Main Menu |
Most Favorited Images |
Recently Uploaded Images |
Most Liked Images |
Top Reviewers |
cockalatte |
646 |
MoneyManMatt |
490 |
Still Looking |
399 |
samcruz |
399 |
Jon Bon |
394 |
Harley Diablo |
377 |
honest_abe |
362 |
DFW_Ladies_Man |
313 |
Chung Tran |
288 |
lupegarland |
287 |
nicemusic |
285 |
You&Me |
281 |
Starscream66 |
277 |
George Spelvin |
265 |
sharkman29 |
255 |
|
Top Posters |
DallasRain | 70760 | biomed1 | 62941 | Yssup Rider | 60590 | gman44 | 53260 | LexusLover | 51038 | offshoredrilling | 48542 | WTF | 48267 | pyramider | 46370 | bambino | 42143 | CryptKicker | 37192 | The_Waco_Kid | 36513 | Mokoa | 36491 | Chung Tran | 36100 | Still Looking | 35944 | Mojojo | 33117 |
|
|
03-16-2013, 02:48 AM
|
#61
|
Upgraded Female Account
User ID: 36485
Join Date: Jul 20, 2010
Location: Longview, Texas
Posts: 2,690
My ECCIE Reviews
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by ninasastri
ha...... I still have to figure that one out ) in theory and in practice
|
The Secret..should help you understand it. Full movie of the book is on youtube.:-)
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
03-16-2013, 02:00 PM
|
#62
|
Account Disabled
User ID: 59709
Join Date: Dec 14, 2010
Location: stars
Posts: 3,680
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by SensualSpecialist
The Secret..should help you understand it. Full movie of the book is on youtube.:-)
|
Thank you I read a little a while ago, it`s a thought triggering book
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
03-17-2013, 12:41 AM
|
#63
|
Valued Poster
Join Date: Sep 16, 2012
Location: Your imagination
Posts: 3,846
|
High fantasy...Tolkein Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Tome are clearly the best. Incredible literature in Tolkein, who started it all. Incredible world building and characterization by Jordan in WOT. If you prefer a darker fantasy, Martin is great, but everyone you like at first will soon die and the series is full of sex, incest and, in general, men behaving badly. If you prefer a more shallow, preachy with much lame copying from WOT, with the worst ending in fantasy, The Sword of Truth is for you. I liked Erickson but it is crazy trying to follow the plot and characters as it is so disjointed.
Dune is the best Science Fiction series of all time, but Heinlein is great, and I enjoy Vonnegut.
I am a big fan of historical fiction. For books about Rome, try the series by Colleen McCullough That starts with The First Man in Rome about Gaius Marius and through several books leading up to Caesar and finishing with the war between Octavian and Marc Anthony. The books are full of actual letters between the antagonists that make it seem very authentic.
Another great Historical Fiction book about Spain and Cortez is Captain from Castille by Samuel Schellebarger.
The Robe and Ben Hur are also very good as was Shogun..
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
03-17-2013, 01:04 AM
|
#64
|
Gaining Momentum
Join Date: Mar 23, 2012
Location: Tulsa, OK
Posts: 90
|
Freakonomics - It will fascinate you.
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
03-18-2013, 06:04 AM
|
#65
|
Gaining Momentum
Join Date: Apr 22, 2012
Location: Omaha
Posts: 48
|
Read a fascinating book this weekend on Amelia Earhart. It is very well researched and documented. According to this book she was killed by the Japanese. I always wondered what happened to her. I find her to be kinda sexy being that she was unconventional and pushed societal norms. She was a strong, smart woman and I like that.
Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last by Mike Campbell.
|
|
Quote
| 3 users liked this post
|
03-18-2013, 08:47 AM
|
#66
|
Gaining Momentum
Join Date: Jul 2, 2012
Location: Houston
Posts: 83
|
Norwegian Wood and/or Kafka on the Shore - by Haruki Murakami
|
|
Quote
| 2 users liked this post
|
03-18-2013, 02:54 PM
|
#67
|
Valued Poster
Join Date: Sep 16, 2012
Location: Your imagination
Posts: 3,846
|
If you love math and science...
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings,Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. Brian Green explains the world according to theoretical physics in an interesting and understandable way.
The Grand Design by Steven Hawking.
If you are interested in the spiritual, The Shack and Heaven is Real are thought provoking.
|
|
Quote
| 3 users liked this post
|
03-21-2013, 03:27 PM
|
#68
|
Valued Poster
Join Date: Dec 26, 2009
Location: Up a hill...down a hill... Up a hill...down a hill...
Posts: 1,202
|
This is ALWAYS so tough....so many great books...so little time. For purposes of the language of the request here..... A (singular) book....
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
A (singular) tale, told in the form of several books, I have to go with The Baroque Cycle by Neil Stephenson. It's a trilogy:
Quicksilver
The Confusion
The System of the World
I'd argue you also need Cryptonimicon for full effect. It was written first, but takes place after the other three.
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
03-22-2013, 01:41 AM
|
#69
|
Account Disabled
User ID: 160778
Join Date: Nov 1, 2012
Location: Austin
Posts: 2,995
My ECCIE Reviews
|
Any of Chuck Palahniuk's books. They are all twisted and will hsve you on the edge of your seat.
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
03-22-2013, 05:07 PM
|
#70
|
Account Frozen
Join Date: Nov 30, 2010
Location: Houston
Posts: 5,536
|
Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer
Lords of Chaos by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
03-22-2013, 08:11 PM
|
#71
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Feb 21, 2013
Location: KS
Posts: 18
|
Great recommendations, I'm glad I found this thread! Just read The Pathfinder by Nicholas Lore, aimed at those like myself considering a career change. Very introspective read.
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
03-22-2013, 08:33 PM
|
#72
|
Account Disabled
User ID: 81791
Join Date: May 9, 2011
Location: Houston, TX and touring
Posts: 1,210
My ECCIE Reviews
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by zerodahero
Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer
Lords of Chaos by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind
|
Shut up!!! Who are you?! That is awesome.
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
03-22-2013, 09:47 PM
|
#73
|
Account Disabled
Join Date: Jun 21, 2011
Location: Gone
Posts: 2,776
|
I really like reading older children's fiction. Somehow, I find it more entertaining than adult fiction. I am wrapping up the final book in the "Gregor the Overlander" series. It was written by an author before she was made popular from "The Hunger Games." -- Suzanne Collins
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
03-22-2013, 10:47 PM
|
#74
|
Valued Poster
Join Date: Nov 17, 2010
Location: Elberta, AL
Posts: 456
|
Second the Erikson (exposition is murky, but his characters are fantastic), Butcher (Dresden files) and John Sandford (Prey, though his Virgil Flowers novels are slightly better to me. That fuckin' Flowers.) recommendations. If you like the urban fantasy, Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake series was groundbreaking in that genre, though it's become softcore vampire porn. Anything up to Obsidian Butterfly (the best) is a good read.
If you like detective fiction, Michael Connelly is solid and Robert Crais is outstanding. His Elvis Cole novels have a poetic melancholy that can just about make you cry. Harlan Coben's novels are electric but feeling kind of one note, except his Myron Bolitar books are still great.
Speaking of poetic, Guy Gavriel Kay writes historical fantasy that can take your breath away. His Wandering Fire series reads like a ripoff of the Silmarillion, but then he wrote the latter, so it's understandable. Tigana and A Song for Arbonne are incredible standalones.
For action fiction, Lee Child's series is quite readable, though Reacher is quite the ubermensch. Didn't see the movie but don't let it turn you off.
If you're a Southerner, or you want to know what it's like to be a Southerner, then Pat Conroy is a must read. The Lords of Discipline had me on pins and needles (I still hate the Citadel to this day), the Great Santini actually changed how I felt about my own father (in that I thought well maybe he's not that big an asshole as it seems), Beach Music was great, and I haven't yet gotten to read South of Broad. But his best book is one I admit I wouldn't read for a long time because Barbara Streisand starred in a movie off of it (and I detest that overrated hag), but it's simply one of the best books of the 20th or any century, so don't repeat my folly and read The Prince of Tides if you haven't already.
But the first book that popped into my head is Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth. Medieval cathedral building is a subject that fascinates me (I adore the concept of Light as God.) and he wraps a good tale around it. It made a decent miniseries with Ian Mcshane (and full female nudity!) a while back. Follet's written a sequel that's on my to read list. I don't often reread books - the curse of having a good memory is that I remember too much about them - but I've read that one two or three times.
|
|
Quote
| 2 users liked this post
|
03-23-2013, 06:58 PM
|
#75
|
Pending Age Verification
User ID: 115962
Join Date: Jan 5, 2012
Location: ...
Posts: 703
|
I'm currently reading 'the childhood roots of adult happiness' excellent easy entertaining helpful reading
|
|
Quote
| 1 user liked this post
|
|
AMPReviews.net |
Find Ladies |
Hot Women |
|