spicy things got in 2015! When mathjak made the point of people not being able to bid up gold if the dollar becomes worthless...it's different from the book but it still made me think of it.

I have been out of town latelyand didn't take the book with me. It has made me very depressed about precious metals. I can only hope it's a temporary condition. Great reading, anyway. I didn't like the writing style for the first chapter and then came to love it.

P.S. exhume joke stolen from CNBC. Andrew Ross Sorkin, I think.