Vlog Moskow: 2018

The top ten books I've read

#10 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
This fast read is an epic struggle between an old fisherman and the catch of his life.

#9 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Santiago journeys to the oasis to learn the secrets of the alchemist.
While traveling santiago listens to the desert and discovers the Soul of the World. ... Beautiful ...

#8 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This is a brutally dark masterpiece. After the apocalypse a father and his son walk alone through a burned America. ...

#7 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Juxtaposes the pride of Chicago's Columbian Exhibition and the unfathomed evil of serial killer HH Holmes.
Great stuff,,,

#6 Friday Night Lights by HG Bissinger
Odessa Texas. Failure, racism, pride and triumph written through the lense of Permian High Football.

#5 The Dirt is a collaborative autobiography of Mötley Crüe by the band – and Times writer Neil Strauss
This sorted story is told with interviews of the groupies, band members, roadies & drug dealers that were there.

#4 And Then All Hell Broke Loose by Richard Engel
This suspenseful page-turner that lays out all of the mullahs, the caliphates and strongmen of the middle east

#3 The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
LA noire. This hard boiled crime drama depicts a corrupt society people will go great lengths to preserve the appearance of virtue.

#2 Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Oakland A's GM Billy Beane forever changes baseball when he defies old school baseball wisdom embracing saber metrics and wins the pennant...

And here it is, coming in at #1

#1 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Hauntingly beautiful story of a blind French girl
and a German boy whose paths cross in occupied France during World War II.

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