Author Topic: Name three of your favorite books (Read 4527 times)

240 is Back · « **Reply #25 on:** August 25, 2008, 11:27:26 AM »

Flex

Muscle & Fitness

MD

flex1 · « **Reply #26 on:** August 25, 2008, 11:29:55 AM »

body opus

El Diablo Blanco · « **Reply #27 on:** August 25, 2008, 11:30:49 AM »

Lord of the rings

calfzilla · « **Reply #28 on:** August 25, 2008, 11:31:29 AM »

Between a Rock and a hard place.

Miracle in the Andes.

The BFG.

Naked4Jesus · « **Reply #29 on:** August 25, 2008, 11:32:50 AM »

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

bigmc · « **Reply #30 on:** August 25, 2008, 11:49:05 AM »

1. obscure reference book

2. book by famous scientist

3. book in German

does that make me an internet genius

dr.chimps · « **Reply #31 on:** August 25, 2008, 11:57:10 AM »

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

Deicide · « **Reply #32 on:** August 25, 2008, 11:59:01 AM »

1. L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte, Michel Houlebecq
2. The Sorrows of Empire, Chalmers Johnson
3. Othello, William Shakespeare

stuntmovie · « **Reply #33 on:** August 25, 2008, 12:34:21 PM »

The Carpetbaggers
Dancing Wu Li Masters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Swedish Viking · « **Reply #34 on:** August 25, 2008, 12:40:13 PM »

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

DK II · « **Reply #35 on:** August 25, 2008, 12:41:07 PM »

Quote from: bigmc on August 25, 2008, 11:49:05 AM

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

wavelength · « **Reply #36 on:** August 25, 2008, 12:45:22 PM »

Carlos Castaneda: Journey to Ixtlan
Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha

Beefjake · « **Reply #37 on:** August 25, 2008, 12:49:16 PM »

Lord of the Rings

Hitch hiker's guide to Galaxy - a trilogy of five books

the Dune

DK II · « **Reply #38 on:** August 25, 2008, 12:55:13 PM »

Quote from: wavelength on August 25, 2008, 12:45:22 PM

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!

Dreadlord · « **Reply #39 on:** August 25, 2008, 01:04:47 PM »

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

wavelength · « **Reply #40 on:** August 25, 2008, 01:12:04 PM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on August 25, 2008, 12:55:13 PM

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.

Camel Jockey · « **Reply #41 on:** August 25, 2008, 01:25:31 PM »

Quote from: dr.chimps on August 25, 2008, 11:57:10 AM

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

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.

jaejonna · « **Reply #42 on:** August 25, 2008, 01:48:42 PM »

War and Peace
Heart of Darkness
The Illiad and teh Oddessy

those are books i did not read

Swedish Viking · « **Reply #43 on:** August 25, 2008, 01:55:57 PM »

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.

Ursus · « **Reply #44 on:** August 25, 2008, 01:57:12 PM »

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

Deicide · « **Reply #45 on:** August 25, 2008, 02:13:31 PM »

1. Getbig
2. Getbig
3. Getbig

NarcissisticDeity · « **Reply #46 on:** August 25, 2008, 02:20:20 PM »

Quote from: The True Adonis on August 25, 2008, 10:56:52 AM

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

bebop396 · « **Reply #47 on:** August 25, 2008, 02:31:00 PM »

Dick and Jane, i forgot who wrote it, does anyone know?

Wiggs · « **Reply #48 on:** August 25, 2008, 02:35:36 PM »

Mein Kampf

dr.chimps · « **Reply #49 on:** August 25, 2008, 02:37:25 PM »

Quote from: Swedish Viking on August 25, 2008, 01:55:57 PM

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!!