Good Books

[ok, ok,....I get it]

I am no literary giant, but enjoyed these

• Birdsong, by S Faulks....good read
• Very Long Engagement...can't recall author....love story.....
• Monster Kody.....Autobiography, dude was one of the first Crips or was it bloods.....
• Herion Diaries.....Nikki Sixxi...nuff said
• Ghosts of Medak, Carol Off......Peacekeeping my A$$
• Rumble Fish.....I was young
• London, can't recall the author....fictorial account of London from founding to present

Will think of some others latter...

Would love to hear of other books

[KTrain]

"The Dirt" by Motley Crew would be up your alley. They "wrote" it so it's an easy read.

[ok, ok,....I get it]

Originally Posted by KTrain

"The Dirt" by Motley Crew would be up your alley. They "wrote" it so it's an easy read.

isn't that being made into a movie?

[metallicat]

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane is awesome, as is Children Of Men by PD James. Also, I will recommend Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz. That novel really got me into other Koontz books.

[sadora]

A book that every man should read:

The Way Of The Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide To Mastering The Challenges of Women, Work and Sexual Desire.

This book may offend some people but for others, the non-castrated males, it's meant to inspire and challenge your eternal maculine.

"Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose"

[burn_this_city]

^^ I might check that one out..
God Delusion
God is not Great..

[flip]

The Bible II. Great sequel. Penned by George Carlin.

[JerzeeGirl]

Read these and LOVED them:

"Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
....a story so relevant to our times as it's the tale of a man who is fighting terrorism the right way - by fighting ignorance and teaching the children of Pakistan & Afghanistan to think for themselves and make the right choices - excellent read!

"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
...the tale of a murdered teen who watches as her family tries to figure out what happened to her, who did it and how to keep on living despite the tragedy and how she comes to terms with them having to move on

[Phaneuf3]

I really enjoyed the Genghis series by Conn Iggulden. Pretty light read but a very good story (so far) that I wasn't familiar with.

Also: 1984, Brave New World and Frankenstein are among my all time favorites but thought people were looking for more unique recommendations.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Phaneuf3

I really enjoyed the Genghis series by Conn Iggulden. Pretty light read but a very good story (so far) that I wasn't familiar with.

Also: 1984, Brave New World and Frankenstein are among my all time favorites but thought people were looking for more unique recommendations.

I half expected you to suggest a baby names book

[Phaneuf3]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

I half expected you to suggest a baby names book

No no. Only some people need those.

Plus, you have to make sure its not one of those modern new age baby name books with horrible, horrible ideas. In case anyone needed a list of names:
http://www.babiesonline.com/pregnanc...ular/1970s.asp
Stick to the top 50 or 75 and you should be ok.

[Sainters7]

I'm not sure how many of you are into non-fiction, but "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah absolutely blew me away. It's about his story as a forced child soldier in Sierra Leone in the late 90's. The way he writes makes you feel like you're right there with him.

[Flickered Flame]

I'm not a big reader but here are 3 books that I couldn't put down.

The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty-Buster Olney
Future Greats and Heart Breaks-Gare Joyce
Living on the Black Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember-John Feinstein.

[wpgflamesfan]

Practical Guide To Racism by C.H. Dalton
Average American Male by Chad Kultgen


I got a ton more i could recommend but those are two i have re-read recently

[Phaneuf3]

Originally Posted by wpgflamesfan

Practical Guide To Racism by C.H. Dalton
Average American Male by Chad Kultgen


I got a ton more i could recommend but those are two i have re-read recently

Intriguing titles. Care to give a synopsis?

[Table 5]

I'm not really a fiction kinda guy, I've always preferred historical or autobiographical books. I haven't read it myself, but after hearing an interview by the author, one book I'd like to read is The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.

While Mr. Buffett has never written a memoir, he apparently seeked out Alice Schroeder to write it for him. It took several years of shadowing Buffett to write, so might be pretty interesting.

[ResAlien]

The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett. Awesome
Cabal - Clive Barker. Great horror / thriller writing, and it's set in Alberta.
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis. Much more twisted than the movie, but better as an existential commentary.
Logic - Kant. Definitely worth wading through.
The Republic - Plato. Basic first year philosophy read, but never stops having more things to find with re-reading it. Has been "flagged" in my home for years. Yeah, flagged that way. Couldn't return it if i wanted to

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

Yeah, flagged that way. Couldn't return it if i wanted to

Swarm! Swarm!

[Mightyfire89]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett. Awesome
Cabal - Clive Barker. Great horror / thriller writing, and it's set in Alberta.
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis. Much more twisted than the movie, but better as an existential commentary.
Logic - Kant. Definitely worth wading through.
The Republic - Plato. Basic first year philosophy read, but never stops having more things to find with re-reading it. Has been "flagged" in my home for years. Yeah, flagged that way. Couldn't return it if i wanted to

I'm reading The Pillars of the Earth right now. I'm about half way through and so far, I'd have to agree, awesome. Very engaging story.

[FanIn80]

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving