re: What are some good books you've read recently?

Every guy needs to read the tipping point and outliers from Malcolm Gladwell

You probably already went this route but Tom Clancy. His Jack Ryan series is good. You want to read them in either chronological order or the order they were published, so you avoid spoilers, but the two best are Cardinal of the Kremlin and Executive Orders.

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I can't believe It took me this long to read it. So we are both ex-radio people who like Elivs and racing.

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I had heard of the book, but it was like a mythical thing. Then one day, I was in Books-a-Million, and there it was. Bought it immediately, have read it several times.

Yes, we both have checkered pasts.

The Alchemist - a fable by Paulo Cuelho
Into Thin Air - Jon Krackauer
The Climb - Anatoli Boukreev

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Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon

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Thanks for the recommendation , love it so far. Obviously a big fan of cats cradle which is why I read your other recommendation. Good taste in books

If you like Hampton Sides, you'll enjoy his book Blood and Thunder about Kit Carson and settling the west.
I just finished his book Hellhound On His Trail. It's about James Earl Ray stalking MLK and the FBI manhunt to track him down. It's interesting and an easy read. (Although it's a very small part of the book, Sides doesn't present Jesse Jackson in a very flattering light. Gave me even more reason to dislike that bastard!)

Damnation Game by Clive Barker...pretty solid book.