Top 5 favorite books.

Okay, I've put Ender's Game in my Amazon cart(along with the other 30-40 other books that regularly float around in there). If it sucks there will be hell to pay!

[BLAKE]

Shibumi by Trevanian

Where Is Joe Merchant? by Jimmy Buffett
I swear, a book by Jimmy Buffett should suck, but it doesn't.

Dies The Fire by SM Sterling. Cool post apocalyptic stuff. There's some goofy stuff to fight through (like one character is a wiccan, and there's just more detail there than anybody could give a crap about), but it's worth it.

Rogue Warrior: Red Cell by Demo Dick Marcinko

Not sure about number 5. Maybe Spellfire by Ed Greenwood. It's a dopey D&D type of book that's a little ponderous, but there are a few parts that are amazing.

[sc281]

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
A guide to the good life, the ancient art of stoic joy. - william Irvine
Count of Monte Cristo
Day by day armageddon series -J L Bourne
The book of five rings - Musashi Myamoto

[Couver]

Count of Monte Cristo
Collected short stories of Mark Twain
The Stand
Enders Game

And number 5 is trying to decide which Corey Doctrow book I like best right now.. This is the revolving one but at least they are free.

[Kimmypie]

What did you think of The Dice Man? Oh wait.

Yeah, yeah. I'll get it read. Jeez

Hitchhiker's Guide (all of them) -Douglas Adams
The Stand - Stephen King
Emma/Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1984 -George Orwell
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Most of Shakespeare (not the damn histories though, those are boring as Hell)

All in no particular order & I could continue to name more...

What did you think of The Dice Man? Oh wait.

[Kimmypie]

Hitchhiker's Guide (all of them) -Douglas Adams
The Stand - Stephen King
Emma/Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1984 -George Orwell
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Most of Shakespeare (not the damn histories though, those are boring as Hell)

All in no particular order & I could continue to name more...

[Chili]

I was demolishing Stephen King(hence the screen name invented in 1993ish), Mark Twain, Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy's entire body of work back then.

I have not read one Stephen King book. Not sure why, especially since I like several of the movies based on them. Just never had the desire to read one.. I do like Mark Twain, Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy, and have read several of each of their books, but didn't read those type of books until the last decade.

Since I could read, I have always read a lot, but the first couple of books I read that really impacted me were already mentioned or are what might be considered modern "classics":

1984
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lord of the Flies

I have read a lot of throw-a-ways.. Star Wars series books and stuff like that. But I also read a lot of non-fiction. If I made an effort to actually "study" what I read, I would probably have been a historian of some sort. I take a whole lot more out of non-fiction than fiction. Much of what I read I do so much like most would watch a movie; purely as entertainment.

[Geor!]

Term Limits < especially in this day and age, people should read this fictional book

-A bunch of Jack Ryan/etc based Clancy books

I really, really, really like that book, along with all of the other books he has written. Don't think it's up there with the all time greats though.

Psh.. I read that shit in 1992.. Right after reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Poser.

I've never been one to really rank / rate books. Especially when I'm in a heavy reading phase.. I know I have read hundreds, if not thousands, so keeping up with them is virtually impossible.

I was demolishing Stephen King(hence the screen name invented in 1993ish), Mark Twain, Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy's entire body of work back then.

[Nash B.]

4. Modern French Battle Methodology

You can't use that one.

I like short books:

1. Black People I Have Met While Yachting
2. Great Irish Cooks
3. The Polish Book of Knowledge
4. Modern French Battle Methodology
5. Jewish Sports Legends

lmao

[Moose242]

I like short books:

1. Black People I Have Met While Yachting
2. Great Irish Cooks
3. The Polish Book of Knowledge
4. Modern French Battle Methodology
5. Jewish Sports Legends

[A+]

Catcher in the rye
Death of a salesman
Nutrition facts

[Chili]

Required reading for middle managers.

Or people going through acquisitions.. My employer(s) gave me that book twice. And I've seen the movie 3-4 times in various training courses.. Lol.