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Hey_Look_its_Trendy ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 228 |
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What are some of your favorite books both fiction/non-fiction that you have ever read?
My top 5
1. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
2. The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
4. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
5. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
I also love the entire Dirk Pitt series written by Clive Cussler.
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puertoRICAN ![]() Godlike Member ![]() ![]() Luci's Pimp Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3866 |
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1.Bud, Not Buddy
2.The Watson's Go To Birmingham 3.Crash those are the only books i have ever read so those R my fav. by default. (all in 7th grade) ![]() |
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well, i never has read that kind of books, just:
1. my first book was: Charles Darwin: the Origin of Species.
2. Leyends of many antique cultures.
3. all about Programers and Data Base.
4. Networks and telecomunications.
glup! i think, i'm a fuc.king frikki, glup.
i don't have social life, :) hehehe
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Cien Años de Soledad.
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Penetrating your defenses. The Penetrator...
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River God by Wilbur Smith
When The Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith
Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follet The Stand by Stephen King The Talisman by Stephen King Cosmos by Carl Sagan The entire Dark Tower series by Stephen King is up there too |
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The sun was high and so was I
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Read: Gods of Eden, William Bramley
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HanFei ![]() Team KmA ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 798 |
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Non-Fiction: 1) Better: a surgeon's notes on performance
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I read a lot so it's hard to pick my favorites. Here are some that come to mind:
Ender's Gamer - Orson Scott Card Brave new World - Aldus Huxley The Lovely Bones - Alice Seibold Twilight - Stephanie Myer Good in Bed - Jennifer Weiner Outlander - Diana Gabaldon |
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jesse ![]() Team KmA ![]() Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Location: i.E. Online Status: Offline Posts: 1450 |
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my favs a clockwork orange, gotta love the cla**ics.........
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shine on you crazy diamond
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To Kill A Mockngbird by Harper Lee
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancey
1984 by George Orwell
The Stand by Stephen King (long version)
All of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Risig Sun by Michael Crichton
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1984 was the sh1t!!!!!!
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shine on you crazy diamond
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farenheit451 is another cla**ic. dont know if i spelled that right....
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shine on you crazy diamond
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you illiterate f***
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lol, ya! It was great!
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lol they make kids ages 11-13 read 1984 in school.
All The Pretty Ponies by Cormac McCarthy No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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lol your opinion, not mine.
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A novel that i recommend is Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
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Censorship in China, along with detention of civil and human rights activists make a "case and point."
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i understand why people like 1984, i'm just not into it.
some good cla**ics are: When The Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Jungle by Upton Sinclair A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
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The Jungle was great!
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Daybreak by Nietzsche not all of it , just some of it
Meditations of First Philosophy by Descartes
Leviathan and De Cive by Thomas Hobbs
Crito by Plato
The Discourses by Rousseau
Dantes Inferno
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HanFei ![]() Team KmA ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 798 |
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Although I've only read the leviathan, we've discussed the other authors. +10 respect for Zellot. haha
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I took an entire couse on Hobbesian Doctirne ... Leviathan's central message is very complex. Han Im surprised you of all people don't heed his warning. Or Perhaps you disagree wih his most central Thesis.
EDIT: heres my list
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
One flew over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Tool
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Davinci Code (guilty Pleasure)
Anything by Hunter S Thompson, Umberto Eco, Chuck klosterman, and David Sedaris.
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