Book Reccomendations?

[Soul_Patch]

going to be in the hospital starting tomorrow through friday most likely due to a surgery i have to have done.

Anyone suggest a book or two that are interesting? Im not much of a book reader, but i have a feeling im going to be bored beyond belief.

[hater]

"Junky"

[mrsmaalox]

Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up - a Woefully Incomplete Guide
by Bob Harris

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ISBN=9780307394361&ourl=Who%2DHates%2DWhom%2FBob%2DHarris

I read this book last summer; easy to read, educational and funny.

[duncan228]

Hope all goes well for you with your surgery Soul Patch.

[dickface]

http://www.amazon.com/Alphabet-Manliness-Maddox/dp/080652720X

you're welcome.

[Squid]

There is only one book.

The Bible.

[I. Hustle]

I like to read the Dexter series of books since I like the show. Plus just about anything by Dean Koontz

[Spurminator]

What do you usually like to read?

[I. Hustle]

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[PakiDan]

Dies the Fire by S.M Sterling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_the_Fire is the best book I've read in a long time. It's about what happens to the world after a pulse kills everything electric. Good read.

[Soul_Patch]

Awesome, thanks guys. Im out to the Barnes and Nobles in a few, and ill take a look at the reccomendations here.

Hopefully if all go's well im out of the hospital by Friday!

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Where the Red Fern Grows

[Heath Ledger]

Anarchist Cookbook is a must read.

[j-6]

Dies the Fire by S.M Sterling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_the_Fire is the best book I've read in a long time. It's about what happens to the world after a pulse kills everything electric. Good read.

Great plug. By the way, if you've gotten into the Sunrise Lands (first book of series 20+ years later) the author has the first ten chapters up of the sequel on his website, called The Scourge of God.

http://smstirling.com/

[TheTruth]

anything by Michael Chabon

[ORION]

I'll let you borrow a bunch of my Texas Fish and Games mags

[I. Hustle]

I'll let you borrow a bunch of my Texas Fish and Games mags

Yeah but all the pages are stuck together

[balli]

7 Seconds or Less- Jack McCallum (about the PHO Suns)
To the Hoop- Ira Berkow (non-fiction about pickup hoops)
Watership Down- Richard Adams (Story about talking rabbits, it'll keep you entertained)
Old School- Tobias Wolff (it's a fiction book about the process of writing fiction. Pretty good)

The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoyevsky (How much time you plan to spend reading?)

Under the Banner of Heaven- Jon Krakauer (If you ever wanted to know exactly why and how much of a fucked up cult mormonism is, this book is for you)

Anything by Orhan Pamuk

[Fabbs]

Anthem by Ayn Rand. It's only about an hour and a halfs read. 3-4 hours for Texans.

Never mind her other books, and change the ending to Anthem. Otherwise fabulous.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ISBN=9780451191137&ourl=Anthem%2FAyn%2DRand

Anthem is a dystopian, science-fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for example, the word "I" has disappeared from the language). As is common in her work, Rand draws a clear distinction between the "socialist/communal" values of equality and brotherhood and the "productive/capitalist" values of achievement and individuality.

[1369]

A few I've read recently and enjoyed...

Snow Crash-Neal Stephenson
American Gods-Neil Gaiman
Pattern Recognition-William Gibson
The Gift Of Valor-Michael Phillips
Stranger In A Strange Land-Robert Heinlien
Old Man's War-John Scalzi
The Helldiver's Rodeo-Humberto Fontava
Collapse-Jared Diamond
1491-Charles Mann
The Razor's Edge-W. Somerset Maugham
Tales from Margaritaville-Jimmy Buffett
Kingdom Of Fear-Hunter S. Thompson
Killing Pablo-Mark Bowden
The Electric Church-Jeff Somers

[Anti.Hero]

I am Legend, the book.

Audiobooks FTW.

[balli]

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[Vinnie_Johnson]

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a must read.

[Trainwreck2100]

last time i was in the hosp i got the first book of the 12 part series "The Wheel of Time" Long story short the authors dead after 11 books so only read if you want a severe case of the litterary blue balls

[Thunder Dan]

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My favorite books

[leemajors]

A few I've read recently and enjoyed...

Snow Crash-Neal Stephenson
American Gods-Neil Gaiman
Pattern Recognition-William Gibson
The Gift Of Valor-Michael Phillips
Stranger In A Strange Land-Robert Heinlien
Old Man's War-John Scalzi
The Helldiver's Rodeo-Humberto Fontava
Collapse-Jared Diamond
1491-Charles Mann
The Razor's Edge-W. Somerset Maugham
Tales from Margaritaville-Jimmy Buffett
Kingdom Of Fear-Hunter S. Thompson
Killing Pablo-Mark Bowden
The Electric Church-Jeff Somers

American Gods was great.

[leemajors]

anything by Michael Chabon

i didn't care for anything but Kavalier and Klay, but i haven't read his new one. Wonder Boys was awful.

[Xylus]

Try The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.


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[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Of course, you can just bring your Gameboy.

[PakiDan]

7 Seconds or Less- Jack McCallum (about the PHO Suns)
To the Hoop- Ira Berkow (non-fiction about pickup hoops)
Watership Down- Richard Adams (Story about talking rabbits, it'll keep you entertained)
Old School- Tobias Wolff (it's a fiction book about the process of writing fiction. Pretty good)

The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoyevsky (How much time you plan to spend reading?)

Under the Banner of Heaven- Jon Krakauer (If you ever wanted to know exactly why and how much of a fucked up cult mormonism is, this book is for you)

Anything by Orhan Pamuk

First, let me state that I am not Mormon, nor do I condone or believe most of their practices, but if you are going to knock a religion, at least be factful about it. Under the banner of heaven is written from the perspective of a quack FUNDAMENTALIST (splinter group) LDS group not mainstream Mormonism. Remember the guy written about in the book was EXCOMMUNICATED from the Mormon church. This is like blasting Seventh Day Adventists for being Branch Davidians... which they weren't and aren't.

[manufor3]

the dangerous days of daniel x
by james patterson

[balli]

First, let me state that I am not Mormon, nor do I condone or believe most of their practices, but if you are going to knock a religion, at least be factful about it. Under the banner of heaven is written from the perspective of a quack FUNDAMENTALIST (splinter group) LDS group not mainstream Mormonism. Remember the guy written about in the book was EXCOMMUNICATED from the Mormon church. This is like blasting Seventh Day Adventists for being Branch Davidians... which they weren't and aren't.

I disagree. It isn't written from anybody's perspective per se. Rather, it examines the FLDS faith and that of regular mormonism as well. Both of them extensively, because well, although they are seperate groups today, their histories are intertwined and any decent examination of the FLDS demands an examination of mainstream mormonism as well.

Quite frankly the FLDS are not some quack splinter group; FLDS is basically mormonism in it's original form. If anything, mainstream mormonism is a splinter group of FLDS and this book goes into a lot of detail about the history and relationship between said "religions".

Anyway, the central point of the book is that it looks to both groups as a means to show how easily kook religions can turn people into fundamentalist murderers.

I like it because I'm full on bigoted in a Hitleresque way about mormonism and while this book is more about religious extremism than anything else, in reaching it's conclusions, it completely dismantles the LDS faith and its FLDS counterpart. I find that gratifying.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Try The Dawkins Delusion by Alister McGrath.

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[Ronaldo McDonald]

Try The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.


http://www.twosevenone.com/v2/journal/uploaded_images/god%20delusion-728768.jpg

:lmao

Is this a joke?

Who would want to read about a book that says there is no God while in a hospital?

[balli]

Get Dawkins and this McGrath guy out of here. Just a bunch of post-modern, wanna-be philosophical, divisive bullshit. These clowns have nothing to say that hasn't been said hundreds of years earlier and in much better ways by Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Pascal and St. Augustine.

Fuck Hitchens too.

[1369]

Under The Banner Of Heaven bored the shit out of me. Into Thin Air and Into The Wild were much better efforts by Krakauer.

[balli]

Under The Banner Of Heaven bored the shit out of me. Into Thin Air and Into The Wild were much better efforts by Krakauer.

That's fuuny. I'm like the exact opposite. I read Into the Wild once years ago and I remember liking it, but I've tried to read Into Thin Air a few times now and I just can't get into it. It's odd because it's widely regarded as his best book, but damn, even though I'm big time into climbing and alpine adventure myself, something about it just bores the living shit out of me and I give up very early every time I attempt to read it.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Get Dawkins and this McGrath guy out of here. Just a bunch of post-modern, wanna-be philosophical, divisive bullshit. These clowns have nothing to say that hasn't been said hundreds of years earlier and in much better ways by Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Pascal and St. Augustine.

Fuck Hitchens too.


Personally, I agree. That's why I try to limit my reading to Playboy and MotorTrend.

[1369]

That's fuuny. I'm like the exact opposite. I read Into the Wild once years ago and I remember liking it, but I've tried to read Into Thin Air a few times now and I just can't get into it. It's odd because it's widely regarded as his best book, but damn, even though I'm big time into climbing and alpine adventure myself, something about it just bores the living shit out of me and I give up very early every time I attempt to read it.

That is funny.

If you want to read something that truly is a mind fuck and will stay with you long after you finish the book, pick up "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

[balli]

Personally, I agree. That's why I try to limit my reading to Playboy and MotorTrend.
:lol
Hell Yeah!


If you want to read something that truly is a mind fuck and will stay with you long after you finish the book, pick up "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.
Good hell, that book looks crazy. I haven't read McCarthy before, but he sounds cool. Thx for the tip.

[MagnusKrauss]

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

good enough for a hospital stay.

get well soon.