Nolan Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 Just finished reading "Random Acts of Badness" by Danny Bonaduce. Great book. Very funny and very sad at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cypher Posted May 18, 2002 Share Posted May 18, 2002 Dune by Frank Herbert - a simply incredible book. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum Ninja by Eric von Lustbader anything by HP Lovecraft Pain God and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison anything by Louis L'amour (Edited by cypher at 7:00 am on May 18, 2002) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbadaboom Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 The Holy Bible - God SH 21-76 U.S. Army Ranger Handbook Freckles - Gene Stratton Porter Blood on the Risers - John Leppelman Black Berets and Painted Faces - Gary Linderer Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger Hit Man - Lawrence Block Hit List - " S.A.A. " Just some of my personal favorites. (Edited by Bigbadaboom at 11:04 pm on May 18, 2002) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexii Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Art of War by Sun Tzu The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Hagakure: the Way of the Samurai The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Eleven Minutes by Palo Coelho The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane The Looking Glass by Richard Paul Evans The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasonub Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 dont forget rainbow 6 by clancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsaxdog Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 nobody's mentioned the C.S. Forester series about "Horatio Hornblower", or the Patrick O'Brien series about "Jack Aubrey" (the new "Master and Commander" movie). historical fiction about the british navy at the turn of the 19th century. iron men and wooden ships, cannons at pistol shot, etc.......... you can't put em' down.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Hope the book is better than the movie. No plot, bad acting, all I learned was that it sucked to be a sailor during that time frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Some of my favorites. Science Fiction & Fantasy: Stranger In A Strange Land (Heinlein) Dune (Herbert) Stand On Zanzibar (Brunner) Gateway (Pohl) The Forever War (Haldeman) Lucifers Hammer (Pournelle/Niven) Neuromancer (Gibson) The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Tolkein) Riverworld (Farmer) History & Science: From The Jaws Of Victory (Fair) The German Wars (Goodspeed) Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (Craig) QED The Strange Theory Of Light And Matter (Feynman) A Brief History Of Time (Hawking) Popular Fiction: All Tom Clancy Novels (Not Op Center) All Stephen Hunter Novels All Ian Fleming James Bond Novels Competition Shooting: Practical Shooting (Enos) High Power Rifle (Tubb) The Competitive AR-15 (Zediker) Handloading For Competition (Zediker) -- Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Capizzo Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 One of my daughters gave me Mark Twight's "Kiss or Kill" for Christmas. Damn - its fascinating. Sometime over the summer I read " Soul Mountain" by Gao Xingjian. Definitely recommend it also. Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted January 5, 2004 Author Share Posted January 5, 2004 Al, And what about the foreword by that super-cool dude... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritinUSA Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Unintended Consequences - John Ross Treason - Ann Coulter Icons of Evolution - Jonathan Wells Fingerprints of the Gods - Graham Hancock Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Rendezvouz with Rama - Arthur C Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGH Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Louis L'amour-ALL Stephen Hunter-ALL Wilbur Smith Clive Cussler Numorous others I cant think of right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bberkley Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Starship Troopers - Heinlein Hammer's Slammers - David Drake (pretty much any of his Mercenary SciFi) Footfall, Lucifer's Hammer - Jerry Pournelle (and I think Larry Niven) Ringworld - Larry Niven Beserker series - Fred Saberhagen Dune - Frank Herbert Lord of the Rings - Tolkien Team Yankee - Harold Coyle (and pretty much everything else except his Civil War period books) Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNab anything by Dale Brown Rainbow Six & The Hunt for Red October - Clancy Red Storm Rising - Larry Bond (ghostwritten for Tom Clancy) Gates of Fire - Thomas Pressfield Killer Angels - Michael Schaara Embattled Courage - Gerald Linderman Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose (all of his WWII stuff is excellent) Death Ground: Modern American Infantry in Battle - Daniel Bolger Enders Game - Orson Scott Card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoseMech Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 any Issac Asimov book, greatest sci-fi author How to Lie with Statistics Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Flatland Heart of Darkness RoseMech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleipnir Posted January 15, 2005 Share Posted January 15, 2005 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreblePlink Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 I don't have a list to post (its pretty similar to what's here) BUT for those who may not have discovered it, probably the very best source for finding many of these titles is the online used book broker abebooks.com They represent many used book dealers with an online database search and order system that's worked well for me. Particularly for rare or out-of-print stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown Angels and Demons - Dan Brown Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - HS Thompson Anthem - Ayn Rand I read The DaVinci Code last summer and read Angels and Demons last week. Both are fantastic reads and page turners. I'm currently reading Deception Point, also by Dan Brown. It too is a page turner. Dan Brown has found a way to deliver crack via ink and paper. Anthem was a facinating read. Very simple, yet profound. I'm also reading Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand paints excellent mental pictures for me. I'm so, so happy I got my eyes tested and glasses. I've read more in the last 6 weeks than I have in the last 13 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 Dave you know 2112 is based on Anthem, right? I dug The DaVinci Code. They must be making a movie out of it. Didn't much care for his other book (Fortress?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tengu Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit- Tolkien Dune- Herbert Tortilla Flat- Steinbeck Three Musketeers and Count of Monte Cristo- Dumas Something Wicked This Way Comes- Bradbury Mars and Tarzan series- Burroughs Musashi- Yoshikawa Foundation Trilogy- Asimov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heiter Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 I guess I'm not much of a "thinker" when it comes to my favorites. I've read plenty of good classics but my true favorites tend to be strictly entertainment. I also tend to pick an author that I like and read everything I can get my hands on by that author. Louis L'amour - all W.E.B. Griffin - all John Sandford - Prey Series Dan Brown - most though I agree that Fortress and Deception Point are a little weak J.R.R. Tolkien - all Tom Clancy - most of the Ryan series but very few of his "co-authored" work Clive Cussler - although I do wish his hero's had a little more depth to their characters Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas, The Face, Velocity, & a few others. John Grisham - Primarily the ones they haven't made into movies yet Greg Iles - all so far Ted Dekker - just now getting into these. Black and I'm halfway through Red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellyn Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 Anything by Victor Davis Hanson, who is IMHO the preeminant conservative thinker of our day. While many quote history few actually know anything about it. Victor brings the past alive and uses the past to guide decision making in the present. His books include: Who Killed Homer? (about the decline of academia) Mexifornia (about the impact of Illegal Immigration in California) Carnage and Culture (about the peculiar dominence of western military power) Ripples of Battle (about the lasting effects of three battles: Okinawa, Shiloh, and Delium with a particularly interesting analysis about the American reaction to Japanese suicide tactics) The Soul of Battle (about three different leaders Epaminodas of Thebes, Sherman and Patton, their democratically inspired armies and their campaigns to free others from their elitist autocractic oppressive antidemocratic opponents: Sparta, the South, and Nazi Germany. Good stuff in an age where the U.S. is trying to bring democracy to regions where statism, tribalism and tyranny have reigned.) He also writes a weekly column for National review Online. Other good books? Killing Pablo Mark Bowden Not a Good Day to Die (about Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan) Books that I've recently read and not cared for: Guns Germs and Steel which completely ignores the effect of culture on human development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Sweeney Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 I thought Guns, Germs and Steel was fantastic. He simply looks at different variables in human progress. Rather than argue about this or that culture, or socila structure, Diamond only looked at the tools available. Hansen then builds on that (not specifically) by then addressing what social groups did what with the tools they had. The Pre-Columbian Central American cultures didn't invent the wheel because they had no draft animals. They weren't dumb, they just didn't have the tools. But cultures on the Norht and the South of the Mediteranean had the same tools, climate, animals and other resources. Why the difference? That's what Hansen chews on. Don't look at them as "one vs. the other" but two sides of a coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsb45acp Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Don't get to read as much as I used to (except for Barney, etc books to my kids . How about: Red Storm Rising Patriot Games Any of the Dune series Hot Springs and the "Bob the Nailer" books by Stephen Hunter BlackHawk Down Into Thin Air One Bullett Away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big_kahuna Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Fiction: JRR Tolkien - pretty much everything Roger Zelazny - The Amber Chronicles Frank Herbert - the Dune series Robert Heinlein - Friday, Stranger in a Strange Land, everything that man has written Isaac Aasimov - Foundation series, Robot Series, short stories Tom Clancy - his early stuff, I'm not current with his latest work Michael Crichton - Rising Sun, Eaters of the Dead Edgar Allan Poe - The Cask of Amontillado is my favorite story, but I like 'em all Non-fiction, inspriation, leadership, how-to, etc... : Pat Riley - The Winner Within Spencer Johnson - Who Moved My Cheese? James Collins & Jerry Porras - Built To Last Heinl - Handbook for Marine NCOs Hyrum Smith - The Ten Natural Laws of Time and Life Management Donald Phillips - Lincoln on Leadership Benjamin Hoff - The Tao of Pooh The Art of War for Executives (a modern business translation of Sun Tzu's original work) Miyamoto Musashi - A book of five rings as translated into English B. Enos - Practical Shooting; Beyond Fundamentals (of course) G. Edward Griffin - The Creature from Jekyll Island (a great history of the Federal Reserve) Gary Aldrich - Unlimited Access; An FBI agent inside the Clinton Whitehouse Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - The Secret Life of Bill Clinton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEricksen Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 (edited) "The Book of Five Rings" Musashi "Unintended Consequences" Ross "The God Delusion" Dawkins "The Art of War" Tzu "Zen in the Martial Arts" Hyams "The Bible" Author unknown "Bushido" Nitobe "Tao of Jeet Kune Do" Lee "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" Millman "Inner Athlete" Millman "Iron and Silk" Salzman and many others. EDIT: Latest book I really did not like: "Godless" by Ann Coulter. She is a mean spiteful hate-monger hinding under the guise of a christian conservative. Edited October 17, 2006 by TEricksen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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