A man who won't read...

[Dial_tone]

A man who won't read has no advantage over one who can't. - some dude

All month I've been on a no or low television kick. I have watched about eight hours or so. I used the time instead to read books, something I've rarely done. I don't read for pleasure; I read because I want to learn something so most of my reading is technical (computer related) in nature. This month I have read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong, and The Green Mile by Stephen King (80 pages left).
I'll go back to watching tv but I'm going to continue reading one book per month, alternating between fiction and non-fiction. I need some ideas for non-fiction reading, preferably between 300-400 pages. I can't stand Ayn Rand's writing style so none of that shit. I've been reading Atlas Shrugged since I got it for Christmas in 2002 (seriously) and i'm still only 75% through it.
25,000K for any recommendations I actually read.

 

[p0ink]

Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor

if you ever were to trust me on one thing, this would be it.

 

[Lestat]

I love to read man, I stay up well past midnight most nights reading.

Chuck Palahniuk is a great author, good books.

Here is what I read lately that I strongly reccomend:

How We Die - Sherwin B Nuland M.D.
http://product.half.ebay.com/How-We-Die_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ163698
Get it for next to nothing above.
Its an amazing book, check its reviews out on amazon.com At just under 300 pages its a pretty quick read.

Also my all time favorite:
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
http://product.half.ebay.com/Under-the-Banner-of-Heaven_W0QQprZ6042018QQtgZinfo

Amazing book that other people on EF have read and loved. I read this in under a week while on a snowboarding vacation. I passed up going out a couple nights to stay in and read this one by the fire.

 

[KillahBee]

Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor

if you ever were to trust me on one thing, this would be it.

I spent the last few months reading every one of his books (even Stranger than Fiction). They are amazing. Survivor may have been the best. Choke was good too. They are fiction though.

uh, let's see, nonfiction:

Dianetics (if you can handle reading a controversial book and be able to read it objectively - not as a person who thinks only "believers" should read things like that)
The 48 Laws of Power
The Art of Seduction

 

[KillahBee]

also:

The Red Queen – Matt Ridley
The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
Sperm Wars – Robin Baker

 

[p0ink]

what are you looking to read? fiction or nonfiction? history or philosophy? erotica or comic books?

help me, help you.

 

[redguru]

Non-Fiction?

Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time

 

[swole]

if you're into military novels check out

War of the Rats - David L. Robbins

They actually made a movie about it (Enemy at the Gates) which pales in comparison to the book.

From Amazon.com:

David L. Robbins grimly recounts the merciless determination of the German and Soviet combatants of the battle of Stalingrad in War of the Rats. Drawing from real events, Robbins tells the story of one of the battle's most pivotal contests: the famous sniper duel between Chief Master Sergeant Vasily Zaitsev and S.S. Colonel Heinz Thorvald. Zaitsev, a cunning Siberian hunter hardened by Stalingrad's butchery, has formed an impromptu sniper school in the midst of the battle, training his comrades to kill with implacable efficiency. The hundreds of bodies left in their wake prompt the Nazi leadership to send Thorvald, the cold-blooded master of the Wehrmacht's elite sniper academy, to assassinate the Soviet prodigy. Robbins's nerve-wracking prose depicts the two adversaries as they pursue their private war across a twisted hellscape of burning tanks and gutted factories. In the novel's most impressive section, Robbins leaps between the thoughts of Zaitsev and Thorvald as they struggle, in their final battle, to put the crosshairs on each other's head. A war novel that reveals the shrewd savagery in human nature, War of the Rats vividly reveals why the Germans referred to the fighting at Stalingrad as Der Rattenkrieg.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055358135X/104-9612643-2450334?v=glance&n=283155

 

[Beachbum1546]

The White Boy Shuffle- Paul Beatty
Book Link

Jennifer Government- Max Berry
Book Link

 

[Dial_tone]

I've been planning to read Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer for a while. I think thats next or another Armstrong book. I like serious stuff, no comedy, cartoon or harlequin romance cruft.

 

[Lestat]

I've been planning to read Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer for a while. I think thats next or another Armstrong book. I like serious stuff, no comedy, cartoon or harlequin romance cruft.

I am starting into the wild, its a short book and I am sure its good, but Under the Banner of Heaven just kicks ass because it has so much info packed into it.

 

[Lestat]

if you're into military novels check out

War of the Rats - David L. Robbins

They actually made a movie about it (Enemy at the Gates) which pales in comparison to the book.

From Amazon.com:

David L. Robbins grimly recounts the merciless determination of the German and Soviet combatants of the battle of Stalingrad in War of the Rats. Drawing from real events, Robbins tells the story of one of the battle's most pivotal contests: the famous sniper duel between Chief Master Sergeant Vasily Zaitsev and S.S. Colonel Heinz Thorvald. Zaitsev, a cunning Siberian hunter hardened by Stalingrad's butchery, has formed an impromptu sniper school in the midst of the battle, training his comrades to kill with implacable efficiency. The hundreds of bodies left in their wake prompt the Nazi leadership to send Thorvald, the cold-blooded master of the Wehrmacht's elite sniper academy, to assassinate the Soviet prodigy. Robbins's nerve-wracking prose depicts the two adversaries as they pursue their private war across a twisted hellscape of burning tanks and gutted factories. In the novel's most impressive section, Robbins leaps between the thoughts of Zaitsev and Thorvald as they struggle, in their final battle, to put the crosshairs on each other's head. A war novel that reveals the shrewd savagery in human nature, War of the Rats vividly reveals why the Germans referred to the fighting at Stalingrad as Der Rattenkrieg.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055358135X/104-9612643-2450334?v=glance&n=283155

that sounds pretty awesome!! i want to read it right now!