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re: What is your favorite book ever?
Posted on 3/24/18 at 6:57 am to GeauxHouston
Posted on 3/24/18 at 6:57 am to GeauxHouston
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
Has a timeless theme and satirical perspective of how different social groups perceive and use a tragic event for their own personal gain.
Has a timeless theme and satirical perspective of how different social groups perceive and use a tragic event for their own personal gain.
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Posted on 3/24/18 at 2:33 pm to GeauxHouston
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Posted on 3/24/18 at 8:58 pm to GeauxHouston
Moviegoer. Dunces is a close 2nd.
Posted on 3/24/18 at 11:06 pm to GeauxHouston
Les Miserables
Pillars of the Earth
Pillars of the Earth
Posted on 3/25/18 at 11:29 am to GeauxHouston
mysterious island
world war z (audiobook)
world war z (audiobook)
Posted on 3/25/18 at 12:41 pm to GeauxHouston
I love everything about this book. Is Beowulf from Grendel’s POV.
Posted on 3/26/18 at 4:31 pm to GeauxHouston
The Grapes of Wrath
Posted on 3/26/18 at 7:44 pm to GeauxHouston
Fellowship of the Ring or Boys Life
Posted on 3/26/18 at 11:42 pm to The Spleen
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The Grapes of Wrath
And Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Posted on 3/27/18 at 12:06 pm to chity
Read A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe. Similar concept and interactions of different people who are all intertwined.
Good book
Good book
Posted on 3/28/18 at 12:27 pm to GeauxHouston
Term Limits by Vince Flynn. Although the Mitch Rapp character wasn't in this book, it got me into the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 4:07 pm to GeauxHouston
Infinite Jest - for the complexity, stellar writing, alternating humor and sadness. There's nothing else like it.
OK, not true of Jest. I barely made it through the first time. It helps to have a dictionary nearby. And I literally threw it into the ocean when I finished because I'd spent so much time and effort to reach an ending that I hated. But parts of it nagged at me and I had to re-visit it. Since then I've read it multiple times and it keeps getting better. David Foster Wallace had a brain that was on a different level.
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ones you couldn't put down.
OK, not true of Jest. I barely made it through the first time. It helps to have a dictionary nearby. And I literally threw it into the ocean when I finished because I'd spent so much time and effort to reach an ending that I hated. But parts of it nagged at me and I had to re-visit it. Since then I've read it multiple times and it keeps getting better. David Foster Wallace had a brain that was on a different level.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 6:56 pm to GeauxHouston
Well Dale Dubin’s Rapid Interpretation of EKGs and his other book about molecular ion movement through the heart are 2 of the best written, best explained books I’ve read for dumb people like me. Got me through paramedic school.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey is one I like
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey is one I like
Posted on 3/29/18 at 1:01 pm to John Gotti
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That's tough. Recently I read Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas. Was blown away...definitely my favorite book I've read recently.
Just don't start reading theological reviews of it
It'll take you down a wormhole on Bonhoeffer you may not want to go down
Posted on 3/30/18 at 2:21 pm to GeauxHouston
The outsiders
Posted on 3/30/18 at 7:53 pm to GeauxHouston
I couldn't possibly pick just one. My top contenders would have to be:
The Fellowship of the Ring
Deadhouse Gates
Ender's Game
The Fellowship of the Ring
Deadhouse Gates
Ender's Game
Posted on 4/6/18 at 8:27 am to GeauxHouston
Imot a big book reader but the last book I read was For Whom The Bell Tolls
I really enjoyed it a lot.
Anyone have any recomendations on something similar?
I really enjoyed it a lot.
Anyone have any recomendations on something similar?
Posted on 4/6/18 at 9:14 am to Crawdaddy
Think and Grow Rich- Napolean Hill
Title sounds like a get rich quick book, but book contains some of the most profound, yet basic principles on how the mind works. Backed with stories of men throughout history attaining wealth, power and influence, it gives you a few basic steps to turn into routines that will help you achieve success. And most every great man I've eve known, lived by those routines whether knowingly through the book or by their own intuition.
Title sounds like a get rich quick book, but book contains some of the most profound, yet basic principles on how the mind works. Backed with stories of men throughout history attaining wealth, power and influence, it gives you a few basic steps to turn into routines that will help you achieve success. And most every great man I've eve known, lived by those routines whether knowingly through the book or by their own intuition.
Posted on 4/6/18 at 5:13 pm to GeauxHouston
Wind in the willows
Posted on 4/9/18 at 6:01 pm to GeauxHouston
Neverwhere.
But it has to be the authors preferred text reading by Gaiman himself.
But it has to be the authors preferred text reading by Gaiman himself.
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