Looking for a good book
12-31-2011 | 06:00 AM
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From: Student Pilot
12-31-2011 | 09:31 AM
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Great Books
Some of my favorites:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
I hope they serve beer in Hell (never laughed so hard while reading a book)
On flying (both non-fiction) - back when men where men, used slide rules, had mustaches and we put a man on the moon :-)
Fighter Pilot (Robin Olds) (WWII-Vietnam)
When Thunder Rolled (Ed Rasimus) (100 missions in an F-105 in Vietnam)
Other non-fiction:
Bill Bryson's a Short History of Nearly everything (Slower read, but very interesting)
Skunk Works by Ben Rich (On the SR-71 and F-117)
For fiction, if you like dark humor check out:
Chuck Palahnuik
Tom Robbins
Christopher Moore
And if you're really looking to geek it up two good physics books...
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics by James Kakalios (A lot of good stuff on everything from transistors, to nuclear fission, lasers etc... easier to read than you'd think).
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Fabric of Reality by Brian Greene (He has a few books out, but this is more on the recent developments in Cosmology, on everything from extra dimensions, black holes, relativity and all that stuff - he is good with analogies and it is easier to follow).
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
I hope they serve beer in Hell (never laughed so hard while reading a book)
On flying (both non-fiction) - back when men where men, used slide rules, had mustaches and we put a man on the moon :-)
Fighter Pilot (Robin Olds) (WWII-Vietnam)
When Thunder Rolled (Ed Rasimus) (100 missions in an F-105 in Vietnam)
Other non-fiction:
Bill Bryson's a Short History of Nearly everything (Slower read, but very interesting)
Skunk Works by Ben Rich (On the SR-71 and F-117)
For fiction, if you like dark humor check out:
Chuck Palahnuik
Tom Robbins
Christopher Moore
And if you're really looking to geek it up two good physics books...
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics by James Kakalios (A lot of good stuff on everything from transistors, to nuclear fission, lasers etc... easier to read than you'd think).
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Fabric of Reality by Brian Greene (He has a few books out, but this is more on the recent developments in Cosmology, on everything from extra dimensions, black holes, relativity and all that stuff - he is good with analogies and it is easier to follow).
12-31-2011 | 11:42 AM
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From: Burning the Agitprop of the Apparat
http://mises.org/books/thelaw.pdf
A book everyone should read and enjoy. Frédéric Bastiat’s classic
essay, “The Law.” First published in 1850.
A book everyone should read and enjoy. Frédéric Bastiat’s classic
essay, “The Law.” First published in 1850.
01-01-2012 | 08:22 PM
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From: in the groove
Some more are: Cold Mountain, Robinson Crusoe, Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott(not sure the title is correct), F. Scott Fitgerald books. Basically, books my english teacher couldn't get me to read in high school.
01-01-2012 | 10:40 PM
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From: Airbus
My mother is from Sparta so I decided to read GATES OF FIRE ... finished it within days, couldn't put it down.
It's a historical fiction novel, with plenty of real facts straight from the writings of Irodotos, you will definitely like it.
It's a historical fiction novel, with plenty of real facts straight from the writings of Irodotos, you will definitely like it.
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