Sethram Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 House of Leaves. It may not change the way you look at things, but it's definitely an interesting read and it is important to think heavily on what's going on in Johnny's life as you read through the Navidson Report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdl Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 If anyone is interested in Statistics/Economics/Chance/Luck then I recommend: Nassim Taleb. Fooled by Randomness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erufiku Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 QUOTE (Hojo @ Oct 5 2008, 12:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>The Stranger - Albert Camus (a quick read, sort of an absurd existentialist piece)blast you! I should be sleeping (work at 8) but I just can't resist re-reading this again... wouldn't call it absurd. tragic, if anything, for it implies that life is absurd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 QUOTE (erufiku @ Oct 20 2008, 11:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (Hojo @ Oct 5 2008, 12:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>The Stranger - Albert Camus (a quick read, sort of an absurd existentialist piece)blast you! I should be sleeping (work at 8) but I just can't resist re-reading this again... wouldn't call it absurd. tragic, if anything, for it implies that life is absurd.Yet all the evidence available to us overwhelmingly compels us to realize that life is, in fact, undoubtedly absurd (not to mention ludicrous, trivial, silly, loquacious and ridiculous). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikkoman1231 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 The Culture of Fear by Barry GlassnerThe Law by Frederic BastiatHarrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (short story)The Art of War by Sun TzuI'm sure there are millions of books that can provoke thought. Ever look at a dictionary lately..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafunk5446 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 While kinda a strange read, and not really backed by any real scientific information. Everything you know is wrong: Book 1: Human evolutionAlso in the same field of reading any of the Zecharia Sitchin books.Interesting reads to say the least, if you check them out you will know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSKmustang Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I am actually in the middle of reading 3 books at the moment, all three are great (that's the damn problem):Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger - My favorite so far of the 5 I have read is A Perfect Day for Bananafish. Supposedly Salinger said his best short story is his last one but for some reason I don't want to skip to the end to read it. The stories are short stories so they are quick reads.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - Great book. The language employed by Burgess is a little awkward at times, especially the beginning but you start to get used to it. By the time I hit chapter 7 I was quite comfortable with it.Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman - I picked it up purely because of the title (browsing through B&N) and I am glad I did. It's a compilation of essays (well-written and hysterical with a good mix of anecdotes to taste) about pop culture and how it has changed our way of thinking. Whether you disagree or agree with him, or just don't really care, it's a fun read that provides some fun discussions. Other reads I recommend:Shakespeare plays - I am a huge fan of his histories where I find he rights the most human characters. I find Shakespeare to understand human behavior even at the level of kings and queens. I don't care who wrote it... it's just good stuff.Hemingway - I have read a few of his short stories (my favorite is Hills Like White Elephants) and some of his novels. Easy reading.Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Only read his short stories in English but they are phenomenal. If you do decide to read up on him, read up a bit on magical realism. Basically it takes some fantastic idea and injects into everyday human life.Catcher in the Rye - Everyone who reads it grabs something different from it. It's all I can say and all I think needs to be said as an introduction.Grimm's Fairy Tales - Fun and twisted. Lord of the Flies - Take Lost, remove the adults, remove the females, add some kids, and you get still get chaos. I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinite Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 The God Delusion or anything by Richard Dawkins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 (edited) QUOTE (PSKmustang @ Dec 19 2008, 02:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Only read his short stories in English but they are phenomenal. If you do decide to read up on him, read up a bit on magical realism. Basically it takes some fantastic idea and injects into everyday human life.Your English professors/teachers assign you... Latin American literature?Isn't that a little fucked? I'm a big fan of Marquez, have read most of his stuff in English, and 100 Years of Solitude and Memories of My Melancholy Whores in Spanish (vastly better).Right now I'm reading Crime by Irvine Welsh. Edited December 19, 2008 by gaia.plateau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judgeposer Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 I'm intersted in picking up The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms by Halbrook, supposedly the most comprehensive survey of Second Amendment history and literature. Aside, I have going now The Brothers Karamazov, and Render Unto Ceaser, by Chaput. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazz Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 QUOTE (PSKmustang @ Dec 19 2008, 03:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I am actually in the middle of reading 3 books at the moment, all three are great (that's the damn problem):Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger - My favorite so far of the 5 I have read is A Perfect Day for Bananafish. Supposedly Salinger said his best short story is his last one but for some reason I don't want to skip to the end to read it. The stories are short stories so they are quick reads.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - Great book. The language employed by Burgess is a little awkward at times, especially the beginning but you start to get used to it. By the time I hit chapter 7 I was quite comfortable with it.Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman - I picked it up purely because of the title (browsing through B&N) and I am glad I did. It's a compilation of essays (well-written and hysterical with a good mix of anecdotes to taste) about pop culture and how it has changed our way of thinking. Whether you disagree or agree with him, or just don't really care, it's a fun read that provides some fun discussions. Other reads I recommend:Shakespeare plays - I am a huge fan of his histories where I find he rights the most human characters. I find Shakespeare to understand human behavior even at the level of kings and queens. I don't care who wrote it... it's just good stuff.Hemingway - I have read a few of his short stories (my favorite is Hills Like White Elephants) and some of his novels. Easy reading.Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Only read his short stories in English but they are phenomenal. If you do decide to read up on him, read up a bit on magical realism. Basically it takes some fantastic idea and injects into everyday human life.Catcher in the Rye - Everyone who reads it grabs something different from it. It's all I can say and all I think needs to be said as an introduction.Grimm's Fairy Tales - Fun and twisted. Lord of the Flies - Take Lost, remove the adults, remove the females, add some kids, and you get still get chaos. I love it.Thats the list right there.Catcher in the Rye was a big book for me in high school. I thought I was reading a book based on my life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSKmustang Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 QUOTE (gaia.plateau @ Dec 19 2008, 03:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (PSKmustang @ Dec 19 2008, 02:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Only read his short stories in English but they are phenomenal. If you do decide to read up on him, read up a bit on magical realism. Basically it takes some fantastic idea and injects into everyday human life.Your English professors/teachers assign you... Latin American literature?Isn't that a little fucked? I'm a big fan of Marquez, have read most of his stuff in English, and 100 Years of Solitude and Memories of My Melancholy Whores in Spanish (vastly better).Right now I'm reading Crime by Irvine Welsh.I live in Miami, Florida which means a strong Latin influence. However, being a Heavily Cuban populated city, Marquez does not go over well sometimes (he has good things to say about Castro and has communistic ideals, I don't agree with him, but his writing is amazing).So, my teacher in college assigned us one of his short stories and I ended up reading a few more of them on my own. Turns out, I am now teaching (English... go figure ) and he is a fellow teacher at the high school with me.My Spanish is horrible to say the least. I understand it just fine, but I do not speak it often enough so I have lost much of it. Would love to read it in his native language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSKmustang Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 QUOTE (kazz @ Dec 20 2008, 02:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (PSKmustang @ Dec 19 2008, 03:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>book stuffThats the list right there.Catcher in the Rye was a big book for me in high school. I thought I was reading a book based on my life I could not figure out how to edit in a quote, sorry for consecutive posts. Found this interesting fun fact shortly after finishing Catcher: In an interview with Premiere magazine, John Cusack commented that his one regret about turning twenty-one was that he had become too old to play Holden Caulfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnerbox Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 jude by...i forgot but its really good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judgeposer Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Is anyone at all interested in, perhaps even studying or studied, philosophy? - If so, what are your favorite books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonPedro71 Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 I am about to read "The Shack" by William P. Young.Basic premise is: a really bad thing happens (a parent's worst nightmare) and the father is invited to a shack where he has a conversation with the Trinity about why bad things happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcrooksjr Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 the late great usa by gerome r corsi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yamin Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho or something like thatFictional MiddleEasternFun read and quickJust like every other book, Fate versus Destiny lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikkoman1231 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 (edited) Economics in One Lesson by Henry HazlittThis book tells you everything you need to know on how economies operate, and during this time, it's more useful than ever. Much of its explanations are difficult to understand at first glance, but it partly explains why socialism deters production and prosperity. Most of it focuses on macroeconomics and history for ideas regarding the death of the working man and the processes of public and private sectors, and the distribution of wealth and the exchange of work and money to achieve mass production.Famous advocates of this book are:Ron Paul, Texas Congressman and former 2008 Presidential candidatePeter Schiff, president of EuroPacific CapitalMurray N. Rothbard, former economics professor and student of the Austrian SchoolFriedrich Hayek, former Nobel Prize winner in Economics Edited January 9, 2009 by kikkoman1231 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinyj316 Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 The 9 Nations of North America by Joel GarreauSex Drugs and Coco Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck KlostermanFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburryCatch 22 by Joseph Heller1984 by George OrwellTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Art of War by Sun TzuA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I've become a big fan of the Left Behind series, but that just might be because of my natural interest in religion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_silly_taco Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 all of Paulo Coelhoi've read the alchemist and the pilgrimage. and soon will be reading the valkeries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Anything by Clement (Of Alexandria, not Pope or St.Clement), Origen, and the texts of Maximus' Theology and Pseudo-Dionysus. Wrap your head around the Logos idea of Origen and you're the man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nat3r Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Get The Girl - by MehowandAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebzen Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 For a good book I usually pick up something from Paulo Cohello. Someone mentioned the Alchemist a few posts back, and that's a damn good book, and very well worth a read. Also read his book called Zahir. They might be a bit "too much" for some people, but I for one thoroughly enjoyed them both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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