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Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
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My summer reading so far...
"Arsenal of Democracy" - the story of how the Ford Motor Company went from building cars to building bombers during WWII. I honestly couldn't put it down.
(After I finished this, I read another book by this same author "Go like Hell" - the story of the Ford GT40. I should have read this years ago.)
"Beast" Roger Penske takes advantage of a rule change to build a motor for the Indy 500 in complete secrecy. I absolutely did not do it justice with my synopsis. This is a great book...
In addition to these, I just read, for the first time, two Tom Wolfe books, "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerene-Flake Streamlined Baby" and "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid test".
(I should have read these years ago, too, but both are interesting as a look back on how we got to where we are today...)
"The Man in the White Suit" by Ben Collins - this is the story of The Stig, and this is the book that got Ben Collins ostracized by the guys on Top Gear
Currently reading an old novel by Tom Robbins...
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