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name some good books

can you be more specific? fiction, science fiction, history, etc?

Dragonquest by anne mcaffrey
 
The Oath - Khassan Baiev, but nobody ever listens to me.

edit: about a surgeon in Chechnya who had to perform operations with all kinds of crazy stuff during the wars.. there is much more to it than that though.
 
off the top of my head:

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley and William Danko

Perfectly Legal by David Cay Johnston

Mortal Games by Fred Waitzkin

Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins

 
Currently reading: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

Its not very subtle, mostly black vs white arguments, but makes a decent point for Laissez-faire economics and a somewhat utilitarian ethic. Also provides a good description of the subtle differences between "making wealth" and being wealthy. Its 1100 pages and basically says the same things 20 times over, so probably not the best use of time,.

k, thats my book report of the day, if you want more suggestion google "100 best books", there is a list of 100 books ALL of which are very good and thought provoking. I guess a short one would be "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, or "The Stranger" by Albert Camus.

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Originally posted by: BrownTown
Currently reading: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

Its not very subtle, mostly black vs white arguments, but makes a decent point for Laissez-faire economics and a somewhat utilitarian ethic. Also provides a good description of the subtle differences between "making wealth" and being wealthy. Its 1100 pages and basically says the same things 20 times over, so probably not the best use of time,.

k, thats my book report of the day, if you want more suggestion google "100 best books", there is a list of 100 books ALL of which are very good and thought provoking. I guess a short one would be "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, or "The Stranger" by Albert Camus.

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Wow I was just goonna say Atlas Shrugged, I read it over 3 days on my Christmas vacation, it was a great book.


 
HOLY @#%@ 3 days? I don't think I could even physically read that fast if I did it all day for 3 days. I'm on my third week 🙁.

So, now i did some calcs (because im a loser) and at the rate I read of about a page every 2 minutes it would take me 12 hours a day reading for 3 days to finish that book.
 
Originally posted by: BrownTown
HOLY @#%@ 3 days? I don't think I could even physically read that fast if I did it all day for 3 days. I'm on my third week 🙁.

So, now i did some calcs (because im a loser) and at the rate I read of about a page every 2 minutes it would take me 12 hours a day reading for 3 days to finish that book.
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On my flight down to mexico I chugged through the first 400 pages ish, within the first 2 days I was done around 650 pages.

Truth be told I skipped most of the last 100 pages because it got repetitive and annoying.

Atlas shrugged is a rite of passage book in my family.
 
the mods should sticky one of thse threads because we have one like once a week or so.

anything (especially the Discworld series) by Terry Pratchett
anything by Robert E. Howard

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series by Fritz Leiber
Dune series by Frank Herbert
Prequel to Dune series by Brian Herbert & someone else, forget his name
Lensman series by E. E. "Doc" Smith

Triggernometry - forget the author though. Its about gunmen of the Old West
 
Roots of Strategy (includes: the art of war and 4 other military classics, interesting read)

Im just here for the Food by Alton Brown

Cosmos, and Demon Haunted World, both by Carl Sagan

 
1984
The Master and Margarita
High Fidelity
Being Good
Lust - by Simon Blackwell
Nordic Gods and Heroes
Collected Stories of Nikolai Gogol
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
 
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow Series, Orson Scott Card
The Foundation Series, Asimov
The Robot Novels, Asimov

 
I'm reading Cryptonomicon again, I enjoy most of Stephenson's work. You can try the original cyberpunk, Neuromancer, or something more recent in the genre such as Altered Carbon. Forever Peace, Starship Troopers, Armor, and Fallen Dragon all offer a glimpse of future combat. Neverwhere shows a fantasy underground of London. The Postman,Souls in the Great Machine, Peace War, and The Stand show various thoughts on a post-apocalyptic society. Perdido Street Station was my introduction to steam punk. Jennifer Government is a fun look into future capitalism gone overboard.
 
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