O/T Looking for some good reads / non-fiction

[Shelby]

I've always been a bibliophile but lately my reading appetite has been insatiable. You guys/gals got any good non-fiction recommendations?

Religion, history, sociology, personal development, health, philosophy.. pretty much anything really. I'm finishing a couple books per week on average right now.

I just finished reading Freakonomics - definitely recommend it.. very insightful and humorous.

Post up your favs

 

[gridlock]

I've always been a bibliophile but lately my reading appetite has been insatiable. You guys/gals got any good non-fiction recommendations?

Religion, history, sociology, personal development, health, philosophy.. pretty much anything really. I'm finishing a couple books per week on average right now.

I just finished reading Freakonomics - definitely recommend it.. very insightful and humorous.

Post up your favs

taming tigers by jim lawless. if you google it the guy has a site as well

 

[PHIL HERNON]

True crime!

Ann Rhule

 

[Stewie Griffon]

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

 

[7_Deadly_Sins]

The Black Arts

by Richard Cavendish

 

[Diesel City]

I've always been a bibliophile but lately my reading appetite has been insatiable. You guys/gals got any good non-fiction recommendations?

Religion, history, sociology, personal development, health, philosophy.. pretty much anything really. I'm finishing a couple books per week on average right now.

I just finished reading Freakonomics - definitely recommend it.. very insightful and humorous.

Post up your favs

The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard

 

[gyno]

Well, since your reading hunger has been insatiable, you can read my lifespan psychology book, because I HATE this stuff. SO blah...

 

[gyno]

"what darwin didn't know" (completely objective, written with no religious inent). The guy goes through each one of the "systems" and uses real math and science to really get you thinking about the validity of many of todays commonly accepted thoughts of science.

 

[alecaf]

shelby you need to read this book im reading called How to Kill: The definitive history of the assassin By Kris Hollington.
It goes throught every murder in the 20th century which has changed the world. Kennedy, CIA murders, Murder conspiracies etc. Its historical and it doesn't even go to bullshit conspiracy theories.
Most of these murders I had no clue about and i am an avid history reader. For example there is one story in the book where the head of the World Bank or WTO (can't remember really) figured out a way to rid all third world countries out of debt and make them able to rid themselves from the debt cycle which keeps them in the "thir-world" position forever. Two weeks before he was gunna outline the plan before the UN he got shot and it was never on the news. Ok the story is not exactly like that but its amongst those lines.

 

[Armageddon]

I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL by Tucker Max funny as hell, makes me feel bad because I can relate to it alittle too much

 

[AWN2004]

Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent
Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Two of my favorites

 

[Shelby]

These all sound great, guys - keep them coming.

Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent
Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Two of my favorites

AWN - you should check out "Hardcore Zen" by Brad Warner:
http://www.amazon.com/Hardcore-Zen-Monster-Movies-Reality/dp/086171380X

 

[AWN2004]

These all sound great, guys - keep them coming.




AWN - you should check out "Hardcore Zen" by Brad Warner:
http://www.amazon.com/Hardcore-Zen-Monster-Movies-Reality/dp/086171380X

For sure I would be into that book. I will have to give it a read.

 

[Pekkerwood]

I've always been a bibliophile but lately my reading appetite has been insatiable. You guys/gals got any good non-fiction recommendations?

Religion, history, sociology, personal development, health, philosophy.. pretty much anything really. I'm finishing a couple books per week on average right now.

I just finished reading Freakonomics - definitely recommend it.. very insightful and humorous.

Post up your favs

Shelby:

If you enjoyed Freakonomics (I did too) you will probably like the "Armchair Economist" and may want to explore books on Game Theory. I like the "E Myth" as well.

I started also reading biographies of John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson. Quite interesting. I will get you a better list when I go home tonight. I go through about 3 books a week on average.

 

[Shelby]

Shelby:

If you enjoyed Freakonomics (I did too) you will probably like the "Armchair Economist" and may want to explore books on Game Theory. I like the "E Myth" as well.

I started also reading biographies of John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson. Quite interesting. I will get you a better list when I go home tonight. I go through about 3 books a week on average.

Pekkerwood - when you get a chance, can you give me the titles of the biographies? I'm sure there are tons of each of those you mentioned... some better than others. Thanks

 

[DEADn]

'The Twilight Labyrinth' by George Otis Jr.

It has history and is also a journey into religion and spiritual practices and why spiritual darkness inhabits certain places. I think it is a great read!

 

[HeavyHands]

Shelby:

If you enjoyed Freakonomics (I did too) you will probably like the "Armchair Economist" and may want to explore books on Game Theory. I like the "E Myth" as well.

Good stuff here. Being an Economics major myself, I appreciate these works...

Shelby, I'm about half-way through a book entitled "The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World" by Tim Harford. This book will make you seriously think about society from a very "rational" perspective. Great read (and as Pekkerwood alluded too, there's even a bit on Game Theory )

 

[donjoy]

I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL by Tucker Max funny as hell, makes me feel bad because I can relate to it alittle too much

Full on with the Tucker Max. I think he has a movie coming out soon.

I wish I had some good non-fiction to recommend, but I am more of a fiction kind of guy when I am not reading my law books.

Just finished the entire Sherlock Holmes collection and now I am on "Moby Dick". I am Ahab!

 

[mojo jojo]

I've always been a bibliophile but lately my reading appetite has been insatiable. You guys/gals got any good non-fiction recommendations?

Religion, history, sociology, personal development, health, philosophy.. pretty much anything really. I'm finishing a couple books per week on average right now.

I just finished reading Freakonomics - definitely recommend it.. very insightful and humorous.

Post up your favs

Well I was going to recommend Freakonomics but you beat me to it. Another good one is "Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell. A less popular book that was interesting is "Stumbling on Happiness" by Daniel Gilbert.

 

[soul_fly]

The Real Lincoln, by DiLorenzo