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[quote]calebsmitty wrote:
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
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Someday…this ends ends up next to Huck Finn and Moby Dick.
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I have to agree. Maybe my all time favorite book.
High five, Fatty!
As for my top 10… Can I make it a top 1000 or so…
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
High five, Fatty!
As for my top 10… Can I make it a top 1000 or so…
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Yes.
Now post please Hallowed needs some new books to read.
A Fan’s Notes - Frederick Exley
Gilead - Marilyne Robinson
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
The Thought Gang - Tibor Fischer
Angels - Denis Johnson
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
you were wrong - Matthew Sharpe
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
I would also highly recommend Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell. It’s the funniest and most entertaining book I’ve read since The Thought Gang.
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
High five, Fatty!
As for my top 10… Can I make it a top 1000 or so…
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You can’t include colouring books.
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[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.
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I know right!
Dear George RR Martin,
Please wipe the pancakes off your face and get back to writing.
kthanxbai
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Exactly! Those books are amazing.
I don’t let reading get in the way of my TV watching.
Has anyone read “I hope they serve beer in Hell” by Tucker Max? WOW…some things this cat has done…
[quote]concrete wrote:
I would also highly recommend Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell. It’s the funniest and most entertaining book I’ve read since The Thought Gang.
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Yes! I’m not writing the spoiler, but the end, with the thing, and he did that thing?! Insane! Also, not to be taken as real medical advice.
How about Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh? The whole thing’s written in a brogue, so it takes a few pages to get it down, but very entertaining.
There was one called Run, but I can’t remeber the author. Very fast paced action book. Loved it.
Is this confined to fiction? I thought Marilyn Manson’s autobiography was pretty good.
And has anyone mentioned The Guide? Douglas Adams was the MAN!
I almost cried when I read The Talisman by Stephen King. I was twelve, mind you, but it has a particularly sad part that really got me.
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by Philip Gourevitch
Excellent book about the genocide in Rwanda. -
The Millenium series by Stieg Larrson (although the last one was a bit slow)
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The Great Deluge, by Douglas Brinkley. Excellent account of Katrina in New Orleans
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Auschwitz: a New History, by Laurence Rees
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Lone Survivor, Marcuss Luttell. Already mentioned.
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Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen.
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The Godfather, Mario Puzzo.
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For light quick reading, I like the Prey Series by John Sandford.
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The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228, Dick Couch
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, Motley Crue. This last one was a guilty pleasure, but made for good airplane reading.
Even though this thread is over a year old I’ll jump in too.
Less than Zero- Ellis
Rules of Attraction- Ellis
Ham on Rye- Bukowski
Haunted- Palanhuik
1984- Orwell
Catcher in the Rye- Sallinger
Junky- Burroughs
All 3 books by Chad Kultgen (Average American MAle, Men Women and Children, and the Lie)
Ablutions- DeWitt
Right Away Monday- Hynnes
10 is too short even though I technically cheated. The last 3 books I listed are amazing most people on this site would probably love them.
Non-fiction must-reads:
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Utopia by Saint Sir Thomas More
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
The Five Dialogues by Plato
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Old Man and the Sea
- Huck Finn
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Kite Runner
- The Warlords Son
- The Screw Tape Letters
- The Power of Self Discipline
- Think and Grow Rich
- Battlefield of the Mind
- Most Clive Cussler novels
Wow way too many to mention, I’m going to list some favorites, mostly older books that had an impact or I still think of…
No particular order:
Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
Different Seasons (Stephen King) This book has 4 stories 3 of which ended up as movies, including Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me.
The Green Mile (Stephen King)
Babitt (Sinclair Lewis)
Lady Chatterly’s lover (D H Lawrence)
Time to Kill (John Grisham-his first and best book)
The Maltese Falcon ( Dashiell Hammett)
The Sign of Four ( Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ) the second Sherlock Holmes book
Rich Man, Poor Man ( Irwin Shaw)
The Executioners ( John D. MacDonald) this was made into the movie Cape Fear.
The First Deadly Sin ( Lawrence Sanders)
The Red Badge of Courage ( Stephen Crane )
Chicken Soup for the Soul (Jack Canfeild and Mark Victor Hanson)
Of Mice and Men ( John Steinbeck )
Many, many, more too many to think of …
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling - Ross King
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Just finished that one. learned a lot.
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Catch 22 - Heller
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Sorry, I hate that book. Long and boring.
[quote]sjoconn wrote:
Sharpe’s Rifles Series - Bernard Cornwell (historical fiction taking place during the Napoleonic Campaign)
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I’m on the third one. The BBC tv series of those books is really good to (though they rearrange some of it)
Also his Saxon stories is a better series, but they aren’t complete yet.
Dark Tower series was amazing. Then he wrote books 5 through 7. Yuck.
A Dance With Dragons is out by the way, just in case you people haven’t noticed 
Great books listed.
Surpised these haven’t been listed:
Brave New World (probably one of my favorites)
Issac Asimov’s short stories (I, Robot, etc)
Ray Bradbury’s short stories (Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked this way Comes) etc.
+1 on All Quiet on the Western Front.