If you can recommend one book, and one book only

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:25 am

The Hobbit, or anything by Tolkien, but I'd start with Bilbo Baggins.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:51 am

I'll add another to the mix: Hunter S. Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Just effing hilarious. Oh to have been able to drink w/that guy. I'm sure it would have spiraled downwards to mainlining anything he could get his hands on.. sp probably for the best I never did.

'All the Kings Men' is next on my list, sitting on the bookshelf waiting for me.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:49 am

You'll enjoy that. I thought hte recent movie was crap - maybe more exactly it just wasn't as fucking great as the book was. If you enjoy it, I also recommend The Cave by RPW. One of my favorite authors...

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:52 am

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:35 pm

RumpleForeskin wrote:This may be cheesy but I could not put down Breaking Vegas by Ben Mezrich. I read it from cover-to-cover in one day. It was THAT fucking good.

Same here. Read it in no time.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:39 pm

Haven't read this for quite some time but one of my favorite all time reads is "The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe.

For something challenging I would say "Foucalt's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco. If you can get past the extremely dense translation it's pretty engrossing.

For BCO, I'd prolly recommend Richard Scarry's classic "What Do People Do All Day".

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan · Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:22 pm

For a purely entertaining read, I'd go with Max Brooks' World War Z. If I was attempting to be a little more "scholarly," I'd probably recommend Camus' The Stranger.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:36 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:
RumpleForeskin wrote:This may be cheesy but I could not put down Breaking Vegas by Ben Mezrich. I read it from cover-to-cover in one day. It was THAT fucking good.
Same here. Read it in no time.

Third.
I read it in 1.5 days. But, wasn’t it called ‘Bringing Down the House’?

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue May 04, 2010 2:33 am

battery chucka' one wrote:Brave New World-Aldous Huxley

I've gotten around to this. One question - at what point does it cease being so repetitive and tedious?

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue May 04, 2010 12:22 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
battery chucka' one wrote:Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
I've gotten around to this. One question - at what point does it cease being so repetitive and tedious?

Is that Moving Sale’s biography?

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