Book Titles (updated)

[dualstow]

Here are some book titles mentioned recently (it’s Sept 2022) here in the Politics §
↳ adding some from the forum that might be from other sections…. work in progress

Feel free to post new titles here, or to make suggestions here. I’ll delete them after I add them to this sticky.
Long pasted excerpts have not been deleted. You can find them here, Vinny : Other Discussions/Book Talk - . viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12742
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Paolo Bacigalup’s The Water Knife [2016]

John Baldwin’s Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship [2007]

Zvi Bodie and Rachelle Taqqu‘s Risk Less and Prosper [2011]

Mark Bowden’s The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It [2022]

Eric DesLauriers‘ Investing Equanimity: The Logic & Wisdom of The Permanent Portfolio [2020] Our own Blue Ruin!

Michel Houellebecq‘s Submission

Roger Lowenstein’s Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War [2022]

John Ross’ Unintended Consequences — I knew it wasn’t ‘A Hotwife story’ [1996]

Eric Frank Russell WASP [2009]

Daniel A Sjursen's A True History of the United States. [2021]

Philip Thomas Tucker’s The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth [2010]

Gerhard L Weinberg’s A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II 2nd Edition [2005]

Peter Zeihan’s The End of the World is Just the Beginning [2022]

[Mark Leavy]

Hilarious.
Dualstow sets up a thread where you can get book references without sorting through pages of spam. And completely on cue ...

[Mark Leavy]

Xan, dualstow.

Give me a moment here. Here's an idea. Just as a test run. A small sample.
Can you set up an "opt in" group similar to the politics group?

Maybe call it the "Forum Nazi" topic. Someplace where bad forum behavior is ruthlessly chastised.

Not editing your quotes? "No soup for you!"
Posting pages of mind numbing pasted quotes? "No soup for you!"
Are you befuddled by easily discoverable three letter acronyms? "No soup for you!"
HTML and Markdown are scary? "No soup for you!"

Think of it as a petri dish. Could rational discussion survive in such an environment?

Science wants to know.
Because it dies in the alternative.

[dualstow]

Xan, dualstow.

Give me a moment here. Here's an idea. Just as a test run. A small sample.
Can you set up an "opt in" group similar to the politics group?

Maybe call it the "Forum Nazi" topic. Someplace where bad forum behavior is ruthlessly chastised.

Not editing your quotes? "No soup for you!"
Posting pages of mind numbing pasted quotes? "No soup for you!"
Are you befuddled by easily discoverable three letter acronyms? "No soup for you!"
HTML and Markdown are scary? "No soup for you!"

…

How, specifically would we execute the “no soup for you” part? Delete the overpasting, you mean? Or you mean lock a member out of a section? I don’t know if the latter exists in the forum programming.

[Mark Leavy]

Can you set up an "opt in" group similar to the politics group?

How, specifically would we execute the “no soup for you” part? Delete the overpasting, you mean? Or you mean lock a member out of a section? I don’t know if the latter exists in the forum programming.

It looks like you've come up with a solution that works great. Thank you.

[dualstow]

Yes, keep an eye on the OP as I will update it whenever I can.

Originally, I was going to lock it, just the way most Stickies are. For now, I may as well let title requests and ideas come in because it will bump the thread and make people aware that it exists.

I do dream of a bot that will clean up pages full of pastes and repastes of the entire convo.
Admittedly, it’s a little ironic being a thread nazi on a page dedicated to books, some of which will invariably touch on our tenuous liberties, but rest assured I will only do that in this thread.

[dualstow]

Not a big deal. I feel I have driven a handful of people away without trying, well before moderating. Don’t want to go all bogleheads on people. :-)
Also, I remember at a least a few members saying it’s convenient to hit the quote button because they’re accessing the forum from a phone. I get that.

[Mark Leavy]

dualstow, after you finish reading Unintended Consequences: A Hotwife Story, make sure and post a review.

From the Amazon description:

But what do they say? A march of a thousand miles starts with a single step. I’d always enjoyed other guys admiring my wife’s sexy body, and I’d even had one or two secret daydreams of things going further. But there was no way on earth either of us could know how this little game of dress up would have such far reaching consequences for our marriage.

There, but for the grace of god...

[dualstow]

dualstow, after you finish reading Unintended Consequences: A Hotwife Story, make sure and post a review.

From the Amazon description:

But what do they say? A march of a thousand miles starts with a single step. I’d always enjoyed other guys admiring my wife’s sexy body, and I’d even had one or two secret daydreams of things going further. But there was no way on earth either of us could know how this little game of dress up would have such far reaching consequences for our marriage.

There, but for the grace of god...

I intend to run through the whole Hotwife series, time allowing.