Suggested books?

[Mo0o]

Just finished the Fountainhead and the Kite Runner, both really good books. I would suggest the Kite Runner as a quick book to go through, very provocative. Now im looking for another book to read. something good and preferably not too length (fountainhead took me a semester of off and on reading)

 

[imported_LoKe]

Kitchen Confidential was apretty entertaining book, but if you're seeking knowledge you won't find much there.

 

[Vinfinite]

Memoirs of a Geisha is a really good book, but a crappy ass movie

 

[0roo0roo]

seems interesting
Tue, May 9, 2006
Shelby Steele
Listen Listen (program)
A one-on-one conversation with author Shelby Steele, discussing race in America.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
Shelby Steele, Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of "White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era," "The Content of Our Character," and "A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America."
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R605090900

 

[Vinfinite]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
seems interesting
Tue, May 9, 2006
Shelby Steele
Listen Listen (program)
A one-on-one conversation with author Shelby Steele, discussing race in America.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
Shelby Steele, Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of "White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era," "The Content of Our Character," and "A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America."
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R605090900

 

[ForumMaster]

i bet you have already read this book, but if you haven't, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance is a very good book. it's a book that requires thought, yet what it says cannot be ignored. it is a philosophy book, but it is one of the best books i ever read.

 

[chimmytime]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Kitchen Confidential was apretty entertaining book, but if you're seeking knowledge you won't find much there.

big fan of kitchen confidential. Bringing down the house is another quick read.

more "educational" books would be The tipping point, or money ball.

 

[Theiananator]

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk.

 

[WildHorse]

Broad spectrum here:

The Horses In My Life, Monty Roberts, ISBN 978-1-57076-323-6

The Hunt for Zero Point, Inside the Classified World of Antigraviity Technology, Nick Cook, ISBN 0-7679-0627-6

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card, ISBN 0-765-34229-4


Patton, A Study In Command, H. Essame, 0-684-13671-6

An Open Life, Joseph Campbell in Conversation With Michael Toms, 0-943914-47-7

Feynman's Lost Lecture, the motion of planets around the sun
(with CD-ROM of the lecture), David L. Goodstein, 0-393-03918-8

The Hidden History of the Human Race, Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson, 0-9635309-6-8

The Demon-Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan, Dewey dec. 001.9

Against the Gods, The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein, 0-471-12104-5

The Einstein Papers (thriller novel), Craig Dirgo, 0-671-03489-8

 

[UglyCasanova]

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah or Jonathan Livingston Seagull, both by Richard Bach. Pretty short books, but very very good.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Theiananator
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk.

QFT

Also, I loved 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami.

 

[Elderly Newt]

There are far too many excellent books to list here, but I'm currently reading On Writing by Stephen King. It's part autobiography and part aobut dealing with the writing process. It's very well written and quite entertaining.

 

[neegotiator]

Just finished those two books as well, both really great. Freakonomics is a pretty short but interesting read. I didn't really care much for The Tipping Point, but alot of people seem to like it so just throwing it out there.

 

[waggy]

to broad. what type do you like?

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Monster is a good book... an autobiography about a gang member.... quick read, but pretty amazing.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: waggy
to broad. what type do you like?

I guess book that are thought provoking. Doesn't necessarily have to be nonfiction but I dont raelly want to read mindless thrillers either.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: waggy
to broad. what type do you like?

I guess book that are thought provoking. Doesn't necessarily have to be nonfiction but I dont raelly want to read mindless thrillers either.

Try 'The Glass Palace' by Amitov Ghosh if you have not read it; absolutely fantastic IMO.

 

[Shadowknight]

A couple by George R.R. Martin come time mind, The Game of Thrones series sounds like it's too long for your liking, but it's worth checking out "Fevre Dream" and "Tuf Voyaging". His short story collections are pretty good too.
Any short story collections by Alfred Bester

 

[Kadarin]

Pandora's Star, followed by Judas Unchained, both by Peter F. Hamilton.

 

[Mo0o]

Just requested at the Library:

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
The Golden Palace
Freakonomics

Currently reading: Fast food nation.

More suggestions welcome!