Some great fiction authors I recommend are JRR Tolkien, Donald Barthelme, Jerzy Kozinski, Craig Leslie, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tony Hillerman, Upton Sinclair, for musicians - Alfred Einstein, Howard Roberts A fantastic book to help you get the most out of your educational hours is: The Psychology of Learning: An Experimental Investigation of the Economy and Technique of Memory by John Wallce Baird & Ernst Meumann circa 1922
The books I got for Christmas were Dune by Frank Herbert, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and The City & the City by China Mieville. Really excited to read all of them, just have to finish this 7 books science fiction series I'm reading..
Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author. I've only read one of his novels (Slaughterhouse-Five) and a few short stories, but I loved them more than anything else.
Unabridged Count of Monte Cristo. Ender's Game Concur with Nate on Sherlock Holmes I grew up re-reading the LoTR series, but since the movies have come out I've been a bit soured on them. Love the kindle, love the iPhone app for it. I'm reading a ton right now, mostly technical, but there's a pretty good one called the Art of Mathematics that talks about the differences between "pure" math and the drivel that most of us were taught in school by teachers that didn't really get excited about it.
Outisde of the classics which many I love, my favorites currently (read all in the last month) 1. Shutter Island 2. Thr3e 3. Its kind of a funny story 1984 is one of my favorites. I also like political thrillers, but it is hard to find some good ones. But espionage thrillers are good... Le Carre is good. Hate to admit it, but I loved the Left Behind Series as well. I remember it being among the first books I truly read years and years ago, and read like 12 of them. It was great.
Don't have an iPhone (my wife, does, and she loves it) - but I have the newest version of the Kindle and I love it. This thing works much better than I anticipated, especially for technical books/documents for work. It also lets me travel with much less weight - which is fantastic as I am going on a long overseas business trip.
has anybody read into the wild? the movie was based on it. i didn't watch the movie but im practically obsessed with nature/camping/surving etc def going to read it after christmas
I know its not a huge book or anything, but I sat down to read Of Mice and Men, cause I hadnt for a while, before I knew it I went threw the story in one sitting lol.
I just finished reading the annotations to the book of Leviticus for the 27th time, and I made a resolution to reread the New Testament over the next 3 years. I am beginning to forget the whole thing that I used to have memorized, making me less useful to the Cause of Bob, causing me self-doubt and questioning his word. Yesterday I felt refreshed from reviewing the Shawn Kemp Age.
That was a great book, and typically, the book was better than the movie (though I liked the movie too.) In other book news, Steve Martin, the comedian, is a great writer. I read his first two novels and am just starting his latest.
Just got a book on Arsenal's history and Syd Barrett's (Pink Floyd's original frontman) rise and demise.
I'm reading a book entitled Shogun currently. Like 1200 tiny print pages, but it is really good. About a quarter of the way through since I got in on Christmas.
Just finished up Steinbrenner and Game Change within the past week. I started the new Willie Mays biography today. I'm a big non-fiction reader, but I do enjoy the occasional work of fiction.
Ball Four by Jim Bouton is probably my favorite book to read of all time. Not much there in terms of learning about the inner depths of life, but it is laugh out loud funny, and I've probably read it 5 times since I first read it for fun at age 12. It's a look inside of a dysfunctional Seattle Pilot organization and their expansion season, and it is a diary.
I need to go back and read Ball Four, I haven't read it since I was a kid. Another baseball book that had a big effect on me at the time was Bill Veeck's book, "Veeck as in Wreck". barfo
Anything by Michael Lewis is usually great. He's a real master of narrative, extremely engaging and entertaining writer. I think the Dark Tower series by Stephen King was pretty amazing (it's not horror, it's his foray into fantasy, and it's really spectacular). Dune and Neuromancer are far and away the best sci-fi books I've ever read. I also recommend The Prince by Machiavelli and The Art Of War by Sun Tzu. Nick Hornby books are generally winners, too. High Fidelity is both one of my favourite books and movies.
