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

[KOTK]

Not an easy read, but he takes you on a ride for the ages. It's the realest book I ever set my eyes on, a free-spirited semi-autobiographical novel with philosophical rambling sprinkled here and there.

I got bored of this about 2/3s through but reading the first dozen pages or so aloud over my housemates' shyt band practise was kind of fun.

 

[Killer Instinct]

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game (1985) is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card.[1] Set in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the Formics (an insectoid alien species normally called "Buggers" by most of the population). These aliens show an ant-like group behavior, and are very protective of their leader, much like Earth ants protecting their queen. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, an international fleet maintains a school to find and train future fleet commanders. The world's most talented children, including the novel's protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are taken at a very young age to a training center known as the Battle School. There, teachers train them in the arts of war through increasingly difficult games including ones undertaken in zero gravity in the Battle Room where Ender's tactical genius is revealed.

It gets deeper, but it's a great book.

 

[5n0man]

Who reads in here?

I need some recs man. I don't feel like reading the typical shyt I read. I usually read books like Psycho-Cybernetics. I want to sit down with a good novel

try thunderland

and i highly recommend a song of fire and ice series

 

[5n0man]

coldest winter ever is dope too

 

[Primetime21]

This is one of my favorites..Its like armageddon survival and black philosophy rolled into one, I couldn't put it down once I started reading it. Felt so real

Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people. Parable of the Sower is a hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States of walled cities, disease, fires, and madness. Lauren Olamina is an 18-year-old woman with hyperempathy syndrome--if she sees another in pain, she feels their pain as acutely as if it were real. When her relatively safe neighborhood enclave is inevitably destroyed, along with her family and dreams for the future, Lauren grabs a backpack full of supplies and begins a journey north. Along the way, she recruits fellow refugees to her embryonic faith, Earthseed, the prime tenet of which is that "God is change." This is a great book--simple and elegant, with enough message to make you think, but not so much that you feel preached to.

Reading Nelson Mandela's autobiography Long Walk to Freedom right now which is great

 

[Red Omega]

the alchemist.

 

[concise]

I post stuff that hasn't already been mentioned


Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business - Neil Postman
The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media - Noam Chomsky

 

[Trajan]

fellow posters,

can we get e-books?

Where do you guys go to DL that piff?

I need to bootleg some shyt.

 

[ogc163]

Frederic Bastiat-The Law

 

[ogc163]

Randall Kennedy-Sellout
Richard Thompson Ford-The Race Card
Ralph Richard Banks-Is Marriage for White People
Stanley Crouch-Notes of a Hanging Judge
E. Franklin Frazier-The Black Bourgeoisie

 

[all day in your mouth]

<--- Wasn't feeling this one at all, but I recommended it anyway.

i liked the Marable book a lot. showed how flawed & human Malcolm was and increased my respect for him.

if you're into philosophy, check out one of Malcolm's favorite authors, Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Author of Phenomenology of Spirit)

 

[all day in your mouth]

reading this book on Obama now, it's pretty good:

 

[Economics]

Frederic Bastiat-The Law

That book really stood the test of time, let me look at of things differently w.r.t economics and jurisprudence than what was taught in school.

 

[Food Mane]

Read everything Vonnegut has written. Start with Cat's Cradle.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

The Satanic Bible: Anton Szandor Lavey: 9780380015399: Amazon.com: Books

I have this coming in the mail--

I read up on it and it is not what you expect

and i dont worship satan or a cac either nikka