Recommend a Book

What's one (or more) of your favorite reads? The last couple good ones I read were The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, Watership Down by Richard Adams and The Pillars of the Earth by Kenneth Follet.

 

"To Kill A Mockingbird" is My favorite read. I read it every year around Halloween time.

Other than that, I'll read horror/fiction books, and anything by Dave Barry and Lewis Grizzard.

 

Nonfiction
Not A Good Day To Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
Sean Naylor
Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand

Fiction
Anything by Flannery O'connor
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy

 

My wife just read "House Rules," by Jodi Piccolt. I haven't read it, but the commentary I got from her was entertaining. It's about a dude with Asperger's (a degree of Autism, but high functioning) and his struggles with life. It was humorous in quite a few places, sometimes I think I may have a little touch of it myself.

 

Just finished "The Limit" Monday. True story of the 1961 Formula 1 championship battle of 1961 between Phil Hill and Wolgang von Trips. Great book with an excellent lead-up to the finale and great stories about the racers of the day and all they did to get to the peak. And of course many Enzo stories.

Just started "Go Like Hell" yesterday....the story of the Ford-Ferrari battles at LeMans in the mid-60's. Two chapters in and the build up is just full of automobile history in general (like, I had no idea that the Big 3 automakers were not allowed to have any part in racing during the 50's-early 60'...of course Chevy was cheating and killing Ford on the showroom floor because of it). An epic read so far and I've hardly started!

 

Most of Tom Robbins stuff. Anything by Bill Bryson.

For lighter stuff, Terry Pratchett and Robert Rankin.

 

EntreLeadership - Dave Ramsey

Must read for.business owners, leaders etc

 

"Jerusalem" by Montefiorre.

 

Skunk Works... this book is utterly amazing, and it's all true.

http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003

 

Nice:up:

That will be next on my list.

Kelly Johnson is my hero (any guy named Kelly has to be cool!)

Thanks!

 

reading two right now:

Lover Reborn (new JR Ward) and
Game of Thrones

 

They made a book out of the TV show?

 

About to finish the second Game of Thrones book, really good writing, pretty brutal at times but I'm digging it.

 

I second Blood Meridian

Roth- American Pastoral

Delilo- Underworld

 

Bad News by Tom Fenton. This should be required reading for every citizen.....

 

A word of caution on the Game of Thrones series. I don't think it's ever going to end. Read books 1-4 about 5 years ago thinking it was a 4 book series. Book 4 didn't complete the story, but the author's note at the end of the book said book 5 would finish it. Book 5 was only released in the US this year, and 1100 pages later, still no conclusion. He's milking it. Still a decent read, but it really doesn't get anywhere anymore. Kinda pissed about the whole thing...

Merle

 

Still waiting for the next one?

 

I'm a big Chuck Palahniuk fan.

I also enjoyed Sunny Barger's Hells Angels book as well.