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Title: Can anyone recommend a good book?
Post by: Ex Coelis on September 06, 2009, 11:15:27 AM
I need to buy another book to qualify for free shipping on Amazon

preferably something non-fiction and fairly current

and no, I'm not interested in "Flex Ability: A Story of Strength and Survival"

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Post by: Red Hook on September 06, 2009, 11:17:15 AM
Anything by Isaac Asimov

The robot series or the foundation series are classics
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Post by: tbombz on September 06, 2009, 11:18:47 AM
if you want bodybuilding, get championship bodybuilding by chris aceto, anabolics 9th edition by william lewelyn, and poliquin principles.
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Post by: Swedish Viking on September 06, 2009, 12:10:26 PM
Wizard's First Rule.  Terry Goodkind.
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Post by: Mars on September 06, 2009, 12:12:55 PM
theres more in life than bodybuilding tbomx
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Post by: bigmc on September 06, 2009, 12:12:55 PM
con iggulden - the gengis khan trilogy or the julius ceaser trilogy
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Post by: rehtaf ruo on September 06, 2009, 12:16:50 PM
meybe u read  articel about  big beef it betil  fucked over by 2 mouthy  whores.  good exemple of why legal  systems is matherfucker brainlees or not neede d at  all.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KFY/is_10_23/ai_n15894917/ (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KFY/is_10_23/ai_n15894917/)
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Post by: Steelrabbitt on September 06, 2009, 12:18:27 PM
How the mind works-Pinker
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Post by: ironneck on September 06, 2009, 12:18:42 PM
theres more in life than bodybuilding tbomx

he's also known in the homo scene
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Post by: jetpower on September 06, 2009, 12:19:40 PM
Read this if you want to understand what Obama is doing:

Atlas Shrugged
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452011876/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252264745&sr=8-1

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Post by: kiwiol on September 06, 2009, 12:29:05 PM
Read this if you want to understand what Obama is doing:

Atlas Shrugged
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452011876/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252264745&sr=8-1



Excellent recommendation. Have you read anything else by AR, like The Fountainhead?
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Post by: Mr Nobody on September 06, 2009, 12:30:03 PM
Walden Pond
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Post by: alejandro_torres on September 06, 2009, 12:31:10 PM
paulo cohelo
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Post by: Tre on September 06, 2009, 12:57:46 PM
Check out a book called 'The Bible'.

If you're into classic fairy tales, this one is for you. 
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Post by: Swedish Viking on September 06, 2009, 01:07:06 PM
Read this if you want to understand what Obama is doing:

Atlas Shrugged
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452011876/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252264745&sr=8-1



  Very good book, but don't see how it relates to Obama other than seeming to be the opposite of what he's doing..
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Post by: kiwiol on September 06, 2009, 01:13:15 PM
  Very good book, but don't see how it relates to Obama other than seeming to be the opposite of what he's doing..

I think he's talking about the book showing what could happen if the government oversteps it's role and ruins the economy as a result, which would make President Obama something like the equivalent of Wesley Mouch.
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Post by: Mars on September 06, 2009, 01:25:44 PM
wesley snipes
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Post by: disturbia on September 06, 2009, 01:27:03 PM
On The Road---Jack Kerouac
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Post by: Mars on September 06, 2009, 01:30:16 PM
On The Road---Jack Kerouac

where is it about
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Post by: disturbia on September 06, 2009, 01:43:36 PM
where is it about

where? probably under "Keroauc" in the library
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Post by: disturbia on September 06, 2009, 01:44:24 PM
It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences.
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Post by: The Showstoppa on September 06, 2009, 01:44:53 PM
Twilight
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Post by: Mars on September 06, 2009, 01:45:25 PM
It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences.

sounds great. someting like fear and loathing in las vegas?
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Post by: Griffith on September 06, 2009, 02:06:57 PM
Battle Royale
Takes place in an alternate history where Japan won World War II and control most of Asia and have a programme where they randomly force a class of schoolkids to take place in a game where they have to kill each other with the last one standing being the winner.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Royale-Gollancz-Koushun-Takami/dp/0575080493/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252270730&sr=1-1

The Long Walk - Stephen King
Another alrenate history where the USA is ruled by a military government after kicking the Nazis out their home soil. Kids can take place in a game where they have to keep walking till one is left standing. The winner gets anything they want for the rest of the their life...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Walk-Stephen-King/dp/0451196716/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252270982&sr=1-1
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Post by: bebop396 on September 06, 2009, 02:22:40 PM
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson.
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Post by: TrapsMcLats on September 06, 2009, 02:28:17 PM
How the mind works-Pinker

that or "blank slate." Pinker in the man.
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Post by: funk51 on September 06, 2009, 02:54:12 PM
american pschyo i probably spelled it wrong but am too  lazy to look up how to spell it.  written by brett easton ellis.
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Post by: Van_Bilderass on September 06, 2009, 03:04:47 PM
sounds great. someting like fear and loathing in las vegas?

Nothing like it.

Both great, in different ways.
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Post by: jetpower on September 06, 2009, 03:18:30 PM
I think he's talking about the book showing what could happen if the government oversteps it's role and ruins the economy as a result, which would make President Obama something like the equivalent of Wesley Mouch.
Exactly. I'm not picking on Obama per-se, but he seems to be the current catalyst for change leading down this path.

Excellent recommendation. Have you read anything else by AR, like The Fountainhead?
The Fountainhead, yes.

I'm reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine right now (yes, I am taking my time). When done, will start on The Virtue of Selfishness and then For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.

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Post by: Mr Nobody on September 06, 2009, 03:20:03 PM
The barfly
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Post by: bigdumbbell on September 06, 2009, 04:49:10 PM
i heard Douglas Brinkley is a good writer
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Post by: stuntmovie on September 06, 2009, 05:23:39 PM
Dancing Wu Li Masters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Carpetbaggers
The Man in the Iron Mask

Any of the Classics
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Post by: Tapeworm on September 06, 2009, 05:52:35 PM
Steve Martin's Born Standing Up.
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Post by: The Showstoppa on September 07, 2009, 07:17:00 AM
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Post by: Meso_z on September 07, 2009, 07:38:08 AM
Adonio Pornstash's - Anal Confessions.
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Post by: Swedish Viking on September 07, 2009, 07:45:46 AM
I think he's talking about the book showing what could happen if the government oversteps it's role and ruins the economy as a result, which would make President Obama something like the equivalent of Wesley Mouch.

  I don't know why I didn't see that...I get it now.
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Post by: bigdumbbell on September 07, 2009, 07:48:26 AM
  I don't know why I didn't see that...I get it now.
oh brother, fear much?
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Post by: dr.chimps on September 07, 2009, 09:10:39 AM
Dancing Wu Li Masters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Carpetbaggers
The Man in the Iron Mask

Any of the Classics
Can't go wrong with Dumas. Hell, try Stevenson' s 'Treasure Island' and pretend it's non-fiction. Great read.  ;)
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Post by: Mars on September 07, 2009, 09:14:22 AM
bodybuilders are not just muscle
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Post by: musclecenter on September 07, 2009, 09:17:08 AM
My 735 pages of 'Complete Guide to Bodybuilding'(chinese edition only) ;)
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Post by: local hero on September 07, 2009, 09:21:36 AM
con iggulden - the gengis khan trilogy or the julius ceaser trilogy

great books....loved them all

also try the alexanda triology by massimo manfredi, also theres a series by wilbur smith set in egypt awsome books
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Post by: Tapeworm on September 07, 2009, 09:36:30 AM
that or "blank slate." Pinker in the man.

Outed, you stinker.
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Post by: TrapsMcLats on September 07, 2009, 10:00:58 AM
Outed, you stinker.

what am i "outted" as?
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Post by: Tapeworm on September 07, 2009, 10:10:50 AM
what am i "outted" as?

The worst of all.  A typoist.
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Post by: TrapsMcLats on September 07, 2009, 10:28:06 AM
haha, fair
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Post by: Van_Bilderass on September 07, 2009, 10:33:12 AM
Sun and Steel - Yukio Mishima

Bodybuilding, homosexuality, philosophy - can't go wrong!
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Post by: Ex Coelis on September 07, 2009, 10:38:30 AM
some really great suggestions - thanks to all

anything more political?
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Post by: local hero on September 07, 2009, 10:50:10 AM
some really great suggestions - thanks to all

anything more political?

mein kampf....
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Post by: wikkedonez on September 07, 2009, 11:00:40 AM
Get "Culture of Corruption" and see how your precious Obama is fuckin up this country!!! ;)
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Post by: bigdumbbell on September 07, 2009, 12:45:11 PM
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Post by: dyslexic on September 07, 2009, 12:55:38 PM
"Cop" by Michael Middleton

Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin Uncensored

The Shack by William P. Young

the Templars and the Assassins

Fat land by Greg Critser

Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Phillip Carlo

The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley

The Beavis and Butthead Journals

Learn to Relax by Mike George

Golds Gym Mass Building (just to look at all of the pix of Bobert)
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Post by: ToxicAvenger on September 07, 2009, 01:03:46 PM
I need to buy another book to qualify for free shipping on Amazon

preferably something non-fiction and fairly current



Stephen Kings "The gunslinger"
http://www.stephenking.com/DarkTower/the_books.html
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Post by: TechnoViking on September 07, 2009, 08:48:20 PM
Lonnie Teper's new book "Man inside a thousand Schmoes" is a pretty good read...
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Post by: hazbin on September 07, 2009, 09:05:09 PM
Stephen Kings "The gunslinger"
http://www.stephenking.com/DarkTower/the_books.html

that series was the best!! 'The Drawing of the Three' was incredible. i still quote something from it every few days.  "that was before the world moved on, Roland".
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Post by: Swedish Viking on September 07, 2009, 10:12:01 PM
that series was the best!! 'The Drawing of the Three' was incredible. i still quote something from it every few days.  "that was before the world moved on, Roland".

  I honestly couldn't get past the first book.  I heard it was awful and the rest were good though-do you share this opinion?
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Post by: hazbin on September 07, 2009, 10:57:58 PM
  I honestly couldn't get past the first book.  I heard it was awful and the rest were good though-do you share this opinion?

yeah, that one really dragged on. i don't think it would be neccessary to read it to 'get' number 3. i've read it more than once and still feel suspense even though i know what's coming.
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Post by: ToxicAvenger on September 10, 2009, 04:46:33 PM
that series was the best!! 'The Drawing of the Three' was incredible. i still quote something from it every few days.  "that was before the world moved on, Roland".

my fav quotes from memory

" control the things you can control maggot, and let everything else take a flying fuck at you. And if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing"  Cort

" go then, there r other worlds than these" Jake
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Post by: Emmortal on September 10, 2009, 04:54:23 PM
I know you said non-fiction, but I just finished "Gods Demon" by Wayne Barlow, it was pretty good for being his first book.
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Post by: Coach is Back! on September 10, 2009, 06:21:58 PM
Liberty and Tierney by Mark Levine
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Post by: stuntmovie on September 10, 2009, 06:43:26 PM
"I Hope They Serve Cold Beer in Hell."    Coming to your neighborhood theater soon.

Hard to believe that they could make a movie out of that one.

"The Informant" - The next Matt Damon flick - I only read the first three chapters so far but the prevues look like it's going to be damn humerous.

"Battlecry"  - I saw it and decided to join the Corps as soon as I got out of school. Real Boot Camp was so much funnier!

"Old Yeller"..... makes ya cry.

"The Other Side" by Bishop Pike .... So controversial that it was never reprinted as far as I can determine.

"So Dear to My Heart"..... great reading for kids who love animals. Disney made the movie many years ago.

And one hell of a great read about a whole village in Europe eating fermented rye bread and going crazy killing everyone. The first victim was the family dog who ate some scraps thrown at him from the dining room table and immediately starts foaming at the mouth and kills the whole damn family, and the whole village proceeds to do likewise.

Anyone recall the name of that one? It was based on a true story in the 1800's.
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Post by: bigdumbbell on September 10, 2009, 06:44:40 PM
Liberty and Tierney by Mark Levine
oh brother  i thought it was spelled tearany
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Post by: haider on September 10, 2009, 06:48:31 PM
anything by david duke, james flynn, the Kloran, etc.
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Post by: hazbin on September 10, 2009, 07:23:38 PM
my fav quotes from memory

" control the things you can control maggot, and let everything else take a flying fuck at you. And if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing"  Cort

" go then, there r other worlds than these" Jake

i still use those two often.  ' god pisses down your back every day, but he only drowns you once'
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Post by: hazbin on September 10, 2009, 07:25:01 PM
my fav quotes from memory

" control the things you can control maggot, and let everything else take a flying fuck at you. And if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing"  Cort

" go then, there r other worlds than these" Jake

another one, ' that was before the world moved on, Roland!'
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Post by: CalvinH on September 10, 2009, 07:25:37 PM
First Sharpe book from Bernard Cornwell.
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Post by: Natural_O on September 10, 2009, 09:04:40 PM
I'm reading two books on organized crime right now that are really good:
 
"Gomorrah" by Roberto Saviano, a book about the Camorra, the organized crime outfit in Naples,
Italy and "Family Secrets" by Jeff Coan, a book about the Family Secrets trial, the trial that helped
bring down the Chicago Mafia.
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Post by: RJ DRIVER on September 10, 2009, 09:10:33 PM
"I hope they serve beer in hell"
"Where is Joe Merchant"
"Freakanomics"
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Post by: Coach is Back! on September 10, 2009, 10:26:36 PM
oh brother  i thought it was spelled tearany

Whatever, it's a great read.
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Post by: jetpower on September 11, 2009, 01:23:29 AM
Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant (Popular Culture and Philosophy) (Paperback)
The Ethics of Star Trek (Paperback)
Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice (Law, Crime, and Corrections Series, V. 1) (Paperback)
Star Trek: Starfleet Survival Guide (Paperback)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (Star Trek Next Generation (Unnumbered)) (Paperback)
The Physics of Star Trek (Paperback)

...and my personal favorite: Religions Of Star Trek (Paperback)