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Old 05-13-2008, 12:58 AM   #31
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Re: Books you would recommend

Anything by Scott Morris:
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He's just a phenomenal writer and has been compared to and called the next Mark Twain. He'll have you running to a dictionary from time to time as he feels the need to use every word in the english language. He does so with great affect.
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Old 05-13-2008, 02:40 AM   #32
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Re: Books you would recommend

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk (if you've got a relatively strong constitution)
Red Dragon/Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal/Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Tobacco - Iain Gately (a rather interesting history of tobacco(

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
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The Language of God - Francis Collins
(move on to the intellectual argument over the scientific one
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens
The End of Faith - Sam Harris
(I can't really thing of any religious apology that is a satisfactory contrast to those two...)
Those last ones I think are particularly important, because in many ways they help define a few of the intellectual struggles of our time.

The Green Mile - Stephen King
Anything by David Morrell

Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda - Romeo Dallaire
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe - Stephen Hawking

Have fun with the reading, I wish I had more time to do it!
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Old 05-13-2008, 10:22 AM   #33
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Term Limits, by Vince Flynn. The author is a cigar smoker and he buys smokes from the shop I work at. There is even a character in the book named after one the owners of the shop.
I second Vince Flynn. Great books to read, excellent characters and the storylines could be scary true..

I also like Lee Child. Mystery/thriller type writer, what I love about his books are that each one is styled so differently.
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Old 05-13-2008, 02:15 PM   #34
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Re: Books you would recommend

The Gates of Fire.
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Old 05-14-2008, 12:21 AM   #35
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Re: Books you would recommend

Earlier Spider Robinson books, especially the 1st 4 "Callahan" collections.
Most books by Robert Heinlein.
And re-read your Mark Twain....
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Old 05-14-2008, 06:14 AM   #36
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Re: Books you would recommend

Any Ken Follett including The Pillars of the Earth
Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley
Carl Sandberg's writings on Abraham Lincoln, especially the four volume setcalled The War Years
The Harry Potter Series
Any Harlan Ellison collection
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