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betarhoalphadelta

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Re: OT - Books
« Reply #252 on: November 20, 2025, 11:44:18 AM »
Hmm, this is now the second forum that I'm on where The Road was recommended. Guess I'm gonna have to buy it. 

@CatsbyAZ I enjoyed Get Shorty BTW... Thanks. Now at some point I'll need to watch the movie. 
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« Reply #253 on: November 20, 2025, 01:28:47 PM »
I guess I was gone during the Get Shorty discussion, but I didn't realize it was based on an Elmore Leonard book.  I rented the movie back in high school and really liked it back then.  I found the decade-later follow-up Be Cool to be okay, but not as good as GS.  

@CatsbyAZ , this belongs more in the TV thread, but you might like the 6-season series Justified, which was based on Elmore Leonard novels.  The dialog between the protagonist, Raylen Givens, and the antagonist, Boyd Crowder, was legendary on that show.  One of my all-time favorites.  
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« Reply #254 on: November 20, 2025, 03:48:26 PM »
I enjoyed the Road--my favorite McCarthy novel. Liked it a lot more than Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men.

I just read Huckleberry Finn. I know I read Tom Sawyer when I was in high school, I don't think I read Huck Finn. I can understand what was groundbreaking about it, and it has some solid satire in it, but the story's conclusion (really the final act) is pretty absurd.
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Re: OT - Books
« Reply #255 on: November 20, 2025, 05:51:26 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 24, 2023, 08:51:25 AM
Some authors I really enjoy:

John Sanford (wrote the Minnesota detective series et al.)

Bernard Cornwell (wrote the Last Kingdom series et al.)

Stephen Hunter (the Bob Lee Swagger series)

Michael Connelly (Bosch and the Lincoln lawyer)
This is interesting. Hunter and Connolly have been on my list for a while to start some of their books. When I lived overseas I was probably reading 3-4 books a week and then coming home, starting a business, then kids in the mix and reading dwindled.. Then brain surgery and I actually couldn't keep my eyes focused on a book without getting dizzy for a long while.. Over the last couple months I've been making it a habit to ready 15-20 mins before falling a asleep every night again.

My easiest read has been my starting point with Ben Mezrich and have read a second time now recently bringing down the house, ugly americans, rigged (underrated) and now on Accidental Billoinaires. Was going to revisit some Steve Berry Books, then a few john grishams and then expand out to testing a Connelly or Hunter. Between the two, who would you go to first? 
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« Reply #256 on: November 24, 2025, 05:59:24 PM »
I've got a saying that I've mentioned here many times... So I'll repeat it.

Offense can never be given; it can only be taken. 

It's about agency. There are a lot of things in the world, in your life, in your personal relationships, that can bother you. But they only bother you if you let them. You have a choice. I am not likely to get offended by nearly ANYONE in my life, because allowing someone to offend me means that I'm giving them the power to determine my mental state. I don't cede that capability to most anyone. 

So why am I bringing this up in the Books forum? Because I just heard about a book that apparently is the codification of this ethos. It's called "The Let Them Theory" and seems to be all about the way I live. 

It apparently is all over the place. It's sold 7 million copies... Which is not easy, for a BOOK in 2025. 

I haven't read it yet. I suspect it's just preaching to the choir for me. I ordered it for my wife as one of the random things that go into the Christmas extravaganza. 

But even having not read it, the below interview sounds like it's exactly what I already believe...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3m66I6t7E
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« Reply #257 on: November 24, 2025, 06:07:29 PM »
My i s c & a aggie wife has been listening to her podcasts for a couple of years now, and has that book.  I haven't read it but maybe I will.
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« Reply #258 on: November 24, 2025, 08:08:40 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on November 24, 2025, 05:59:24 PM
I've got a saying that I've mentioned here many times... So I'll repeat it.

Offense can never be given; it can only be taken.

It's about agency. There are a lot of things in the world, in your life, in your personal relationships, that can bother you. But they only bother you if you let them. You have a choice. I am not likely to get offended by nearly ANYONE in my life, because allowing someone to offend me means that I'm giving them the power to determine my mental state. I don't cede that capability to most anyone.

So why am I bringing this up in the Books forum? Because I just heard about a book that apparently is the codification of this ethos. It's called "The Let Them Theory" and seems to be all about the way I live.

It apparently is all over the place. It's sold 7 million copies... Which is not easy, for a BOOK in 2025.

I haven't read it yet. I suspect it's just preaching to the choir for me. I ordered it for my wife as one of the random things that go into the Christmas extravaganza.

But even having not read it, the below interview sounds like it's exactly what I already believe...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3m66I6t7E

My wife has "Let them" in a tattoo on her shoulder.

Personally I am a water off a ducks back person.  I know who I am and could care less what you say or think about it, it just rolls off my back. 
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Re: OT - Books
« Reply #259 on: November 25, 2025, 09:25:37 AM »
I like Connelly over Hunter.  Sanford is equal to the former imho.  
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Re: OT - Books
« Reply #260 on: November 25, 2025, 11:03:39 AM »
I would note that Hunter's most recent book was hot garbage.  His "Swagger" series is just played out, and he's milking it.  The first book was quite entertaining, "Point of Impact", better than the movie by far ("Shooter").  The other ones mostly drift into OK range.

I have enjoyed all of Sanford's books, the one about Saturn was a bit off topic, but OK.
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