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Default Any good books? - 07-12-2007, 02:11 PM

Recently I have got into reading ever since I received a notice that I was no longer aloud to watch movies at work. For those of you that read do you have any good book recommendations?


  
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Default 07-12-2007, 02:18 PM

Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun

Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Albert Camus' The Stranger

Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle


  
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Default 07-12-2007, 02:21 PM

I'm a huge Stephen King fan. Grab "The Stand". Awesome.


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Default 07-12-2007, 02:24 PM

what are you looking for or interested in? fiction, non fiction? I have gotten back into reading myself and alternate between fiction and non.

A book most people here would probably enjoy is Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Much better than the movie. I was recommended to read this book by my platoon sargent a couple years ago. Great book. It's even on the USMC reading list.

The non fiction book i'm reading now is called Hyperspace, well I guess it could kind of be fiction since it's about superstring theory and theoretical physics, but I digress.

Most people would probably recognize the author, he's on the discovery channel all the time, Michio Kaku. I'm about half way done and it's a book on theoretical physics and our universe written for the general public, not scientists. Therefore if you have a basic grasp of physics and science, you shouldn't have a problem reading it. So far i'm enjoying it a lot.
  
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Default 07-12-2007, 03:04 PM

Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Default 07-12-2007, 03:10 PM

The Collector by John Fowles
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Stranger by Albert Camus
  
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Default 07-12-2007, 03:24 PM

Robert Mason- Chickenhawk, nothin comes close.
  
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Default 07-12-2007, 03:31 PM

Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra



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Default 07-12-2007, 03:48 PM

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham


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Default 07-12-2007, 06:38 PM

I confess to not reading much but i really enjoyed "FlyBoys" by James Bradley


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Default 07-12-2007, 06:48 PM

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Default 07-13-2007, 12:54 AM

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Catcher in the Rye is always a classic same for 1984


  
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