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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #50 on: August 25, 2008, 02:40:00 PM »
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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #51 on: August 25, 2008, 02:46:56 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





pretentious as always  ::)

bet your read two pages by shakespeare and then got bored.
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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #52 on: August 25, 2008, 07:10:24 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  :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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #53 on: August 25, 2008, 07:40:22 PM »
Anything by Tolkien
Anything by Isaac Asimov
Anything by Steven Brust
Anything by Daunte
Anything by Shakespeare
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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #54 on: August 25, 2008, 08:48:17 PM »
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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #55 on: August 25, 2008, 08:51:21 PM »
ENDURANCE !!!! See the movie ........
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The True Adonis

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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #56 on: August 25, 2008, 08:51:25 PM »
Quote from: Red Hook on August 25, 2008, 07:40:22 PM
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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #57 on: August 25, 2008, 08:53:08 PM »
Another ENDURANCE ad.....
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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #58 on: August 25, 2008, 08:54:25 PM »
this is good:

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The True Adonis

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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #59 on: August 25, 2008, 08:58:51 PM »
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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« Reply #60 on: August 25, 2008, 09:04:03 PM »
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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Re: Power
« Reply #61 on: August 25, 2008, 09:17:59 PM »
Quote from: stuntmovie on August 25, 2008, 09:04:03 PM
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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #62 on: August 25, 2008, 11:50:16 PM »
sphere, brAve new world, I am legand, bible kjv
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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #63 on: August 26, 2008, 12:09:47 AM »
Quote from: Tapeworm on August 25, 2008, 10:48:12 AM
Quick.  Before this gets moved to General Topics.

"How tapeworm's sister survived 40 days on only my cum"

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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #64 on: August 26, 2008, 12:14:23 AM »
Quote from: PANDAEMONIUM on August 26, 2008, 12:09:47 AM
"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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #65 on: August 26, 2008, 12:16:10 AM »
Quote from: Tapeworm on August 26, 2008, 12:14:23 AM
She leaned up nicely but smelled kinda funky.  :-X

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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #66 on: August 26, 2008, 12:21:08 AM »
Quote from: Dreadlord 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

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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #67 on: August 26, 2008, 12:35:54 AM »
Quote from: DonkeyKong on August 26, 2008, 12:21:08 AM
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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #68 on: August 26, 2008, 02:00:26 AM »
Quote from: DonkeyKong on August 26, 2008, 12:21:08 AM
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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #69 on: August 26, 2008, 02:15:03 AM »
Catch 22-Joseph Heller
Military history books-WWII, Vietnam
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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #70 on: August 26, 2008, 02:51:57 AM »
Quote from: The True Adonis on August 25, 2008, 08:51:25 PM
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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #71 on: August 26, 2008, 04:54:36 AM »
The incredible hulk: planet hulk and world war hulk - the greatest books ever written. 8)
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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #72 on: August 26, 2008, 05:00:15 AM »
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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #73 on: August 26, 2008, 05:00:37 AM »
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





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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Re: Name three of your favorite books
« Reply #74 on: August 26, 2008, 05:08:14 AM »
Quote from: BroadStreetBruiser on August 26, 2008, 05:00:37 AM
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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