Listened to O'reily's book on the way to Dallas about 5 or 6 years ago.
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Listened to O'reily's book on the way to Dallas about 5 or 6 years ago.
Just read John Wooden's book on Leadership. What a great book and great man.
All time favorite book, which should be of no surprise to anyone reading my posts this month, is Les Miserables.
Austin, if you understand Don Quiote, please let me know what it means. That book was definitely over my head. The book was over my head. The movie/musical was just bad.
Favorite novel - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Favorite non-fiction - Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Latest read - 2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark. Didn't do much for me. I also recently finished On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, The Wayward Bus by Steinbeck, and Ayn Rand's Anthem.
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Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell. It puts me to sleep every night because I don't understand what in the world he is talking about. The pictures are real purty though.
One of my all time favorite books that I can think of right now is The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan. I could be thinking of that because I walked by the Alamo today, but it is an excellent read.
I also enjoy reading Wilbur Smith. If you like ancient Eygpt/African fiction with excellent detail mixed up with some Raiders of the Lost Ark type action, he is a must read.
if anyone wanted to know who the real nerds are in this forum, they need go no further than this thread.:icon_winkOriginally Posted by inudesu
Last book - We Were Soldiers
I'll have to go with favorite author instead of book and that would be a tie between Tom Clancy and Stephen King. King hasn't had a real good book in several years imo. His early works were great but I guess I'll show how warped I am and say "The Stand" and "It" were my 2 favorite King books.
I know I'm cheating but it's hard to name a favorite book. If you're going to pin me down though, Larry McMurtry and Lonesome Dove is hard to beat.
True. True.
We need August and football to get here. One can sure tell when it's "off season" when we're posting about music and books. Go Dawgs.
Sik-m ,
I recently finished the great divorce as well and I am about to start Mere Christianity. I thought the Great Divorce was fantastic.
Of course I am also partial to "Where the wild things are."
Wow an author and a runningback. Very talented.
Dawgbitten , do you live in S.A. ? I just returned from there.
you'll enjoy it..."mere christianity" goes slower than "divorce" but it is amazing. i love it when christians flex their intellect...and lewis had quite a one to flex.
i know this is a really old thread, but spinoza's fiction thread reminded me of it and i figured it was worth resurrecting.
i've read a lot since this thread died.
i think douglas adams's hitchhiker's guide "trilogy" is my new favorite fiction.
i've also read beowulf, don quixote, alice in wonderland and through the looking glass, i, robot, plato's the republic, the devine comedy, 1984, and pud'nhead wilson, among other classics. i particularly liked the last two.
i also read some of my wife's favorite y.a. fiction (eragon, harry potter, and percy jackson). started reading twilight (the things i will do for that woman...) but i couldn't hold my lunch through the first chapter.
i tried reading the sun also rises and i got about 3 chapters further along than i did the first time i tried reading it before i decided watching the grass grow in winter was more interesting. i like hemingway's style, but that story is just too boring and rambling to hold my interest.
i most recently finished asimov's pebble in the sky. not as polished as his later work, but still a great book.
i just started reading bradbury's "dandelion wine" (the short story, not the novel) tonight. would have been a great short story if he had just stopped with the first section (douglas discovers he's alive).
so who else has done some good reading lately?
I try to alternate fiction and non-fiction.
Currently reading The Adventure of English: the Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg. Really enjoying it.
Just finished a spy novel called The American which was also pretty frickin good.
Before that was Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. I like his stuff, but its starting to get a tad formulaic. (Felt like Tipping Point, part 3.)
All time? Do I have to pick one??? How about a top 3? Old Man & the Sea, Les Miserables, and Master and Margarita.
Honorable mentions: Brothers Karamazov, Chronicles of Narnia, & Oh the Places You'll Go.
Lately I'm on the bi-polar theolgy track. Donald Miller then Tim Keller then Brian McLaren. Can't remember what's next. Maybe Dinesh DiSuza.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
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