Good Reads?

[knewsom]

We've talked music, and I think movies... How about books?

I'm currently reading "The Prophet" by Khalil Gibran, it's amazing - not a long book, but it takes a long time to read because you want to keep stopping to think about things.

Also tops on my list are the "Master and Commander" series by Patrick O'Brien, and "The Warlord Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell.

 

[JFD]

"The Buccaneers of America" by Alexander Oliver Exquemelin. A true account of the most remarkable assaults commited by the english and french buccaners against the spaniards in America. It was wrote in 1672.

 

[RhinoRange02]

If you've ever loved a dog (truely man's best friend):

The Art of Racing in the Rain ~ Garth Stein

http://www.garthstein.com/racing/

 

[flyfisher11]

If you haven't read it already, "Born Fighting, How the Scots Irish Shaped America" by James Webb (yes the Va Senator). What's funny is in the book he speaks of being a Republican and how his Democrat family esp. an aunt in Arkansas despised that. Funny since he wrote the book he switched parties. Truly a great read esp. if you are of Scots Irish decent.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[landrovered]

Salt: A world History by Mark Kurlansky

A very interesting view of how salt and the salt trade influenced the history of the world.

 

[brianhoberg]

If you've ever loved a dog (truely man's best friend):

The Art of Racing in the Rain ~ Garth Stein

http://www.garthstein.com/racing/

x2 That's a really great book with a lot of life lessons in it paralleled to racing. Excellent recommendation.

 

[brianhoberg]

Freakonomics was a decent book.
The World is Flat was pretty cool.
The tipping point.
blink!
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Art of Racing in the Rain as previously mentioned
The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan (interesting journalistic historical reading)

 

[noee]

Göedl, Escher, Bach
The Mind's I - Hofstadter
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind - Jaynes

 

[tweaked]

kitchen confidential - great easy read!

 

[61rover]

"The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence. It's a tough read, but amazing insight into events in the middle east 75 years ago that are still shaping world events.

 

[WillyB]

The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan (interesting journalistic historical reading)

I just finished that book and also recommend it.

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is pretty good too. Its about the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and a serial killer. Very interesting book.

 

[apg]

Just finished "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive" by Jared Diamond, a professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. Informative, insightful examination of cultures like the Maya, Anasazi and Greenland Norse - with parallels to modern societies like Australia - but a 'feel good', summertime book book, it ain't, 'cause everybody dies....

 

[SCSL]

The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck.

Timely.

If you haven't read it in years, pick it back up.

 

[mgreenspan]

Floatplane Notebooks by Clyde Edgerton.

Not really one of his more known, but I really enjoyed it.

 

[I HATE PONIES]

Where the Red Fern Grows.:sniff:

 

[d2dave]

kon-tiki. by thor heyerdahl. across the pacific by raft. a classic.

 

[flyfisher11]

"Guilt with a Twist, The Promethean Way" Lawrence Staples

"The Creative Soul: Art and the Quest for Wholeness" Lawrence Staples

Cheap plug for my father in law. He is a Jungian Psychoanalyst trained at the Jung Institute in Switzerland. I really dig his perspective. If you are in to this sort of thing you will enjoy it.

 

[Timmy!!!!!!!]

Currently reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

 

[pclawson]

Currently reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

good read. I love C.S. Lewis

I'm slowly working through Not A Good Day to Die which is a detailed account of operation anaconda. really good so far.

 

[rovercanus]

Hop on Pop, Dr. Seuse, an analytical look at spousal abuse and attempted fratricide.
The ARRL Extra Class Study Manual, a fascinating look into the world of geekdom.