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re: Suggest 1 fiction and 1 non fiction book for me to read.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:08 pm to crazyhorsedog
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:08 pm to crazyhorsedog
fiction - "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan" - Aldous Huxley
nonfiction - Collected Essays, Aldous Huxley
nonfiction - Collected Essays, Aldous Huxley
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Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:10 pm to LSU1NSEC
How is "After Man a Summer Dies the Swan"?
I have read a Brave New World and The Island and liked both but found them both to be very wordy and fairly similar.
My suggestions are:
Non-fiction: Tycoons- Charles Morris
Fiction: A Sport and a Pastime - James Salter
I have read a Brave New World and The Island and liked both but found them both to be very wordy and fairly similar.
My suggestions are:
Non-fiction: Tycoons- Charles Morris
Fiction: A Sport and a Pastime - James Salter
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:17 pm to theunknownknight
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Non-Fiction: The Bible
Fits as the fiction selection as well....two birds one stone (or was it fish, I don't remember the story)
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:54 pm to KajunGator
If you are a parent, Dad is Fat - Jim Gaffigan
The Smartest Guys in the Room- the Enron story.
The Big Short- Michael Lewis about shorting the housing market.
Any Malcolm Gladwell.
any David Sedaris
And one I got from here-Go the frick to Sleep.
Five Days at Memorial-Sheri Fink. About Memorial Hospital during Katrina
Ike's Bluff -Evan Thomas. About President Eisenhower
Into the Wild and Into Thin Air both by Jon Krakeur
Killing Kennedy, Killing Lincoln and Killing Jesus
Any Rick Bragg
Pound Foolish- Helaine Olen. About the personal finance industry.
Restaurant Man - Joe Bastianich.
Wild Tales by Graham Nash
The Smartest Guys in the Room- the Enron story.
The Big Short- Michael Lewis about shorting the housing market.
Any Malcolm Gladwell.
any David Sedaris
And one I got from here-Go the frick to Sleep.
Five Days at Memorial-Sheri Fink. About Memorial Hospital during Katrina
Ike's Bluff -Evan Thomas. About President Eisenhower
Into the Wild and Into Thin Air both by Jon Krakeur
Killing Kennedy, Killing Lincoln and Killing Jesus
Any Rick Bragg
Pound Foolish- Helaine Olen. About the personal finance industry.
Restaurant Man - Joe Bastianich.
Wild Tales by Graham Nash
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:58 pm to SetTheMood
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I'd suggest Guns, Germs and Steel for nonfiction
For fiction, I'd suggest the Kite Runner.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:00 pm to Wasp
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How is "After Man a Summer Dies the Swan"?
I have read a Brave New World and The Island and liked both but found them both to be very wordy and fairly similar.
I really like "After Many a Summer" - maybe it's just my taste in writing. Also enjoyed most of his short stories and essays - a few of them are kinda dry.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:11 pm to crazyhorsedog
NF - Belly Up (about a bank in the OK natural gas boom that took down much of the US banking system).
F - The Son, by Phillip Meyer (historical portrayal of several generations of a fictional Texas family)
Saw someone else recommended The Big Short, and I think it's an amazing read, especially if you like money topics.
F - The Son, by Phillip Meyer (historical portrayal of several generations of a fictional Texas family)
Saw someone else recommended The Big Short, and I think it's an amazing read, especially if you like money topics.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 8:20 am to crazyhorsedog
This post was edited on 12/18/18 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 2/18/14 at 8:25 am to crazyhorsedog
Why not kill two birds with one stone and read an alternate history book? It's like a fiction story inside a non-fiction book.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 8:45 am to crazyhorsedog
Non-fiction: Anything by Mark Bowden - he is a journalist who writes well enough to put you in the moment - I particularly recommend "Killing Pablo" (about the hunt for Pablo Escobar) or "Blackhawk Down" (Battle of Mogadishu).
Fiction: Tough based on your parameters. I guess my fallback is "Red Storm Rising" - Clancy's massive tale about World War III. Pretty much the only long book I've read as an adult that I simply could not put down. Read it over a long weekend while still an undergrad. Fictionalized accounts of actual events that are wonderful are "Gates of Fire" (Pressfield, about The Battle of Thermopylae) and "The Ten Thousand" (Michael Curtis Ford, about the events surrounding Xenophon's Anabasis). "Andromeda Strain" and "Timeline" by Crichton are also good reads.
Fiction: Tough based on your parameters. I guess my fallback is "Red Storm Rising" - Clancy's massive tale about World War III. Pretty much the only long book I've read as an adult that I simply could not put down. Read it over a long weekend while still an undergrad. Fictionalized accounts of actual events that are wonderful are "Gates of Fire" (Pressfield, about The Battle of Thermopylae) and "The Ten Thousand" (Michael Curtis Ford, about the events surrounding Xenophon's Anabasis). "Andromeda Strain" and "Timeline" by Crichton are also good reads.
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 8:48 am
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