Essential reading

[khari]

Cool thread Alan! Just a few of my favorites...

Piers Anthony
Incarnations of Immortality series
Robot Adept series
Xanth Series...

What? Not Firefly?

 

[nicktressler]

Two Treatises Of Government John Locke (no not the one from the show LOST.)

Here is one of my favorite quotes from this book. "We do not so constantly love what has done us good; because pleasure operates not so strongly on us as pain, and because we are not so ready to have hope it will do so again."

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk and a quote from there "We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact."

 

[yardgnome02]

If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
and
The Things They Carried

both by Tim O'Brien

 

[Kingantz]

Cool thread Alan! Just a few of my favorites...

Piers Anthony
Incarnations of Immortality series
Robot Adept series
Xanth Series...

What? Not Firefly?

Oh yeah...that one too! My little girl tends to take the books off the shelves she can reach and re-arrange them for me. She really liked Firefly cause the cover was "pretty".

 

[Treamayne]

What a great thread and great inputs. Alot of my favorites are already listed and I'v notw got a new "to read" list going thanks to the other posts. In an effort to minimize duplication, I add in no particular order:

On Killing and On Combat - Grossman
Go Rin No Sho (Book of 5 Rings) - Musashi
Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Millman
Not a Good Day to Die - Naylor
Inheritance Series (Eregon, Eldest) - Paolini
Otori Series - Hearn
Potter Series - Rowling
Glass Bead Game - Hesse
Alera Series - Butcher
Ender's Game, Speaker Series, Shadow Series - Card
Starship Troopers - Heinlein
State of Fear, Sphere - Crichton
Odd Thomas Series - Koontz
Les Miserables - Hugo
The Koran
Book of Mormon
The Prince - Machiavelli
Neverending Story - Ende
Outsiders - Hinton
A Separate Peace - Knowles
Beowulf
Hound of the Baskervilles - Doyle
Joy Luck Club - Tan
Phantom of the OPpera - Leroux


That's all off the top of my head...


-K-

 

[JimiHendrix]

The Iceman Cometh by Neil Simon

That'd be Eugene O'Neill and it's epic. That and "Long Days Journey into Night." Catch 22 is also one of my favorites.

Thanks for the correction you Dic- er, I mean buddy!

 

[TheVitaleMob]

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Miles: The Autobiography - Miles Davis/Quincy Troupe
PsychoCybernetics - Dr. Maxwell Maltz
The Divine Comedy - Dante

The Dante is tough to get through. I got through the Inferno before my head exploded a few years ago, I should go back to it.

 

[slowhand]

Cosmos, Carl Sagan

 

[sack]

Catcher in the rye.
Catch 22
Anything by Samuel Clemmons.

 

[Deriffe]

"D-Day", "Citizen Soldier" and "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose.