I’ll play.
Catch 22 - Heller
Welcome to the Monkey House - Vonnegut
The Hobbit - Tolkien
House of Leaves - Danielewski
Odd Thomas series - Koontz
IT - King
Snow Crash - Stevenson
JOB - Heinlein
Good Omens - Gaiman & Pratchett
The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah - Bach
I like the Anne Rice vampire books too and I read pretty much everything by Koontz and King but those are some of my favorites.
lance armstrong its not about the bike
lord of the rings series
call of the wild
enders game
to the last man
misery stephen king
it stephen king
needful things stephen king
1984
catcher in the rye
Goosebumps
i need to read more its been awhile
[quote]hurg53 wrote:
lance armstrong its not about the bike
lord of the rings series
call of the wild
enders game
to the last man
misery stephen king
it stephen king
needful things stephen king
1984
catcher in the rye
Goosebumps
i need to read more its been awhile[/quote]
STOP COPYING ME!!!
PS - read the George RR Martin books in my post guarantee you’ll love em.
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
A Clash of Kings - George RR Martin
A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
A Feast for Crows - George RR Martin
Still waiting for the bastard to write the rest of the series…
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My all time favorite fiction books.
Fat sumbitch needs to finish the damn series though
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
A Clash of Kings - George RR Martin
A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
A Feast for Crows - George RR Martin
Still waiting for the bastard to write the rest of the series…
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My all time favorite fiction books.
Fat sumbitch needs to finish the damn series though[/quote]
I know right!
Dear George RR Martin,
Please wipe the pancakes off your face and get back to writing.
kthanxbai
/endthreadjack
Since some are naming series I’ll throw in a few of my favorites
Childe Cycle(Dorsai Series) by Gordon R. Dickson
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Nightside Series and the Secret Histories Series by Simon R. Green
The Empire of Man Series(also known as the Prince Roger Series) by David Weber and John Ringo
John Rain Series by Barry Eisler
John Picket Series by C.J. Box
Charlie Moon Mysteries by James D. Doss
Wild Mystery Series by Sandi Ault
Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
The Saga of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt jr
Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
[quote]dnlcdstn wrote:
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Rich Dad’s Cash Flow Quadrant
Why We Want You To Be Rich[/quote]
Ah man, I could have saved you 30 dollars by summarizing all of Robert Kiyosaki’s books…“acquire passive assets, and sign up for my seminar”.
Don’t mean to be a dick, and if you enjoy them…great, but Kiyosaki is a scheister of the lowest order. You could spend hours on google reading about some of his barely legal scams. A couple examples…his lackies teach a Rich Dad basic class for 500 dollars (an ex-girlfriend went to one), in which they prattle on for half a day about “acquiring passive assets” without any concrete suggestions (just like his flimsy, poorly-written books), after which you spend the afternoon playing his board game (?!). At the end they compare the day’s lessons to “pre-school” and say you need to sign up for Rich Dad college, which costs 10-15,000 dollars. They get very aggressive at this point and basically say “get serious or get out”. They then conduct an exercise in which you are to call your credit card company and ask for a limit raise, coincidentally in the amount of 10-15,000$!! I wish I were making this up, but I’m not. Kiyosaki is a scumbag who acquired the overwhelming majority of his wealth through writing books about how to get wealthy.
There are FAR better money management and wealth-building books out there. “Think and Grow Rich” by Napolean Hill is a good start. [/quote]
Passive income, and he would be better off looking into “how to” books in the library for a onetime fee of five dollars then to go to those courses. His courses do get you jacked up to start your own real estate firm and sorted businesses. I never paid for one, but I did write a review about one (so the people I worked for bought a course for me, I went to it free) and I can tell you that the information is in the public library.
There is no real reason to spend $10,000 for someone to tell you how to do it when you have the resources readily available. Find yourself a mentor, and they can show you the ropes (offer your mentor 50% of the profit as you will be using your financials and credit, so their cut is for their time) and get a lawyer to check your documents. Another option is to go work for a real estate firm as an intern, be up front and tell them you want to start your own firm (not in their market) and would like to learn the ropes.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
No particular order:
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
The Bible (specifically the 4 gospels)
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling - Ross King
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe - Laurence Bergreen
Mayflower - Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
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To you and others, it would be helpful to give us some quickie description of what the book is about and why you liked it.
Moore et al: Essential Clinical Anatomy
Lehrenger: Clinical Biochem
Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy
Netter’s Essential Histology
Lodish et al: Molecular Cell Biology soon to be added.
Reading for pleasure? What’s that?
I’ve spent more time with some of these books than girls I’ve dated.
Predictably Irrational
I think it’s called the Emberverse Series, by S.M. Stirling. Starts with ‘Dies the Fire’ and goes from there.
Any Chuck Palahniuk. Sick, but not just for sickness sake.
Good Omens, Pratchett and Gaiman
Lamb or the Gospel of Biff, Christ’s Childhood Friend, and Fool, both by Chrstopher Moore. Actually I like a lot of his stuff.
Born to Run
1984 & Animal Farm
Catch 22
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King started strong, but I was ready for it to be over by the end.
Without Remorse and Rainbow 6 by Tom Clancy. Probably my favorites of his.
Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz. He had another that I think was called Taken. He must have written that right when he found God.
I cannot recommend Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan highly enough. Both times I’ve read it I laughed hard enough to get stared at in public.
My list changes often.
The following almost always make it into my top 10 though:
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Moroland - Robert A. Fultan (About the history of US involvement in the Southern Philippines)
See No Evil - Robert Baer (About CIA’s War on Terror the early years)
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (Classic tale of a disinherited knight)
The Ugly American - William Lederer and Eugene Burdick (an amusing story about US foreign policy in SE Asia)
As for a series:
Sharpe’s Rifles Series - Bernard Cornwell (historical fiction taking place during the Napoleonic Campaign)
^ X2 on the Sharpe series bud, read every damn one of them. He describes battles as well as anyone I’ve read. His one off books are good as well.
Anything by David Gemmel
The Thirteenth Valley and For the Sake of All Living Things by John M.Del Vecchio. Both Vietnam books as told from both sides. I read them many years ago but they sure stuck with me to this day, very powerfull reads.
John Rain series,
Ice Station by Matthew Reilly, his other books are excellent too, Military action.
Shogun by James Clavell, the story continued after this book but this was the best one imo.
The Stand by Stephen King, can’t believe no ones mentioned this one yet.
Swan Song by Robert Mc Cammon, post apocolyptic story. Anyone have a line on this type of storyline novel let me know cause I love those kind of stories. I read The Road recently and thought it was allright.
Fuck, I’m stuck at nine lol…
Just try to add a few to the thread:
All quiet on the western front-Remarque (better than catch 22 but also much more serious)
the space trilogy-CS lewis (actually 3 books)
x3 on sharpe (and most anything by bernard cornwell,love “the saxon stories” which I think is even better than the sharpe series)
The book of lost things-john connolly
anansi boys-Niel gaiman
fragile things- Niel gaiman (this is a collection of short stories, my favorite is “other people”)
[quote]Amiright wrote:
Predictably Irrational [/quote]
x2
In no particular order-
Mans Search For Meaning
The Prophet
The Alchemist
Musashi
Taiko
The Metamorphosis of Avid
Into the Wild
The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Lord of The Rings (counting the series as one)
I’m working through the Divine Comedy and so far I love it.
[quote]sjoconn wrote:
My list changes often.
The following almost always make it into my top 10 though:
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Moroland - Robert A. Fultan (About the history of US involvement in the Southern Philippines)
See No Evil - Robert Baer (About CIA’s War on Terror the early years)
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (Classic tale of a disinherited knight)
The Ugly American - William Lederer and Eugene Burdick (an amusing story about US foreign policy in SE Asia)
As for a series:
Sharpe’s Rifles Series - Bernard Cornwell (historical fiction taking place during the Napoleonic Campaign)
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The Ugly American was great! Tarantino films kind of remind me of that book, the way the plot unfolds non-linearly.
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
Swan Song by Robert Mc Cammon, post apocolyptic story. Anyone have a line on this type of storyline novel let me know cause I love those kind of stories. I read The Road recently and thought it was allright.
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I really liked The Road (still haven’t seen the film). s
I’ll try Swan Song.
Thanks for the recommendation, BJB.
Off the top of my head (can’t really limit it)
There are many, many more
Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken
The Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage by Medori
Les Matin Des Magiciens (The Morning of the Magicians) by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier
Three in Death by J.D. Robb
The Warren Report by The Warren Commission
Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson
Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper
Red Alert by Peter George