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All Time Favorite Books Thread
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lol reading isn't just for nerds
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I am a huge fan of Orson Scott Card's Ender Series. Most people have heard of Ender's Game, even before the movie. And the book is great. But imo, his series doesn't get its meat until Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Some of the most forward thinking, smartest hard scifi ever written imo. Too bad it turns out the author is a complete fucked up wackjob psycho.
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Whatever, poindexter.
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Moscow to the end of the line
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Master and Margarita
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Master and Margarita
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I never heard of any of those. Gonna have to check em out.
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Pop. 1280 - Jim Thompson
The Evil Inside Me - Jim Thompson
The Book of the New Sun (Series) - Gene Wolfe
The Hunter - Richard Stark
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
That's a brief list....
The Evil Inside Me - Jim Thompson
The Book of the New Sun (Series) - Gene Wolfe
The Hunter - Richard Stark
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
That's a brief list....
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out of the ashes apocalyptic series was kinda fun but got repetitive
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Besides the obvious for me...
The Little Mouse That Roared
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I don't necessarily have favorites, but I did remember this excellent tome just now when someone told me I must not understand the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Probably the best written/most honest/unbiased book i've read on the conflict i've ever read. It really isn't about the whole conflict, but it's really good at explaining what was going on in Lebanon at the time of the civil wars/Israeli invasion, etc.
Most of the stuff that's coming out now is horribly slanted and has an obvious agenda.....I don't usually like those types of books even if I agree with the agenda.
Probably the best written/most honest/unbiased book i've read on the conflict i've ever read. It really isn't about the whole conflict, but it's really good at explaining what was going on in Lebanon at the time of the civil wars/Israeli invasion, etc.
Most of the stuff that's coming out now is horribly slanted and has an obvious agenda.....I don't usually like those types of books even if I agree with the agenda.
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I just cracked open House of Leaves last night.
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I don't necessarily have favorites, but I did remember this excellent tome just now when someone told me I must not understand the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Probably the best written/most honest/unbiased book i've read on the conflict i've ever read. It really isn't about the whole conflict, but it's really good at explaining what was going on in Lebanon at the time of the civil wars/Israeli invasion, etc.
Most of the stuff that's coming out now is horribly slanted and has an obvious agenda.....I don't usually like those types of books even if I agree with the agenda.
Ima Friedman fan. If you like that, you should check this out for sure:
"A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world."
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I'm a Medieval history buff and focus on the period between 1399 and 1603. My favorite book is Henry VIII by Lacey Baldwin Smith. Unlike the usual treatment of him, this offers some interesting insight into why he did what he did.
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If you have read your favorite book why read anything else?
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Dragonlance. Shit, I forgot all about those. Good stuff.
But seriously, if you can get through it, Count of Monte Cristo is a GREAT fucking book.
But seriously, if you can get through it, Count of Monte Cristo is a GREAT fucking book.
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I'm a Medieval history buff and focus on the period between 1399 and 1603. My favorite book is Henry VIII by Lacey Baldwin Smith. Unlike the usual treatment of him, this offers some interesting insight into why he did what he did.
Have you seen this Ommy? Its fucking great:
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Yeah, its one of those that everyone should read.
Surprised you listed Fountainhead. I liked that book a lot as a story, but it presented such a twisted almost psychopath view of the world.
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Crime and punishment
Top three in my short life.
Catch 22
Crime and punishment
Top three in my short life.
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