Essential What Books Are You Reading? (Book Discussion Thread)

[Pool_Shark]

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet. Real easy to read long and you learn a lot about history.

Spartacus I forget the authors name but this is one of the best books I've ever read.

Kite Runner- This one is easy to and you learn about Indian culture.

Pet Sematary-Waaaayyyy better than the movie.

 

[Regular_P]

Her shyt really hot b?


Anything in particular?

Are you into crime thrillers? If so, The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr are musts. My two favorite books. I'm surprised they haven't been turned into movies yet.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Fiction?
cain. shyt reads like a straight up action movie.
Musashi
Ragtime

and if you didn't read this in school: 1984

Non fiction
Confessions of an Economic hitman
The future of freedom
The art of mackin'

and this book might get you laughing if you like satire
How to be black

 

[Pool_Shark]

Yeah read 1984 man it's a trip. There's a movie about it, I havent seen it but at least watch the movie.

I forgot to mention the Bourne Trilogy it's nothing like the movies but fukking dope all the way. Crazy action all through out.

I know you said fiction but you should check Homicide: A Year In The Killing Streets and The Corner both by David Simon. If you like The Wire this takes you even deeper into Baltimore.

 

[Alex Cross]

Any James Patterson murder mystery book

Especially those from with the character for my screename

I usually run thru these books in a bout 2-3 days

 

[Westwood]

Song of Ice and Fire, by George RR Martin.

 

[Economics]

Brave New World -Aldous Huxley (fiction)
Brave New World Revisited (fiction)
Pimp: The Story of my life -Iceberg Slim (Game)
Any Donald Goines book (fiction)
The State Against Blacks -Walter E. Williams (nonfiction)
Any Robert Greene book (nonfiction)
Aesop's Fables -Asop (fiction)
Unrestricted Warfare (warfare beyond bounds) -Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui (game)
Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons - Phil Jackson (game)
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - by Douglas Adams (fiction)
They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators by Harold Evans (nonfiction)
The World Set Free is by H. G. Wells (fiction)
Thirty-Six Stratagems (game)
Tao of Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee (game)
Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments by T. Edward Damer (game)

 

[all day in your mouth]

Her shyt really hot b?


Anything in particular?

Check out his short stories. "Short Happy Life...", "Snows Of Mount Kilimanjaro". deep stuff, about people wasting their lives


when i first got into reading, i would only read stuff based on the plot. crime fiction like Richard Price- Clockers, Charles Willeford, or dark anti-hero stuff like Chuck Palahniuk, Hubert Selby, Henry Miller. those books are good but the classics are much better. Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Steinbeck, James Joyce, etc. they really knew how to write and those books are more rewarding imo


goodreads.com is a good site for rec's.

 

[Stepdaddy]

The Art of Mackin' - Tariq Nasheed

Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bordain

 

[CSS]

''Carte Blanche'' by Jeffery Deaver
''I am God'' by Giorgio Faletti

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

did this dude really refer to ernest hemingway as a girl?

but anyways, For Whom The Bell Tolls is a great book.

 

[tofuspeedstar]

Chuck Palanuick-Fight Club
Tucker Max-I hope they serve beer in hell
Robert Ludlum-The Bourne Identity

 

[HollywoodP]

Yeah read 1984 man it's a trip. There's a movie about it, I havent seen it but at least watch the movie.

I forgot to mention the Bourne Trilogy it's nothing like the movies but fukking dope all the way. Crazy action all through out.

I know you said fiction but you should check Homicide: A Year In The Killing Streets and The Corner both by David Simon. If you like The Wire this takes you even deeper into Baltimore.

didn't much care for this book...it was alright...not a bad book...nothing special tho.

 

[Cal Cutta]

I tend to stick towards the more well-known classics for novels.

Dostoyevsky and Kafka are my favorite novelists. Franz Kafka's "The Trial" is what I recommend to everyone.

 

[all day in your mouth]

i was surprised when i read Dostoyevsky. Notes From The Underground has the same feel as Fight Club & was written almost 200 years ago (doesn't seem aged at all). shows that not much has changed