A Good Read?

[J pold]

I’m sure this gets brought up a lot but I need a new book now!

I am looking for a recommendation for a good book, any book really expect for fantasy stuff (I hated Harry Potter, and The Lord of the Rings was cool when I was 12) also just list off some of your Favorites

Mine are as follows (In no order)

Tuesdays with Morrie
1984
Fight Club
The Power of One
Along Came a Spider
Michael Jordan’s Bio (can’t remember what it is called)

[@theCBE]

Just finished Freakonomics.. pretty entertaining.. the Author makes a lot of assumptions but its pretty cool regardless.

I'm going to be starting Kite Runner later this week.. I've only heard great things about it.

[the crispy badger]

Bob Dylan's Chronicles..a fantastic read..with a rumored sequel upcoming

[Mr.Coffee]

1000 Barrels a Second by Peter Tertzakian

[Bobblehead]

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

[lazy_programmer]

Some of my favorites...

To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
Roots

[Eastern Girl]

Pretty much anything by Hunter Thompson. I really like his writing style. Really paints a picture for you.

[Mr.Coffee]

I also pulled out those old Michael Chrichton books a while ago... they're pretty good... stuff like Jurassic Park, The Lost World, The Andromeda Strain, Sphere... all good books.

[J pold]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Just finished that one it was pretty good

[J pold]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

1000 Barrels a Second by Peter Tertzakian

I was looking at that one…What are some of the finer details of the book?

[BlackEleven]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

If you've never herad of it, its written from the first person point of view of an autistic teenager. Very creatively done and much different than most books you'll ever read. I thought it was fantastic

A Confederacy of Dunces

It's a classic. Very funny, very well written. Its about the misadventures of an intelligent by completely socially-inept middle aged man that still lives with his mother.

The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy

Hilarious. That's all that needs to be said (and 1000x better than the film, if you've seen it). If you're a fan of British humour at all, its definitely worth it.

[Eastern Girl]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

If you've never herad of it, its written from the first person point of view of an autistic teenager. Very creatively done and much different than most books you'll ever read. I thought it was fantastic

I'll second that one. I hadn't heard of that one and I saw it when I was in the book store and bought it based solely on the title. It was a good read, definitely different and interesting.

[BlackEleven]

And if you feel like a non-fiction book I can recommend a few of those as well

A Short History of Nearly Everything

The title says it all. Its basically all the science from the big bang to now present in a interesting and funny way. If you're remotely interested in science at all, its worth reading.

Fast Food Nation

You may have read this, its very popular. But its one of the most interesting non-fiction books I've read.

Stiff

Its about dead people. Sounds morbid, but its not. In the strict sense, its more about cadevors and how they have contributed to science/life/society throughout history. Really fascinating.

[J pold]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

And if you feel like a non-fiction book I can recommend a few of those as well

A Short History of Nearly Everything

The title says it all. Its basically all the science from the big bang to now present in a interesting and funny way. If you're remotely interested in science at all, its worth reading.

Fast Food Nation

You may have read this, its very popular. But its one of the most interesting non-fiction books I've read.

Stiff

Its about dead people. Sounds morbid, but its not. In the strict sense, its more about cadevors and how they have contributed to science/life/society throughout history. Really fascinating.

I have Read Stiff and I know about fast food nation, I have been wanting to read it for awhile…humm

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by J pold

I was looking at that one…What are some of the finer details of the book?

I'm actually in the middle of it right now... but so far it has shed some light onto the history of energy throughout the world (all the way from whale oil to kerosene to gasoline) and what he refers to as a "break point" for all sources of energy. He talks about the transition of energy sources and how the oil industry is about to come up to a break point itself, in which new sources of energy will start being experimented with, adapted and then installed in society through cheaper methods and invention. Really interesting read actually. He also discusses how the world is so addicted to oil now that it could pose numerous problems.

The author was on the Jon Stewart show promoting it, and I actually met him in a close door meeting through my work. He's a great guy, and extremely intelligent and well-researched.

[TheIceStorm]

Some classics that I enjoyed:

Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
Confederecy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Gilgamesh

[V]

Non-Fiction:

The Wealthy Barber
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Life Strategies - Dr. Phil before he turned into a TV ratings idiot
What color is your parachute

Fiction:

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Flowers for Algernon

Those are a few that I've really liked. I read more fantasy than anything else, but you didn't want that, so I left all of them off except Ender's Game. That one's just so awesome I had to leave it on there.

[Footscray]

Somebody recommended a historical fiction series call the Lymond Chronicles about a 16th century european mercenary by Dorothy Dunnett last week to me, trying to track down the first one this week to check it out as Chapters only has the latter books in the series.

[shane_c]

Jimmy Buffett - A Salty Piece of Land

[Frank the Tank]

A Piece of Blue Sky - John Atack

-Brilliant read on the cult of scientology and its insane founder, Ron L. Hubbard.

A Million Little Pieces - by exaggerator guy

- still a great read about addiction and recovery.