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11-20-2013, 08:44 AM
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I have enjoyed all the Lee Child "Jack Reacher" books.
The new Sycamore Row by John Grisham
And probably one of the best I have ever read.... The Book Thief
BTW, a LOT of good recommendations here.
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11-20-2013, 06:44 PM
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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch
My favorite book of all time. it's not touchy feely, and I heard one person describe it as brutally beautiful , but I reread it often.
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12-15-2013, 06:46 PM
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12-15-2013, 08:16 PM
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Richard Hell's Go Now. Just writing the title brings back dirty thoughts about hotel front desk clerks.
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12-16-2013, 09:06 AM
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The Past through Tomorrow by Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
2 of the best books I have ever read
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12-18-2013, 11:27 PM
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Southern Ladies and Gentlemen by Florence King. The amusing survey of the sociosexual mores of the South including: The good ole’ boy, the dear old thing, the delectable belle, the Jezebelle and the town fairy.
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. The fictional account of a small town lawman who was psychopathic sadist.
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. A very readable account of a technical writers thoughts regarding his struggles in academia, his recurring mental illness, a deep rift in Western philosophy, narrated while on a road trip across the northern states by motorcycle.
The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. About the events leading up to the emotional breakdown of a prep school lad. The anecdote about his disastrous encounter with a prostitute and pimp hit home.
1984 by George Orwell. A very powerful story of an everyman’s struggle to find love and meaning in a nightmarish, totalitarian world.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. A science fiction vision of a utopian world written during the 1930’s that predicted a breakdown of Puritanical sexual morality, oral contraceptives, mass use of brainwashing, universal acceptance of recreational narcotic use, test tube conception, mass consumption of cheap consumer goods, worship of Henry Ford as a deity and Accountants (Controller) running the whole world.
The Age of Triage by Richard L. Rubenstein. An examination of genocide being used since the Tudor Period, thru the Irish Potato Famine, to the Holocaust, then to the expulsion of the ethnic Chinese from Communist Vietnam as a solution to the problem of mass surplus population. The underlying theme is that you better hope you are not in the way of the creative destruction of economic change.
The Green Felt Jungle by Ed Reid & Ovid Demaris. An exposé of the Las Vegas of the Rat Pack era when, “a conservative 10 per cent (of the local population) are in one way or another engaged in the pursuit of prostitution”, and when the Mob’s domination was so absolute that you needed a permit to rob a liquor store.
The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad. The scathing description of America’s white underclass, showing its origin during the Colonial period as the one-half of white immigrants who came to the New World indentured, usually for the underlying crime of being part of the surplus population of England and Ireland.
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. The best selling history of the months immediately preceding and immediately after the beginning of World War One. The description about how “Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans” (Bismarck) led to a mind numbingly violent clash of the mighty empires of Europe.
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12-21-2013, 05:58 PM
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The Last Madam by Christine Wiltz
I read mostly nonfiction and I like to read books that take place in my favorite cities. One of my faves is The Last Madam. It's a great read and fun to then do a walking tour of all the places mentioned in the book.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/3....30lewist.html
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12-25-2013, 02:03 AM
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This is How You Lose Her. Junot Diaz
Became a huge fan after he lived up to all hype surrounding The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. This new collection is not quite in that league, but at turns funny, sad, insightful and no one puts that Caribbean male machismo/swagger on the spot like Junot.
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12-26-2013, 08:28 PM
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The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad. The scathing description of America’s white underclass, showing its origin during the Colonial period as the one-half of white immigrants who came to the New World indentured, usually for the underlying crime of being part of the surplus population of England and Ireland.
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Ever heard of his magazine Answer Me? I have seen it reviewed in some metal fanzines back in the day. You know before the internet.
Check out his website. It is politically incorrect!
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12-26-2013, 08:54 PM
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Chasing a Cowgirl
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Heinlein's: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Excellent commentary of a future civil war in Earth's near future.
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12-28-2013, 01:45 AM
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
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12-28-2013, 11:15 AM
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
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duh dictionary.
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12-28-2013, 12:08 PM
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duh dictionary.
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If you are trying to start your drama here, Yssup, please don't.
This forum is so champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
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12-28-2013, 12:47 PM
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" Once Were Warriors" is a must. Also "Ten Thousand Sorrows"
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12-28-2013, 04:42 PM
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" Once Were Warriors" is a must.
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It was a powerful movie, with a powerful soundtrack. Probably well worth a read, I may give it a go. I suspect it reads like The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams by Nasdijj. I thought Nasdijj's story about a Navajo child dying from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was a powerful story when I believed it to be non-fiction. Years later, I discovered the author had conned everybody, and his book was fiction.
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