I liked Kitchen Confidential. I'll have to pick up the new one. Thanks for the recommendation. Sure thing, it's not his NEWEST book, he came out with another series of shorts last year or so... "Medium Raw," which isn't nearly as good as "The Nasty Bits." Overall I think TNB was...

I watched "No Reservations" for like two years before I realized Bourdain actually got his start as an author, as soon as it clicked I went out and picked up "Kitchen Confidential" which was pretty good. I liked "The Nasty Bits" a lot more though, the stories are a lot ...

Yeah whenever someone tries to get in a discussion with me about some specific political issue I have a real hard time participating since it's like, "Uh - the lobbyists and corporations have bought and paid for our entire government. Nothing else really matters." I don't know how people c...

Kind of on a related note, I just saw this article about how a company is releasing an app that sets e-books to soundtracks, unless it's classical music I can't imagine it not being distracting though:

http://www.businessinsider.com/booktracks-2011-8

Depends on what's going on in life, basically always during a plane flight, at least one every two or three days if I get a beach vacation, but when work gets crazy very rarely since I'm in front of the computer so dang much.

It started off really fast but kind of drags here and there, still a really interesting work of historical fiction though. And I think it's fairly accurate and well-researched, although I'm not really sure. Not as good as say "Eye of the Needle" but still worth picking up if you're interes...

Hey guys, just hoping to find some new good books to read since Amazon's customer reviews seem to have gotten less and less dependable. "Gates of Fire" and "Beach Music" are probably two of my all-time favorite books, but I like some sci-fi as well, "Stranger in a Strange La...