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03-19-2009, 11:47 PM
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I´m out of books and can´t find anything interesting on amazon. Any recommendations are welcome, I´m not looking for anything specific as long as it´s either really trashy/aggro/political incorrect or somewhat eye-opening from one point or another.
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Sci Fi Winner: Midworld by Alan Dean Foster Also Sentenced to Prism is good too.
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guns germs and steel
one of the most popular non-fictions. havent read it because i dont read books, but i did watch the doc on it, it's amazing, and books are always better
its about a scientists thirty year long journey of discovery into why inequality exists
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I imagine How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer and Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely are amazing books if you like things about human behavior, rationale, and brain capabilities. i have not read the books, cuz like i said i dont read books, i watch lectures and documentaries and read articles online instead, but im sure theyre awesome. the lectures by lehrer and ariely on their books are among the most interesting ive seen from anybody
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i dont read a ton of non-fiction, but i've been reading alot lately. Im currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and its living up to the hype from the person who recommended it. Probly read 20ish books in the last year, some of which are:
The Kite Runner and A thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini
Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, and For One More Day all by Mitch Albom
Freakonomics
Body of Lies by David Ignatius
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Sacred by Dennis Lehane - This is the guy who wrote Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, both excellent movies.
The Associate and The Appeal by John Grisham - all Grisham books are goot
Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Sounds like you're looking for more non-fiction, but if you feel the itch any of these books are a good read. Up next is Blood Meridian also by Cormac McCarthy and The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos (lead writer for The Wire)
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ordered. "In Praise of the Shadows" by Junichiro Tanizaki is pretty good as well.
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Originally Posted by bode
i dont read a ton of non-fiction, but i've been reading alot lately. Im currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and its living up to the hype from the person who recommended it. Probly read 20ish books in the last year, some of which are:
The Kite Runner and A thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini
Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, and For One More Day all by Mitch Albom
Freakonomics
Body of Lies by David Ignatius
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Sacred by Dennis Lehane - This is the guy who wrote Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, both excellent movies.
The Associate and The Appeal by John Grisham - all Grisham books are goot
Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Sounds like you're looking for more non-fiction, but if you feel the itch any of these books are a good read. Up next is Blood Meridian also by Cormac McCarthy and The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos (lead writer for The Wire)
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What is this? Books for a 12th grade reading level? Grow some hair on your balls and really recommend some written word!
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enlighten me on some approved reading rilla!
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Smithers, use the amnesia ray.
You mean the revolver, sir?
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One hundred teenage boys (picked at random from a large pool of applicants) participate in an annual walking contest called "The Long Walk." Each Walker must maintain a speed of at least four miles per hour; if he drops below this speed for a total of 30 seconds (all at once or spread out over time), he receives a verbal warning. Warnings are given for a variety of other offenses, including assaulting another Walker or accepting aid from spectators. Walkers may lose warnings by walking for an hour without being warned. If, however, a Walker with three warnings slows down again or breaks any other rule, he is "ticketed".
At the start of the book, the meaning of the term "ticketed" is intentionally kept vague, but soon after the start of the Walk it becomes clear that "buying a ticket" means to be shot dead by soldiers monitoring the event from halftracks. A Walker with no warnings who begins to slow down has a total of two minutes' leeway before being killed. However, Walkers may be shot immediately for certain serious violations, such as trying to leave the road or attacking the halftrack.
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
True Hallucinations
Siddhartha
A New Earth
The God Delusion
Letter to a Christian Nation
All great choices that everyone should read.
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Fraction of the Whole (Tolz), City of Thieves (Benioff), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Diaz)
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03-20-2009, 03:26 PM
Post subject: Re: Read a book bro!
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really trashy/aggro/political incorrect or somewhat eye-opening from one point or another.
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The Bible.
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