I liked Camus’s The Stranger.
Another of my favourites is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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This is a fun book.
Dont take it too seriously…
Great Book
Y’know Bp… you could have saved yourself a lot of effort AND thread space just by listing those titles in one post! lol
Thanks for the visuals. 
Yea I know…
But some people (NOT using an accusing tone) judge books by their covers…
Eric Schlosser is a fuckin saint
[quote]BluePfaltz wrote:
Eric Schlosser is a fuckin saint[/quote]
Did you like Reefer Madness?
You know I read Fast Food Nation and, though I applaud his work and his attempt to let people know the truth about these companies, he is a terrible writer.
[quote]bmitch wrote:
Has anyone ever read “Black Like me”? I finished it the other day and it is a great book[/quote]
Who wrote that? I believe I’ve heard of it, and I think I remember being intrigued by it.
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
BluePfaltz wrote:
Eric Schlosser is a fuckin saint
Did you like Reefer Madness?[/quote]
Certainly. A lot in there I didn’t want to hear, but as a citizen of the US should.
[quote]rmccart1 wrote:
You know I read Fast Food Nation and, though I applaud his work and his attempt to let people know the truth about these companies, he is a terrible writer.[/quote]
I disagree. I would like to state some reasons why. This is very much a scholarly work, mostly by 1st hand experience. There is so much information in there that to make the knowledge digestible to your average newspaper reader (which he writes for) The analog appears sporadic. He makes many points after the fact, only so that the reader can comprehend the information as unbiased. Also, He is mainly a Newspaper writer, so his literary choice of style would naturally be on the 6th Grade level. He takes great pains to make his information unbiased, as that is the main idea. Exposing the giants the way he does will come under scrutiny and criticism, so his way of making the info stand alone was to treat them as isolated, and then reiterate them as the paragraphs ended. Its not an easy read exactly, but it is captivating.
Note that in my post, I didn’t say anything about the quality of the information presented. You’re kind of arguing by yourself. I just said he’s not a very good writer, in the sense that his phrasing is not graceful. It’s not the density of the information; I disagree with you that it is not an easy read. I found it very straightforward and easy to comprehend. He just sounds like a journalist who decided to write a book.
My favorite book is…
“A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.”
It’s about a guy stuck in a Soviet concentration camp of some sort. Nothing really happens but it describes how is life is shitty and boring. One of those books that makes you realize the simple pleasures we often take for granted.
Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer? Anybody?
Faulkner’s The Sound And The Fury was brilliant.
Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea”. A classic man vs nature (man vs himself) saga.
Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”. This book is so good, I doubt anyone could capture its essence in film form.