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Gary’s 2024 Year in Books
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Gary Floyd
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Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
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Eyes Open With Your Mask On
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Barbarians in the Halls of Power
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This Side of Reality: How to survive this war and the next 15 to follow
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The Military History of the WorldThis was an interesting book. It was kind of a pass through the history of military tactics and the different regimes that employed them. This book started out in ancient times and went up into current times. I was im ...more "
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A book to take with you on your trip to Porto I really enjoyed the Porto Portugal Travel Guide. My wife and I were supposed to go there last November but the Porto travel pilots were on strike. This seemed like a good way to experience a little of wha ...more |
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A Book for Hockey Fans of all Ages I really enjoyed this book. I’ve read similar books in the past. Many similar books tend to be more generic, but this book was really full of interesting factoids. Some of which I wasn’t aware of. There was a good ov ...more |
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A Walk Down Memory Lane This is the type of book that every team should have written about them, as each professional team's history is unique. It was a clear and concise overview of the team and what it was going through during each decade. I also en ...more |
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A Walk Down Memory Lane This is the type of book that every team should have written about them, as each professional team's history is unique. It was a clear and concise overview of the team and what it was going through during each decade. I also en ...more |
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Short, Punchy and Entertaining This is a very interesting book that I'd highly recommend to anyone who is a student of the human condition. I have never thought so much about why my eyebrows move up in a certain situation, or of the many manifestation ...more |
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“I’ve seen the war criminal reformed because he gave the wife, of the person, who didn’t prosecute him, a mint at a funeral. I think if only Heinrich Himmler had carried Tic Tacs in his pocket all would have been forgiven. Bad paintings help humanize you even when you’re legacy rests on a pyre of bones.”
― Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
― Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
“To-do list:
1. Science – stop people from getting sick and dying.
2. Keep people economically solvent – as you request their help in fighting the pandemic.
Some states do better at one. Others, at the other. None strike the right balance. Everything collapses. Utter failure.
One party is full of bad ideas that their rivals merely rubber-stamp. Like a reverse Robin Hood, they scapegoat the powerless, while simultaneously handing out checks to the richest stakeholders. The other party has few ideas, except for a few bad ones of their own that they throw into the mix. Businesses, flush with cash, appear almost embarrassed to take public money. But they soon get over their initial shame.”
― Eyes Open With Your Mask On
1. Science – stop people from getting sick and dying.
2. Keep people economically solvent – as you request their help in fighting the pandemic.
Some states do better at one. Others, at the other. None strike the right balance. Everything collapses. Utter failure.
One party is full of bad ideas that their rivals merely rubber-stamp. Like a reverse Robin Hood, they scapegoat the powerless, while simultaneously handing out checks to the richest stakeholders. The other party has few ideas, except for a few bad ones of their own that they throw into the mix. Businesses, flush with cash, appear almost embarrassed to take public money. But they soon get over their initial shame.”
― Eyes Open With Your Mask On
“The way it’s going…
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A foul-mouthed Pee-wee Herman runs for president. People finally realize what a racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, and homophobic bigot he is. He’s clearly not a politician. Rather, he’s someone who speaks his mind, and that makes him relatable.
Herman runs against a faceless, forgettable career backbencher who’s been wrong on every issue for half a century, has become a multimillionaire without a legal avenue to attaining his fortune, and who you’re told you have to vote for because he’s experienced.
Last year, we were told that the politician had a lobotomy, but the alternative is even worse.
The voters will be hit with a tsunami of stomach-turning, deceptive ads and told that they have to vote for one of the two, or else they’ll be throwing away their democracy.
In four years, they’ll run Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s coat for president. No one will notice. His coat will have more integrity than all of the idiots in recent years they’ve presented to us so we can confirm them.”
― Barbarians in the Halls of Power
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A foul-mouthed Pee-wee Herman runs for president. People finally realize what a racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, and homophobic bigot he is. He’s clearly not a politician. Rather, he’s someone who speaks his mind, and that makes him relatable.
Herman runs against a faceless, forgettable career backbencher who’s been wrong on every issue for half a century, has become a multimillionaire without a legal avenue to attaining his fortune, and who you’re told you have to vote for because he’s experienced.
Last year, we were told that the politician had a lobotomy, but the alternative is even worse.
The voters will be hit with a tsunami of stomach-turning, deceptive ads and told that they have to vote for one of the two, or else they’ll be throwing away their democracy.
In four years, they’ll run Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s coat for president. No one will notice. His coat will have more integrity than all of the idiots in recent years they’ve presented to us so we can confirm them.”
― Barbarians in the Halls of Power
“The front ramp is gradually lowered, in slow electronic increments. A couple of dozen backpackers stand, inside the lower deck’s muted light, like an army of extraterrestrials. Paros is refilling with English, German, French, Italian, Scandinavian, Australian, and South African tourists. The town remains in motion. Some come. Some go. The cycle appears endless. The entire world appears to wash up on Paros.”
― Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
― Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
“We’re again in a free-fall. At this point, Jennie stops, sits on a step just inside the whitewashed walls. Below, two ocean liners, with its fiesta lights strung along the main lines, are anchored in the pitch black bay. Above the white town, Fira, twinkles suspended like a mirage.”
― Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
― Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
“I know Jimmy believes that the company’s evaluations are meaningless. Mildred appears naïve. Employees are always surprised when they’re let go and they have no idea who to turn to. They’ve heard of Jimmy. He exists in some mythical employment realm, like the Yeti; and he’s as popular, with management, as Oscar Schindler once was with ex-Nazis. I tell Mildred that Jimmy will get back to her. For Mildred, it’s a long wait. I hang up, leaving her to the lonely world of the recently fired.”
― Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
― Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
“Later, Tara and other leaders, roughly the same age, lead marches through the streets. Like lambs to the slaughter, we follow. We target the banks. They’re put on notice that their day is over. It’s street theater and people who work there watch the show from windows, high above. Next, the girls lead us to the Chamber of Commerce where plainclothes ex-military protect the movers and shakers from a scattering of college girls and a collection of workers who need better jobs. They watch us through mirrored sunglasses and communicate via hidden microphones and listening devices. It’s a routine that everyone, except us, knows.”
― Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
― Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
“Friday night, under the dim atrium lights, we sit on wrought iron chairs, drinking beer in the cool antiseptic air. Near the fake flagstones snaking through the fake trees, ferns, and the bubbling, chlorine-infused, somnolent brook. Anytown USA. A fake park superimposed on the Washington swamp. Outside, oversized windows overlook the city, streaked with: rain, humidity, and tears.”
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