Official Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related (merged)

#177
#177
vader said:
My proposed reading list. Comments and suggestions welcome:

Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
A Death in the Family - James Agee
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
1984 - George Orwell
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The James Fenimore Cooper "Leatherstocking Tales"
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S Lewis
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilamanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi
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Count - got this on my list, too.
Catcher - awesome book, do read it.
Mockingbird - great novel.
Death In Family - awesome book - not to be missed, especially if you live in the Knoxville area.
Heart - good book, see Apocalypse Now.
1984 - always meant to read, but never have.
Cider House - saw the movie.
Prayer For Owen Meany - great book, highly recommended.
Cooper - still meaning to read these.
Vonnegut - have read Sirens Of Titan, nothing else.
Narnia - read Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe years ago.
Copperfield - awesome novel, highly recommend.
Two Cities - on my list.
Hemingway - love all his work.
Helter Skelter - love it, much insight into the Manson affair. Also liked Bugliosi's Five Reasons OJ Simpson Got Away With Murder.
 
#178
#178
Here is my list Al....I have just finished the Mezrich book, Bringing down the house.


1. Gulliver's Travels......by Johnathon Swift

2. Don Quioxte......Miguel de Cervantes

3.The Great Gatsby....F. Scott Fitzgerald.

4. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.....Lewiss Carroll

5. Mein Kampf....Adolf Hitler

6. The Second World War.....Martin Gilbert

7. Three Dog Nightmare.....Chuck Negron

8. Into the Wild.....Jon Krakuer

9. Bringing Down the House....Ben Mezrich..... READ: VERY GOOD

10. Rigged.....Ben Mezrich

11. Busting Vegas....Ben Mezrich

12. The Great Gatsby....F.Scott Fitzgerald

13. The Sun also Rises....Hemingway

14. L.A. Confidential....James Ellroy

15. Helter Skelter.....
 
#180
#180
I am reading "Lone Suvivor" story written by Marcus Luttrel that describes the tragedies of SEAL team 2 in 2005....Great Book
 
#181
#181
Anybody ever read Audie Murphy's To Hell and Back? Had to check it out for a research paper but I'm thinking about reading it now
 
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#183
#186
#186
VolfanMike said:
I am reading "Lone Suvivor" story written by Marcus Luttrel that describes the tragedies of SEAL team 2 in 2005....Great Book
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I have seen that book around and also saw an interview with him. Let me know how it is when you finish. I just picked up "Meat Market" after seeing many recommendations on here. Will start it on the plane to Atl tomorrow.
 
#188
#188
I recently finished "Beyond the Body Farm". Bill Bass's book. I love reading about the body farm up in K-Ville


About 1/4 into Helter Skelter. Very good also. Gonna try Mein Kampf but it will be very hard im afraid.
 
#194
#194
Theres a book out there called "The Satanic Verses" (no its not as it sounds) that I'm wondering about, anyone read it?
 
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checkerboard_charly said:
I recently finished "Beyond the Body Farm". Bill Bass's book. I love reading about the body farm up in K-Ville


About 1/4 into Helter Skelter. Very good also. Gonna try Mein Kampf but it will be very hard im afraid.
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Have you read Stiff? It talks about the body farm a little, but is mainly about using cadavers in science. Pretty good.
 
#199
#199
My wife gave me two books for Christmas by an Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns". They are both fictional books set in the backdrop of Kabul, Afghanistan that spans the Soviet invasion and the Taliban rule.

I enjoyed both books. I think they give a very human perspective to what the "average" Afghan person close to my age has lived through. Both books are poignant stories that include some very sad parts, but also include some moving family and romantic perspectives.

They make me thankful that I have enjoyed the freedom and prosperity of being born in America, even more so if I were a woman. I shudder to imagine living under a Taliban regime.

It is amazing what the people of Afghanistan have lived through the past 30 years.
 
#200
#200
vader said:
My wife gave me two books for Christmas by an Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns". They are both fictional books set in the backdrop of Kabul, Afghanistan that spans the Soviet invasion and the Taliban rule.

I enjoyed both books. I think they give a very human perspective to what the "average" Afghan person close to my age has lived through. Both books are poignant stories that include some very sad parts, but also include some moving family and romantic perspectives.

They make me thankful that I have enjoyed the freedom and prosperity of being born in America, even more so if I were a woman. I shudder to imagine living under a Taliban regime.

It is amazing what the people of Afghanistan have lived through the past 30 years.
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Vader can read? Huh.


Sorry had to. :)
 
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