Book recommendations?

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OrganicOne

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So my girl gets the sweet 40% off discount at Barnes and Noble, which pretty much equals Amazon's daily prices. Either way, I am in the market for a new book, and thought I would poll the diverse, disgusting, perverted community here. It doesn't have to be marketing related, however I guess that would be a plus.

I am about to finish up 4 Hour Work Week, which I feel has some great points/suggestions. Something similar in nature would be great, or if you have read this book and know others that held your interests as well.

Forget the beastiliaty, homosexual, and uber camp books; I have already read them all.
 


Anything by Michael Chrichton... my favorite by him is probably timeline.

Other than that:
-Digital Fortress (Dan Brown)
-House Of The Scorpion (Can't Remember)
-The Alchemist (Pauolo Cohelo sp??)
-The Transall Saga (Gary Paulson)
 
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter was one I read not too long ago. Really enjoyed it.

Not sure if this link will work or not, but you can read the first page on amazon here.
 
Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Any book in that series if you've already read the original one. If you liked 4 Hour Work Week, you'll like this one.
 
Light Reading : Anything By Heinlein
Philosophy: Anything by VA (ret.) James Stockdale, RIP or Epicetus who he based it on.
Business: Tested Advertising Methods by Caples This is a MUST Read
 
Mindfuck and paradigm change books: (Worth their weight in gold):
Fight Club
Justine by Marquis de Sade
Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson
The Mass Psychology of Facism by Wilhelm Reich
The Insider's guide to submodalities by Richard Bandler
The seven habits of highly effective People by Stephen Covey
Anything written by Nietzsche

Have fun with your new mind. ;)
 
Productivity:
Getting things done

Website planning / strategy:
The elements of User Experience
(this is NOT a usability book, the title is misleading. If you want a solid planning resource, get this book)

programming:
Learning PHP and MySQL --> oreilly
The pragmatic programmer

High Science Fiction:
Alistair Reynolds --> Revelation Space and following
Ian M Banks --> Look to Windward, Think of Phlebas, The Algebraist

Near Future:
Richard Morgan --> Altered Carbon, Woken Furies, Broken Angels
William Gibson --> Pattern Recognition, All tomorrow's parties

Fantasy:
go away!

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