The Tao of Negotiation. Seriously... a very good book for anybody. :thumbsup

Like the first two... Now I have to go find Cruel Shoes... thanks for the recommendation.

I will say Barrel Fever was a little to over the top for me. I liked Me talk Pretty One Day by Sedaris better. It was just normal enough that you almost believe it is true.

Rogue Warrior

It's an inside US Navy Seals Book.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...582507-8242328

Very, Very good!

~Ray

:1orglaugh

Please tell me that was a joke.

Clear and Present Danger is about the US government secretly plotting against the Colombian drug cartel. Airforce secretly shooting down planes that are smuggling drugs into the US, special ops forces secretly dropped into Colombia killing off the big players. People start catching wind of what the US is doing, shit hits the fan. Lots of CIA/FBI/military stuff.

Another good one by him is Debt of Honor where the US is secretly at war with Japan. A japanese airline pilot takes revenge on the US by crashing his plane into the State Capitol during the swearing-in ceremony of the new VP (the old VP was impeached), killing the President and all of Congress. The new VP was VP for all of 2 minutes before he suddenly becomes the President.

The sequel to that one is Executive Orders, where the new President has to build up the entire US government from scratch. Other countries start taking advantage of US's vulnerability. Stock market takes a shit. Hussein is assassinated and Iraq & Iran join together to form a new country to - along with India and China - bring down the US. The old impeached VP tries saying the new Pres isn't really Pres, that he (the old VP) was never officially impeached. That one was really, really good. Lots of different things happening at once.

The new Mickael Moore book was very good, it really made you think.

Reefer Madness and the same author wrote fast food nation

reefer madness has a whole section about porn in america

Mastering Regular Expression O'Reilly :thumbsup

ryan
http://pornanza.net

Kingdom of Fear - Hunter S. Thompson

The G Factor by Arthur Jensen

Hyperspace by Michio Kaku

50 :glugglug

Try Andrew Vachs....

Burke Novels..it's a series....and Burke is this sociopathic kind of New York guy..who lives under the radar....

I read a book a while back called "Deep Cover"
It was one the best books I ever read. :thumbsup

A Treatise on Cosmic Fire - interesting interpretation of our place in the universe. "Lawrence Conner" may be familiar with it.


Cosmic Fire

Ask the librarian.

I used to love listening to Dr. Kaku on Coast To Coast AM with Art Bell. He has a lot of energy and a decent sense of humor. I've never read any of his books, though.

SpaceAce

I am/was a rabid Robert Jordan fan, I've reread the whole series (so far) several times because he takes like 2 years between books now, HOWEVER:

Book 10 may as well not even have been written... nothing fucking happens. I honestly think that Jordan is just strrrreeeeetching them out to make more money. its fucking annoying. :2 cents:

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon. Older book but kicks ass.. I'm re-reading it again.

Or the Redemption of Althalus, by David Eddings, if you like fantasy.

The Godfather by Mario Puzo.

If you like the movie, you will love the book.
It's by far the best book I have ever read :thumbsup

I've read 1-9 many times, I burn through books at a tremendous pace. I read number one then I waited several years to read number two so I had to read number one, again, first. Then when number three came out, I read number one and number two, again, etc. I never get sick of the first six books but around book seven, the series started to bog down. Books seven eight and nine are still good books but not nearly as good as the early ones. That's why I haven't bothered to read number ten, yet.

I am not so sure that he's stretching it out for the money. I think it's a simple matter of having too many stories to tell. Think of how many <B>main</B> characters there are: Lan, Egwene, Nynaeve, Elayne, Rand, Perrin, Mat, Tom, Loial, all of the Forsaken and Elaida just to name a few. Then, factor in all the minor and supporting characters like a dozen of the Aiel, Juilan Sanders, a handful of false dragons, the Asha'man and so on and you end up with a lot of words that need writing.

SpaceAce

The Relational Model for Database Management
Version 2
by E.F. Codd
:thumbsup :thumbsup

I just re-read The Godfather a few months ago. That book kicks ass. The movie is great, too, but the book is a fantastic read.

You could also check out Omerta by mario Puzo. Not as good as The Godfather but worth reading.

SpaceAce

I just finished a book called paperback original by Will Rhode. It was a very interesting book set in India about a man who's father dies and will leave him a lot of money only if he becomes a writer.
He then gets himself involved in the Indian Mafia selling drugs in order to have something to write about.
Very good book, had me hooked somewhere in the middle of the book and I couldn't put it down.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

DH

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books


Lucky you by Carl Hiaasen

You will be laughing your ass off through the whole book! You have to like mystery with dark comedy! Get Shortie kinda shit ! :)

It is about a chick winning the lottery and the funny characters that she runs into !

if you like "Murder Mystery" then all Agatha Christie`s books with her character Hercule Poirot :)

thanks everyone, gonna check them out.

:thumbsup

Amen! I also recommend eMyth. It is all about building good business systems. Of course First Things First was excellent as well.

Sounds like exactly my approach to it.

I agree with you that he has a lot of balls in the air with all these characters and subplots, but if that is the case it should be PACKED with action jumping from one set of characters to the next with every word used efficiently. I think just the opposite is happening in book 10, and he keeps adding more characters and subplots. No way he can wrap it up in 2 or 3 more books.

By the way, you guys should check out Book-A-Minute:
http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/sff.shtml

Funny shit condensing entire books/series into a couple of sentences.
:thumbsup

any book by george R.R martin. or Kurt vonegut..two totally different writerws..but good.


im currently reading..."Rich dad poor dad" and "when a mathematician plays the stock market"

Letters home ......... A snipers Vietnam

In no particular order:

A Conspiracy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
Foundation saga - Isaac Asimov
Almost any Vonnegut book (my personal recommendations: "Cat's craddle" and "The sirens of Titan")
Vertigo or The house of the moon - Paul Auster
100 years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fictions or The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges

There you have! :thumbsup

Hey, man.

There's help right here:

http://lib.ru/LITRA/DOSTOEWSKIJ/prestup.txt

Alway go back to the source. :thumbsup

if you are into computer books, O'reilly books are great

Carl Sagan, "Cosmos".

The LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
by Nikos Kazantzakis

ha.. I just bought atlas shrugged.. trying to catch up on the classics, haven't even opened it yet though - been getting through a bunch of other stuff including "lies and the lying liars".

Good stuff. Harry Potter meets the godfather.

Terry Gookind's Sword of Truth Series - Damn good fantasy that has a distinctly adult tone.

Terry Brooks different series (in order) -

The Original Shanarra series

The Heritage of Shanarra Series (btw) the fifth book listed there is actually seperate from the 1st 4 listed there and is actually a prequel to the 1st series.

Voyage of the Jerle Shanarra



Piers Anthony

Incarnations of Immortality - A great mix of fantasy and sci-fi.