[quote]Fergy wrote:
Most recently have read Candide by Voltaire, Billy Budd, Sailor by Melville, and am currently starting Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky. [/quote]
Notes from Underground … that novella depressed the shit outta me … I like Dostoevsky’s “sunnier” works like Karamazov or The Idiot …
Here’s my list at the moment … I just finished “The Price of Everything” by Russ Roberts (good book, good story, explains basic economics so everyone can relate)
I’m in the middle of The Wastelands by Stephen King (Dark Tower series … third time I’m reading it)
And How to think Strategically and the 48 Laws of Power … cool stories in the latter. Good stuff all around tbh.
To the OP, if you like Rand’s stuff you’d like Robert Greene’s 48 LoP … imo. But good luck with “Atlas Shrugged” … I like reading but that book took me a year to finish … just couldn’t get the ball rolling, good book though, I flew through the last third of the book (which is a novel in itself)
Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower IV) - Stephen King
Elements - Euclid
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Utopia - Thomas More
Remembering Traditional Hanzi - James Heisig and Timothy Richardson
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Blaze_108 wrote:
I agree with this entire post. I have all of the SOT series and almost all of Gemmell’s books. Do you have a 2 bolted crossbow? haha.
Lol I wish. Best part of the waylander book is when he gets in a fight with some guy and the dude pulls out his sword, says “Fight me like a man!”. And Waylander says… “No.” and shoots that mutha fucka with his crossbow! I was cracking up when I read that.[/quote]
haha yeah Waylander was one of my favorite of Gemmel’s characters. pretty much unstoppable, but with a conscience when it mattered.
Outliers by Malcolm gladwell. I enjoyed this. I think a lot of people already get it but its nice to see some case studies.
In defense of food by Michael pollan. This is influencing my style of eating at the moment.
Anti-Cancer, “a new way of life”. By david servan-Schreiber. The first two thirds of this book were awesome. Right down to nutritional impacts on cancer, how cancer grows and spreads, environmental factors and what at the time was a complete dismissal of nutrition.
But the last third is all psychological “dealing with your past issues”, etc. I am not saying a positive outlook, therapy and meditation can’t help. Just that beyond a certain point it just gets weird.
In the middle of:
The heroin diaries. By Nikki sixxx.
The painted man. by ? A fantasy fiction novel. demons, and what looks like whats about to be a wonderful middle eastern and European war. Over religion.
I just finished The Fountainhead like 2 seconds ago. I opened up Atlas Shrugged and realized its like over 1000 page. This thing better be better than the fountainhead.
The Dark Tower Series: Stephen King
(Awesome series but long, Knights with guns)
Illum and Olympos: Dan Simmons
(Illad and Odyssey on mars, cool)
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, Rise of Endymon: Dan Simmons
(Distant Future, Like Cantenbury in future)
Choke: Chuck Phalahniuk
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand
(Like the point, but long boring read)
Currently Reading:
The Terror: Dan Simmons
(Ship ice-locked, all died what might of happened)
The Broker: John Grisham
On Deck:
Survivor: Chuck Phalahniuk
Carrion Comfort: Dan Simmons
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Kidcase, Survivor is awesome. Especially for someone in T-Nation with all of the steroids mentioned in it. If you haven’t read it yet, check out Invisible Monsters; probably the best one he’s written, at least in my opinion.
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Have any of you read the Death Dealer series by Frank Frazetta? Gath of Baal. Awesome.
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So when are you getting the helmet? Frazetta’s art is T-Nation all the way.
Have you read the Nightside series by Simon R. Green? Great charcters like Suzy Shooter also known as Shotgun Suzy and “Oh God it’s her run”, and Razor Eddie, the Punk God of the Straight Razor.
Check out the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson. Great books but I occasionally got pissed off and threw them.
Also:
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Storm from the East: From Genghis Khan to Khubilai Khan by Robert Marshall
In the Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust by Robert Marshall
Chocolate: A Bittersweet Story of Dark and Light by Mort Rosenblum
Oh yeah. Just finished Musashi and am now reading Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America’s Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang by William Queen
Yeah, I bumped this. It’s old. Wanna fight about it?
I just wanted to see how OP is doing with Atlas Shrugged. That book is a beast. Took me almost 3 months to finish last year, but it was well worth it.
Also, anybody start anything new? Suggestions?
I just finished For Whom the Bell Tolls for the second time. It’s just as good as I remembered. Before that it was The Road. Now I’m 200 or so pages into One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is very, very promising.
Next, I’m thinking… East of Eden or Fire Down Below.