but i have no idea what i'd want to read or what i'd like.

i've read 2 books in the last like 12 years: the prince and some book called who moved my cheese.

1/27/2011 9:48:53 PM

"On Killing"

Excellent book.

1/27/2011 9:49:51 PM

As long as I can read them in Internet form or they are accompanied by cute illustrations, I am willing to concur with your original proposition

[Edited on January 27, 2011 at 9:50 PM. Reason : No cats though. God help you if there are cats ]

1/27/2011 9:50:10 PM

i thought the sparknotes on a tale of two cities was interesting enough for a required read.

^I'm looking on google books for something. so far there are things like i've heard of for free, but don't actually know if I want to read.

1/27/2011 9:51:01 PM

My book recommendation was serious btw. It's actually an extremely good book. Available online, definitely free if you know where to look.

[Edited on January 27, 2011 at 9:53 PM. Reason : t]

1/27/2011 9:53:01 PM

http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society/dp/0316330116 that saab?

1/27/2011 9:55:02 PM

do you wanna read fiction or non-fiction?

1/27/2011 9:55:52 PM

Yep

1/27/2011 9:55:55 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKL_EpnSp8

1/27/2011 9:59:55 PM

i'd prefer fiction i think. i've listened to like some steven hawking books that were interesting enough, and the essays/books that I read/spark noted for PS 361 or whatever it was were interesting enough, but I don't really feel like reading them.

1/27/2011 10:00:15 PM

Fiction is a waste of your god damned time son. You have limited time to work with son. You must learn facts in that time.

1/27/2011 10:01:47 PM

well if fiction i will recommend the Hunger Games, not any of the sequels though. it has (unfortunately?) turned into a bit of cliche now but it definitely caught my attention.

1/27/2011 10:03:47 PM

You must have missed the post which clearly determined that fiction is entirely unacceptable.

1/27/2011 10:04:23 PM

Quote :

"i've listened to like some steven hawking books that were interesting enough"

I love astronomy and astrophysics, but Hawking's books are very very in depth, dry, and hard to follow. Obviously, his most famous is "A Brief History of Time", but it's very hard to read unless you just love that stuff.

If you're into science/how do we know what we know?/how did we get here?/are we alone? stuff i recommend this book.

Excellent read.





[Edited on January 27, 2011 at 10:09 PM. Reason : smaller]

1/27/2011 10:05:09 PM

http://books.google.com/books?id=YjAnfhsAQ8wC&dq=a%20short%20history%20of%20nearly%20everything&source=gbs_similarbooks

that Bill Bryson book. almost 9 bucks, but i'll put it in consideration.

I think i read "Firestarter" by Steven King once. And some book by him like the Running Man or something. I heard "Everything's Eventual" on a book on cd and it was good.

1/27/2011 10:08:34 PM

^^^time to start a new thread entitled 'SaabTurbowant read books!!!'

[Edited on January 27, 2011 at 10:08 PM. Reason : ]

1/27/2011 10:08:36 PM

Don't make me open the jar....



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1/27/2011 10:09:02 PM

What's Hunger games about?

1/27/2011 10:11:22 PM

A few other suggestions:

If you think you'd like fictional "classic style leterature" like the classics, a good book is "The Life of Pi". It's a 'modern classic' kind of. (And I hate most classics, but liked this book alot)

If you like sports, anything by John Feinstein (A Season on the Brink or A March to Madness, in particular)

or this is pretty good book about the traditions/history of Tobacco Road

1/27/2011 10:18:21 PM

^^^oh come on. you no want to read books??

^^so, Hunger Games: set in the future, in the shambles of what used the be the US, is a country in which a corrupt government uses its population's children in a yearly ritual, known as the Hunger Games, to remind the residents to remain in order. Districts (similar to states) must submit one boy and one girl to the Games. Only one child leaves alive. The book focusses on the story of one district, and the girl involved.

[Edited on January 27, 2011 at 10:22 PM. Reason : ]

1/27/2011 10:18:26 PM

I kinda like the idea of reading some classics.

1/27/2011 10:21:55 PM

if you really must read from the internet, for free:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

[Edited on January 27, 2011 at 10:23 PM. Reason : free books!]

1/27/2011 10:23:07 PM

i haven't read Life of Pi, but this is the second recommendation I have heard/seen

1/27/2011 10:24:25 PM

bigego book club reads life of pi?

1/27/2011 10:28:41 PM

i could get behind this.

1/27/2011 10:30:40 PM

http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=RmkhNOzuV5YC&dq=inauthor:%22Yann+Martel%22&ei=IDhCTdnTLcnqULSijYwL

$8.10

so far it's the winner.

1/27/2011 10:32:40 PM

k. i just gotta get my Kindle buddy behind it and we are a go.

1/27/2011 10:34:24 PM

anyone else in the bigego book club?

1/27/2011 10:46:03 PM

http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Brain-Music-Obsession/dp/0452288525/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1296187315&sr=1-1

1/27/2011 11:03:06 PM

NC is the center of the basketball universe?

1/27/2011 11:10:07 PM

I'm trying to read some of the classics. Reading Slaughterhouse-Five and like it so far.

1/27/2011 11:12:21 PM

so instead of doing this i got "i hope they serve beer in hell" on audio book and tucker max's new book "assholes finish first"

i'm thinking the audio book path is better, but it requires me to put my already shitty ratio in jeopardy

2/4/2011 1:21:19 AM

tucker max

Life of Pi is good.
Chuck Palahniuk- Choke, Haunted, Rant, and Survivor (4 diff. books)
Chuck Klosterman
The Kite Runner
I've always been a fan of William Faulkner, a lot of people don't care for the way he writes though.

2/4/2011 1:27:14 AM

Quote :

"I think i read "Firestarter" by Steven King once. And some book by him like the Running Man or something. I heard "Everything's Eventual" on a book on cd and it was good."

If you want to read more SK, let me know . . . I have most everything he's ever written and can give you a rundown of which I liked and which ones not to waste your time with.
/nerd snort

I also agree with ^'s list - Chuck P. is excellent (Choke is my favorite). If you like Sci-Fi try Alfred Bester's "Stars my Destination."

2/4/2011 7:24:59 AM

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