[quote]shizen wrote:
The sword of fire and Ice series, god it kicks ass everyone should start it. [/quote]
Do you mean the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin?
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
The Emperor and Conqueror series were both excellent. The Troy trilogy was also very good, could hardly put these books down.
[quote]Rykker wrote:
shizen wrote:
The sword of fire and Ice series, god it kicks ass everyone should start it.
Do you mean the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin?[/quote]
yes
[quote]shizen wrote:
Rykker wrote:
shizen wrote:
The sword of fire and Ice series, god it kicks ass everyone should start it.
Do you mean the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin?
yes[/quote]
I’m about a third of the way through book 3. It is pretty decent.
I’m reading the 48 laws of power right now, it’s pretty sweet.
[quote]VanderLaan wrote:
Thomas Sowell is a smart cat and a decent author. I have yet to read one of his books where I did not learn something of significant value. I will have my local librarian find me that book.
I am currently reading “The Forgotten Man” by Amity Shlaes. [/quote]
I don’t think it’s much of an overstatement to say that Sowell is one of the few truly indispensable public intellectuals in America right now. It’s nice to see his name popping up more often.
I’ve run across a few interviews with Schlaes following the release of “The Forgotten Man”, it’s on my ‘must buy’ list but I’ve yet to pick it up. Probably has something to do with wading through Damodaran’s treatise on investment valuation … again. 
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
pittbulll wrote:
I hated the aurthor until he redeamed himself
I figured he would but just couldn’t wade through any more self-loathing to get to that point. It’s not so much that he was a coward that bothered me, just that he wouldn’t shut the fuck up about how he felt. Ok, you hate yourself for what you did, I get it already. [/quote]
Coward , I called him a c-nt
[quote]Ultimate Badass wrote:
Anything by Irvine Welsh (guy who wrote Trainspotting)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Naked and the Dead[/quote]
LOL you changed your avatar so people pay more attention to what you say instead of hitting on you.
Just comes to show how forgetfull all the T-Nation members are…
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Eldorado Red by Donald Goines. Suspense crime thriller in a class by itself.
Fiction:
No Country For Old Men, Blood Meridian, The Road, all by Cormac McCarthy.
Gun, With Occasional Music - Johnathan Lethem
The Stranger - Camus
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Poetry:(OH NOES I R A POET FAG!)
Anything by Billy Collins, Charles Simic, William Carlos Williams, Jack Gilbert…just to name a few.
I’m a Marketing and Creative Writing Major…I like to read…
I know you asked for recently published books but I am about a third of the way through Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It was written in the 1950’s so it is not recent but everyone should read this book. It will change the way you think about everything.
For more recent books I liked Blink and The Tipping Point. The Universe in a Single Atom was a great read too.
Just finished Consumed, written by Benjamin R. Barber. Great book, and really opened my eyes to the extent of consumerism around us and the effects it has.