# Any good books to read **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 31, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528 "2006-10-31T16:44:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![2slowtogofast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/8edcca/32.png) [@2slowtogofast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2slowtogofast)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/1 "2006-10-31T16:44:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![redrum](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redrum/32/7398_2.png) [@redrum](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/redrum)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/2 "2006-10-31T17:12:30Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![zwarbyt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zwarbyt/32/7623_2.png) [@zwarbyt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/zwarbyt)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/3 "2006-10-31T17:20:07Z")
> 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. ---
**Author:** ![fairgentleman\_Z](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fairgentleman_z/32/7263_2.png) [@fairgentleman\_Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fairgentleman_Z)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/4 "2006-10-31T17:26:03Z")
Caroll Smith’s “To Win” Series. 5 books in all. And some others… > ---
**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/5 "2006-10-31T17:26:17Z")
> **[The Shockwave Rider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider)** > > The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network. It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool, perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's co The ti... John Brunner-The shockwave rider Good luck finding it though i had to special order ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Karus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mrs_karus/32/7426_2.png) [@Mrs\_Karus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mrs_Karus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/6 "2006-10-31T18:04:15Z")
Ann Rule’s series… love them… ---
**Author:** ![fbrendan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/7 "2006-10-31T18:09:16Z")
I just read “In Cold Blood” - Truman Capote. :tup: ---
**Author:** ![87FOXGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ecd19e/32.png) [@87FOXGT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/87FOXGT)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/8 "2006-10-31T18:31:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ImportMuscle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/importmuscle/32/7615_2.png) [@ImportMuscle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ImportMuscle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/9 "2006-10-31T18:34:33Z")
Larry Niven-Inferno Larry Niven-A world out of time :tup: ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Karus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mrs_karus/32/7426_2.png) [@Mrs\_Karus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mrs_Karus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/10 "2006-10-31T18:37:55Z")
oh oh oh anything by james patterson too 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Freek](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/freek/32/7357_2.png) [@Freek](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Freek)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/11 "2006-10-31T18:49:06Z")
The Wheel of Time series The Sword of Truth series those will keep you buisy for months ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/12 "2006-10-31T18:57:58Z")
Harry Potter yo. ---
**Author:** ![jkucz28](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jkucz28/32/7503_2.png) [@jkucz28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jkucz28)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/13 "2006-10-31T19:00:17Z")
the statement any good books is a sin ---
**Author:** ![Calico\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/67e7ee/32.png) [@Calico\_Angel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Calico_Angel)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/14 "2006-10-31T19:09:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![redrum](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redrum/32/7398_2.png) [@redrum](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/redrum)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/15 "2006-10-31T19:15:07Z")
vonnegut - hocus pocus was good too ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/16 "2006-10-31T19:37:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![redrum](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redrum/32/7398_2.png) [@redrum](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/redrum)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/17 "2006-11-01T04:04:54Z")
> [@BikerFry](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![2slowtogofast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/8edcca/32.png) [@2slowtogofast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2slowtogofast)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 5:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/18 "2006-11-01T05:38:51Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/19 "2006-11-01T07:13:02Z")
> [@87FOXGT](#): > > All Vince Flynn books. If you like tom clancy type shit, you will like these. 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.” ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-good-books-to-read/19528/20 "2006-11-01T07:29:15Z")
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