Topic: Book recommendation (Read 2007 times)

Who is John Galt?

I'll agree with the OP... this is a great book.

I tend to read by author, find a great author that you like, and chances are good that you'll like everything they put out.

WEB Griffin is probably my favorite author, but I also like Robert Asprin, Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, James Clavell, and any number of others... but those are the ones that I recall instantly.

I love reading Shakespeare just finished Henry part IV . Iam totally into literature don't about rest of us but i know not lot of people love to read literature the max amount of reader's  interest is either in fiction, romantic or biographies .

I recommend to you The Book Thief by Mark Zusak. Other then that read serial A song of Ice and Fire by R.R. Martin.

It seems that nobody has mentioned George Orwell so far   1984 or Animal Farm sometimes seem to be describing problems we are experiencing now (or might experience in not so distant future), although they were written a few decades ago. I like his Homage to Catalonia too. In it, he recounts his experience from Spanish Civil War (another famous piece about the conflict is Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls).

And I like classics too. One of my favourites is Dante Alighieri and his Divine Comedy with all its mind-blowing imagery, especially in Inferno   

I've not read it but it's definitely on my reading list. It's just finding the time to read nowadays, which is a shame.

Atlas shrugged is definitely the best 

Where does it rank compared to his others? It's the only one I haven't read of his.

Yep, he is. Decent book I must say.

Is Robert Langdon still the main character?

Inferno - Dan Brown was pretty decent in my opinion.

Also I would like to recommend The Kite Runner.Its one of my favorite read.

"451 degrees fahrenheit" is my personal top1. "Atlas shrugged" is probably somewhere nearby with a "One flew over the cuckoo's nest". Can recommend them all as a very interesting, educational and fascinating books.   

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Normally I don't really read fiction, but this one is really good!

To mock a hummingbird is an all-time favourite

I'm a fan of the classics, I highly recommend Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote as it is actually a rather good comedy in the modern sense of the term, it made me laugh quite a bit despite being 400 years old. Its a book that I would consider light reading and very important to catch a huge amount of modern references. I remember sitting in a QED (physics) class reading it, and then bursting out laughing, everyone looked and imediately understood when I said, "d00d got knighted by a hoe" or at least they gave me an even stranger look that I assume meant that they understood.

Inferno, Purgatorio, y Paradisio by Dante Aligiheri. I haven't got around to reading Paradisio yet, but they are an interesting look into untampered with religion, not diluted by today's agenda told in a way that isn't dry and pedantic.

if we are going historical here, I had a buddy who had an original 1926 English edition of Mien Kampf that allowed me to borrow it. While it is not a light read, its essentially just a political campaign/propoganda, if you like psychology or history it has a lot of interesting things that allow you to draw connections to how the whole WW2/holocaust thing came to be.

And more modern, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. I feel a lot of Bitcoiners who are involved in the business side of Bitcoin will draw a lot of connections to the book. It worried me at first, but then I stopped worrying about myself and found the book rather enjoyable. If you are interested in the world's financial system as effected by large corporations, or have conspiracy theories about such, you will like this book.

Go for old schoool. Asimov is cool.

It'd be helpful if everyone said why they recommend each book

Lovely to see the Chomsky and Pilger reccy's here

I still am to a certain degree. But I had a period of being a hardcore buddhist, and honestly, I have never been as calm as I were back then. And that is what me and my friends refer to as "The Buddhist Period". I maybe should have written that post in another way haha

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