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All time favorite fiction: IT by Stephen King
Best Book You have the Patience: The Iliad (I was actually pulling for the Trojans. Damn Achilles.)

Nonfiction (cuz that's all I read nowadays)
Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Basic Economics, Applied Economics, and Economic Facts and Fallacies, and The Housing Boom and Bust, all by Thomas Sowell. Read these in the past 6 weeks or so and they are beyond brilliant.

A Brief History of Time, followed closely by A Briefer History of Time, Stephen Hawking.

 

Totally agree, that guy was a force of nature! Enjoy the book!

 

"The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

You won't be able to put it down until you finish it, and you won't be able to sleep afterward.

 

That is a good one. Really compelling. I need to check out the other one someone said that went along with this.

 

I like autobiographies and biographies anymore. The Bob Mould book was okay enough but unless you're a Husker fan, it might be boring. I really dug the Don Rickles book, Mick Foley's book as well. Putter loaned me a killer book on the replacements, read it twice.

I'm waiting for my copy of Commando by Johnny Ramone to arrive.

 

Shackleton! yes, probably the best story ever told. If you liked that see if you can find "Race to the Pole" about the failed Scott Expedition. Also "In the Heart of the Sea" is also an incredible tale about the whaling ship Essex sunk by a whale that was the basis for Moby Dick. Chuck Norris is a big pussy compared to the guys in those books.

 

The "movie" is really pretty good. I would recommend that although I did not read the book.:up:

 

I read Ron Jeremy's biography (it cost a dollar). It wasn't worth a dollar.

 

I just read Life of Pi. Was a pretty good story.

I also recently read Young Stalin and The Court of the Red Tsar by this dude:

http://www.simonsebagmontefiore.com/books.aspx

Amazingly well documented and just insane to even begin to comprehend.

 

Serge A. Storms is my hero. I listen to those on audiobook. Laugh out loud funny.

 

Atlas Shrugged

 

Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson

 

Diving for Dicks- by Greg Louganis

 

If this was the Dungeon, I would have suggested Your Erroneous Zones, by Wayne Dwyer.

 

Thanks! Added to wishlist...

 

English help please! You do or you do not?

 

Well, we were talking about books so that's why I suggested it

I haven't actually read it but I did watch the movie and I based my recommendation on that. The movie was excellent and I would think that as is normal the book would be even better.

I did see a documentary a couple of years ago based on "Into Thin Air", which was pretty good as well, however I did get the impression that most of the people involved were a bunch of amateurs in way over their heads.

 

Don't you have a scanner?:

 

Reference? Author/title? Big placemats fan.

Looking in the pile, I've been on a music bio fling lately - Life by Keith Richards, My Appetite for Destruction by Steven Adler, It's So Easy by Duff McKagan. I'd only recommend the Richards. The G'n'R stuff is interesting only because of the things going on in my life at the time. Ahh, memories.

The Cornbread Mafia / James Higdon was a very interesting read on the marijuana industry in KY that descended from the moonshiner industry.

Haven't read any fiction worth mentioning. Went back and re-read a bunch.

 

I just finished I Slept With Joey Ramone , a biography written by his brother. Picked it up at the library. The brother talks about himself too much but it's got some decent backstories about the band. Oh, and Joey's OCD.