Members chrispsullivan Posted July 16, 2008 Members Share Posted July 16, 2008 watership down or slaughter house five Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PlinytheWelder Posted July 16, 2008 Members Share Posted July 16, 2008 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert Pirsighttp://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060839872/ref=ed_oe_p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marshredder Posted July 16, 2008 Members Share Posted July 16, 2008 To Kill A Mockingbird is a very very good book. I also enjoy shakespeare The Essentials of Psycho Analysis by Freud also put a very new, fascinating spin on the way the mind works for me as well. Especially thoughts on Repression and the ego. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeloAngelo Posted July 16, 2008 Members Share Posted July 16, 2008 hop on pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jaytee123 Posted July 16, 2008 Members Share Posted July 16, 2008 watership down or slaughter house five Vonnegut FTW!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jaytee123 Posted July 16, 2008 Members Share Posted July 16, 2008 I don't read books. I'm not surprised... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members K-Bizzle Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 damn A LOT of good books listed here. I've read probably 80% of the books listed, not bad HCAF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eschatologist Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 Necronomicon..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eschatologist Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. Very interesting anti-religion book. Very good book, but I found The End of Faith by Sam Harris to be more scholarly, and incredibly convincing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chad_sux Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 Very good book, but I found The End of Faith by Sam Harris to be more scholarly, and incredibly convincing. Yes, very good and hard to argue with (if you aren't blinded by faith that is). Also, pick up "Letter to a Christian Nation" also by Sam Harris. It's a response to the crazy's that try to argue against his points. Also check out "About Time" by Paul Davies. It's a laymen version of Einsteins theory of relativity and talks a bit about black holes and theories involving that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members silverfacechamp Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (fluff reading, but a fantastic book) Utopia - Thomas More Capital - Karl Marx The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vanzant38 Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 Wealth Without Risk - Charles J. Givens 1984 - George Orwell Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right - Al Franken All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BusterBuster Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 I can't remember the name , but they talked about green eggs and ham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mparsons Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 Yes, very good and hard to argue with (if you aren't blinded by faith that is). Also, pick up "Letter to a Christian Nation" also by Sam Harris. It's a response to the crazy's that try to argue against his points. Also check out "About Time" by Paul Davies. It's a laymen version of Einsteins theory of relativity and talks a bit about black holes and theories involving that. I've been meaning to pick up those two, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members schecter player Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 The Namesake- Jhumpa Lahiri The Metamorphosis- Kafka The Stranger- Albert Camus .... just to name a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knucklefux Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 my short list of influential works, all fiction: the dark tower (all 7), stephen kinganimal farm1984brave new worldender's game basically, every one of these books touched on bits of my personal philosophy. i guess, in a way they aren't influential because they only touched on what was already there, but they also helped me put a voice to certain thoughts and feelings i had yet to express. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members nakedzen Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 Jean Paul Sartre : La Transcendance de l'Ego (I can't be arsed to look for the english name). Interestingly enough all the ideas that this book gave me were pretty different from what's said in it. Friedrich Nietzsche : anything. I guess this is why I'm such a stubborn a**hole. Mohandas Gandhi : Self biography. A very interesting read, gives you a very different picture of the "saint" of a man. Stephen Hawking : A Brief History of Time Machiavelli : The Prince I'm sure there's more but it's 6 am here and I'll have to get to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MattACaster Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 42 /thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NoodleFace Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 I've only seen the movie, was it based off this book? If so, is the book much better? I'd really like to check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JBecker Posted July 17, 2008 Author Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 I've only seen the movie, was it based off this book? If so, is the book much better? I'd really like to check it out. Where the {censored} have you been? And the movie... it was fine for fans for whom the story's holes are filled by their fond memories of the book and for whom Zooey Deschanel is awesome eye candy as Trillian. Read all 5 books, they're HILARIOUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NoodleFace Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 Where the {censored} have you been? And the movie... it was fine for fans for whom the story's holes are filled by their fond memories of the book and for whom Zooey Deschanel is awesome eye candy as Trillian. Read all 5 books, they're HILARIOUS. Thank you, and I've been right here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lightninglicks Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 ^Hitchhikers is crazy, but ever heard of this one? It's called "Walking for Dummies" by Sum Fn DummyIt's not easy to get your hands on that one so keep your eyes out if you really want it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NoodleFace Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 Good I Just ordered Hitchhiker's from amazon. Can't wait to get into it! Guys recommend any other good books in the same nature as that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TheGrimReefer Posted July 17, 2008 Members Share Posted July 17, 2008 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Anything by Vonnegut Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 1984 by Orwell Farenheit 451 by Bradbury Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Anything by H.L. Mencken A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Anything by Hunter S. Thompson The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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