Recommend some non-BB related books...

[marbalizer99]

I just got done reading "The Game" which was a very easy and good read.

I want to read a few more books this summer and some pretty interesting topics are brought up on this board that end up multiple pages long of discussion.

So what are some good books you all have read that you recommend. I'm looking for anything really.

I was thinking of reading NY Times Bestseller "Get Anyone To Do Anything," "The 4-Hour Workweek," or "The World is Flat" next.

 

[nosmas]

Atlas Shrugged by Ann Rand

 

[marbalizer99]

Atlas Shrugged by Ann Rand

Thanks nosmas...that looks like a sweet book.

I'm getting the abridged audiobook version now but might end up getting the full text version later in the summer.

 

[BALDNAZI]

I got a few for you

Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper...this book will freak you out

Any books by Oriana Fallaci...she was ahead of her time on the death of our Christian society and how Islam is running rampant to build its world empire.These books will WAKE you up.

Might as well read Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, there is a reason for the madness. No one should say a fucking word about WWII until they see the reasons behind it by both sides.

Any books by David Irving, he is the "revisionist" historian. There is a saying "to the victors go the spoils" included in that is the ability to write the history books in their favor. Irving gives you the truth, not the propoganda you have been forcefed to this day.

Enjoy.

 

[nosmas]

its a long intro. You have to be patient for the first few hundred pages, so I actually would recommend the audio version to you! Many many people have recommended it to me and have good things to say about it. Its motivational and full of life lessons.

HAPPY READING MY FRIEND

 

[nosmas]

Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper...this book will freak you out

Any books by Oriana Fallaci...she was ahead of her time on the death of our Christian society and how Islam is running rampant to build its world empire.These books will WAKE you up.

Might as well read Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, there is a reason for the madness. No one should say a fucking word about WWII until they see the reasons behind it by both sides.

Any books by David Irving, he is the "revisionist" historian. There is a saying "to the victors go the spoils" included in that is the ability to write the history books in their favor. Irving gives you the truth, not the propoganda you have been forcefed to this day.

Enjoy.

You are right on about Mein Kampf. Anyone who is at all interested in WWII should read it. At times its like he is laying the blueprint for how he will and does assume power in Germany.

 

[marbalizer99]

Thanks for the rec's. I'll definetly look into everything you guys post up.

 

[nosmas]

well, maby you can hold up on the Hitler reads and go for a more motivational type book.

 

[dragonfire101]

"Politics In Healing: The suppression and manipulation of American Medicine"

 

[STEEDA69]

"The power of Positive thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale was probably one of the most influential books I've ever read. It directly enhanced my personality and overall outlook on life. Definately worth a read if you haven't yet already. It's rated as on of the greatest inspirational bestsellers off our time.

JD~

 

[Larry Bowie]

i never got around to reading....

...

Stephen Kings "the gunslinger" series. heard its badass

and "the art of war"



this summer ill read the latter

 

[nosmas]

Gunslinger is badass! I also would recommend it.
I also like "the 48 laws of power"
and for relationship improvement, "the art of seduction" by the same author.

 

[km2000]

the celistine prophsey, cant remember who wrote it but a good book!

the bible if you are religious, if you understand it well it is actually pretty entertaining!

 

[JETHRO TULL]

My favorite author is Dean Koontz.

Think Stephen King, but much better in my opinion. The characters are well thought out and you feel like you know the people in the story. Excellent.

He wrote the book called WATCHERS about a genetically enhanced dog, man, and creature created for war.

He just wrote another callled ODD THOMAS and FOREVER ODD that are terrific as well.

I also read books by Daniel Silva. He writes about an Israeli assassin named Gabriel Alon. Excellent again.

 

[bulldog21]

The Cobra Event by richard Preston (He wrote the hot Zone)- one of the best books I have read....But I like couter terrorism and spy stuff, here is a blurb from his website:

The Cobra Event is the story of a secret counter-terror operation. It is set in motion one spring morning in New York City when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. She seems to be coming down with a cold. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose, and she has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta sends a forensic pathologist. an expert in epidemiology, to investigate. What she finds precipitates a federal crisis.

The details of this story are fictional, but they are based on a scrupulously thorough inquiry into the history of biological weapons and their use by civilian and military terrorists. "The creation of advanced biological weapons using methods of genetic engineering and biotechnology is sometimes known as 'black biology,'" Richard Preston writes. The extent to which the products of black biology are available nearly everywhere in the world is shocking. Preston's sources for his story include members of the FBI and the United States military, public health officials, intelligence officers in foreign governments, and scientists who have been involved in the development and testing of strategic bioweapons. The stories of what they have seen and what they expect to happen and how they plan to deal with it are chilling.

The Cobra Event is not science fiction. It is a dramatic, heart-stopping account of a very real threat, told with the skill and authority that made Richard Preston's The Hot Zone an internationally acclaimed bestseller.

 

[Future]

I know its elementary but I still love C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" series.

 

[GymDudeVA]

Atlas Shrugged by Ann Rand

This was one of the worst reading experiences of my life. Whether you like her philosophy or not, this thing is about 800 pages too long, is extremely repetitive, and just plain badly written. There is a good story in there somewhere, but it takes her 40 pages to do what a good writer could do better in 8 pages. But a lot of people love it, so this is just MHO.

I tend to read some pretty serious fiction, but for a very literary yet entertaining and readable book that is simply hilarious, try A Confederacy of Dunces.

 

[nosmas]

This was one of the worst reading experiences of my life. Whether you like her philosophy or not, this thing is about 800 pages too long, is extremely repetitive, and just plain badly written. There is a good story in there somewhere, but it takes her 40 pages to do what a good writer could do better in 8 pages. But a lot of people love it, so this is just MHO.

I tend to read some pretty serious fiction, but for a very literary yet entertaining and readable book that is simply hilarious, try A Confederacy of Dunces.

Jesus...Sorry I recommended anything.

 

[Conan21]

Books

I really don't like reading. I never read Fiction books.

However, Because of my curiousity about things I do read here and there. Things about this world are far more entertaining/weird than anything fiction you could read.

BN's recomendation of Behold a Pale horse is a good one. Althought I've never read the whole thing its a cool book. William Cooper is an interesting guy and things he was preaching in the 80s have been coming true since.

Zacharia Sitchen has a number of great books if you want to learn about where People came from and who 'God' is. This is factual evidence, not theory. This will trip you out.

Bible Fraud is a good book too.

I read alot of Occult history/religion and so forthe.

I have a buch of recomendations. I guess it depends what you are interested in. Some of the books I'd recomend might really piss you off and have you not sleeping for days. haha

 

[Crimson Ghost]

"IF I DON'T SIX" by Elwood Reid = Story of football at the U. of Michigan in the 80's. Reads like a really good version of "The Program".

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If you like movies like Johnny Mnemonic, Bladerunner and the sort then check these books out:

"SNOW CRASH" by Neal Stephenson = Cyberpunk tale of a bleak future where everything, including the government, are franchises that compete for business....sometimes a life and death struggle. #1 business is Pizza Delivery run by the Mob.

Any book by William Gibson. He was writing about high tech stuff and the internet in the 70's and 80's.

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If you're a fan of true war stories then check out author Tim O'Brien. His best books are: "IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE: BOX ME UP AND SHIP ME HOME", "THE THINGS THEY CARRIED" and "GOING AFTER CACCIATO". Tim was in Vietnam and uses all of his experiences to write novels that may be ficticious in some regard but very real to life.

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To round it out, author Brett Easton Ellis is a great writer. Several of his books have made it to movie form, eventhough the books are better. "AMERICAN PSYCHO", "THE RULES OF ATTRACTION" and "LESS THAN ZERO" are my faves.