Anyone enjoy reading? recommendations?

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

Anyone read anything lately or in the past they enjoyed? Into pretty much into anything except sci-fi?

Just finished James Freys "million little pieces" looking to pick something up this afternoon

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[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

The Tenth Legion by Tom Kelly

Great book..

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазовы in Russian, /'bratʲjə karə'mazəvɨ/) is the last novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, generally considered the culmination of his life's work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November of 1880. Dostoevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner,[1] but he died less than four months after publication.

The book is written on two levels: on the surface it is the story of a parricide in which all of a murdered man's sons share varying degrees of complicity but, on a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of the moral struggles between faith, doubt, reason, and free will. The novel was composed mostly in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the book.

Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud,[2] Albert Einstein,[3] and Pope Benedict XVI[4] as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.

The Brothers Karamazov is the best book i have ever read.

 

[pcolasfinest 10+ year member]

i just got done reading ice man, confessions of a mafia hitman, pretty interesting to say the least

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

I read a lot and I think one of my favorite books has been "Eyes of the Dragon" by Stephen King

 

[sue bee 10+ year member]

i just got done reading ice man, confessions of a mafia hitman, pretty interesting to say the least

why do people always read mafia books?

they're always ghost written and follow the same plot. and if they're not ghost written, it's like a gimmick book like "the big *****'s guide to getting laid."

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

The Brothers Karamazov is the best book i have ever read.

probally pick this up //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif thanks

i just got done reading ice man, confessions of a mafia hitman, pretty interesting to say the least

read it, badass..chefs knife ftw

 

[pcolasfinest 10+ year member]

helter skelter is also a good read, i think my ex took my book stupid bish....have to go buy another one

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

What are some good biography/comedic story books? Stuff like "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" and "Andy Kaufman Revealed!"

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

Run Baby Run

The Old Man and The Sea

House on Mango Street.]

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

well since you said ANYTHING besides sci-fi...

Nikola Tesla is always a cool topic. read "Nikola Tesla : Master of Lighting" a little while ago. cool shit IMO. not sure if you would dig it.

 

[MemphisCherokee 10+ year member]

the game

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

The Plague (Fr. La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.

Often read as a metaphorical treatment of the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II, The Plague has also been adopted as an existentialist classic - despite Camus' objection to the label. The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, where individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings, one usually a stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.

Although Camus' approach in the book is severe, his narrator emphasizes the ideas that we ultimately have no control, irrationality of life is inevitable, and he further illustrates the human reaction towards the ‘absurd’. The Plague represents how the world deals with the philosophical notion of the Absurd, a theory which Camus himself helped to define.

Another great book is The Plague.

The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus. It comprises about 120 pages and was published originally in 1942 in French as Le Mythe de Sisyphe; the English translation by Justin O'Brien followed in 1955.

In the essay, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd: man's futile search for meaning, unity and clarity in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of God and eternity. When considering whether the realization of the absurd requires *******, Camus answers: "No. It requires revolt." He then outlines several approaches to the absurd life. The final chapter compares the absurdity of man's life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a rock up a mountain, only to see it roll down again. The essay concludes, "The struggle itself is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

and one more is The Myth of Sisyphus.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

clive cussler; valhalla rising

http://books.google.com/books?id=ww_6AAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Clive+inauthor:Cussler

good stuffts.

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

well since you said ANYTHING besides sci-fi...
Nikola Tesla is always a cool topic. read "Nikola Tesla : Master of Lighting" a little while ago. cool shit IMO. not sure if you would dig it.

ive actually heard this is a great book

the game

read that a month or so ago, actually started a thread on it.