Cash Flow Quadrant- Robert Kiyosaki
Investing in Real Estate- Andrew McLean
Retreat,Hell
W.E.B.Griffin
The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
fishdog…the new spring book any good?? I have read all the wheel of time books at least 3 times…maybe i need to start a fourth cycle while i wait for the new one…
Paul Chek’s new book, “How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy.”
Dan McV- Meditations is excellent. If you want a more complete understanding of Aurelius’ philosophy, find a book on Stoicism (the branch of philosophy he practiced) and a biography of Aurelius himself (illustrates the conditions from which his phiosophy nurtured and grew).
Chris Shugart- Owen Meany is great, but definately read Irving’s The World According to Garp if you haven’t yet.
chrisr- From your list, it seems you’re generally into great 20th cen. fiction, so why not read the 3 best (my opinion, but I’m not alone in that claim): The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, Ulysses by James Joyce, and Lolita by Nabokov.
bellereve & Brian Smith- Agree on Dostoevsky, he’s my favorite in fiction. He understood human psychology to a degree that no one had before and arguably since (Freud be damned). The Five necessary reads of Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov, Idiot, Crime and Punishment, Demons, and Notes from Underground.
Baby Huey- Ann Coulter isn’t a conservative, she’s a “I-wannabe-famous-so-much-I’ll-write-quasi-fascist-sensationalist-rhetoric-ative”. My advice (FWIW) to anybody who wants to learn about true conservative insight/theory is to read Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke. To know of and understand this book, is to know and understand that the Republican party isn’t conservative at all. This book is the true foundation of conservatism. Neo-American-Conservativism is a bastardization of true conservatism. Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, etc. are sensationalist blowhards. And before I recieve any anti-liberal smack, let me say that the same is true for Democrats (they are not the liberals they claim to be).
The Mic- Souls of Black Folk is a very good book, but you should buttress that piece with the writings of Ralph Ellison (anything he wrote) and Richard Wright (Native Son). These quasi-fictional novels about the evolution/struggle of African-Americans are classics.
T Shaw- Flatland is awesome. I read it as acompanion piece to an advanced mathematics course I once took. It illustrated the idea of exponential dimensions (useful in understanding properties of hyper-objects).
The X rated bible
The MATRIX and Philosophy - Irwin
Perrogrande-- Como se dice is much better bro if yur learning espanol, used it in college. Or just move out here to Mexafornia
In the last few weeks, I’ve knocked out pretty much the entire Rich Dad series. By far, the best books I’ve ever read on money, investing in my life. And, I’ve read a shitload of them…
In fact, I reccommend before you go to college you should save 4 years of your life and about thirty thousand dollars and just read these books instead for about a hundred bucks, or free at the library and then take that thirty to fourty grand (probably more) you would have blown on college and dump it in real estate.
Ren: New Spring was definitely good. It explains how morainne and lan met, morainne becoming aes sedia, and how she started looking for the dragon reborn.
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
It actually my second time working through it.
jdcmjb,
I’m reading A Brief History of Time as well at the moment. He has a great way of making it all seem more simple but it still gets away from me sometimes.
I read it a couple of years ago as well but once was not enough. I think I will eventually wear it out from going back every few years.
Facing Ali by Stephen Brundt–wicked view of the champ(from the other side of the ring)
Stephen King Dark Tower 5 Wolves of the Calla (goota love the King! love the Roland series!!!)
thunder and Lightning by Phil Esposito----Best hockey memoir in ages!
El Hobbit (In Espanol)
The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson)