To me its probably three, in no particular order.
1. Lee Harper's 'To kill a mocking bird',
2. Anne Franks diary, and
Moshe Dayans autobiography.
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To me its probably three, in no particular order.
1. Lee Harper's 'To kill a mocking bird',
2. Anne Franks diary, and
Moshe Dayans autobiography.
In no particular order-
Machiavelli's The Prince, The Book of Job, The Seed.
For shaking up my often ignorant perceptions of things:
*Naomi Klein's "No Logo"
*David Korten's "When Corporations Rule the World"
*(a favorite from the HS days) Loewnen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me"
Fiction that changed my outlook on things:
*Catcher in the Rye (cliched but true)
*Tale of Two Cities
I could go on forever and ever on this thread, but these are a few that came quickly to mind.
The Bible
thubs up on lies my teacher told me bg, im gonna have to second that one.
2. the autobiography of ghandi
3. hitlers willing executioners -daniel goldenhagen
4. the motorcycle diaries -che
5. population explosion -paul and anne ehrlich
anybody read siddartha?? im not much of a reader but we read it for my world religions class and it wasnt bad...
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Originally Posted by Khull_Khuum
i read it, it is somewhere among my favorites
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt...makes you appreciate every little thing you have in your life.
I'll agree with BigGreen, Tale of Two Cities is the only book I ever enjoyed reading in school.
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Here's a similar thread from the dead
non-fiction: A boy called it. (The saddest book you'll ever read)
fiction: farenheit 451 (sp?)
The Will To Power - Nietzsche
Thus spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Cat in the Hat! DR. Suess......classic
Oh also...
I wouldn't be the same if i had never read where the wild things are as a child.
Jonathan Livingston Siegle
Holy ****. I forgot about that book. I love that book. Maurice Sendak wrote that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdtr
"Faith of my Fathers" -John McCain
"When Character Was King-A Story of Ronanld Reagan" -Peggy Noonan
"Saving Milly" -Mort Kondrake
Fiction:
"Of Human Bondage" -Somerset Maugham
Same for me broQuote:
Originally Posted by mass junkie
In no particular order:
1) Tao of Jeet Kun Do - Bruce Lee
2) The Ingenuity Gap - Thomas Homer Dixon
3) The Millionaire Mind - Thomas Stanley
4) Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel
5) Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh
6) The Souls of the Black Folk - W.E.B Dubois
7) Stand - Stephen King
8) The Deadline - DeMarco
just finsihed reading Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance for my english class....man this **** is ****ing hard to understand. Even the teacher had a hard time understanding it.
I have a Prof that keeps busting my nuts to buy (and read) this book. Was it any good?Quote:
Originally Posted by eshestun
I LOVED fermat's Enigma!!Quote:
Originally Posted by chicamahomico
ohh man 400 pages of saying what did he just say..he talking about quality for like 200 pages. If you enjoy a goooood challenge go for it..not for the average joeQuote:
Originally Posted by chicamahomico
i second fermats enigma, andrew wiles is an incredible man.
I haven't read much (some) but not much, although that should change since I'm majoring (or thinking about majoring) in English :lol:
I think Brave New World and 1984 were both great books. I think I read that at the same time of maturing, and getting to know the "real" world more, and it was a good way of showing the reality of what life can REALLY be like.
I also read a lot of Stephen King, he's actually got some very nice books, and I hate the fact that so many people think he only writes scary/horror books.
And of course, the classics like Spenser, Shakespear, Chaucer, etc...
1) God, Gun's and Rock N Roll by Ted Nugent
2) Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
3) Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins
The Damage Done
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
great read for anyone interested in history of warfare
Moby Dick has to be my favorite........could read that one anytime, as well as Dead Zone;
The book of Tao
The Tibetain Book of the Dead
The Bible
The Koran
Eaters of the Dead
Atlas Shrugged--Ayn Rand
Capitalism and Freedom--Milton Friedman
1984--George Orwell
The Millionaire Next Door--Thomas Stanley
Spider Robinsons "Callahan" series
and
Orson Scott Card's "Ender" series
Red
In no particular order...The Incredible Lou Ferrigno, The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Bible, The Quran (religion interests me)
any book by tom brown
I have been profoundly influenced by many books over the years. A few of them are
Catcher in the Rye
The Lord of the Flies
A Brief History of Time
Einstein's Dreams
The Dead (Dubliners)
The Professor and the Madman
The Sun also Rises
The Poetics of Space
Event Cities
There are so many that I know I am forgetting . . .
I almost forgot...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstien.
Awesome read.
Cant remember what the title of the book was but the first book I ever got was a astronomy book and since that book I have been fascinated by astronomy.
Then einsteins book the special and the general theory of relativity and a couple of quantym mechanis books and hawkings book made me love physcis. I was a little egg head when very young lol.
Other then that I love stephen kings books. I have read "IT" atleast 7 times and tommyknockers like 6 times.
For those of you that don't like to read thick books...here is a list of The World's Thinnest Books.
MY BEAUTY SECRETS by Janet Reno
HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN AIRPLANE by John Denver
MY SUPER BOWL HIGHLIGHTS by Dan Marino
THINGS I LOVE ABOUT BILL by HILLARY CLINTON
MY LITTLE BOOK OF PERSONAL HYGIENE by Osama Bin Laden
THINGS I CANNOT AFFORD by Bill Gates
THINGS I WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY by Dennis Rodman
MY WILD YEARS by Al Gore
AMELIA EARHART'S GUIDE TO THE PACIFIC
AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR LAWYERS
DETROIT: a Travel Guide
A COLLECTION of MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES by DR. J. Kevorkian
EVERYTHING MEN KNOW ABOUT WOMEN
EVERYTHING WOMEN KNOW ABOUT MEN
ALL THE MEN I HAVE LOVED BEFORE by Ellen de Generes
MIKE TYSON'S GUIDE TO DATING ETIQUETTE
SPOTTED OWL RECIPES by the EPA
THE AMISH PHONE DIRECTORY
MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS by O. J. Simpson
And the world's Number One Thinnest Book ....
1. MY BOOK OF MORALS - by Bill Clinton
Peace,
ttgb
No particular order...
YOU CAN NEGOTIATE ANYTHING by Herb Cohen
HORSEMAN, PASS BY by Larry McMurtry
OF MICE AND MEN
TALE OF TWO CITIES
In second place I'd say...
any book, story or short story by Robert A. Heinlein
His book "Job - A comedy of justice" is hilarious.
Red
Here's mine, in no particular order...
1)Tao te ching
2)Bible (i'm not too religious, albeit somewhat spiritual, but definitely a significant read...)
3)Dante's Inferno
4)Hamlet (gotta toss some Shakespeare, even though it's a play, not a book)
5)The Prince (Machiavelli)
kind of a random list...but that's what came to my mind