What Are You Reading?

[DrT999]

Slowly reworking my way through Gibbon -- it was more digestible 40 years ago in grad school!

 

[MLBbreton]

Got these off amazon last week, both great. The Bubishi one is really in-depth.



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Look up Chin Na. You'll like that if these are a hit.
If you're looking for sheer fighting look for Vale Tudo.
Understand on the street the ground can be a fried or foe. Depends on if you have to run away which is difficult.
That said 20+ years as a bouncer. Almost all fights go to ground and it's a scary place when you don't know what to do.
I once won a giant parking lot brawl because the monster of a human being slipped on a book of matches and hit his head like a melon.
My fighting book collection is vast. Here's a very rare one I wish I took better care of.

 

[JWally]

I'm reading volume two of The Peasants: Winter by Wladyslaw Reymont. Reymont received a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924 for this work. The books are set in a Polish Community in the mid19th century and tells the stories of ordinary country people and their daily lives and their connection with the rhythm of nature that is close to the order of the church liturgy, the holy days and folk rituals that give life a sacred dimension. If you are looking for a read that has nothing to do with the madness in the world today, and wish to escape to another time when life was simple, I recommend these books.

 

[peter cornbriar]

Is your lab an avid reader too?

 

[peter cornbriar]

I'm reading for the third time Neverness by David Zindell. I'm listening to Monster Hunter International Nemesis.
Neverness is an epic piece of literature spanning time and space. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

I'm a reading machine. Usually about 2-4 books a week. I read really fast. Kind of my super power. I can read a pleasure book in a single sitting. Glasses has slowed me down a little but I average 2000 to 2500 words per minute with 90% + comprehension. Average reader is 400 wpm.
I was gifted books as a boy by a disabled man my mother took care of and he was an avid reader. Gave me all his books when he saw me interested in reading. I've read all of them. To date with mine about 10,000. I love books. The smell of a book makes me feel happy.

Wow, is your lab an avid reader,too? Looks like he's into pipes also.

 

[MLBbreton]

Wow, is your lab an avid reader,too? Looks like he's into pipes also.

Hard to turn the pages. He listens to Audiobooks
I’m going to stage a pipe smoking beer drinking poker game picture with my dogs for fun. I’ll post it when I get the others to hold a pipe.

 

[Aussiemike]

Look up Chin Na. You'll like that if these are a hit.
If you're looking for sheer fighting look for Vale Tudo.
Understand on the street the ground can be a fried or foe. Depends on if you have to run away which is difficult.
That said 20+ years as a bouncer. Almost all fights go to ground and it's a scary place when you don't know what to do.
I once won a giant parking lot brawl because the monster of a human being slipped on a book of matches and hit his head like a melon.
My fighting book collection is vast. Here's a very rare one I wish I took better care of.

Yes MLB unfortunately since the rise of MMA/UFC it has taught a generation that it is ok and fashionable to kick and punch the living piss out of someone on the ground.
I am getting to fat,red and shiny to do anything fancy these days and would fall back on Kravmaga technique's if I found myself in a situation to shut it down quick. but will look up Chin Na thanks.