DeVeeWee Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 A lot of Dutch literature I would recommend but that won't help the thread... A fiction book that got me and held me right from the beginning is : Brooklyn follies, Paul Auster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingarmadillo Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Since I've read about 3/4 of what's been posted I won't duplicate things but I will add: "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson slightly dated, but a nicely readable history of the earth since the Earth was formed. Anything else by Bill Bryson is pretty good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 For the sober 1. Rock and Roll : An Unruly History by Robert Palmer. It is the history of rock and roll. 2. Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey. Geoff Emerick engineered the second half of the Beatles records. Great read even if he has a huge bias toward Sir Paul. 3. Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs by John Lydon. For the NOT sober 1. Hunter S. Thompson: I only recommend two of his books in this order: The Rum Diaries and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 2. Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll by Lester Bangs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 2. Twlight series: I read these just to insult all the teen age girls saying its the best book ever so i can insult them and prove to them i read the books...hehe. You like insulting girls? What are you... 8? Just kidding man... I would recommend the bible, it's a really good sci fi book/novel. I have read it 17 times in 3 different languajes and everytime it was a great read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Terry Brooks—The Sword of Shanara. Read the entire series from there forward. Great story. And for guitar... Wayne Krantz—An Improviser's OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Allen Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Any of the Hawk novels written by Ted Bell. Modern day pirate/spy novels. Excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shnate McDuanus Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Books are stupid. My favorites are: "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene "The Martian Chronicles" and "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury "Rendezvous With Rama," "Childhood's End," and the "2001: A Space Odyssey (yeah, I know, I know)" by Arthur C. Clarke. "White Noise" by Don DeLillo The works of Mark Twain (yes, pretty much all of them.) "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," "The Sirens of Titan," and "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut. There are more, but those are all I can think of right now. Not quite sober at the moment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIANTRobOT420 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Giantrobot... Which "Art of War?" I assume you mean Sun Tzu? One might consider either Clausewitz or Jomini as having written such' date=' too. Jomini had several with "Précis de l'Art de la Guerre" as elements of a title and translations of both have used "art of war" in one way or another. JFC Fuller wrote more of the "science" of war although he was a bit nutty into the occult. And Basil Liddel Hart might have been considered to have one title at least that could be considered "art of war." Then there's Machiavelli's "Dell'arte della guerra." Vegetius' "De Re Militari" has similarly had the title translated as "art." It's said the Lionheart carried a copy in his saddlebags. (I always figured William (the) Marshal likely did much of the thinking for Richard, but then... <grin>) Each of those authors have much to offer. m [/quote'] Yes sir, I was refering to Sun Tzu. I've gained much wisdom from this book. Thanks for the recommendations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 P.S.: Stay as further away from the Bible as possible. I prefer you pick-up Kama-Sutra instead. Far more useful and honest book... From your statement i assume you've read it but could not undertand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector Arcadius Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 From your statement i assume you've read it but could not undertand it. I stopped reading it' date=' as soon as I begun understanding it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 'Going Rogue' Lots of big words' date=' but so long as you graduated from the third grade you should be ok. [/quote'] lmfao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I would recommend the bible' date=' it's a really good sci fi book/novel. I have read it 17 times in 3 different languajes and everytime it was a great read.[/quote']The bible is good. They could turn book of revelation into a horror movie. or horror clip... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Of recent reads; the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. This is the best case against God I have come across. My classics... I love Luke Reinhart's 'The Dice Man'...WOW!!! Ingeniously written and a real head screw too (not to mention a pleasure[biggrin] ) George Orwell's Keep The Aspidistra Flying is a great study of human nature! Laclos's (sp) Dangerous Liaisons, The Life and Death Of Peter Sellars by Roger Lewis (sound familar?? LOL) Also for continual reading the four gospels, I wish I knew who the four authors really were!! Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 In catholic school they made us copy pages and pages from the bible when we were naughty. I mean, when are catholic school girls not naughty?! I'm too traumatised to re-read it. Books are like food and wine to me. Dostoevsky is like hearty oats, healthy and easy to digest. The Devils is my favorite, Brothers K a close second. Henry James is like sirloin, dense and delicious. I saved myself for Portrait of a Lady, as if I were a virgin. I knew it was gonna be SO good. Sylvia Plath is like butter cookies, I think I can eat the entire box but then realize they're heavy. Journals and poems. EA Poe. I learned to read in English to this man. He's mother's milk to me. When I see a cat and a pen I twitch a bit. Borges, because we need good wine. Poems in my own language, never forget where you're from. I will not read anything written after the advent of television (unless its non-fiction), snobby as it might sound. Many modern works taste like blow pops and chewing gum. I'm a bit of a health nut as books go. Why read Anne Rice when we have Byron and Coleridge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Izzy... Your own language? <grin> There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! Giantrobot - also if you're into such stuff that much, about anything written by Xenophon. Mes Rêveries - de Saxe, is more than worthwhile... for a taste: http://web.archive.org/web/20080205095610/http://www.bellum.nu/literature/desaxe001.html BTW - My current avatar is as officer of the day in 1867 along the Bozeman Trail. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 I stopped reading it' date=' as soon as I begun understanding it... [biggrin'] and so it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 The Stand - Stephen King The Prize - Daniel Yergin The Sum of all Fears - Tom Clancy The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes Vietnam - Stanley Karnow War of the Rats - David Robbins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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