Gimme suggestions for....books

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Le Dictionary de Websters

Hey guys I'm thinking about getting the ender book. I notice on B&N they have about 300 enders books. Is there a enders book with the original 4 storys in it?

[RunDownHouse]

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I would probably recommend staying away from anything you would have to read in college. Most of it is boring and only read so that smart people can have pissing contests over what big books they've read.

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Careful, your ignorance is showing.

[peterchi]

My favorite book ever is Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics.

But I'm weird like that.

It's probably only worth your while if you have any interest in science at all, but at the same time, it was written for the non-scientist in terms of level of comprehension. So, if you don't like science, it's not that you wouldn't understand it; it's that you wouldn't care.

It's basically a compilation of stories throughout history, in which genetics plays any sort of significant role. Stuff like crime scene investigations, inbreeding in royal families, eugenics, etc.

[TheIrishThug]

of the Palahniuk books i've read i'd say do lullaby before choke
also check out The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille
manhattan hunt club by John Saul

[RunDownHouse]

Fiction: The Kite Runner came out not too long ago and is a really good read, especially if you don't know much about Afghanistan, like I didn't.

Non-fiction: Sperm Wars, By Dr. Robin Baker. A must read, and very easy to follow even if you don't know anything about evolutionary biology.

A Confederacy of Dunces, as suggested by someone else, is my favorite of the others that have been mentioned so far.

[tbach24]

The Curious Incident About the Dog in the Nighttime--easily the best book I've ever read

Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezreich I think. Very good, about card counters.

Moneyball by Michael Lewis. Pretty much a must read for any baseball fan. It's fantastic.

[BruinEric]

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I don't read enough and my friends don't read anything. So if you have any suggestions on any good books that I should check out, that would be helpful.

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George Orwell - 1984. The book is easy to read, has good suspense and everything. You think you know enough about all the "Big Brother" stuff to know the whole book -- but you don't.

A worthy read that also grows your cultural literacy.

[BruinEric]

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I don't read enough and my friends don't read anything. So if you have any suggestions on any good books that I should check out, that would be helpful.

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For humor with a bit of a world-travelogue and topics that make you think, try either:

Parliament of Whores by PJ O'Rourke

or

Eat the Rich by PJ O'Rourke

If I had to recommend only one of these, I would highly HIGHLY recommend "Eat the Rich." The chapters on Sweden and Albania are especially interesting and funny.

The book can be read in standalone chapter-form, so you can read a chapter and come back to the book much later if you want.

[Slow Play Ray]

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crime and punishment -dostoevsky

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LOL.. check this out... a buddy of mine has a daughter reading this book in her Sr year...


OF HIGH SCHOOL!!! I was like WTF?

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I also read this my senior year of high school. I think it's pretty commonplace nowadays.