books = serious business :)

Post some of your favorite books here. Why do I say it's serious business? Because you can learn a lot by reading many different kinds of books. You don't even need to go to school to learn.

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The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko. Most depressing and brutal book I have ever read. Really brings to light the situation in the modern Russian army.

Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenence.

Ender's Game.

Speaker for the Dead.

The Good Earth.

A Confederacy of Dunces.

Starship Troopers.

Dune.

Slaughterhouse Five

This book was extremenly important, I heard.

Zen and the art of Motorcycle MaintenenceGuybrush_3

Song of Ice and Fire, I, Claudius, John Barleycorn are some that spring to mind.

As a kid, The Bartimaeus Trilogy were my favorite books. They're what really got me hooked on fantasy. What I'm reading now is The Malazan Book of the Fallen series, it's pretty awesome.

As a kid, The Bartimaeus Trilogy were my favorite books. They're what really got me hooked on fantasy. What I'm reading now is The Malazan Book of the Fallen series, it's pretty awesome.

cain006

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Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenenceharashawn

I'll put it on my list.

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Zen and the art of Motorcycle MaintenenceGuybrush_3

I'll put it on my list.

american psycho

The Catcher in the Rye

The Road

Alice in Wonderland

Frankenstein

His Dark Materials (a trilogy consisting of: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, & The Amber Spyglass)

Those are my favorites.

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As a kid, The Bartimaeus Trilogy were my favorite books. They're what really got me hooked on fantasy. What I'm reading now is The Malazan Book of the Fallen series, it's pretty awesome.

nooblet69

Frankenstein

SirWander

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As a kid, The Bartimaeus Trilogy were my favorite books. They're what really got me hooked on fantasy. What I'm reading now is The Malazan Book of the Fallen series, it's pretty awesome.

cain006

I thought Frankenstein was pretty awesome. I think it's crazy that a book that's almost 200 years old can be so good and still be relatable, especially one that's science fictiony.cain006

Yeah it aged incredibly well, unlike say Stoker's Dracula. While I thought its presentation was interesting, reading the events through correspondences, diary entries etc. it was quite a chore to get halfway through. I still enjoyed reading it, but it's not what I was expecting.

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[QUOTE="nooblet69"] Also have Malazan but only read a little bit of the first book. Couldn't really get into it. I'll go back to it later after I read some other titles first.nooblet69

Right now, I'm reading this book.

And Witch & Wizard

Guns, Germs, and Steel thegerg

The book he wrote after that, Collapse, is really good.  It should be required reading for everyone in the industrialized world.  I'm also looking forward to reading his new book, but I haven't gotten the chance.

Forgot to mention I'm reading "The Beach" right now which is pretty good. About a british dude backpacking in Thailand.

These ones have been my favorite

• Warriors(Erin Hunter)
• Inheritance Cycle
• Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus
• Stephen King's Under the Dome
• Stephen King's Firestarter
• Stephen King's 11/22/63
• Halo The Fall of Reach
• Halo Forunner Saga Cryptum
• Left Behind Series
• Robopocalypse
• Harry Potter
• Stephen King's Nigtmare & Dreamscapes
• Horse How the Horse has Shaped Civilization
• Wolves: Ecology, Biology and Conversation
• Dragon Riders of Pern-Dragonheart
• The Last Days(Joel C Rosenberg)
• The Hunger Games Trilogy
• The Ocean Dark

Think that is all I can think of at the moment, haven't bought any new books this year yet or read any, but I have read all of my books at least 1-5 times anyway.

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Dante - The Divine Comedy
Carl von Clausewitz - On War
Homer - The Odyssey
Arrian - The Campaigns of Alexander
Plutarch - Parallel Lives
William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, et al. All of the tragedies + The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, and Twelfth Night
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Virgil - Aeneid
Niccolo Machiavelli - Discourses on Livy

some of my favourite srs bsns books

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--All the books in the series.

Sun also Rises

Dune

I plan to read I Robot by Isacc Asimov in the near future.

The Vampire Lestat.

The Hobbit.

Deathly Hallows.

Silence of the Lambs.

Tale of the Body Thief.

The Great and Secret Show.

The Lost Symbol.

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To name but a few.

The last book I read was Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. It was a good book, seriously long though. Learned a lot about the French Revolution and about Paris.

The next books I'm going to read are The Dance with Dragons to finish the Ice and Fire books, the rest of the Three Musketeers Trilogy, and The Once and Future King by T.H. White.

I think I'm also  going to read For Whom the Bell Tolls since so many of you guys are recommending it.

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Frankenstein

cain006

Is it worth it? The large vocabulary was too much to handle for me and I just left it.

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Frankenstein

pspdseagle

Is it worth it? The large vocabulary was too much to handle for me and I just left it.

That's a big reason why I miss high school, it was so easy to read books. In between classes for a minute or two, during lunch, when the teacher gives you free time.

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Frankenstein

pspdseagle

Is it worth it? The large vocabulary was too much to handle for me and I just left it.

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[QUOTE="SirWander"]

Frankenstein

pspdseagle

Is it worth it? The large vocabulary was too much to handle for me and I just left it.

The vocab is old, but for it's time it wasn't very advacned, it was written by a kid after all.  If you can get past that it's a fun read.