Books - What Are You Reading / What Do You Recommend?

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Originally Posted by ray1970

That was always a favorite of mine.

If you're going to reread some classics I always liked Swiss Family Robinson as well. Oh, and Ivanhoe was a good read many years ago.

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CS Forrester's Hornblower books are some of my favorites. I really liked Ivanhoe as well.

almost finished with Richard Matheson's What Dreams May Come

How many Odd Thomas books are there now? I think I've only read three.

Rawles has a new one out. I haven't read it, but his others are decent reads.

http://www.amazon.com/Land-Promise-C...eywords=rawles

to those interested, Matt Bracken has the "Enemies" series for free on Kindle through 12/4.

Everyone should re-read Fahrenheit 451 during these times.. Bradbury was a prophet:

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches."

There’s that saying: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. When it comes to censorship, one might say that the road to thought and speech control is paved by people trying to protect other people’s feelings. It’s important to realize that today, we have a media system paid by the page view and thus motivated with very real financial incentives to find things to be offended about—because offense and outrage are high-valence traffic triggers. We have another industry of people—some call them Social Justice Warriors—who, despite their sincerity of belief, have also managed to build huge platforms by inventing issues and conflicts which they then ride to prominence and influence. One might call both of these types Rage Profiteers. They get us riled up, they appeal to our notions of fairness and empathy—who likes to see someone else’s feelings hurt?—without any regard for what the consequences are." -- Ryan Holiday

I'm 220 pages into Atlas Shrugged. I thought I would really struggle getting into it, but by page 20, I was hooked. Now I'm wishing I had more time to read.




"A man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over a man who can't."

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Originally Posted by asmo

Everyone should re-read Fahrenheit 451 during these times.. Bradbury was a prophet:

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches."

There’s that saying: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. When it comes to censorship, one might say that the road to thought and speech control is paved by people trying to protect other people’s feelings. It’s important to realize that today, we have a media system paid by the page view and thus motivated with very real financial incentives to find things to be offended about—because offense and outrage are high-valence traffic triggers. We have another industry of people—some call them Social Justice Warriors—who, despite their sincerity of belief, have also managed to build huge platforms by inventing issues and conflicts which they then ride to prominence and influence. One might call both of these types Rage Profiteers. They get us riled up, they appeal to our notions of fairness and empathy—who likes to see someone else’s feelings hurt?—without any regard for what the consequences are." -- Ryan Holiday

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My daughter will be reading this in school this year!! Can't wait to discuss it with her.


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"Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson, "A Call to Arms" by David Weber, "Hells Foundations Quiver" by David Weber, "Old Venus" ed. by George R. R. Martin and "Shaman" by Kim Stanley Robinson.

I just started volume 6 of the "going home" series by A. American, called "Enforcing Home". So far so good.


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Originally Posted by Irving

How many Odd Thomas books are there now? I think I've only read three.

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A total of eight. Counting the short novella explaining the gypsy fortune teller.