- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Harry Potter and the Chamber if Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- The Hobbit
- The Shining
I have a pretty diversified list. In no particular order:
The first Dune series – to me, Frank Herbert really lost it after the first three books.
Tunnel in the Sky – Heinlein. I tried Stranger in a Strange Land once, and didn’t get through it. There were a couple other good ones of his I read, but this one seems to stick in my mind,
The Stand – Steven King. The first King book I read, and I still think it’s his best.
The Holy Bible – Can’t say that I’ve read the whole thing, as I’ve never tried a cover-to-cover go-through. Might have to give it a go some time.
The Prayer of Jabez – Robinson. Good stuff for practical application.
The Five Love Languages – Smalley.
Fit to be Tied – Hybels. These are the best relationship books I’ve seen.
And a note to Mike Mahler – A lot of the books I’ve read recently are from a list compiled by a business organization I’m affiliated with. “Think and Grow Rich” used ot be on that lost, until it was discovered that many of the interviews that Napolean Hill references in that book NEVER HAPPENED. That’s not to disparage the information in the book, as it’s proven it’s worth over the years. Just an interesting fact.
Here’s my list. I tend not to care about the authors unless I need to.
Odyssey and Iliad
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
All Shakespeare
Lou Gehrig’s Biography
That’s all I can think of right now
forgot the Great Gatsby
In no particular order:
The Lord of the Rings
The Stand
Catch-22
Silence of the Lambs (book was MUCH scarier than movie)
Lonesome Dove
Cat’s Cradle, Sirens of Titan, Player Piano or almost anything else from Vonegut.
All Louis L’Amour
spiderman,
i would be very interested to hear what think about “Concersations with God” by neale donald walsch…or better yet “Friendship with God”, same author, as conversations is a three book series and would take some time to read…no, these are not religious books…take a look and tell me what you think.
I forgot to include:
Bob Hoover’s autobiography.
If you know who he is then you realize how good this book is. If you don’t know who he is then you should read the book. The only man Chuck Yeager couldn’t beat in a dog-fight.
STU
I have to be honest…I havnt read one book that has been stated! But I have been meaning to start reading more. Although I have read a few that I found amazing…“And The Band Played On” by Randy Shilts was a fantastic book. Really opens your eyes to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and how our government and society for that matter turned thier backs to disease thinking that it was just a “homosexual” disease…it was a true disgrace. And Siddartha by Voltaire. There…I put in my two cents, now I feel smarter…haha
I love to read, have since I was a kid, but now I do most of it during the summer. Let’s see …
(In no particular order)
by Robert Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Starship Troopers
The bit about art in Stranger in a Strange Land is classic.
For those of you who are not familiar with his work, be warned. Heinlein also wrote a series of juvenille novels, so if you pick up just any of his titles, you may be a bit suprised.
It’s not about the bike by Lance Armstrong
Man’s search for meaning by Viktor Frankl
Art of War by Sun Tzu
Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Gates of Fire and Tides of War by Stephen Pressfield. The latter title is great for looking at the excesses of unlimited democracy.
P.J. O’Rourke’s stuff is great.
For total escapism, the Discworl series by Terry Patchett. Kind of a Monty Pythonesque view of things.
Short stories by Mark Twain are great for a quick read.
I won’t repeat some of the great books that have already been mentioned, so I’ll just add a couple:
Musashi: Eiji Yoshikawa
Shogun: James Clavell
In The Heart of The Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick
The Oxford Annotated Bible
Mr. T by Mr. T
That last ones a joke. Although i still have my copy from when I was 10.
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“Its Not About The Bike My Journey
Back to Life” autobiography
By: Lance Armstrong
A must read for all T-man and T-vixen, A powerful and insperational book! -
“Art of War”
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“Rouge Warrior” by: ex- navy seal
Richard Marcinko
Argh! bites thumb I am totally indecisive…
Some of my favorite Plays/Novels/Short Stories/Essays In random order ~
Beloved/The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Julius Caesar/Hamlet/Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
Don Quijote - Cervantes
The Odyssey - Homer
House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Tess of the D’Urbervilles/Jude the Obscure/Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
The Kugelmass Episode - Woody Allen
The Darling - Anton Checkov
Light of Asia - Edwin Arnold
Being and Nothingness - Jean Paul Sartre
The Idiot/The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe
The Myth of Sisyphus/Metamorphosis -Franz Kafka
The Birds - Aristophanes
And just for kicks~
Fox in Socks - Dr. Suess
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
Oh geez, I messed up a couple of the authors in my earlier post:
The Five Love Languages is by Gary Chapman, not Gary Smalley.
The Prayer of Jabez is by Wilkinson, not Robinson.
Sorry about that.
O.K…Books, I have trouble remembering the titles of (I have a VERY short atten… uh…whatever), hell, I can’t remember what color my underwear is but authors I can remember. Some of my faves…
Stephen R Donaldson
Tad Williams
Orson Scott Card
Harry Harrison
Terry Brooks
R.A Salvatore
Margret Weis
Tracy Hickman
Yeah, heavy Fantasy/Sci-Fi, I read to escape.
Hey, look! Red.
“I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me”
~ Emo Philips
Two more books
War in a Time of Peace, by David Halberstam- a look inside the Bush I and Clinton administrations, some rather fascinating information and insights into the workings of the executive branch, and how our Presidents got along with the department of Defense and State Department, also shows how self-serving Clinton really was.
Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond- Rather fascinating book. It explains why different groups are more “modern” than others. the author explains the roles of geography, agriculture, population density, invention, society and government, adn a number of other factors that have influenced the ability of peoples to “advance.” The author uses research from a number of fields to prove his points, and it is extremely well written.
forgot the most important book of all:
“The Bible”
And here’s another one “Glory Days” by: Auther Ashe.
I can’t really put them in any particular order, but my ten favorites:
Paradise Lost-John Milton
Divine Comedy-Dante Aligheri
Fight Club-Chuck Palahniuk
Julius Caesar-William Shakespeare
Welcome to the Monkey House-Kurt Vonnegut
The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas
You Cannot Be Serious-John McEnroe
Thinner-Stephen King
Christine-Stephen King
The Complete Talkes and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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What’s the attraction to Chuck Palahniuk? I mean, I’ve seen Fight Club its a sick movie, but I’ve also read Survivor and Invisible Monsters and when I finished them I felt, I don’t know, unfulfilled and annoyed. Maybe I’m missing something (doubt it), but I gave them my best any both books fell flat. So what about CP turns ya’ll on?
I forgot:
The Tao t’e Ching [Lao Tzu]
The Gap Series - Stephen Donaldson
[Thanks for reminding me Mr Cake]
Louie’s Lot - E W Hildick
Pennington’s Seventeeth Summer
- K M Peyton
A couple I haven’t seen above:
HOUSE OF LEAVES–Danielewski
THE VISION OF THE ANNOINTED: Self-Congratulations as a Basis for Social Policy–Thomas Sowell