What do you guys recommend? This book is very interesting on the life and death of JKF. Each step John makes toward peace steadily increases the hatred of his enemies.
I just read James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning and it was fantastic. The Small Business Bible is also very good.
Am I the only one who thinks it's funny that in a thread about books, people are posting pictures of the cover with no description at all? Why not just post the trailer from the movie! but fine, I'll play:
Also, I just read 1984 for the first time a few months ago and still cannot stop thinking about it. What a powerful book. The Kite Runner is a great book I re-read Watership Down recently and had forgotten how good it is. Reading A Million Little Pieces right now
Currently reading Dark Banquet, about, believe me or not, vampire bats. I have a very wide taste and read nearly anything except porn, science fiction, poetry and Westerns. Recently read books include Playing America's Game (Latin baseball players), The Omnivore's Dilemma, This Common Secret (a doctor writing about her medical practice providing abortions) and a large cookbook entirely on Vegetables.
This is coming out Wednesday - http://www.amazon.com/1493-Uncoveri...5722/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319509842&sr=8-1 His book 1491 was really good! http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059/ref=pd_sim_b_1
That rules out about 90% of all literature since man first scratched symbols on cave walls. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
By far the best book I have read recently is Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, a book from 1959 that completely holds up. It is all written from the point of view of a retarded man who is entered into a research project where his intellect is increased and he examines his life and relationships. Fucking wonderful. Another good book was the autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi (or Yukichi Fukuzawa) who was one of the last samurai. He ended up becoming a teacher, a poet, and a huge proponent of exploring western cultures, learning dutch, and I think English. One note, I read a autobiography that was a few hundred pages and that was perfect. I have heard that he also has a much longer edition, thousands of pages, and that it gets boring. One super easy and fun read is Winterdance by Greg Paulsen. He is actually a kids book writer, but this is the one adult book he wrote, and it is about his love of dog sledding and the first time he ran the iditarod (a more than 1000 mile dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome). Exciting and fun, but a super quick read.
