"Books"

[BackInTheGame78]

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

Finding and Losing My Virginity - The Richard Branson Story - Richard Branson

I'm sure I will remember more later but those are ones everyone should read.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

I wonder how many here have even read one of them and probably for high school English

I've read 8 all in English classes

Have to say that I thought the Old Man in the Sea was the dumbest book I ever read when I read it...when he started talking to his hand I almost shut it and never opened it back up again...if I didn't have to write an essay about it I probably wouldn't have.

I called it The Old Man In the Sewer because that's where I thought it belonged...flushed down the toilet

Maybe I'd have a different perspective than my teenage self if I read it today. Funny how time and maturity give that to you.

Loved the Great Gatsby...

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Two made up books hahahahaha gtfo man

Uhh OK...either you live in a delusional reality or you are joking.

 

[All_Kindz_Of_Gainz]

Uhh OK...either you live in a delusional reality or you are joking.

Why? Cause all religious books are the pretty much a plagiarism between each other written by men making up stories like some virgin lady got pregnant by a pigeon and from a couple came the whole mankind? Pfffftttt give me a break, wait until you hear that santa clause was actually your parents and not a fat white bearded guy who flies in a sled giving gifts.

 

[BaronOfHair]

-Anything by Nabokov and Updike

-Glass Jaw by Eric Dezenhall


-Power by Jeff Pfeffer

-The Leadership Challene by Posner and Kountz

 

[Agamemnon43]

The Bible was mentioned in the context of understanding our world, expanding your views, etc...
And in that sense, it is the most principal book (rather a collection of books written by many people over a long period of time) of the western society. Whether you choose to believe the dogma part of it, the ethical core of the western society is based on judeo-christian teachings. And it is mostly all metaphorical- which is the part you can't seem to grasp. The Bible dogma still seems more real in comparison to books like "The Alchemist" and "100 years of solitude", lol, which are also regarded as great books of our time.

Most of the famous novels are made up stories- and for a reason. You can learn something from each one of them. More so from Dostoevsky than from Paulo Coelho, but still. Everything is that stood the test of time is worth trying to read.

 

[DarwinTaurus]

I own or have read the majority of books in that list. I'm a book nut. I own around 1,000 books. Three full bookshelves, and the rest stored in plastic tubs all around my apartment.

 

[Scaramouche]

Hi Baron of Hair,
You read Arthur Updike?...Bony the Black detective?.

 

[BaronOfHair]

Hi Baron of Hair,
You read Arthur Updike?..

No, but I was on staff at Arthur Andersen during their final year of existence. Left with one hell of a Rolodex also

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Why? Cause all religious books are the pretty much a plagiarism between each other written by men making up stories like some virgin lady got pregnant by a pigeon and from a couple came the whole mankind? Pfffftttt give me a break, wait until you hear that santa clause was actually your parents and not a fat white bearded guy who flies in a sled giving gifts.

Or perhaps it requires having an intellect further than what you capabilities allow to understand.

One or the other.

 

[All_Kindz_Of_Gainz]

Or perhaps it requires having an intellect further than what you capabilities allow to understand.

One or the other.

Ohhhh right the book that has pretty much all the rules, that people should follow, is written in metaphors and not to be taken literally.

God made me agnostic, who are you to challenge his divine wisdom and perfect plan?

 

[AmsterdamAssassin]

If you read one religious tract, you have to read all of them.

 

[Vending Machine Veteran]

Gates of Fire

Couldn't recommend it enough

Also, The Black Company got me through some rough times. I think there are 10 books total. All worth it. What a ride!

 

[Vending Machine Veteran]

Empire of the Summer Moon. Spectacular book about the Comanche Indian warrior tribe

The 50th Law. My favorite self-help book.

Anything by Arthur Schopenhauer. All eye-opening reads.

 

[Vending Machine Veteran]

Storm of Steel. The best first person account of WW1.

Mine were of Trouble. The best first person account of the Spanish Civil War.

Journey to the End of the Night. One of the best dark novels ever written. I'm gonna reread this one soon

 

[BaronOfHair]

Five Families: Selwyn Raab

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate
Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp
The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Letters from A Stoic by Seneca
Sickness Unto Death by Kiekegaard
Treatise of Human Nature by Hume
Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky


Also hard for me to wanna plug self-help books, but Atomic Habits, Power of Now, and Radical Honesty, are pretty good too.

 

[Vanderdonck]

Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
Native Son - Richard Wright
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Nicholas & Alexandra - Robert Massie

 

[BaronOfHair]

Tristram Shandy

Freud: The Making Of An Ilusion https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101861409/new-book-argues-freud-merely-a-master-of-illusion

The Blade Itself

 

[Vending Machine Veteran]

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate
Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp
The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Letters from A Stoic by Seneca
Sickness Unto Death by Kiekegaard
Treatise of Human Nature by Hume
Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky


Also hard for me to wanna plug self-help books, but Atomic Habits, Power of Now, and Radical Honesty, are pretty good too.

Lighten up, brother!

Lol

I was never a big fan of fiction, but an internet fren put me on The Black Company series.

It's spectacular. You have a dark fantasy aspect, but also war tactics, courage and camaraderie.