Books
The kind I read that don't have superheroes
The BestWin Shares
I detailed the basics of this book in this blog. However, reading the book totally rose above all the hype and expectations surrounding it. James presents his adventures into the seemingly dry field of baseball statistics and somehow makes it both funny and exciting. Rocked my world and focused me into developing a similar "holy grail" formula for basketball statisticians.
Runner UpCase Closed
A painstakingly researched and exhaustively covered report into how Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy. 50 years of heresay, rumor and paranoia are crushed under the sheer weight of Gerald Posner's facts. The best part, however, is how Posner's prose never reads like a textbook or history lesson. You feel like you are actually along for the ride of Harvey's life the entire time.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963)
You Only Live Twice (1964)
The Songwriters Idea Book (1992)
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity (2007)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1965)
Octopussy and the Living Daylights (2004)
Win Shares (2002)
Basketball on Paper (2004)
Death from a Top Hat (1938)
Case Closed (2003)
Rim of the Pit (1944)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908)
The Hollow Man (1935)
You Only Live Twice (1964)
The Songwriters Idea Book (1992)
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity (2007)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1965)
Octopussy and the Living Daylights (2004)
Win Shares (2002)
Basketball on Paper (2004)
Death from a Top Hat (1938)
Case Closed (2003)
Rim of the Pit (1944)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908)
The Hollow Man (1935)
The WorstThe Songwriters Idea Book
Cassie got me a bunch of songwriter books when I decided to move to New York and I'm slowly going through them like Skittles - from worst to best. Though the word "songwriter" appears on the cover, this book is really a textbook for the absolutely unnecessary field of lyrics categorization. Want to know the names of all 20 types of rhymes? Want to know how she thinks the four Myers-Briggs types should write lyrics? This book is for you!
Runner UpMyths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity
I used to love John Stossel on 20/20 and I agree with a lot of what is presented in the book, but everything is written to shock rather than to convince. Stossel debunks a lot of myths and "common knowledge" that is accepted as truth, but doesn't really show any facts or go into details to explain the science behind his reasoning.
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