Book recommendations? (no programming books please)
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Hello all, I want to start reading again... The first two books I'll get are THE ART OF WAR by SUN TZU and THE PRINCE by MAQUIAVELLI. I've enjoyed novels from DAN BROWN, STEPHEN KING, some Italian authors, I've enjoyed a lot the SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HANNIBAL and THE RED DRAGON (all the books are far more interesting than the films), also I've enjoyed books like who moved my cheese and others like some books from PATRICK SÜSKIND. I've tried also books like DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS and this kind of books, but I'd like to read something more related to the first ones I've mentioned. As always thank you in advance.
No self-respecting programmer, network engineer, or crypto-phile would pass on Cryptonomicon[^] by Neil Stephenson[^]
“If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.”-Alfred P. Sloan
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Hello all, I want to start reading again... The first two books I'll get are THE ART OF WAR by SUN TZU and THE PRINCE by MAQUIAVELLI. I've enjoyed novels from DAN BROWN, STEPHEN KING, some Italian authors, I've enjoyed a lot the SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HANNIBAL and THE RED DRAGON (all the books are far more interesting than the films), also I've enjoyed books like who moved my cheese and others like some books from PATRICK SÜSKIND. I've tried also books like DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS and this kind of books, but I'd like to read something more related to the first ones I've mentioned. As always thank you in advance.
Notes from the Underground Ecclesiastes Read 'em back-to-back, in which ever order pleases you.
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Hello all, I want to start reading again... The first two books I'll get are THE ART OF WAR by SUN TZU and THE PRINCE by MAQUIAVELLI. I've enjoyed novels from DAN BROWN, STEPHEN KING, some Italian authors, I've enjoyed a lot the SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HANNIBAL and THE RED DRAGON (all the books are far more interesting than the films), also I've enjoyed books like who moved my cheese and others like some books from PATRICK SÜSKIND. I've tried also books like DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS and this kind of books, but I'd like to read something more related to the first ones I've mentioned. As always thank you in advance.
Give Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment a go. 30-40 others if you like it.
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Hello all, I want to start reading again... The first two books I'll get are THE ART OF WAR by SUN TZU and THE PRINCE by MAQUIAVELLI. I've enjoyed novels from DAN BROWN, STEPHEN KING, some Italian authors, I've enjoyed a lot the SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HANNIBAL and THE RED DRAGON (all the books are far more interesting than the films), also I've enjoyed books like who moved my cheese and others like some books from PATRICK SÜSKIND. I've tried also books like DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS and this kind of books, but I'd like to read something more related to the first ones I've mentioned. As always thank you in advance.
The Talisman - Stephen King / Peter Straub- Best book I have ever read. Ever.The Black House - Stephen King / Peter Straub- Sequel(ish) to The Talisman. By far one of the worst books I've ever read. Anybody else read both and have a different opinion? -
Give Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment a go. 30-40 others if you like it.
that's not a bad read. In fact, most of Pratchett's books are good reads.
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I'm reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and I like it. :) I also liked his The Selfish Gene. After TGD, I will be reading Who will cry when you die? by Robin Sharma. Not sure what I'll read after that... probably finish This side of paradise that I left off late last year :doh: I also want to read the Gita, but I'm afraid that's a long way off.
Cheers, विक्रम
And sleep will come, it comes to us all And some will fade and some will fall
Quote: "I'm reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and I like it." Your going to hell!11!1 God exists because he wrote a book saying he does, how would we know right from wrong if it wasn't for him sacrificing his son for our sins :mad::mad::mad:
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Hello all, I want to start reading again... The first two books I'll get are THE ART OF WAR by SUN TZU and THE PRINCE by MAQUIAVELLI. I've enjoyed novels from DAN BROWN, STEPHEN KING, some Italian authors, I've enjoyed a lot the SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HANNIBAL and THE RED DRAGON (all the books are far more interesting than the films), also I've enjoyed books like who moved my cheese and others like some books from PATRICK SÜSKIND. I've tried also books like DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS and this kind of books, but I'd like to read something more related to the first ones I've mentioned. As always thank you in advance.
Joan Murt wrote:
Hello all, I want to start reading again... The first two books I'll get are THE ART OF WAR by SUN TZU and THE PRINCE by MAQUIAVELLI.
In the same vein: http://www.amazon.com/War-Penguin-Classics-Carl-Clausewitz/dp/0140444270[^] (if only Bush had read it ...)
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Quote: "I'm reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and I like it." Your going to hell!11!1 God exists because he wrote a book saying he does, how would we know right from wrong if it wasn't for him sacrificing his son for our sins :mad::mad::mad:
Leave that stuff in the Soapbox Kyle.
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." - Frank Herbert
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Leave that stuff in the Soapbox Kyle.
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." - Frank Herbert
Why? I see people in here all the time with Jesus in the signatures. Shouldn't they keep that in the soapbox too (or better yet the trash can)?
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Hello all, I want to start reading again... The first two books I'll get are THE ART OF WAR by SUN TZU and THE PRINCE by MAQUIAVELLI. I've enjoyed novels from DAN BROWN, STEPHEN KING, some Italian authors, I've enjoyed a lot the SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HANNIBAL and THE RED DRAGON (all the books are far more interesting than the films), also I've enjoyed books like who moved my cheese and others like some books from PATRICK SÜSKIND. I've tried also books like DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS and this kind of books, but I'd like to read something more related to the first ones I've mentioned. As always thank you in advance.
I used to have a security gaurd job that gave me lots of time to read so here are some of my favorites. You can't go wrong with Machiavelli although I think Titus Livius is even better than the prince. He gives a really good explaination of the rise of the roman empire as well as the mistakes they made that in my opinion would be applicable and rings true to almost any civilazation or country in history. Machiavelli's Art of War is also not bad. Any book about the Byzantine Empire is good. Strategikon by Emporer Maurice is better than Sun Tzu in my opinion and so are some other ones like The First Crusader about the Emporer Heraclius. Any Steven Pinkers books especialy How The Mind Works and the Language Instinct. Also On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins. Other good books are: The Republic by Plato Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson (talks about how Hierglyphics were deciphered also) THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF HUMAN GENES. by Luigi Luca et al. Cavalli-Sforza Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray
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Quote: "I'm reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and I like it." Your going to hell!11!1 God exists because he wrote a book saying he does, how would we know right from wrong if it wasn't for him sacrificing his son for our sins :mad::mad::mad:
I never believed in that God to start with. ;P
Cheers, विक्रम
And sleep will come, it comes to us all And some will fade and some will fall
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I'm reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and I like it. :) I also liked his The Selfish Gene. After TGD, I will be reading Who will cry when you die? by Robin Sharma. Not sure what I'll read after that... probably finish This side of paradise that I left off late last year :doh: I also want to read the Gita, but I'm afraid that's a long way off.
Cheers, विक्रम
And sleep will come, it comes to us all And some will fade and some will fall
I read The God Delusion on a recent holiday in Italy. I've never been a religious or spiritual person, but it certainly changed the way I looked at things. We went to a couple of the torture museums there too, it's absolutley horrific what people to to each other in the name of religion.