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Rex

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I'm bored out of my mind, and am in need of reading material. Please post up title, author, and a brief synopsis.

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Under the Banner of Heaver, John Krakaur (I spelled that wrong).

Awesome book about how the mormon religion started and has spun a couple cults off that still practice polygamy to this day.
 
churches jails and gold mines

Steven Good.

Real estate mogul describes funny shit,
 
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My Turf by William Nack

If you like sports you will LOVE this book. It is a collectio of this sports writer's greatest writings. Some parts on horses, boxers, baseball, football, etc. Probably the best pieces I have ever read on Marciano, Ali and Liston. Plus it is a collection os short writings, so you won't get bored.
 
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Thanks. Lestat, I have to spread it around before I can hit you.

The base library's network is down, and my dumb ass couldn't find the card catalog. I came across Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. Hopefully it'll be good. Should only take me a few days.
 
KillahBee said:
My Turf by William Nack

If you like sports you will LOVE this book. It is a collectio of this sports writer's greatest writings. Some parts on horses, boxers, baseball, football, etc. Probably the best pieces I have ever read on Marciano, Ali and Liston. Plus it is a collection os short writings, so you won't get bored.
thanks for this rec
 
Lestat said:
Under the Banner of Heaver, John Krakaur (I spelled that wrong).

Awesome book about how the mormon religion started and has spun a couple cults off that still practice polygamy to this day.

This is a good book that I would recommend as well... very interesting to say the least.
 
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beefcake28 said:
This is a good book that I would recommend as well... very interesting to say the least.
yeah I didn't expect much from it, I have read a lot of books on religion and many are just boring or dry.. this was awesome, I was on vacation snowboarding and all I wanted to do at night was stay in and read!
 
all time favorite

1. Vertical Run by Joseph Garber- previous militant gets chased throug skyscraper by millitants trying to kill him for seeing something he shouldn't
....very detailed excellent read

2. Nathan's Run by John Gilstrap
Young boy is being chased by police for killing a cop that was trying to kill him


3. Without Remorse by Tom Clancy

classic revenge for killing of girfriend...great book

These three books are incredible.....an absolute must read
 
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musclemuscle said:
all time favorite

1. Vertical Run by Joseph Garber- previous militant gets chased throug skyscraper by millitants trying to kill him for seeing something he shouldn't
....very detailed excellent read

2. Nathan's Run by John Gilstrap
Young boy is being chased by police for killing a cop that was trying to kill him


3. Without Remorse by Tom Clancy

classic revenge for killing of girfriend...great book

These three books are incredible.....an absolute must read


everyone should read these books

best books written ever
 
needtogetas said:
why god makes no sence"by jon bravere."
battle feild of the mind"joce myers"
knowing the holy speirit"benny hen"
dude you believe Benny Hinn's bullshit????
 
musclemuscle said:
all time favorite

1. Vertical Run by Joseph Garber- previous militant gets chased throug skyscraper by millitants trying to kill him for seeing something he shouldn't
....very detailed excellent read

2. Nathan's Run by John Gilstrap
Young boy is being chased by police for killing a cop that was trying to kill him


3. Without Remorse by Tom Clancy

classic revenge for killing of girfriend...great book

These three books are incredible.....an absolute must read

oh yeah...did i mention to read these three books

incredible books must read for everyone in the entire universe
 
musclemuscle said:
oh yeah...did i mention to read these three books

incredible books must read for everyone in the entire universe
these are fiction?

not my style really, i'm into non fiction
 
Rex said:
Without Remorse is not dry like some of Clancy's writing can be, is it?

alot of his shit is dry ...but without remorse is very well written and easy to follow

i must have a good book or i don't read it

those three books are awesome
 
Cathedral by Nelson DeMille is pretty good. Someone recommended it to me last year. About the IRA taking over St Pat's Cathedral on March 17. Also adds an Irish love story in there. Good read.
 
Lestat said:
these are fiction?

not my style really, i'm into non fiction

i kind of figured that after reading some of your posts bro

you seem like the non fiction kind of guy


now go bomb those guys

buahahhahahahhahahahahahha
 
musclemuscle said:
alot of his shit is dry ...but without remorse is very well written and easy to follow

I'm damn near bashed my head in trying to finish "The Hunt for Red October". ZZZZZ jeeb jeeb jeeb jeeb ZZZZZ
 
musclemuscle said:
i kind of figured that after reading some of your posts bro

you seem like the non fiction kind of guy


now go bomb those guys

buahahhahahahhahahahahahha
yeah man, lets do some bombing
 
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Intensity by Dean Koontz
the best book i think ive ever read

EXCERPT from the book

Chyna Shepherd could not sleep comfortably in strange houses. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, her mother had dragged her from one end of the country to the other, staying nowhere longer than a month or two. So many terrible things had happened to them in so many places that Chyna eventually learned to view each new house not as a new beginning, not with hope for stability and happiness, but with suspicion and quiet dread.

Now she was long rid of her troubled mother and free to stay only where she wished. These days, her life was almost as stable as that of a cloistered nun, as meticulously planned as any bomb squad's procedures for disarming an explosive device, and without any of the turmoil on which her mother had thrived.

Nevertheless, this first night at the Templetons' house, Chyna was reluctant to undress and go to bed. She sat in the darkness in a medallion-back armchair at one of the two windows in the guest room, gazing out at the moonlit vineyards, fields, and hills of the Napa Valley.

Laura was in another room, at the far end of the second-floor hall, no doubt sound asleep, at peace because this house was not at all strange to her.
From the guest-room window, the early-spring vineyards were barely visible. Vague geometric patterns.

Beyond the cultivated rows were gentle hills mantled in long dry grass, silver in the moonlight. An inconstant breeze stirred through the valley, and sometimes the wild grass seemed to roll like ocean waves across the slopes, softly aglimmer with lambent lunar light.

Above the hills was the Coast Range, and above those peaks were cascades of stars and a full white moon. Storm clouds coming across the mountains from the northwest would soon darken the night, turning the silver hills first to pewter and then to blackest iron.

When she heard the first scream, Chyna was gazing at the stars, drawn by their cold light as she had been since childhood, fascinated by the thought of distant worlds that might be barren and clean, free of pestilence. At first the muffled cry seemed to be only a memory, a fragment of a shrill argument from another strange house in the past, echoing across time. Often, as a child, eager to hide from her mother and her mother's friends when they were drunk or high, she climbed onto porch roofs or into backyard trees, slipped through windows onto fire escapes, away to secret places far from the fray, where she could study the stars and where voices raised in argument or sexual excitement or shrill drug-induced giddiness came to her as though from out of a radio, from faraway places and people who had no connection whatsoever with her life.

The second cry, although brief and only slightly louder than the first, was indisputably of the moment, not a memory, and Chyna sat forward in her chair. Tense. Head cocked. Listening.

She wanted to believe that the voice had come from outside, so she continued to stare into the night, surveying the vineyards and the hills beyond. Breeze-driven waves swelled through the dry grass on the moon-washed slopes: a water mirage like the ghost tides of an ancient sea.

From elsewhere in the house came a soft thump, as though a heavy object had fallen to a carpeted floor.

Chyna immediately rose from the chair and stood utterly still, expectant.

Trouble often followed voices raised in one kind of passion or another. Sometimes, however, the worst offenses were proceeded by calculated silences and stealth.

She had difficulty reconciling the idea of domestic violence with Paul and Sarah Templeton, who had seemed as kind and loving toward each other as toward their daughter. Nevertheless, appearances and realities were seldom the same, and the human talent for deception was far greater than that of the chameleon, the mockingbird, or the praying mantis, which masked its ferocious cannibalism with a serene and devout posture.

Following the stifled cries and the soft thump, silence sifted down like a snowfall. The hush was eerily deep, as unnatural as that in which the deaf lived. This was the stillness before the pounce, the quietude of the coiled snake.

In another part of the house, someone was standing as motionless as she herself was standing, as alert as she was, intently listening. Someone dangerous. She could sense the predatory presence, a subtle new pressure in the air, not dissimilar to that preceding a violent thunderstorm.

On one level, six years of psychology classes caused her to question her immediate fearful interpretation of those night sounds, which conceivably could be insignificant, after all. Any well-trained psycho-analyst would have a wealth of labels to pin on someone who leaped first to a negative conclusion, who lived in expectation of sudden violence.

But she had to trust her instinct. It had been honed by many years of hard experience.

Intuitively certain that safety lay in movement, she stepped quietly away from the chair at the window, toward the hall door. In spite of the moonglow, her eyes had adjusted to darkness during the two hours that she had sat in the lightless room, and now she eased through the gloom with no fear of blundering into furniture.

She was only halfway to the door when she heard approaching footsteps in the second-floor hall. The heavy, urgent tread was alien to this house.

Unhampered by the interminable second-guessing that accompanied an education in psychology, reverting to the intuition and defenses of childhood, Chyna quickly retreated to the bed. She dropped to her knees.

Farther along the hall, the footsteps stopped. A door opened.

She was aware of the absurdity of attributing rage to the mere opening of a door. The rattle of the knob being turned, the rasp of the unsecured latch, the spike-sharp squeak of an unoiled hinge--they were only sounds, neither meek nor furious, guilty nor innocent, and could have been made as easily by a priest as by a burglar. Yet she knew that rage was at work in the night.

Flat on her stomach, she wriggled under the bed, feet toward the headboard. It was a graceful piece of furniture with sturdy gable legs, and fortunately it didn't sit as close to the floor as did most beds. One inch less of clearance would have prevented her from hiding under it.

Footsteps sounded in the hall again.

Another door opened. The guest-room door. Directly opposite the foot of the bed.

Someone switched on the lights.

Chyna lay with her head turned to one side, her right ear pressed to the carpet. Staring out from under the footboard, she could see a man's black boots and the legs of his blue jeans below mid-calf.

He stood just inside the threshold, evidently surveying the room. He would see a bed still neatly made at one o'clock in the morning, with four decorative needlepoint pillows arranged against the headboard.

She had left nothing on the nightstands. No clothes tossed on chairs. The paperback novel that she had brought with her for bedtime reading was in a bureau drawer.

She preferred spaces that were clean and uncluttered to the point of monastic sterility. Her preference might now save her life.

Again a faint doubt, the acquired propensity for self-analysis that plagued all psychology students, flickered through her. If the man in the doorway was someone with a right to be in the house--Paul Templeton or Laura's brother, Jack, who lived with his wife in the vineyard manager's bungalow elsewhere on the property--and if some crisis was unfolding that explained why he would burst into her room without knocking, she was going to appear to be a prime fool, if not a hysteric, when she crawled out from under the bed.

Then, directly in front of the black boots, a fat red droplet--another, then a third--fell to the wheat-gold carpet. Plop-plop-plop. Blood. The first two soaked into the thick nylon pile. The third held its surface tension, shimmering like a ruby.

Chyna knew the blood wasn't that of the intruder. She tried not to think about the sharp instrument from which it might have fallen.

He moved off to her right, deeper into the room, and she rolled her eyes to follow him. The bed had carved side rails into which the spread was tightly tucked. No overhanging fabric obstructed her view of his boots.

Obversely, without a spread draped to the floor, the space under the bed was more visible to him. From certain angles, he might even be able to look down and see a swatch of her blue jeans, the toe of one of her Rockports, the cranberry-red sleeve of her cotton sweater where it stretched over her bent elbow.

She was thankful that the bed was queen-size, offering more cover than a single or double.

If he was breathing hard, either with excitement or with the rage that she had sensed in his approach, Chyna couldn't hear him. With one ear pressed tightly to the plush carpet, she was half deaf. Wood slats and box springs weighed on her back, and her chest barely had room to expand to accommodate her own shallow, cautious, open-mouth inhalations. The hammering of her compressed heart against her breastbone echoed tympanically within her, and it seemed to fill the claustrophobic confines of her hiding place to such an extent that the intruder was certain to hear.

He went to the bathroom, pushed open the door, and flicked on the lights.

She had put away all her toiletries in the medicine cabinet. Even her toothbrush. Nothing lay out that might alert him to her presence.

But was the sink dry?

On retiring to her room at eleven o'clock, she had used the toilet and then had washed her hands. That was two hours ago. Any residual water in the bowl surely would have drained away or evaporated.

Lemon-scented liquid soap was provided in a pump dispenser at the sink. Fortunately, there was no damp bar of soap to betray her.

She worried about the hand towel. She doubted that it could still be damp two hours after the little use she had made of it. Nonetheless, in spite of a propensity for neatness and order, she might have left it hanging ever so slightly askew or with one telltale wrinkle.

He seemed to stand in the bathroom threshold for an eternity. Then he switched off the fluorescent light and returned to the bedroom.

Occasionally, as a little girl--and then not so little--Chyna had taken refuge under beds. Sometimes they looked for her there; sometimes, though it was the most obvious of all hidey-holes, they never thought to look. Of those who found her, a few had checked under the bed first--but most had left it for last.

Another red droplet fell to the carpet, as though the beast might be shedding slow tears of blood.

He moved toward the closet door.

Chyna had to turn her head slightly, straining her neck, to keep track of him.

The closet was deep, a walk-in with a chain-pull light in the center. She heard the distinctive snap of the tugged switch, then the clinking of the metal beads in the chain as they rattled against the light bulb.

The Templetons stored their own luggage at the back of that closet. Stacked with the other suitcases, Chyna's single bag and train case were not obviously those of a guest in residence.

She had brought several changes of clothes: two dresses, two skirts, another pair of jeans, a pair of chinos, a leather jacket. Because Chyna was the same size as Laura, the intruder might conclude that the few garments on the rod were just spillovers from the packed closet in Laura's room rather than evidence of a houseguest.

If he had been in Laura's bedroom, however, and had seen the condition of her closet--then what had happened to Laura?

She must not think about that. Not now. Not yet. For the moment, she needed to focus all her thoughts, all her wits, on staying alive.
 
For some nonfiction reads:
Pursuit of Power (military history), by William McNeil...its not mainstream, but its historically backed up

Long Twentieth Century, by Giovanni Arrighi...if you like historical sociology, a must read

How the Irish Saved Civilization...i'm irish, how could i not recommend this book

Fiction...for those of us who aren't quite as serious

LOTR...they all are good, some of the most in depth plot and subplot detail of any series ever written

Shannara series...written by Terry Brooks, i would describe this as post-apocalyptic fiction in which people have been reborn into new races with a major influence of neoclassic Celtic Druidism

Dark Elf books by R.A. Salvatore, just some really good fantasy fiction, this guy writes fight scenes like no one else i've ever read

(i'll be flamed unmercilessly for this one) Harry Potter series...if you get it out of your head that its a kids book...the fantasy fiction elements are strong, the subplots are phenomenal

Chronicles of Narnia...its a classic must read

Dan Brown books...i saw Rex was reading angels and demons...great book, make sure to read DaVinci Code

Stephen R. Donaldson books...the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant are absolutely amazing works of fiction, depth of characters, of the subplots and the visualizations provided of the landscape are truly unmatched in this generation of fantasy fiction authors.

...that should hold you over for now :)
 
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Anything by tom clancy, I have all his books and most were pretty good. Really any of the books that were made into movies are the dry ones. The Bear and the Dragon and Red Rabbit are my favorites.
 
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iamnoturgirlfriend said:
i hate idiots who make a big deal of the davinci code. if i have to hear one more iidiot mention it, im going to cut myself.

iv had people ask me if i like to read, and when i tell them how much i hate it they go ahead anyway and recommend the fucking da vinci code...its like "i just fucking told u i hate reading" and they always reply with "yes but this book is just that good" FUCK

no offense to you.
 
THICH NHAT HANH
author of Living Buddha, Living Christ

ANGER

I highly recommend this book
 
SublimeZM said:
i hate idiots who make a big deal of the davinci code. if i have to hear one more iidiot mention it, im going to cut myself.

iv had people ask me if i like to read, and when i tell them how much i hate it they go ahead anyway and recommend the fucking da vinci code...its like "i just fucking told u i hate reading" and they always reply with "yes but this book is just that good" FUCK

no offense to you.
Here's rock for you
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Laughs


I'll mail you the da vinci code book right now.. ( kidding)
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Wootoom said:
damn i have to see the movie
for real man, I hear its got some good shit in it, like quotes that people love to use.
 
Wootoom said:
damn i heard this Patrick Bateman can never get reservations at Dorsia
i wanna see if I can get a res there sometime, just don't try for 8:30
 
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" by Richard Feynman is a great book. Well, everything by Feynman is either a classic or bestseller, but this is his funniest by far.

I also like Roger Penrose - his new book "The Road to Reality - The Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" just came out a few months ago. Great read.



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Finished Angels and Demons last week. Pretty good book. A lot of twists.

Vertical Run, like MuscleMuscle said, was good. Held my attention, and was an easy read.

Currently have about 1/3 of Nathan's Run left.
 
Ok, from my list of Fiction favorites, in no particular order:

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
The Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Ann Rice (actually she used a pen name, Anne Roquellarre or something)
The Stand by SK
The Shining by SK
ALL the books by Jean Auel in the Children of the Earth series (Ayla anyone?)
Angel & Demos... very twisty
Lightning by Dean Koontz
 
read "the men who stare at goats" by John Ronson (unsure on the author, sure on the title.)
 
In the Lake of the Woods- Tim O'Brien
Rules of Attraction- Brett Easton Ellis
How to Make Love Like a Pornstar: A Cautionary Tale- Jenna Jameson :p
 
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