Two of these. Watched the HBO one yesterday. It had some good moments with that dude from expedition unknown. Anyhoodles I see the Netflix one is on now too as of today. Only halfway through but the Netflix one is better.

But dude this guy Stockton Rush is a major asshole. Completely arrogant. And a really stupid smart guy.
Good watch though.

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My husband will probably watch this at some point. I can't believe people got into what looked like a hot water heater that was controlled by a video game controller and tried to go to the bottom of the ocean.

Yeah it is really hard to fathom why anyone would want to do that.

I was watching some deal on climbing Mt Everest. I do not get that either. But I guess that sense of adventure is really strong in some.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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Especially because you pay a shit ton of $ to have a sherpa do most of the work and then you wait in line to get to the top. I mean I'm not saying I could ever have done it or anything, and it's still dangerous, but as impressive feats go it's solid but not amazing.

as douglas adams pointed out, it's a "smart jog" as opposed to a "real climb" which would be mt. kilimanjaro. although "into thin air" remains the gold standard of everest stories.

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I read Into Thin Air around the same time I read The Perfect Storm. They're similar books, but Into Thin Air was so much better. I never got around to reading another book by Jon Krakauer, but probably should do so.

Into the Wild, Under the Banner of Heaven, and Where Men Win Glory are better than Into Thin Air, which was outstanding

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I don't want to read Where Men Win Glory. I figured there were several sets of feelings to be had after getting done. None of them good.

Under the Banner of Heaven and The Executioner's Song are both fantastic entries in the "Utah is deeply sinister" subgenre.

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If you like Into Thin Air you should check out Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. Simpson isn't the writer that Krakauer is, but the story is compelling. Simpson crawled off a mountain in the Andes with a broken leg and a torn quad tendon after his climbing partner left him for dead.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

It's the type of athletic accomplishment undertaken by people who are forced to choose rowing as a sport in high school

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Tell us you've never competed in the Head of the Charles without telling us.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

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I get that for sure, Nardi. But it's a hell of a read.

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Under the Banner of Heaven is like a Western, almost like Blood Meridian, a corrective to the nationalistic epic.

Did you read The Executioner's Song? My goodness. Long-ass book.

I've always thought that if the LDS stayed in Illinois and opened up BYU, BYU's wild and crazy passing attack would have forced the Illini to develop a better passing attack. People today would be talking about "the Midwest offense," and both teams would draw throngs of fans to our state, possibly making a dent in our debt.

Man, that would be a good rap:

Onward and headwards, LaVell Edwards,
Vanilla as ice but Black on the field,
bombs on first down, bomb ya town,
Hawaiian n****rs, no run-on-first down dilemma,
evil motherfu***s like Vai Sikahema,
drawing throngs, bitches in thongs,
dentin' the debt, makin' it legal to bet,
Steve Young, no Pepsi but balls far-flung,
ladies tongues, Michigan in dung,
the WAC on the Mississippi,
playas gettin' chippy, tradition going back
to Caesarea Phillipi, a research bi-angle
motivatin' the Orange and Blue,
fans in da queue, ladies nude,
offensive assistants, defense non-existent,
points, pa-pa-pa-points.

REFRAIN AND BEAT-BOXING

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illini had a byu offense in mike white

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

The Executioner's Song does not seem nearly as long as it is, incredible book

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I'm not the biggest Mailer fan in the world, I think he's another one where the idea of him is better than the work itself, but I did love that book. Miami and the Siege of Chicago is enjoyable, too (but HST's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 outdid it handily).

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It got me to read Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore. Families that messed up are endlessly interesting to me.

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I can't stand the guy or his work, except the one about GG.


Bitch, it felt long. At least in my hands.


That verse was redacted. It had some ill rhymes in there, too, something about Satta-Day being for the Latta-Day (Saints)

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I couldn't put it down. I can't see myself saying that about anything else close to 1100 pages, but if you've got any recs I'll take them.

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“A Storm of Swords” is the only 1000+ page book ever read that I couldn’t put down and finished it record time (for me).

It would have been interesting if they had stuck to their communitarian roots. Instead, they somewhat unwittingly became a signal-booster for the John Birch Society.

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Based on your recommendation, I had a look at those books. I might give them a shot, but murder and war aren't high on my list for leisure reading.

The Naked and the Dead and Harlot's Ghost were both solid. The Prisoner of Sex is probably the worst book I have ever read.

Let's keep this focused on the passing game, bub. I'd vote for .... Bob Welsh?....himself if I could get a quarterback averaging 430 YPG.

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i thought about that after I posted.

His book on Oswald was sucky because I want to believe.

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Into the Wild, then. One of my favorites. Also, I bought a Kindle specifically to read The Voyage of the Narwhal. Waiting for the Springsteen book through inter-library loan.

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Wow. How much do Kindles go for these days?