The Official Book Thread

[VanillaGorilla]

Talk about your favorite books of all time, this year or any books you are reading now or have read recently.

If we have a 15 page movie thread, we need a decent book thread!

 

[barfo]

Talk about your favorite books of all time, this year or any books you are reading now or have read recently.

If we have a 15 page movie thread, we need a decent book thread!

I usually contribute this:

Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey

barfo

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Books I've read recently:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (The king of sci-fi)

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

I am now reading the 7 book Saga of Seven Suns series, I'm on book 3. I'm a sucker for science fiction space operas.

 

[Natebishop3]

I read To Kill A Mockingbird not that long ago. Amazing book. It's a little juvenile at times, but it's still a great piece of literature.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I read To Kill A Mockingbird not that long ago. Amazing book. It's a little juvenile at times, but it's still a great piece of literature.

Agreed. It has to be one of the flat out best books of all time.

 

[Stevenson]

Recent great books I have read -

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - fantastic historical novel about the building of a cathedral in 12th cent. England

1984 - George Orwell. Still can't get it out of my brain.

Anything by Carl Hiaasen - Funny, funny books.

Making a Living Without a Job - changed my life.

Tai Pan - Almost perfect.

Catcher in the Rye as funny the second time as the first

A Confederacy of Dunces Can be gut busting funny

Anything by me - The Small Business Bible, The Big Idea

 

[THE HCP]

Sports Illustrated and Entertainment Weekley

 

[MickZagger]

Sports Illustrated and People magazine (what? I'm not gay.)

 

[Natebishop3]

I do most of my reading on the web though..... My droid gets Kindle so I've been reading the original Sherlock Holmes. It's great stuff.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I have a kindle and I used it for a while, but I just love the feel of a real book.

 

[Natebishop3]

I have a kindle and I used it for a while, but I just love the feel of a real book.

I do too, but it's handy having it on my phone when I have some free time.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Bad for your eyes.

I'm a big fan of Feist's work.

 

[andalusian]

I am a big fan of Mr. Terry Pratchett and Mr. Christopher Moore. Anything by these guys is usually fantastic.

Terry Pratchett's Discworld books are great, some are better than others - but his other books are good as well (Johny and the Bomb, Nation).

Christopher Moore is just a no-miss proposition. They are all good.

Neil Gaiman has some real gems as well - American Gods, The Anansi Boys and the Graveyard book are fantastic.

 

[Eastoff]

Bad for your eyes.

I'm a big fan of Feist's work.

I would have thought you'd prefer machiavelli

 

[Eastoff]

Books I've read recently:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (The king of sci-fi)

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

I am now reading the 7 book Saga of Seven Suns series, I'm on book 3. I'm a sucker for science fiction space operas.

Don't bother with anything bigger by Ayn Rand, she says basically the same thing, but slower.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

I would have thought you'd prefer machiavelli

No, Shakespeare.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Don't bother with anything bigger by Ayn Rand, she says basically the same thing, but slower.

I know, I read a little bit of Atlas Shrugged and hated it.

 

[Eastoff]

I know, I read a little bit of Atlas Shrugged and hated it.

I read all but that 100 page monologue from Galt. Blah, blah blah, smart, hard-working people deserve money.

 

[noknobs]

I just got done reading 'Where is My Friend (A Hide and Peek Book)'. It was a little wordy at times but it was a great mystery about friendship. Can't recommend it enough, especially for HCP.

 

[MARIS61]

"The Pet Goat" by Siegfried Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner.

 

[MARIS61]

Some great fiction authors I recommend are JRR Tolkien, Donald Barthelme, Jerzy Kozinski, Craig Leslie, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tony Hillerman, Upton Sinclair,

for musicians - Alfred Einstein, Howard Roberts

A fantastic book to help you get the most out of your educational hours is:

The Psychology of Learning: An Experimental Investigation of the Economy and Technique of Memory by John Wallce Baird & Ernst Meumann circa 1922

 

[VanillaGorilla]

The books I got for Christmas were Dune by Frank Herbert, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and The City & the City by China Mieville. Really excited to read all of them, just have to finish this 7 books science fiction series I'm reading..

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author. I've only read one of his novels (Slaughterhouse-Five) and a few short stories, but I loved them more than anything else.

 

[BrianFromWA]

Unabridged Count of Monte Cristo.
Ender's Game
Concur with Nate on Sherlock Holmes
I grew up re-reading the LoTR series, but since the movies have come out I've been a bit soured on them.

Love the kindle, love the iPhone app for it.

I'm reading a ton right now, mostly technical, but there's a pretty good one called the Art of Mathematics that talks about the differences between "pure" math and the drivel that most of us were taught in school by teachers that didn't really get excited about it.

 

[MrJayremmie]

Outisde of the classics which many I love, my favorites currently (read all in the last month)

1. Shutter Island
2. Thr3e
3. Its kind of a funny story

1984 is one of my favorites. I also like political thrillers, but it is hard to find some good ones. But espionage thrillers are good... Le Carre is good.

Hate to admit it, but I loved the Left Behind Series as well. I remember it being among the first books I truly read years and years ago, and read like 12 of them. It was great.

 

[andalusian]

Love the kindle, love the iPhone app for it.

Don't have an iPhone (my wife, does, and she loves it) - but I have the newest version of the Kindle and I love it. This thing works much better than I anticipated, especially for technical books/documents for work. It also lets me travel with much less weight - which is fantastic as I am going on a long overseas business trip.

 

[ehizzy3]

has anybody read into the wild? the movie was based on it. i didn't watch the movie but im practically obsessed with nature/camping/surving etc

def going to read it after christmas

 

[Wheels]

I know its not a huge book or anything, but I sat down to read Of Mice and Men, cause I hadnt for a while, before I knew it I went threw the story in one sitting lol.

 

[jlprk]

I just finished reading the annotations to the book of Leviticus for the 27th time, and I made a resolution to reread the New Testament over the next 3 years. I am beginning to forget the whole thing that I used to have memorized, making me less useful to the Cause of Bob, causing me self-doubt and questioning his word. Yesterday I felt refreshed from reviewing the Shawn Kemp Age.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I know its not a huge book or anything, but I sat down to read Of Mice and Men, cause I hadnt for a while, before I knew it I went threw the story in one sitting lol.

Great book, one of the few that most high schoolers actually enjoy the first time they read it.