Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
Ranked #45 in Global Warming, Ranked #49 in New Orleans — see more rankings.
In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship... more
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Marvin Liao Partner/500 StartupsMy list would be (besides the ones I mentioned in answer to the previous question) both business & Fiction/Sci-Fi and ones I personally found helpful to myself. The business books explain just exactly how business, work & investing are in reality & how to think properly & differentiate yourself. On the non-business side, a mix of History & classic fiction to understand people, philosophy to make sense of life and Science fiction to picture what the future could be like (not always utopian). (Source)
Adam Minter I like the book not only for being a thriller, but also because of the descriptions of how dangerous this work is, while someone else is getting rich off it. (Source)
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Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1) is ranked in the following categories:
- #74 in Climate Change
- #72 in Post-Apocalyptic
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