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12-03-2012, 06:11 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | I'm going to cheat here and choose my favourite audiobook as well. It's "The End Of Faith" by Sam Harris. Brilliant stuff, a real tour de force.
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12-03-2012, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Tractorr There was one scene in this novel that was so intense I almost vomited, but it was just that one scene. No other author has emotionally affected me as much as Murakami. | Sounds cool.
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12-03-2012, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Bloodhammer Sounds cool. | I am not joking. The scene while terrifying was just so emotionally intense that I really felt nauseous. No other book has ever come close to that. |
12-03-2012, 06:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Germantown, MD | | | Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pirate fiction
Been my favorite book for darn near ever. Read it a couple of times a year.
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12-03-2012, 09:11 PM
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12-03-2012, 09:11 PM
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Christopher Hitchens
Philosophy
It solidified my emancipation 
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12-03-2012, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill I'm going to cheat here and choose my favorutie audiobook as well. It's "The End Of Faith" by Sam Harris. Brilliant stuff, a real tour de force. | Quote:
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Christopher Hitchens
It solidified my emancipation | ++;
I've been thinking about this all afternoon. If I had to pick just one, I'd say this one: 
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12-03-2012, 09:23 PM
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John Bunyan
Christian Allegory
Every time I read it, I learn something new.
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12-03-2012, 09:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Oklahoma | | Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It started my journey into sci-fi. 
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12-03-2012, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill I'm going to cheat here and choose my favorutie audiobook as well. It's "The End Of Faith" by Sam Harris. Brilliant stuff, a real tour de force. | Sam writes beautifully. I love his subtle use of humor while writing on serious topics.
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12-03-2012, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim Nazium That's one of my favorites. You're the only other person I've ever heard mention it. | We've branded ourselves old you know... That book came out in the late 60's I think... |
12-04-2012, 07:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Haddon Heights, NJ | | | Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand.
Genre: Fiction, inspirational
Why: I found this book after I read "The Fountainhead". I view this book as incredibly inspirational, with man's ability as the most important thing he can strive to attain. While reading this book, I was inspired to apply to graduate school, and every time I read it the effect is the same. I don't view it the same way political talking heads describe it - I actually don't know how they describe it, as I ignore them completely.
"I swear, by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another to live for mine." |
12-04-2012, 08:10 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Dutchess County, NY | | | Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me
by Richard Farina
Fiction - 50's drug/college culture. Fans of the Beats may enjoy this greatly.
First and last novel by Farina as he was killed in a motorcycle accident after a party for the hardback publication. It's imperfect and very quirky, but I read it during a particularly impressionable period in life, so it's stuck with me.
For the sci-fi fans, check out A.A. Attanasio's Radix. Mindblowing!
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12-04-2012, 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by DwaynieAD | That looks like a wild ride! I'll be cartain to put it on my X-Mas list.
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12-04-2012, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by bassybill I'm going to cheat here and choose my favourite audiobook as well. It's "The End Of Faith" by Sam Harris. Brilliant stuff, a real tour de force. | That one was tough, so I'm sure the audio helped (not an insult to you). I found Dawkins much easier to follow.
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12-04-2012, 08:29 AM
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Fiction:
11/22/63
Stephen King
He is a guilty pleasure of mine and he makes amazing pop culture references
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Life on Planet Rock
Lonn Friend
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12-04-2012, 08:36 AM
|  | Just one more question | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: San Franciscco, CA | | | Soultalk by Larry Crabb a challenging tough read for Christians.
"Religion is the invention of the Devil. The world has taken out the patent. We humans have mortgaged our souls to buy the product, we thing we have gotten a good deal. Religions is the most dangerous energy source known to mankind"
"The theology of religion can be expressed in a simple tenent. The effort to harness whatever power is available in the service of whatever goal we value as a right an noble endeavor."
"That's religion. It leaves narcissism, a core commitment to our own well being above all other values, firmly in place."
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12-04-2012, 08:46 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Whew, top 10 would have been pretty easy for me. Forced to pick one.....
Title: The Discoverers
Author: Daniel Boorstin
Genre/Topic: History of Science
Why:Amazing single volume summary of the 'advance of civilization via exploration, scientific discoveries, etc. Very interesting flow to the book, moving across time periods and cultures (not just the 'western' view), and knitting together technology and discover (i.e., evolution of the calendar and agriculture, evolution of time keeping and exploration, etc., etc.) Reads like a novel. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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