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Quick. Before this gets moved to General Topics.
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1. Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
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Anal Sluts 12.
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Gore Vidal`s Lincoln, 1876 ANY of his American Chronicle series. So that is 7 books there.
Joseph J. Ellis American Creation, His Excellency, Founding Brothers......ANY of his books
Ancestor`s Tale, The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene.....ANYTHING by Richard Dawkins
Anything by Edgar Allan Poe
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Anything by Shakespeare
Anything by Italo Calvino
Anything by Upton Sinclair
Anything by George Orwell
Anything by Carl Sagan
Anything by Vidal
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Alexander the Great biographies, Farseer series, Wheel of Time series, Skilgannon series, A short story called "Penance", The Sundering series, Fool's Fate, Most Elric of Melnibone books, Son of Shadows
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Omnivore`s Dilemma- Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food- Michael Pollan
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1. The Presidentialization of Politics: A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies by Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb
2. Shobogenzo by Dogen Zenshi
3. Taiko by Yoshikawa Eiji
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Series (sorry):
1. Farseer series
2. Wheel of Time
Book
3. Fool's Fate
I read the Wheel of Time series when I was a kid!
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I read the Wheel of Time series when I was a kid!
I'm still waiting for the last one. Found out a bit ago the original other died though, that's why it was taking so long.
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god wrote some awesome books
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god wrote some awesome books
STFU idiot.
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STFU idiot.
he didn't write that one dude
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook, by Lott, Schall, and Peters
anything by Al Franken
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Charlatan by Pope Brock
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he didn't write that one dude
"He" didn't write any books. Hope this helps.
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"He" didn't write any books. Hope this helps.
"he" is awesome
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"Day of the Jackal" - Frederick Forsyth
"Angels and Demons" - Dan Brown
"The magic of thinking big" - David Schwartz
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1. Im westen nichts neues - Erich Maria Remarque
2. Ten little n!ggers - Agatha Christie
3. Teacher man - Frank McCourt
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Charlatan by Pope Brock
the thread is titled:
"Name three of your favorite books"
NOT
"All the books i know".
hope this helps, Adam.
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"Day of the Jackal" - Frederick Forsyth
"Angels and Demons" - Dan Brown
"The magic of thinking big" - David Schwartz
Frederick Forsythe is amazing. 'Fist of God', 'Dogs of War', 'Icon' are great as well.
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Frederick Forsythe is amazing. 'Fist of God', 'Dogs of War', 'Icon' are great as well.
I'm just about to start reading "Dogs of War". I just finished reading "Avenger" about a month ago - brilliant book.
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Malcolm X
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
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the thread is titled:
"Name three of your favorite books"
NOT
"All the books i know".
hope this helps, Adam.
Choosing a favorite is impossible.
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Choosing a favorite is impossible.
exactly
but try telling that to the library nazi
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BigJ, if you like Forsythe you will like Tom Clancy as well
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Flex
Muscle & Fitness
MD
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body opus
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Lord of the rings
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Between a Rock and a hard place.
Miracle in the Andes.
The BFG.
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Factotum - Charles Bukowski
Ask the Dust - John Fante
Crime and punnishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Journey to the end of the night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
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1. obscure reference book
2. book by famous scientist
3. book in German
does that make me an internet genius ::)
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Hmm. *
1. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
2. Don Quixote - Cervantes
3. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
* this list will change next time i walk through my book room :P
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1. L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte, Michel Houlebecq
2. The Sorrows of Empire, Chalmers Johnson
3. Othello, William Shakespeare
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The Carpetbaggers
Dancing Wu Li Masters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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1. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
2. The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
3. Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls by Dr. Michael Newton
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1. obscure reference book
2. book by famous scientist
3. book in German
does that make me an internet genius ::)
Perfect, almost.
You forgot to name a) a famous classical writer from the 17th century or b) some classic novel
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Carlos Castaneda: Journey to Ixtlan
Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha
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Lord of the Rings
Hitch hiker's guide to Galaxy - a trilogy of five books
the Dune
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Carlos Castaneda: Journey to Ixtlan
Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha
Siddharta is great.
I read that a long time before and i loved it.
Thanks for the reminder, i just got it out the bookshelf again!
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1) Peter Druckers work
2) Empire of the blue Ocean - story of pirate Henry Morgan
3)....to hell with it...I've got too many books that I live for different reasons so it's tough to narrow it down to 3.
Currently reading
Brain Rules by John Medina
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Siddharta is great.
I read that a long time before and i loved it.
Thanks for the reminder, i just got it out the bookshelf again!
I agree, you just have to come back to it from time to time if you have read it once.
It sure is a romantic view on buddhism, but still offers amazing insight from an outsider.
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Hmm. *
1. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
2. Don Quixote - Cervantes
3. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
* this list will change next time i walk through my book room :P
I love Don Quixote de la Mancha too!
Can't believe that amongst these millionaire PhDs it took so long for someone to mention Don Quixote.
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War and Peace
Heart of Darkness
The Illiad and teh Oddessy
those are books i did not read
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Reading a book right now called Endurance. True story about an exploration team in 1916 getting trapped in pack ice off the coast of Antarctica, having to abandon ship and do something....that's where I'm at in the book right now. Great so far. I'm going to read some now.
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I have not ead lots of books inrecent years. When i was a child our house was coming down with books.
Some i really like no particular order
1. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
2. Watch My Back, Geoff Thompson
2. Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
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1. Getbig
2. Getbig
3. Getbig
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Gore Vidal`s Lincoln, 1876 ANY of his American Chronicle series. So that is 7 books there.
Joseph J. Ellis American Creation, His Excellency, Founding Brothers......ANY of his books
Ancestor`s Tale, The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene.....ANYTHING by Richard Dawkins
Anything by Edgar Allan Poe
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Anything by Shakespeare
Anything by Italo Calvino
Anything by Upton Sinclair
Anything by George Orwell
Anything by Carl Sagan
Anything by Vidal
I have founding brothers Great book ! as well as the God delusion and God is not great by Hitchens all great reading
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Dick and Jane, i forgot who wrote it, does anyone know?
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Mein Kampf
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Reading a book right now called Endurance. True story about an exploration team in 1916 getting trapped in pack ice off the coast of Antarctica, having to abandon ship and do something....that's where I'm at in the book right now. Great so far. I'm going to read some now.
I've got that on one of my shelves. The photos in that book are amazing!! :o
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Mein Kampf
Jawohl...
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Gore Vidal`s Lincoln, 1876 ANY of his American Chronicle series. So that is 7 books there.
Joseph J. Ellis American Creation, His Excellency, Founding Brothers......ANY of his books
Ancestor`s Tale, The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene.....ANYTHING by Richard Dawkins
Anything by Edgar Allan Poe
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Anything by Shakespeare
Anything by Italo Calvino
Anything by Upton Sinclair
Anything by George Orwell
Anything by Carl Sagan
Anything by Vidal
pretentious as always ::)
bet your read two pages by shakespeare and then got bored.
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Hmm. *
1. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
2. Don Quixote - Cervantes
3. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
* this list will change next time i walk through my book room :P
Sounds like someone is "loving, pure and chaste from afar." ::) :D
Good call with the Hesse, wavelength.
Zorba The Greek
Also, anything by Papa Hemmingway.
Tapeworm's dusty volume pic of the day: Fielding's Tom Jones
Funniest writer I've ever read is PG Wodehouse. His Jeeves and Wooster stories come on like a juggernaut of hilarity. First you smirk, then chuckle, then laugh, then roar. Pretty soon you're beet red and crying with laughter and can't breath, until concern for health obliges you to set it down.
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Anything by Tolkien
Anything by Isaac Asimov
Anything by Steven Brust
Anything by Daunte
Anything by Shakespeare
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Am impressed by some of the reading you guys are doing! Don Quixote, Of Mice and Men, etc. readers impress me a lot. I only wish that I had read all those old classics when I was a kid.
Nowadays I read about one book a week but mainly shit that Hollywood is making into block buster motion pictures.
And I have to admit that most of them are terrible - such as Babylon Baby which will appear as Babylon A.D. with Vin Diesel on the silver screen soon.
At present I feel that I am wasting valuable time reading these new books unless they offer some sort of edumacation so in between spare moments I read stuff like "Painless Algebra" and anything about Quantum Mechanics and "string theory" just to see if I am capable of understanding it.
I strongly suggest that anyone who likes an intellectual challenge should get a copy of Dancing Wu Li Masters and read it slowly from cover to cover a few times in an attempt to have some understanding of QM. I guarantee you'll see the world in a different perspective.
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ENDURANCE !!!! See the movie ........
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Anything by Tolkien
Anything by Isaac Asimov
Anything by Steven Brust
Anything by Daunte
Anything by Shakespeare
Asimov`s short story, The Last Question, is amazing!
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Another ENDURANCE ad.....
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this is good:
(http://www.getscottkellettout.com/images/Pics/The48LawsOfPower.jpg)
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http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Here is ASIMOV`s short story, "The Last Question".
If you have yet to read it, please do so! I`d love to hear your musings on it.
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Bast, I just saw that at Borders! What's it all about?
While there I read and had a couple cups of java. SOme book right beside that one called something like ...... 13 Things That are Darn Impossible. Another very impressive book about the expanding universe and how they figure out how fast it's expanding and when the force of gravity will pull it all back together so that it will more than likely do the Big Bang thing once again and start the who damn cycle over and over.
I like this crazy kind of shit. Next big read with be THE ART OF WAR, but first Adnois' submission of Asimov's short story. I used to like him so I gotta find out if I still do. i think he wrote I, Robot a long while back.
Keep reading, S
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i think he wrote I, Robot a long while back.
Haven't read much Asimov but I think his Laws of Robotics is a theme which runs through a few of his novels.
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sphere, brAve new world, I am legand, bible kjv
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Quick. Before this gets moved to General Topics.
"How tapeworm's sister survived 40 days on only my cum"
;D
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"How tapeworm's sister survived 40 days on only my cum"
;D
She leaned up nicely but smelled kinda funky. :-X
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She leaned up nicely but smelled kinda funky. :-X
;D
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1) Peter Druckers work
2) Empire of the blue Ocean - story of pirate Henry Morgan
3)....to hell with it...I've got too many books that I live for different reasons so it's tough to narrow it down to 3.
Currently reading
Brain Rules by John Medina
Peter Drucker is superb as well!
I read Management in the 21st century and a few others. I have one on mp3 and listen to it occasionally.
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Peter Drucker is superb as well!
I read Management in the 21st century and a few others. I have one on mp3 and listen to it occasionally.
That's a pretty decent book, I have to admit
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Peter Drucker is superb as well!
I read Management in the 21st century and a few others. I have one on mp3 and listen to it occasionally.
i should also mention
Confessions of an Economic hitman + The Secret History of the American Empire, by John perkins.
The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
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Catch 22-Joseph Heller
Military history books-WWII, Vietnam
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Asimov`s short story, The Last Question, is amazing!
The collection that I like is called Robot Dreams which does contain "Last Question" as well as jokester and the Martian way..you can't go wrong with any of his stories.
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The incredible hulk: planet hulk and world war hulk - the greatest books ever written. 8)
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Fiction:
1) The lone Drow by R.A. Salvatore (all of the stories concerning Drizzt Do'urden are nice)
2) Op-Center by Tom Clancy
3) Pillars of the earth by Ken Follet
4) 2001 a space odyssey by Arthur C.Clark
5) Digital Forteress Dan Brown
Non Fiction:
1) Power of Will by F C. Haddock first version (1910)
2) Essays on buddhism zen by T.D. Suzuki AND principles in Zen training by Tesshu
3) Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill AND Unlimited Power by Robbins
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Gore Vidal`s Lincoln, 1876 ANY of his American Chronicle series. So that is 7 books there.
Joseph J. Ellis American Creation, His Excellency, Founding Brothers......ANY of his books
Ancestor`s Tale, The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene.....ANYTHING by Richard Dawkins
Anything by Edgar Allan Poe
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Anything by Shakespeare
Anything by Italo Calvino
Anything by Upton Sinclair
Anything by George Orwell
Anything by Carl Sagan
Anything by Vidal
Regarding Upton Sinclair, you don't think most of his work tended to fall apart at the end of the story and just become socialist rhetoric?
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Regarding Upton Sinclair, you don't think most of his work tended to fall apart at the end of the story and just become socialist rhetoric?
dohhh. lots of socialist propaganda in his books.
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Most inspirational was...
"Hitler" by John Toland
...don't know about the rest... I hardly read.
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Regarding Upton Sinclair, you don't think most of his work tended to fall apart at the end of the story and just become socialist rhetoric?
I am a socialist. :)
He was the greatest socialist.
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Late to list: Tooles' A Confederacy of Dunces
This should be required reading for everyone. Brilliant. :)
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I am a socialist. :)
He was the greatest socialist.
Regardless of that in the context of the story don't you think it's fair to the reader not to turn the book into your own personal soapbox for political believes or at a minimum not make it so obvious?
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Late to list: Tooles' A Confederacy of Dunces
This should be required reading for everyone. Brilliant. :)
Absolutely Hillarious book!
I think some here may just fit the main character`s profile.
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Regardless of that in the context of the story don't you think it's fair to the reader not to turn the book into your own personal soapbox for political believes or at a minimum not make it so obvious?
I think that was his intention all along. We have to take into consideration the context of history and events at the time, Teapot Dome Scandal as well as the poor conditions of Food Industry and lowly wage earner under harsh capitalism, couple that with him being the Socialist Party nominated candidate for congress and we get an insight of why and how he wrote what he did.
His later works are more historical but socialism is always an underlying theme.
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
A quote for the ages!
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You guys are miles ahead of me. I wish I read more but I was a civil engineering major in college and just didn't have the time or motivation for personal enjoyment reading. In the past (high school ;D) though I loved The Grapes of Wrath or anything Steinbeck, The Red Badge of Courage, Lord of the Flies, Heart of Darkness, Wuthering Heights, Invisible Man, Adv. of Huck Finn, anything I read from Hemingway, standard reading but fun. I really enjoyed 90% of the reading assignments then.
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
A quote for the ages!
Hey what is that in refrence to...i know im stupid. It sounds deep i just dont kow what it all the way means
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Pont Of Impact-Stephen Hunter.
The Eagles and the Wolves-Simon Scarrow
Sharpe's Waterloo-Bernard Cornwell
...but it's an ever changing list for me.
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Needful Things - Stephen King
Soul Survivor - Dean Koontz
The Lake House - James Patterson
These are just three good ones off the top of my head. I have read many books, and these are some fun ones that come to mind.
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Knowledge of Time & Space - Tarthang Tlku
Love of Knowledge - Tarthang Tlku
These two books changed the way i view every day life.
Difficult to grasp, but worth the effort. ;)
Right now i am reading Protein Power by Michael R. Eades and Mary Dan Eades. Disgusted suggested this one and it is great so far.
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