Great Books???

[77south]

Here's some of my fiction favorites:
Mason & Dixon  by Thomas Pynchon  (or really anything by Pynchon)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Fight Club by Chuck Palaniuk
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

[The Bearded Duc]

Illusions-the one by Bach? Great Book!   YES
The Alchemist-Looks very good!
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell-Hilarious
Hammer of the Gods-the one about Led Zeppelin?   YES
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals-by Darwin? Interesting suggestion, and I've never read it.   CAN BE SLOW AT PARTS, BUT INTERESTING NONE THE LESS
In Search of the Mole People-Do you remember who wrote it?   EDIT: THE MOLE PEOPLE by JENNIFER TOTH. VERY INTERESTING BOOK, ITS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE STREETS OF NYC
Stairway to Heaven-I take it you are a fan     HUGE FAN, BUT IT'S INTERESTING TO GET A BEHING THE SCENES LOOK AT THE GREATEST ROCK BAND EVER

[The Bearded Duc]

The Republic - Plato (everyone SHOULD BE REQUIRED to read this one)

My SO just told me to ask why you thought this is a "required read"?

[SacDuc]

+1 on Cormick McCarthy - The Road was my favorite of his. I refuse to see the movie because I don't want the images he put in my head destroyed.

Also +1 on the Jared Diamond stuff as well. Guns Germs and Steel is great and even greater if you read The Bell Curve back when it was stirring up the shit pot. He destroys that book.

On the nonfiction side I would recommend Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran. You are not in as much control of you as you think you are.

Fiction I would go with any collection of short stories by Alice Walker, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, and, since it seems appropriate to include something Italian, give T Zero by Italo Calvino a try.

For poetry try Randall Jarrell (his criticism of Frost and Auden is great as well). He is about the only one of the male post war poets I can stand.

Also, if you like to cook and are at all of a scientific mind then On Food and Cooking might be one of the better references you ever own.

sac

[cyrus buelton]

My SO just told me to ask why you thought this is a "required read"?

I really can't get into because of board rules on politics my friend.

All I will say is all of our Founding Father's were very familiar with this book and democracy is based off a lot of the theories.

enough said.



+1 on a Prayer for Owen Meany. Great read.

[The Bearded Duc]

I really can't get into because of board rules on politics my friend.

All I will say is all of our Founding Father's were very familiar with this book and democracy is based off a lot of the theories.

enough said.



+1 on a Prayer for Owen Meany. Great read.

Oh, she has a Masters in Philosophy and was just wondering.

[Buckethead]

Where to begin...

Fiction:
Another vote for World War Z
Anything by James Lee Burke
Vodka by Boris Starling
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Les Miserable. The closer to unabridged the better.
Anything by Alexander Dumas
Anything by Pat Conroy. That man wields the English language like a scalpel.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson.
1984
The Hitchhiker's Guide series
Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Non-fiction:
Anything by David McCullough
Anything by Rick Atkinson
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Enemy at the Gates by William Craig
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein.
The Pat Conroy Cookbook. Delicious recipes interspersed with highly entertaining anecdotes from his life.

[SacDuc]

I didn't realize there were so many nerds on this site. Man, I remember back when being a motorcyclist meant something. When they were a rare breed of rugged individualists.



sac

[SacDuc]

I would also like to add:

[SacDuc]

Bill Hicks- What your reading for?




/aspiring waffle waitress

[zzilla]

Zombie Books:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
World War Z


Not zombie related:
Lost City of Z (about exploring the Amazon Rain forest)
Slaughterhouse Five
The Things They Carried
Band of Brothers
Tactics of the Crescent Moon
Not a Good Day to Die

More to Follow....

[JEFF_H]

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

[cyrus buelton]

Oh, she has a Masters in Philosophy and was just wondering.

Not to knock your SO, but someone with a Masters in Philosophy has never read The Republic?


that is interesting to me.


At my college, that was the first book you read in Intro to Philosophy.

[Buckethead]

He never said she hadn't read it. He said she wondered why you thought it should be required reading.

[Buckethead]

Zombie Books:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

P+P+Z is okay, but Breathers: a zombie's lament is better.