I’m a big reader and have one or two books in my bag at all times. I used to only read computer books but slowly realized that much more is out there, not to mention the strain of always looking at code and design concepts. I’ve now come up with a system in which I will always have 1 computer book and 1 non-computer book.
As you can see, I’ve been pretty good at keeping up with my goal and enjoyed various adventures now because of it.
This year I received a bunch of gift cards to Barnes&Nobles along with Amazon.com and I’m trying to figure out what books I want to purchase. I have a current list of books I’m reading right now (have to update my reading list to reflex this) but want to find something new and exciting to read. Something I haven’t ventured into before.
If you look over my book wishlist you’ll get an idea of what I like to read. That said - I want to hear any and all book suggestions so that I can have choices.
So tell me - What books have you read or are currently reading that made you sit back and say - “Wow, what a good book!”?
posted on January 3, 2004 | 12:11 PM EST
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I see from your wish list you desire the Lord of the Rings DVD. Have you read “The Hobbit” and the Tolkien Trilogy? I strongly recommend reading them. No film will ever do the books justice!
Read any Dan Brown? http://www.danbrown.com/novels/index.html “Digital Fortress” might interest you.
I got “The Nag Hammadi Library” for Christmas http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html and particularly enjoyed reading “The Gospel of Thomas”. It’s available as a stand alone book by several different translators. It’s purported to be a collections of sayings by Jesus.
I also like James A. Michener. “The Source” is a fairly representative novel of his. “Iberia” was good. “Poland” …, etc.
What about “Portrait of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde?
In a perfect world I would READ for a living!!!
I’m excited to see you reading this much. Reading can open up so many opportunities and broaden your horizons. I didn’t enjoy reading until I was in half way through college. The first book that I really enjoyed was “American Ceasar”, the biography of Douglas McArthur (great book to read). Anyway, a few of my recommendations would be as follows.
Fiction
* anything by Dick Francis (english horse racing themes, mystery)
* The Testiment - John Grisham
* The DiVinci Code - Dan Brown (I’m reading Angels & Demons now)
* Prey - Michael Crichton (techno-thriller)
* Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card (SiFi)
Non-Fiction
* American Ceasar - ???
* The Life Of Francis Marion - Simms (he was known as the Swamp Fox of the Revolutionary War)
* Every Man a Tiger - Gen Chuck Horner (about the air war of the first Gulf war)
* The Road Ahead - Bill Gates (a non-technical book about the future of technology in general, not just computers)
* All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarden - Robert Fulghum
* The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
I have many more, but I’ll stop there. Enjoy.
The DaVinci Code was the first Dan Brown I read. I got hooked and read them all. That book also lead me to read “Mary Magdalen Myth and Metaphor” by Susan Haskins. Some of it was pretty dry but interesting and enlightening for the most part.
Did you notice that the name of the main character in Brown’s book coincidentally is the name of Robert Langdon, a Harvard Symbologist… Check out the names of some of the other characters in his books. There are a lot of coincidences.
The Overspent American (link)
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by ???
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh
Anger by Thich Nhat Hanh
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by ??
‘A child called “It”’
I am not sure who this book is by. One of my friends at school was reading it and let me read it for a couple minutes. It is about this boy called “It” and how he grew up being beaten by his mother. The book is very sad. Everyone that I have talked to that has read this book has loved it. I can see why, in the few minutes I read it I was hooked.
Howard Says:
I see from your wish list you desire the Lord of the Rings DVD. Have you read “The Hobbit” and the Tolkien Trilogy? I strongly recommend reading them. No film will ever do the books justice!
Read any Dan Brown? http://www.danbrown.com/novels/index.html “Digital Fortress” might interest you.
I got “The Nag Hammadi Library” for Christmas http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html and particularly enjoyed reading “The Gospel of Thomas”. It’s available as a stand alone book by several different translators. It’s purported to be a collections of sayings by Jesus.
I also like James A. Michener. “The Source” is a fairly representative novel of his. “Iberia” was good. “Poland” …, etc.
What about “Portrait of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde?
In a perfect world I would READ for a living!!!