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jeffsquire

11-11-2006, 02:49

I'm kicked back in the Zuffenhausen lounge with my smoking jacket, silk slippers, briar pipe and a tumbler of brandy finshing up my latest read. Since the movie thread seemed so interesting and provided a list of rentals this week, I'm wondering what what my fellow afficianados read.

What are your favorite books and authors.

Fiction.
BY Stuart Woods. Chiefs, LA Times., Santa Fe Rules, Heat, and most everything he does.

Nelson Demille.(This guy is a genius) Everything, but my favorites are Lion's Game, Gold COast (another work of genius: mafia don move into snooty neighborhood in the Hamptons) Spencerville, By the Rivers of Babylon, The Charm School.

Stephen Hunter. POint of impact, Dirty White Boys, Pale Horse Coming, Black Light

Michael Connelly. Everything. Crime fiction genre.

George Kennedy, THe big picture.

John Grisham. The Firm (the movie blows)

NON FICTION
Mark BOwden. Thunder RUn: the armored strike to capture Bagdad. (The most amazing nonfiction book I've ever read.)
Black Hawk Down. ALmost as good.

James Elroy. My dark places.

Steve Hodel: Black Dahlia Avenger.

Grizzly

11-11-2006, 04:13

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Nothing else even comes close...well except maybe The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand.

CJ_Boxster

11-11-2006, 06:53

Hustler 1996 November issue.

jeffsquire

11-11-2006, 14:29

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Nothing else even comes close...well except maybe The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand.
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Loved Atlas Shrugged
I had a huge Ayn Rand phase in college. Induced no doubt by a girl I thought I was in love with. Yet her books no doubt reflect my political philosophy.

jeff

11-13-2006, 02:59

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Nelson Demille.(This guy is a genius) Everything, but my favorites are Lion's Game, Gold COast (another work of genius: mafia don move into snooty neighborhood in the Hamptons) Spencerville, By the Rivers of Babylon, The Charm School.

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The Charm School is great and my favorite Demille. I also loved Plum Island. I read this book on a vacation at Dale Hollow in Tenn. several years ago and witnessed deer swimming across the resevoir while reading the book. Great story.

Rail26

11-13-2006, 03:13

The Collector

Brucelee

11-13-2006, 03:15

The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek.

Anything at all by Milton Friedman.

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

All the Harry Potter Books.

unklekraker

11-13-2006, 04:56

John Grisham's novel especially The Firm, Pelican Brief and The Last Juror. I don;t know why he stop writing books though...the last I read from him was The Partner :)

ukchris

11-14-2006, 18:13

My reading varies a lot, I used to read a lot of biographies, Odessy, Pepsi to Apple by John Sculley, Made In Japan by Akio Morita (founder of Sony), Insanely Great - Steve Jobs / Apple are all awesome.

If you want a riot read "The Dice Man"... very interesting ideas!

Fantasy / Sci-Fi - almost anything by Raymond E Feist

Thrillers... Tom Clancy, don't get fooled by the "Based on a brain fart by Tom Clancy" ones such as NetForce and all of that drivel.

Most recently I read Running With Scissors and Dry by Augusten Burroughs, both quite amazing books, hard to describe, just read them!! I just bought his other two books that are on my "to read" pile along with on abour Bill Belichick.

Chris.

Grizzly

11-14-2006, 20:10

Thrillers... Tom Clancy, don't get fooled by the "Based on a brain fart by Tom Clancy" ones such as NetForce and all of that drivel.

Chris.

I used to love to read Clancy. So close to accurate he was scary.

Then, I had the misfortune of meeting him. I gave him the benefit of the doubt because we were in a public venue with annoying fans and such. Maybe he wasn't an a$$hole. Maybe he just didn't enjoy that type of environment.

Then I met him again under very different circumstances. My original feeling was correct. He is a rude, obnoxious, elitist, a$$hole.

Now I can't possibly fathom giving him his cut of the $4.95 it takes to buy one of his paperbacks. Where it really hurts is not playing his Splinter Cell video games for XBox. But, it's a matter of principle.

blinkwatt

11-14-2006, 20:48

"Hop On Pop" by Dr.Suess

bmussatti

11-14-2006, 23:34

jeffsquire

11-14-2006, 23:41

I used to love to read Clancy. So close to accurate he was scary.

Then, I had the misfortune of meeting him. I gave him the benefit of the doubt because we were in a public venue with annoying fans and such. Maybe he wasn't an a$$hole. Maybe he just didn't enjoy that type of environment.

Then I met him again under very different circumstances. My original feeling was correct. He is a rude, obnoxious, elitist, a$$hole.

Now I can't possibly fathom giving him his cut of the $4.95 it takes to buy one of his paperbacks. Where it really hurts is not playing his Splinter Cell video games for XBox. But, it's a matter of principle.
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The beltway. Imagine. I enjoyed Clancy's first 4 or 5 books. They went downhill from there. I did the one about the enviromentalists creating the virus to kill most humans so they could live amongst the animals. Red six or something.

jeffsquire

11-14-2006, 23:44

John Grisham's novel especially The Firm, Pelican Brief and The Last Juror. I don;t know why he stop writing books though...the last I read from him was The Partner :)
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II agree about the last juror. It was a great read. Much better than his last 5 or six books. I read recently that he won a civil judgment representing someone in a products liability. I think the verdict was 600k plus. The jury said the fact he was a famous novelist had nothing to do with their decision. OK, right.

jeffsquire

11-14-2006, 23:56

Must add yet another one. You've read my lust for The Wire in the movies section. A friend recommended "Homicide." I just finished it. THrow it up there as well in the top 10. n

Now excuse me while I inject another episode of the Wire into my bloostream.

RandallNeighbour

11-14-2006, 23:58

I have been powerfully impacted by a book called Refrigerator Rights by a psychiatrist by the name of Miller:

http://www.amazon.com/Refrigerator-Rights-Refrigerators-Relationships/dp/B000C4T1DQ/sr=8-1/qid=1163552117/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2891758-0780014?ie=UTF8&s=books

I am amazed at how few people I know have real friends that they spend time with regularly. This book explained why and gives some good advice on how to re-create friendships.

Oh yeah, I enjoy re-reading the little pocket sized books I have written over the course of the last five years or so. I always laugh about what I wrote and actually put in print back then!

Grizzly

11-15-2006, 01:09

I have been powerfully impacted by a book called Refrigerator Rights by a psychiatrist by the name of Miller:

http://www.amazon.com/Refrigerator-Rights-Refrigerators-Relationships/dp/B000C4T1DQ/sr=8-1/qid=1163552117/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2891758-0780014?ie=UTF8&s=books

I am amazed at how few people I know have real friends that they spend time with regularly. This book explained why and gives some good advice on how to re-create friendships.

I just looked at this Amazon link. It's funny. I've had the same best friend since I was 6 years old. Ever since we were kids, he would come into our house and go straight to the fridge, before he ever even said hello to me or my family. Still does it to this day. I just thought it was an idiosyncrasy, not an indication of how close we are. In retrospect, I guess it is. I think I'll call him before his old ass goes to bed.

NickCats

11-15-2006, 04:54

Vince Flynn is a great author! His main charachter is Mitch Rapp, a killing machine within the CIA to fight againt terrorism and threats to the USA. Very good political thrillers. http://www.vinceflynn.com/

Demille is great.

I really enjoy James Patterson- very quick reads!

Brad Meltzer is a great young author. http://www.bradmeltzer.com/

Good call on James Patterson. I recently read :

5th Horseman
Mary Mary
Lifeguard
4th of July
Honeymoon

"Prey" by Michael Crichton was pretty good as well...

Nick

bmussatti

01-13-2007, 03:23

For you Nelson Demille fans, his newest novel, Wild Fire, is a great read!!

jeffsquire

01-13-2007, 03:24

For you Nelson Demille fans, his newest novel, Wild Fire, is a great read!!
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I finished it almost as soon as it came out. I love Demille and it is awesome.

der Geist

01-13-2007, 03:51

Anything by Edgar Allan Poe

The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Home Workshop Guns For Defense And Resistance Vol One-The Submachinegun (Pretty funny stuff. It shows how to build a submachine gun from an abandoned tractor.) Someone gave me a copy of it years ago. Wish I still had it.

Oh Yeah-and Mad Magazine

Guess we know who is the dark one here....

dmcutter

01-13-2007, 21:46

Dante's Divine Comedy-there's some light bedtime reading!

Nelson DeMille is fantastic; I was reading Lion's Game at the beach on 9/11-eerie. I used to love Jame Michener, especially The Source, and Leon Uris, Mila 18 is probably my all time favorite.

If you like disturbing, there are a couple by a guy named Jeff Long, The Descent (not like the recent movie with the chicks trapped in a cave) and Year Zero. The Descent is about hell, but more fun than Dante's-mayhaps the most disturbing book I've ever read, well, besides Mein Kempf.

denverpete

01-15-2007, 14:17

In Harm's Way - The Sinking of the Indianapolis.

Ghost Soldiers

Watership Down

Lords of Discipline

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - or anything else by Al Ries and Jack Trout

Anything by Vince Flynn

bmussatti

01-15-2007, 15:15

jeff

01-16-2007, 03:30

boggtown

01-16-2007, 03:33

Ive always liked The count of Monte Cristo.