Recommend me a book.

[theblackbox]

armor

by john steakley

it fills in the blanks for heinlens starship troopers, plus it's a better read... all combat.

 

[Fayd]

Dune.

if you like politics, sci-fi, politics, action, politics, betrayals, politics, religon, politics, history, politics..

trust me, it's awesome.

oh, and if you feel like broadening your horizons with theoretical (non-fiction) books, i suggest classics like:

the prince - machiavelli
the art of war - sun tzu

 

[dawp]

Hienlein:
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Moon is a Harsh Misstress

John Varley:
Steel Beach

Asimov's Foundation series.

 

[Toonces]

Originally posted by: Descartes
I'll say the same thing I tell anyone else: If you haven't read Guns, Germs and Steel then do. I would say the same for any Diamond book really.

I didn't find Collapse to be at the same level, but I'd still recommend it - just read GG&S first.

Non-Fiction:
King Leopold's Ghosts - Adam Hochschild
A Problem From Hell - Samantha Power
Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky

Fiction
Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Slaughterhouse Five/Cat's Cradle/Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer - Siegfried Sassoon

 

[pontifex]

anything by Terry Pratchett, Lord Dunsany, Wilfred Thesiger, Robert E. Howard.

 

[Born2bwire]

Recently I have read:

Name of the Rose
Foucault's Pendulem
Cat's Cradle
The Mirror Crack'd From Side t Side
Bourne Supremacy
The Great Train Robbery
The Labours of Hercules (Agatha Christie)
Hannibal
The Runaway Jury
Pop Goes the Weasel

And I am currently reading The Grapes of Wrath.

 

[daveshel]

I've been enjoying the Tony Hillerman mysteries. In addition to delivering good story lines, the exposition of the ancient cultures of the American Southwest are interesting.

 

[Pegun]

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

 

[thegimp03]

Over the past couple years I've read through a bunch of Lee Child books. He has a character - Jack Reacher in all of these books. He's ex-military who pretty much goes vigilante and has a lot of fun doing it.

 

[Tim]

Topic Title: Recommend me a book.

Any english/grammar book should do nicely.

Also, playboy, hustler.

 

[txrandom]

Twilight. I JUST LOVE EDWARD!!!11

 

[SphinxnihpS]

For the Clancy enthusiast I highly reccomend this.

 

[ZOOYUKA]

Originally posted by: Pegun
Eragon by Christopher Paolini

I couldn't finish that book. To me the plotlines and themes were almost identical to Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.

 

[ivan2]

murakami

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: loki8481
World War Z

hey sweet i'm reading that right now :thumbsup:

 

[MotF Bane]

Vertical Run by Joseph Garber.

 

[irishScott]

The Entire Foundation Series, Issac Asimov (Start with Prelude to Foundation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Series