Howard hughes biography reviews of windows 10
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Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos & Letters
If he hadn’t been fucking bonkers he would probably be totally reviled, instead he’s something of the uber-off his rocker celebrity. It helps when you have hundreds of millions of dollars at your disposal to really craft the perfect level of crazy.
This book was probably more ‘truthful’ (who knows though), but I preferred the Hughes from Ellroy’s USA Trilogy, or as he’s known through most of it, Dracula.
I actually don’t know how to review this. I wrote, ‘review this book’ but I didn’t read it. And if you don’t read the words in a book is it a book? Deep, right? Instead, I listened to it. Which was kind of weird. First, because I didn’t trust that the version I was reading (shit, I mean listening to) was the full book, you know that it wasn’t abridged. Having never seen the actual book I couldn’t tell if it was really as sparse as it felt at times.
Also I have never listened to an audio recording of a book in its entirety before. This was a new experience.
Why and why? (why listen to an audio book and why this book)
If you read a recent review of mine you might have stuck around through the long-winded asides and nonsense and read that I’ve been running. I learned tha
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1. Hughes was a millionaire at 18.
The 1901 discovery of oil at Spindletop, near Beaumont, Texas, marked the birth of the modern petroleum industry, and drew Hughes’ father, Howard Sr., a Harvard dropout, to East Texas to try his luck as a wildcatter. After becoming frustrated by the difficulty of drilling into hard-rock formations with the “fishtail” drill bit that was standard at the time, he devised a superior two-cone bit, which made drilling easier and revolutionized the oil industry.
Hughes patented the technology in 1909 and, with partner Walter Sharp, formed the Houston-based Sharp-Hughes Tool Company to manufacture the bit. After Sharp died in 1912, Hughes bought his interest in the company. When he in turn passed away in 1924, Howard Jr., an only child whose mother had died two years earlier, inherited the thriving company and became a millionaire. The 18-year-old Hughes dropped out of Rice University, let others manage the oil-tool business and set out for Hollywood in 1925.
2. His directorial debut, “Hell’s Angels,” was one of the most expensive movies of its time.
Hughes started his movie career as a producer on the 1926 film “Swell Hogan,” which turned out to be so terrible it never made it into theaters. However, he soon had box-office success with 1927’s “