As the title says i was wondering if anyone would reccomend any books that they think would be interesting to read. I want something more productive then tv to fill my school nights with all suggestions are welcome thanks.
some recent favorites ive read:
nelson demille - night fall
nelson demille - the gold coast
james patterson - roses are red
james patterson - violets are blue
james patterson - the big bad wolf
thats about all i can read on the bookshelf from way over here…
The “Lucifer Principle” is freelance journalist Bloom’s theory that evil-which manifests in violence, destructiveness and war-is woven into our biological fabric. A corollary is that evil is a by-product of nature’s strategy to move the world to greater heights of organization and power as national or religious groups follow ideologies that trigger lofty ideals as well as base cruelty. In an ambitious, often provocative study, Bloom applies the ideas of sociobiology, ethology and the “killer ape” school of anthropology to the broad canvas of history, with examples ranging from Oliver Cromwell’s reputed pleasure in killing and raping to Mao Tse-tung’s bloody Cultural Revolution, India’s caste system and Islamic fundamentalist expansion. Bloom says Americans suffer “perceptual shutdown” that blinds them to the United States’ downward slide in the pecking order of nations. His use of concepts like pecking order, memes (self-replicating clusters of ideas), the “neural net” or group mind of the social “superorganism” seem more like metaphors than explanatory tools.
John Brunner-The shockwave rider
Good luck finding it though i had to special order
I just read “In Cold Blood” - Truman Capote.
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All Vince Flynn books. If you like tom clancy type shit, you will like these.
Also, the price of loyalty and the one percent doctrine will educte you about whats realy going on in this country. i hope to get my hands on the state of denial soon.
just about anything by bob woodward i wish everyone in this country would read.
Larry Niven-Inferno
Larry Niven-A world out of time
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oh oh oh anything by james patterson too 
The Wheel of Time series
The Sword of Truth series
those will keep you buisy for months
Stephen Chbosky- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse Five
Anything by Hemingway
Kate Chopin- The Awakening
George Orwell- 1984
Jonathan Kozol- Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
The first two are must-reads.
The Da Vinci Code & Angels and Demons. Don’t bother reading more of Dan Brown’s stuff. I quickly found out that they were all the same story with a different setting.
Michael Crichton stuff is always good. State of Fear was the last one I read. Very interesting global warming fictional scenario type stuff.
I have liked almost all of the Crichton stuff I’ve read, which is almost all of his books.
As for Dan Brown, I liked Angels & Demons better than the Da Vinci Code.
thanks everyone im gonna check some out and i alreadyr read the davinci code and angels and demons and they were really good didt think i would like them at first but turned out to be great
Nice, I’ll have to look into that. Thanks Fox. :tup:
Also, Patrick Robinson lays out a good techno-thriller too. Currently elbow-deep in Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ultimatum.
I guess it all depends on what subject you consider “a good read.”
i wish i could read and run at the same time…