benos Posted June 14, 2001 Share Posted June 14, 2001 Post your favorite books here. If you add to your list, use the "edit" function of your original message - it will keep the thread more organized. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonedaddy Posted June 14, 2001 Share Posted June 14, 2001 Brave New World--Aldous Huxley After Many A Summer, Dies the Swan--Aldous Huxley (loads of Karma at the end!) East Of Eden--John Steinbeck We The Living--Ayn Rand (almost her autobiography) Atlas Shrugged--Ayn Rand I, Thou--Martin Buber The Confessions of Augustin Practical Shooting, Beyond Fundamentals--Brian Enos The Fourth Turning-Strauss&Howe The Sovereign Individual- James Dale Davidson The Republic--Plato Zero Coupon-- Paul Erdman (financial thriller) The Last Days of America--Paul Erdman (the Tom Clancey of finance) Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting--Ed McGivern (A study in greatness, through humility) Ecclesiastes--Solomon Death in the Tall Grass--Peter Hathaway Capstick To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth!--Jeff Cooper (Edited by bonedaddy at 2:04 am on June 14, 2001) (Edited by bonedaddy at 2:08 am on June 14, 2001) (Edited by bonedaddy at 11:16 am on June 17, 2001) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted June 14, 2001 Share Posted June 14, 2001 one I am reading right now... Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea this book is all about how our number system came to be and how, for the longest time, zero was not a part of it. you have no notion how powerful that number is... good read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H Posted June 14, 2001 Share Posted June 14, 2001 Unintended Consequences-John Ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonedaddy Posted June 14, 2001 Share Posted June 14, 2001 Big Dave, I never thought about it, but your right. Zero, you can't have "nothing" with out it! Bill H, I have got to read Unintendend Consequences! Rave reviews from many friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 Rogue Warrior Bravo Two Zero Marine Sniper (Carlos Hathcock) Tom Clancy series Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Schwab Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 Unintended Consequences is the best. The cheapest place to buy it is Fred's M14 Stocks, he advertises in Shotgun News. But be prepared, it's 860 pages long. Bill Schwab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 (edited) A Man in Full T. Wolfe All Quiet on the Western Front E.M. Remarque The Ashes of Waco D.J. Reavis Atlas Shrugged A. Rand Captain Corelli's Mandolin L. de Bernieres Cold Mountain C. Frasier * The da Vinci Code D. Brown Ender's Game O.S. Card Enemy at the Gates W. Craig Farewell to the King P. Schoendoerffer Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas H.S. Thompson The Fountainhead A. Rand Gates of Fire S. Pressfield Get Shorty E. Leonard The Hunt for Red October T. Clancy The Lion's Game N. DeMille Metzger's Dog T. Perry The Moon is a Harsh Mistress R. Heinlein Point of Impact S. Hunter Polar Star M.C. Smith Six Silent Men R. Martinez Smilla's Sense of Snow P. Hoag Snow Falling on CedarsD. Guterson Unintended Consequences J. Ross * This will be an American classic. Edited January 6, 2004 by Erik Warren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenard Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 Pat, we've been buying the same books! :-) I'll add - PS- Beyond Fundamentals The Inner game of Golf The Tao of Jeet Kun Do Lessons from the Edge The Art of the Deal - Donald Trump Book of Combat Handgunnery - Chuck Taylor All Frederick Forsyth novels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 I meant to add Brians book but I thought it was a given that it was on everyones favorite book list. How 'bout 'Saber Squadron' and 'All Necessary Measures' by Cameron Spence. Pat (Edited by Pat Harrison at 10:52 am on June 15, 2001) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonedaddy Posted June 16, 2001 Share Posted June 16, 2001 Pat ditto to all your selections, I couldn't think of the titles to Dick Marcinco's books. Doom on Bonedaddy! Lenard, one of the best opening lines I ever read in a book was from Forsythe's "The Fist of God". I think it was "The man with ten minutes left to live was laughing." Man, what a hook, I had to keep reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenard Posted June 16, 2001 Share Posted June 16, 2001 Hey Bonedaddy ,if you like Dick Marcinko, you'll love Andy McNabb's Crisis 4 and Remote Control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonedaddy Posted June 17, 2001 Share Posted June 17, 2001 Yeah, I did like Remote Control, I hadn't heard of Crisis 4. I'll put it on my winter reading list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Chevalier Posted June 18, 2001 Share Posted June 18, 2001 Interesting demographic here - a psych student's wet dream... Top of my list remains Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - my daughter's name is Dagny, enough said. All the Clancy, Forsyth, McNabb, Demo Dick et. al. but I did miss a few of my favorites Anything by Jack Higgins featuring any of Liam Devlin, Sean Dillon or Martin Brosnan, despite a proclivity for Walther PPKs Original Ludlum - not the co-authored crap he never really wrote, try The Matarese Circle first Robert B. Parker - any of the Spenser novels. Most of us are fairly autonomous people - Spenser and Hawk are autonomy defined Early Eric Van Lustbader - great insight into the oriental mind Go Rin No Sho - Musashi - makes you think More to come... Ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Chevalier Posted June 18, 2001 Share Posted June 18, 2001 Did anyone else catch that the WWII vintage sniper in Clancy's The Bear and The Dragon is the same sniper in Enemy at the Gate - a fellow called Zaitsev? Ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellyn Posted June 19, 2001 Share Posted June 19, 2001 Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire and The Tides of War are the best fiction that I've read lately. Jack O'Connor is the greatest hunting/shooting author that ever lived but his best book is Horse and Buggy West about growing up in preWWI Tempe, AZ. Hard to get but worth it. Anything by John Keegan is excellent particularly The Face of Battle, The Second World War and History of warfare.Stephen Ambrose Undaunted Courage is good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 21, 2001 Share Posted June 21, 2001 - Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, There's No Such Place As Far Away, The Bridge Across Forever - Michael Bane - All Night Radio - Roger Bannister - The Four Minute Mile - Cliver Barker - Weaveworld - Ruth Bernhardt - The Eternal Body - Anne Bishop - The Black Jewels Trilogy (Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness), Dreams Made Flesh - Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 - John Brunner - The Whole Man - Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - Edward Bryant - Particle Theory, Cinnabar, Wyoming Sun - Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Mucker - Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game, Characters & Viewpoint - Jonathan Carroll - Bones of the Moon - Jeff Cooper - Principles of Personal Defense - Scott Corbett - The Baseball Bargain - Larry Correia - Monster Hunter International, Monster Hunter Vendetta - Chris Crutcher - Athletic Shorts, The Crazy Horse Electic Game - Samuel R. Delany - Babel-17, Nova - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Harlan Ellison - Shatterday - Brian Enos - Practical Shooting: Beyond Fundamentals - Philip Jose Farmer - Image of the Beast - Raymond E. Feist - Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness At Sethanon - John Fowles - The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman - Dick Francis - Odds Against, Whip Hand, Come to Grief, Break In, Bolt - W. Timothy Gallwey - The Inner Game of Tennis - Dave Grossman - On Combat - William H. Hallahan - The Keeper of the Children - Laurell K. Hamilton - the Anita Blake novels - Robert A. Heinlein - The Puppet Masters; Citizen of the Galaxy; Have Spacesuit, Will Travel; Starship Troopers; Stranger in a Strange Land; I Will Fear No Evil; Time Enough for Love; Expanded Universe; Friday - Christina Henry - Black Wings - James Herriott - All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful - Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon - Stephen King - Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, It, Insomnia - James Kirkland - Good Times/Bad Times, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, Hit Me With a Rainbow - Dean R. Koontz - The Watcher, Twilight Eyes, Cold Fire, Dragon Tears - Laird Koenig - The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane - Louise Lawrence - The Earth Witch - Jospeph Michael Linsner - Angry Christ Comix, Dawn: Lucifer's Halo - Barry B. Longyear - Manifest Destiny - Joshua & Jonathan Luna - Ultra: Seven Days - George R.R. Martin - Windhaven, Fevre Dream - Richard Matheson - The Shrinking Man, Hell House, I Am Legend - Julian May - The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Nonborn King, The Adversary - Anne McCaffrey - The Ship Who Sang - Vonda McIntyre - Superluminal - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - The Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Lloyd - V for Vendetta - Daniel Keyes Moran - Emerald Eyes, The Long Run, The Last Dancer - Garth Nix - Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Mr. Monday - James O'Barr - The Crow - Kevin O'Donnell - Bandersnatch - Peter O'Donnell - all the Modesty Blaise books EXCEPT Cobra Trap - George Orwell - 1984 - Steve Perry - The Trinity Vector - Christopher Pike - Sati - Kin Platt - The Blue Man, Sinbad and Me - Richard S. Prather - the Shell Scott books - Tom Reamy - Blind Voices, San Diego Lightfoot Sue & Other Stories - John Ringo - A Hymn Before Dying, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, Hell's Faire, Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain, Unto the Breach, A Deeper Blue - Spider Robinson - Mindkiller, Callahan's Lady, Lady Slings the Booze, User Friendly - J.K. Rowling - all the Harry Potter books - Jessica Amanda Salmonson - The Swordswoman - L. Neil Smith - Pallas (sequel! sequel!) - Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron, Child of Fortune, The Void Captain's Tale - Richard Stallman - The Orphan, The Captive, The Beast - Theodore Sturgeon - The Dreaming Jewels - Duane Thomas - The Truth About Handguns - The Art of Speedreading People by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger - Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn - John Varley - Titan, Wizard, Demon, Blue Champagne - Joan D. Vinge - Eyes of Amber, Tin Soldier - Kurt Vonnetut, Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions - Al Voth - B-Zone, Mandatory Reload - Mark Waid & Alex Ross - Kingdom Come - Robert F. Young - Starfinder, The Last Yggdrasill, Eridahn, The Vizier's Second Daughter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Allusions Posted June 24, 2001 Share Posted June 24, 2001 Here are some of my favorite books: A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Bored of the Rings Harvard Lampoon Dune Frank Herbert It Takes a Village Hillary R. Clinton NOT! (Gotcha!) Metamagical Themas Douglas R. Hofstadter Relativity: The Special and the General Theory Albert Einstein The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels NOT! (Gotcha!) The Helix and the Sword John McLoughlin The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien The Real Frank Zappa Book Frank Zappa The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich : A History of Nazi Germany William Shirer The Virtue of Selfishness Ayn Rand Titan, Wizard and Demon John Varley In General: Anything by Ayn Rand Anything by Brian Enos (Obligatory sucking-up) Anything by H.P. Lovecraft Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Anything by Larry Niven Anything by Mark Twain Anything by Robert Heinlein (TANSTAAFL!) Anything by Tom Clancy Anything by William Gibson The cheesy Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake Those wacky Carlos Castaneda books Gee, I didn't see It Takes a Village on anyone else's list. Where's the social conscience around here? LOA LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted June 25, 2001 Share Posted June 25, 2001 I can't believe I left this off of my first post, but along the same lines as Brian's book (something about obvious things in front of your nose...) The World's Most Dangerous Places (3rd and 4th ed.) Robert Young Pelton considered by many as "the best souce of non-classified intelligence available" great info (i actually now know more about landmines than I will ever care to know) - actually very funny also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted June 25, 2001 Share Posted June 25, 2001 BigDave...Would that be the book or the landmines that are funny Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted June 26, 2001 Share Posted June 26, 2001 uhh, the writing is humorus (not the leg bone either), landmines definately are not, at least not the abandoned ones... (Edited by BigDave at 7:33 am on June 26, 2001) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted June 26, 2001 Share Posted June 26, 2001 I can't remember who it was, maybe George Carlin, who did a skit on adding stuff like landmines to the game of baseball to make it more interesting..lol Did classes on locating landmines in the army...no fun at all! Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted July 5, 2001 Author Share Posted July 5, 2001 In no particular order: The Flight of the Eagle - Basically, anything by J. Krishnamurti On mind and Thought - K Think on these Things - K The Urgency of Change - K A Separate Reality - Carlos Castaneda Journey to Ixtlan - Castaneda Tales of Power - Castaneda Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse Sidhartha - Herman Hesse Dhammapada - translated by Thomas Cleary The Teachings of the Buddha - Buddhist Promotion Foundation Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind - Shunryu Suzuki The Way and the Power - Fredrick Lovret What Are You? - Imelda Octavia Shanklin Alice and Wonderland - Lewis Carrol Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Seven Arrows - Hymemeyohsts Storm The Adventure of Self-Discovery - Stanislov Grof Relativity Visualized - Lewis Carol Epstein Schrodinger’s Cat - can’t remember (a Quantum Physics introduction) The Holotropic Mind - Stanislov Grof The Blue Cilff Record - translated by Thomas Cleary Book of Serenity - translated by Thomas Cleary Minding Mind - translated by Thomas Cleary Kensho - translated by Thomas Cleary Boddhidharma - translated by Red Pine The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion - Thich Nhat Hanh Golf in the Kingdom - Michael Murphy The Denkoroku, or The Transmission of Light - (Zen master Keizan) - translated by P.T.N.H. Jiyu-Kennett and Hurbert Nearman, or translation by Thomas Cleary The Transmission of the Lamp - translated by Sohaku Ogata Mud and Water (Zen master Bassui) - translated by Aurthur Braverman Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Pistol Shooters Treasury - published by Gil Heberd Experiments of a Handgunner - Walter Roper Shooting - J Henry Fitzgerald Hatchers Notebook - Julian Hatcher Complete Book of Rifles and Shotguns - Jack O’connor Successful Shooting - Bill Pullum and Hanenkrat Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting - Ed McGivern Boxing - Edwin Haslet Tao of Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee Principles of Personal Defense - Jeff Cooper Cooper on Handguns - Jeff Cooper On Learning Golf - Percy Boomer Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book - Harvey Penick The Wisdom of Harvey Penick - Harvey Penick Bobby Jones on Golf - Bobby Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razorsedge555 Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, The Puppet Masters, and Friday - all by Robert Heinlein Beneath the Wheel - Hermann Hesse The Stranger - Albert Camus Childhood's End -by Arthur C. Clarke Anthem -by Ayn Rand The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - all by Philip K. Dick Small is Beautiful - by E. F. Schumacher Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive - all by William Gibson V. and The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Dynamic Strength by Harry Wong The Truth about Self Defense by Massad Ayoob Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Unseen Hand - can't remember the author of this one At the Mountains of Madness, and anything else by H.P. Lovecraft The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles ( Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone ) Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, and Henry V; Richard III, Hamlet, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, and King Lear - all by William Shakespeare Naked Lunch by William Burroughs The Odyssey by Homer The Republic of Plato - ed. Bloom The Male Herbal by James Green It's a Conspiracy by The National Insecurity Council The Face of Battle by John Keegan Street without Joy by Bernard Fall ( required reading for those interested in the Vietnam War ) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli The Art of War by Sun Tzu The Devil's Guard by George Robert Elford ( ex-Waffen SS in the French Foreign Legion, in Indochina - riveting ) Enemy at the Gates - er...can't remember this author either, but it's better than the movie The Long Afternoon of Earth by Brian Aldiss Shatterday and Demon with a Glass Hand - both by Harlan Ellison Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 1984 and Animal Farm - both by George Orwell The Complete Book of Knife Fighting by William L. Cassidy A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Remarque The Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim - both by Joseph Conrad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Thompson Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 I'll keep this short. Fiction: 1.)James Lee Burke, anything by him. Purple Cane Road was an awsome ending to the Dave Robicheaux series. 2.) T. Jefferson Parker, anything by him 3.) Micahael Connelly, dotto 4.) Robert Crais, ditto NON FICTION 1.) Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden 2.) The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sayer I can't recomend these above listed two books enough. 3.) The Mental Edge by Gary Baum 4.) Verbal Judo by George Thompson 5.) The Bible 6.) All's Quiet on the Western Front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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