i was home a few weeks ago and my parents were cleaning out the basement, and i found my copy of it. might read it again for "fun".
yeah kind of, but the only trade of is instead of smelling like wet dog you can smell like cat ass. and they take up less space. they also purr instead of wag their tail.
recently read Black Hawk Down(before I saw the movie) and In the Company of Heroes by Mike Durant, the pilot that was captured. Both amazing.
I still mantain that Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison is one of the best books I've read. You guys should give it a try.
It was great because the author got the perspective of everyone including the Somalis. The movie did a great job as well IMO
Just read The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Really good book and I'm gonna read Blink and Outliers by him too. Boys Will Be Boys is about the 90s Cowboys dynasty. Great book. Just started the Yankee Years as told by Torre. Too early to tell but it's gotten good reviews.
I'm currently stuck on A Storm of Swords, and just can't seem to want to pick it up for like the last 2 months after reading the first two in like 2 weeks combined. It's a fantastic book, I just don't have the drive to pick it up again right now and I don't know why. I just finished one of Dan Browns old books, they're formulaic but entertaining. On my nightstand right now is Atlas Shrugged, Call of Cthulu, and an award winning bio of Teddy Roosevelt. Has anyone read Call of Cthulu or really anything by Lovecraft? I'd like to get some impressions of what I'm getting into. As for a top 5 from me, Fahrenheit 451 was easily my favorite book I read in high school, I think I've read that book 5-10 times. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee died to soon, could've done great things, Catcher in the Rye, the conversational tone of that book is incredible, the way it was written was one of my favorite things about it. Anthem by Ayn Rand, I thought it was a more grown up version of The Giver almost, it was just a very good book. I think one of the Song of Ice and Fire books can probably take my last spot, they are fantastic, but as previously mentioned I'm stuck on the third one right now.
Finished The Dark Tower Series a couple of weeks ago. I really liked the ending. What about other people who have read it? What did you think?
Been reading some sports books lately havent read too many other types but love reading. From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man(Teddy Atlas biography) by Peter Alson Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy that Reign Over College Football by Stewart Mandel currently reading Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Last Great Era of Boxing by George Kimball If you play poker I'd encourage The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time by Michael Craig.
4th grade my teacher got pregnant and had a baby so we had a sub teacher for almost the whole year. Turned out to be his wife (Now ex I think)
I'm currently reading Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front by Gunter Koschorrek. Most all books I read are WW2/historical nonfiction.
On American Psycho: Think of the monologues on what people are wearing, now imagine they each are a page long, that's what the book is. It's a good book if you enjoy the maximalist writing that ellis uses. Books I just read: Bonk, a history of science and sex. And "Kill your friends", which is like a coherent version of American Psycho set in London. Both were really good, I liked Bonk because the author doesn't misrepresent or completely destroy the data, kill your friends is just kind of an entertaining read. Books I find myself reading over and over: Enders Game and the bean series (Enders shadow, shadow of the hegemon, shadow of the giant, shadow puppets), Brave New World (I just skip over the whole tripping in the desert part), Animal Farm (If you have an hour to kill its a good book to bring), Catcher in the Rye (Pretty sure my ex stole this), Choke, Survivor, The first three books of the harry potter series (yah I said it, blow me). There's probably more to this list but I don't want to get up and look at my bookshelf to have that "oh yah" moment.
Some of my top books -The Da Vinci Code(Dan Brown) -Angels and Demons(Dan Brown) -Band of Brothers(Stephen Ambrose) -Citizen Soliders(Stephen Ambrose) -Patriot Games(Tom Clancy) -The Hunt for Red October(Tom Clancy) -The Sum of All Fears(Tom Clancy) -Clear and Present Danger(Tom Clancy) -A Bridge Too Far(Cornelius Ryan) -The Zookeeper's Wife(Diane Ackerman) -Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills(Charles W. Henderson) -From Beirut to Jerusalem(Thomas L. Friedman) -Kite Runner(Khaled Hosseini) -A Thousand Splendid Suns(Khaled Hosseini) the new book im reading now is Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin DelanoMarine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills Roosevelt(H.W. Brands)
The Gift of Valor- about a Marine that recevied the Medal of Honor for his actions in Iraq- very good book about a real American Hero.
I took a course last summer entitled, "The Anthropology of God" explaining the origins of Religion and the concept of God, etc. We finished the course up with reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. imo, his worst book. comes off way too ranty. But, it inspired me to read some of his other stuff. I've just finished The Blind Watchmaker and The Extended Phenotype, both of which focus more in the ideas of competition and limited resources and how it shapes behavior, society, everything in this world. I don't usually dabble in fiction too often, but I've been meaning to read some of Dotz's work here for a while.
Shit, I forgot to mention "Fingerprints of the Gods" by Graham Hancock. It's like 1000 pages and can get a bit boring, but it's a complete mindfuck that shifted my paradigm more than any other book I've read.
I've heard about that book. Is it actually historical investigation? Or is it some fictitious drama based on real world allegory like Dan Brown's novels?
It's nothing but history, astronomy, geology, archeology & ancient theology, with parts of his experiences visiting these places (Great Pyramids, Nazca Lines, Machu Picchu, etc) sprinkled in. Heavily cited. Almost to a fault. It's not the most invigorating read but it's a crime how underappreciated and unknown it is. It raises some serious and legit questions about the undisputed status quo in regards to accepted time frame of when the Great Pyramids & Sphinx were built. Or what purpose they were built to serve. I would recommend it to anyone.
I'm in grad school right now, so it's "good to great" and "the goal" and shit like that. Nothing but a bunch of rhetoric if you ask me. I've got my list though, for once I'm done with school. I plan on finding a new subject every year and reading whatever I can on that subject
I am getting the entire contents of Blood Meridian tattooed on my back. I still have a little bit of The Devils left....being in Hoover and having all my friends come back in town has put a dent in my reading progress.
Also, i read it online while I had downtime at work. I normally hate reading books on a computer, but for this book it was great because there are were so many parts where I would read something interesting and want to google it to learn more, then go back to reading. Took longer to finish the book, but it helped me understand it much better. Here's a torrance if you want to DL it: http://www.mininova.org/tor/370569
I didn't read the whole thread so I don't know if it's been mentioned but I just started <i>An Army at Dawn</i> by Rick Atkinson. It's the first of the Liberation Trilogy and focuses on the war in North Africa.
ive read All The Pretty Horses and am reading Blood Meridian now. i know atl mentioned he like it and UA mentioned it and The Road. have you guys read any other mccarthy?
Yeah I've read all his novels. Child of God, Outer Dark, Orchard Keeper, and Suttree are all fucking awesome. Border Trilogy was sweet, read that in like a week haha. But Blood Meridian is the finest piece of writing ever in my opinion. Makes me proud to have the blood I currently have flowing through my veins.
cool i picked up the rest of the border trilogy and the road. trying to decide which to move to next. i am less than 100 pgs into blood and am extremely impressed. atl are you related to cormac?
Random order list of some of my favorites: Undaunted Courage - Ambrose The Inferno - Dante Almost any Jack Ryan series book by Clancy The Stranger - Camus Founding Brothers - Ellis John Adams - McCullough Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon The Invisible Man - Ellison? The Federalist Papers - Not really a book but whatever Every Man Dies Alone - Fallada Lolita - Nabokov Paradise Lost - Milton