Recommend me some cool books (non-fiction please!!!)

[KaneKungFu123]

this might come in hand

[trotski]

Into Thin Air is excellent. Also check out Under the Banner of Heaven, Krakauer is awesome. If you like war history, check out An Army at Dawn, by Rick Atkinson, it's about the allied invasion of Africa in WWII. Part I of the Liberation Trilogy he is working on. Loved the Elegant Universe as well.

[diebitter]

If you want to find out about the mad English

[KaneKungFu123]

if you insist on reading non-fiction try that book "The Art of Seduction". Looked interesting, but I was never sure if I wanted to read it or not.

You should also read an autobiography by a jewel theif or a drug lord or someone cool like that.

[Aloysius]

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I now spend 90 mins a day on the train and have been starting to read once again. Recommend me some cool non-fiction stuff.

I'll be picking up the Robert Rodriguez book 'Rebel Without A Crew' that Diablo mentioned on another thread, plus Michael Johnson's 'Slaying The Dragon', because he rules.

Gimme some mo'.

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Alexander Hamilton bio (by same dude who wrote Rockefeller bio name escaping me) - this is seriously great read. Hamilton led a really interesting life, and of course is one of the main architects of both the Constitution and the Treasury. Really well researched and compelling [censored].

Edit - just saw TWP rec for Truman bio - that one is great, also. The recent John Adams one is only OK.

[Rduke55]

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond is one of my favorite non-fiction books.
The science is geared towards the layperson and once you get past him being impressed with himself it's a great read.

[Slow Play Ray]

Some good non-fiction I've read recently:

Global Brain by Howard Bloom

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (warning: freaky), along with the sequel, Dry

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

[MrMon]

If you want THE single volume book on WWII, an updated 10th anniversery edition of A World At Arms was just released. Only for people already familiar with the war, if you really want to understand why everything happened in context, there is no better book. It's a VERY long read, very dense.

Also:

The Great Influenza
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded
Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life

[Yeti]

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Warning: You may never want to eat fast food again after reading this, especially from taco bell...(I would assume you don't eat much fast food anyways though)

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Why would you assume this?

[Bulldog]

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs if you have any sort of interest in pop culture.

amazing stuff.

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Seconded.