Name three of your favorite books

[_bruce_]

Most inspirational was...

"Hitler" by John Toland

...don't know about the rest... I hardly read.

[The True Adonis]

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.

[dr.chimps]

Late to list: Tooles' A Confederacy of Dunces

This should be required reading for everyone. Brilliant.   

[BroadStreetBruiser]

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?

[The True Adonis]

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.

[The True Adonis]

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.

[The True Adonis]

"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!

[swilkins1984]

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  ) 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.

[Option D]

"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

[CalvinH]

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.

[4thAD]

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.

[Overload]

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.