Alkonium Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 One series I'm finding myself particularly fond of lately is The Legend of Drizzt by R. A. Salvatore, or anything I've read by him, for that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leXX Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is my absolute favourite book. You will feel extremely intelligent after reading it, and realise just how dumb you were before you read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderQ Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 That reminds me of something! "The History of the World Part 2," though I think that's a movie, not a book,..oops... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordOfTheFish Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I'm reading the Magna Charta, and The Story of Liberty. It's for school... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litofsky Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Ah! I'm surprised that no one's mentioned The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. It takes place around the turn of the (20th) century, and describes an immigrant that moves from Lithuania to the United States. The book would eventually inspire Teddy Roosevelt's Pure Food and Drug Act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Walter M. Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz Neil Stephenson - The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon, The Big U, and Anathem Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses, and Midnight's Children Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawathehutt Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 All Quiet on the Western Front Civil Disobedience by Thoreau wasnt a book but I still rather enjoyed it, and it was the only thing the prevented me from burning my copy of Walden, which now has the wonderful job of holding up my computer desk where a wheel fell off. I'm reading Catch 22 right now, it's probably one of the funniest and strangest books I have ever read and I am very much enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevron 7 locke Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I am currently reading the christmas truce. Nice book, very detailed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I read Brave New World and thought Huxley was on something but I see now his point.he was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderQ Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Band of Brothers! Definately a brilliant awesome good book!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordOfTheFish Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Ah! I'm surprised that no one's mentioned The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. It takes place around the turn of the (20th) century, and describes an immigrant that moves from Lithuania to the United States. The book would eventually inspire Teddy Roosevelt's Pure Food and Drug Act. That actually sounds fairly interesting. I'll look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litofsky Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 That actually sounds fairly interesting. I'll look into it. If you do, beware: the beginning is rather slow, and misleading. However, the 'action' picks up later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammy-Jedi Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Just finshed Moby Dick by H Melville, thats a really good book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderQ Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I'm just starting to read the Lord of the Rings Appendices, or what happened to everyone before and after the movies. It's really amazing how much J.R.R. Tolkien put into his books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForeverNight Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Well, Arc, you can't go wrong with Sun Tzu... though I'm trying, and failing, to find a complete collection of Clauswitz at the moment.... oh well. Anyway, Robert Jordan and the Wheel Of Time come highly recommended from me... And, if you don't mind 'Adult Situations' then I heartily suggest Terry Goodkind and Harry Turtledove, both are rather heavy in those situations though... Otherwise, the Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix isn't half-bad and C.S.Forester's Horatio Hornblower is my current project, and they've been pretty good so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arátoeldar Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I'm re-reading the lord of the rings trilogy. If anyone has read it, I just got to the town with the prancing pony. It is one book. Which was split up for two reasons. The first being the paper shortage after WWII. Secondly the publisher didn't think people would buy such a large book. Hunt for Red October, definately brilliant. Bravo, Tom Clancy! If you like Tom Clancy. I highly recommend Ralph Peters' works, both fiction and non-fiction. He is known as the thinking man's Tom Clancy. Band of Brothers! Definately a brilliant awesome good book!!! I recommend the following books: Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers Any of the Cornelius Ryan WWII books. Stay away from: Biggest Brother : The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordOfTheFish Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Well, I think the reading bug has bit me this time around. I found "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu on the good old internet and it's simply facinating. What 'Brilliant' books have you recently found/read? If you enjoyed that then you mite want to check out "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawathehutt Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Im sparknoting the Scarlet Letter. It sounds like it would be a decent book that I might consider reading when I dont have to read 4 other books for other classes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus Q'ol Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevron 7 locke Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Star Wars Revelations By Karen Traviss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderQ Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 . I recommend the following books: Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers Any of the Cornelius Ryan WWII books. Stay away from: Biggest Brother : The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers I've actually read 3 of those books, all of them were excellent, I'll have to take a look for the rest, they sound great! Thanks! I'll check 'em out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanir Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 I should recommend Jagdgeschwader by Jason Meyer (<---me) Should be out early '09 (finalising the endgame) Here's a couple of excerpts: Host: And…welcome back to the show. Our next guest hardly needs a mention. Author of Mein Kampf, leader of the Nazi Party and all round rabble rouser: Adolf Hitler! Audience cheers Closely followed by two Stosstruppe bodyguards, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, plus about a dozen SA “brownshirt” groupies in the background, Hitler approaches. His entourage waits sidestage as the Führer enters from stage right and takes a seat. Host: Welcome to the show, Mr Hitler. The host extends a hand, however Adolf simply raises his in the signatory heil salute. Hitler: Heil me. Thankyou, it’s great to be here. There were a couple of armoured corps among the Rumanians, immediately on the 6th Armee flanks but these were also half strength at best and equipped with Sköda models not much better than a T-26. In one instance they were basically routed by defending Soviet infantry and by the time Hoth arrived they barely had any tanks left at all (none among the Rum. 4th Armee), but they at least managed to hold some semblence of a southern flank with outdated anti-tank guns, reasonable aerial forces and determined leadership. Their Generals complained to von Weichs bitterly about available equipment, but what the acting Field Marshal was receiving necessarily had to bolster German forces involved in the main offensive. Due to ridiculously delusional ambitions the Führer had left him with virtually nothing. Maximillan Schröder stepped out onto the platform at Gumrak and adjusted his eyes to the early morning sun, still tasting sweet apricot schnappes lining the back of his throat and feeling quite relaxed. Distant sounds of artillery fire could be heard even above the activity and vehicles instantly setting upon the newly arrived supply train, their source he’d already been told enemy emplacements less than twenty kilometres away. All around him Kübel-wagen, trucks and horse teams were preparing to load and unload box-carriages, scrimmage and canvass was being removed from new Maultier half-tracks, Panzer IV’s and StuGs on the flatbeds and fuel trucks reversed to a position where crews could refill them from the tankers. Mounted AA teams lit cigarettes and waved as a flight of Me-109 ‘Gustavs’ from Jagdgeschwader 3 roared immediately overhead, whilst the locomotive engineers set themselves for separation, servicing and the return trip. Scores of wounded lined the platform with their attendees, who stood by to help shortly convert the train into a snaking ambulance. Working on a sci-fi now, no title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanir Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 I would ask mods to please excuse the double post at this instance, in the vein of an isolated exception (I'll not make a habit of it). Here's the opening of the sci-fi book, still very formative in nature. The Lightspeed barrier was pretty much as many people thought and simply a matter of taking a fresh look at General Relativity. The mistake of course had been in trying to force quantum physics to explain presumptions which didn’t really exist within the physical universe, it was actually simpler than some had presupposed. The far side of the Lorentz equation was key, which is assuredly composed of hypothetical values but nevertheless allows for a hyperbolic map of relativistic effects associated with velocity. It says the faster you go beyond lightspeed, the easier it gets. The trick, was getting to the other side of lightspeed. Exploring quantum entanglement within the macro universe brought about its own issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Im sparknoting the Scarlet Letter. It sounds like it would be a decent book that I might consider reading when I dont have to read 4 other books for other classes. It's a piece of ****, go read Young Goodman Brown instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevron 7 locke Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 I believe an Excellent series to read would be the Star Trek The Lost Era Series. Just my humble opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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