Enjoy Books? Any recommendations?

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Here are some I just read that I would highly recommend (many were rec's from other WF threads):

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
I Hope they Serve Beer in Hell - Tucker Max
The Revolution: A Manifesto - Ron Paul
Getting to Know the General - Graham Greene
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Quantum Psychology
The Blind Side
 


How about what NOT to read ...

Punching In by Alex Frankel. He's some douche bag who goes undercover and works for UPS, Star Bucks, Rent-a-rent Enterprise, Mac store and writes about his experience as a "front line employee".

The writing style is dry, pretentious and he sounds like an academia douchebag.

Worst book ever.

But if you wanna read an epic book, read Shogun by James Clavell. It's like the Asian verison of Lord of The Rings, except it has alot of sex, violence and more sex.
 
In the SF&F vein, I really enjoyed the Coldfire Trilogy, by C.S. Friedman. Also anything by Roger Zelazny, and "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Non-supernatural thriller/mystery- I've always liked James Patterson's Alex Cross novels. Not high literature, but fast paced and fun to read.
 
Richard Morgan.

His Sci Fi is great, and he just released "The Steel Remains" which is a great take on Fantasy, but only if you don't mind a gay protagonist. (Actually, only one of three characters he follows, the other one being a nomad and a non-human lady)

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wow, great stuff. love all the recommendations and will be looking into them in the future. I went to the book sale on Sunday and picked up about 20 books, but unfortunately I didn't find really anything from this thread. The books are arranged by genre, but after that it is like playing Where's Waldo trying to find the books you want. anyways, thanks for all the suggestions.

if people want to keep posting more suggestions I am all ears.

by the way, I started TRUMAN by David McCullough. The man is damn good writer and knows how to make history enjoyable to read.
 
PLEASE READ THE CHINA STUDY.

I'm in no way affiliated with it, but as a nutritional consultant and general healthy guy at the office this book could/will save your health.

If you add dot com to the end it has a site, it's the longest ran most comprehensive study of nutrition and it's relation to health and disease. And best yet it's not even boring.

Hit me up if you want more info on health - I know a lot of us in the online world need it! :)
 
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Relic - Shaun Hutson, awesome horror writer
Legend - David Gemmell

Hitchhikers especially is a book everyone should read.
 
IronLogik said:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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I thought the first book in the Ender's series was ok, but by the time they got up to Xenocide it just lost the point, and got continually suckier...
Did you read Shadow of the Hegemon. I think that's the first book since the original Harry Potter that I just put down and seriously thought about using as fire tinder.

BluuueJammm said:
Hitchhikers especially is a book everyone should read.
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Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently series is great too. Not quite as bizarre as Hitch Hikers' got, but there's some awesome stuff in there about the way other people work.
I wish he'd written more :(
 
UltimateJakob said:
PLEASE READ THE CHINA STUDY.

I'm in no way affiliated with it, but as a nutritional consultant and general healthy guy at the office this book could/will save your health.

If you add dot com to the end it has a site, it's the longest ran most comprehensive study of nutrition and it's relation to health and disease. And best yet it's not even boring.

Hit me up if you want more info on health - I know a lot of us in the online world need it! :)
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Sorry, not really interested in vegan propaganda.

As a "nutritional consultant" I would think you would be able to see the heavily biased presentation of the information in that book.
 
UltimateJakob said:
PLEASE READ THE CHINA STUDY.

I'm in no way affiliated with it, but as a nutritional consultant and general healthy guy at the office this book could/will save your health.

If you add dot com to the end it has a site, it's the longest ran most comprehensive study of nutrition and it's relation to health and disease. And best yet it's not even boring.

Hit me up if you want more info on health - I know a lot of us in the online world need it! :)
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SUMMARY FOR THOSE WHO ARE TOO LAZY TO READ THE CHINA STUDY:

According to the study, eating meat gives you cancer.

Now if you excuse me, I'm going downstairs to have a plate full of chicken.
 
Another great one I'd suggest is: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

It's a monster of a book, so I'm only halfway through, but so far it's been a rewarding read. I guarantee it will fire you up.

HarveyJ said:
I thought the first book in the Ender's series was ok, but by the time they got up to Xenocide it just lost the point, and got continually suckier...
Did you read Shadow of the Hegemon. I think that's the first book since the original Harry Potter that I just put down and seriously thought about using as fire tinder.
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Actually, Ender's Game was the only one I read in the series. I also heard from reviews that the rest of the series wasn't as good, so I never pursued them. There's just not enough time in our lives to read all the good books out there, so we gotta be choosy, heh. Also, I can usually tell how worthwhile a book is by the first few chapters, so if it sucks, I have no problem aborting when I come across a fire tinder candidate.

EDIT: just want to mention that this thread has 35 replies and only one amazon link. that's classy.
 
amanda11 said:
But if you wanna read an epic book, read Shogun by James Clavell. It's like the Asian verison of Lord of The Rings, except it has alot of sex, violence and more sex.
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Now I have to read it... LotR even though being epic, was too family friendly for my tastes. Thanks amanda.
 
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