What books would you suggest? (vanity)

all of YOU freepers out there ^

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Time to take a trip in the Way Back Machine.

:7)

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)

[Pajamajan]

I just love the book "Seabisquit" by Laura Hildebrand(sp?) about the race horse. I've read it a couple of times and enjoyed it even in repeating it. It's got everything- history, triumph, tragedy. I guarantee you'll like it.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Surprised no one mentioned Eric Hoffer. Cboldt mentioned a different title by Burnham. This one was written in the early years of WWII, and describes an emerging world where single party states rule by decree and inflict conformity on all alike.

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer paperback	The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World by James Burnham	Scientist vs the Humanist by George Levine and Owen P. Thomas

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[SunkenCiv]

****. Screwed up the formatting in the above.

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer paperback	The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World by James Burnham	Scientist vs the Humanist by George Levine and Owen P. Thomas

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[kalee]

G K Chesterton The Man who was Thursday

[kalee]

Goodbye to ALL That
which is Graves account of his service in WWI is great too.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The History of the Peloppanesian Wars by Thucydides. One of the first and greatest studies of politics and war. The Great Chain of Being- Lovejoy- Intellectual history Federalist Papers- Hamilton, Madison and Jay. The definitive explication of the US Constitution The Brothers Karamazov One of the greatest novels ever written. Deep stuff Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen The greatest comedic novel ever. Bleak House- Dickens A great dissection of the idiocies of the Law.

[toomanygrasshoppers]

"Life of Pi"
"Cold Mountain"

[RightWhale]

Tell you what. Sci-fi runs out eventually, but there are references in there, usually not explicit, to deeper sources. Even a simple novel such as 'We' makes reference to some serious philosophy. Start with a somewhat recent book, in the past 100 years, maybe a little more, that is of a deeper nature than fiction. It might be related to an interest that has developed along the way. If American history of a period, such as the time of the American Industrial Revolution, seems attractive, as it contains the roots of the America of today, go up to Amazon and start tracking down some of the more studious books, Taylor, Beard, Holmes that aren't real heavy going. Get a couple of the top-ranked books of the period. That's just an example, the idea is to find out who the bigger thinkers of your area of interest based their work on and go to those sources.

That's enough to get started, because those authors in turn will drop names of who influenced them. Go back to Amazon and track down the writings of those who appear multiple times and get their books. Repeat until you feel you are getting down to the true sources. Before you know it you will be starting a small library of the good stuff.

[Bane]

Wealth and Poverty By George Gilder

On Food and Cooking By Harold McGee (the ulimate Foodie science dweeb book)

Kitchen Confidential By Anthony Bourdain (Mature audiences only, Inside NYC restaurant scene)

The Oddessy By Homer (My favorite classic)

The Federalist Papers by The writers of our Constitution (Must read for everyone, Including those holding public office. Assuming they can read)

[bannie]

My current favorite is Silas Marner.

[Stegall Tx]

One book I keep returning to is Spinnaker by Timothy Zahn.

I'm re-re-reading Without Remorse by Tom Clancy.

[Pelham]

Good list. But you ought to add Wendell Berry.

[Pelham]

Sir Ernest Shackelton was the leader of the Antarctic voyage you are thinking of. There are a number of books about him, but you may be thinking of Shackleton's Way.

[Friend of thunder]

Marked for later read.

[bayourod]

The book that most influenced my thinking is "The Way The World Works" by Jude Wanniski. (He died a few days ago).

It has been said by some to be the book that launched the Reagan Revolution and the "supply-siders' bible". It introduced the world to the Laffer Curve.

Someone posted a comment the other day about wishing that Reagan's copy could be made available for people to look at the notes he made in the margins.

It's very easy reading, almost the type book you can't put down.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Ellis, Edward S., A.M. and Horne, Charles F., M.S., Ph.D. The Story of the Greatest Nations. NeW York: Francis R. Niglutsch, 1907.

Heilman, Robert B. Magic in the Web: Action and Language in Othello, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1956.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.

Kierkegaärd, Søren. The Sickness Unto Death. Trans. Alastair Hannay. New York : Penguin, 1989.

Kaufmann, Walter. Tragedy and Philosophy. New York: Doubleday, 1968.

Lenson, David. Achilles’ Choice, Examples of Modern Tragedy. Princeton and London: Princeton University Press, 1975.

Lewis, William Dodge, A.M., Ph.D., Litt.D., Henry Seidel Canby, Ph.D., Thomas Kite Brown, Jr., Ph.D.; Eds. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1927.

Nave, Orville J., A.M., D.D., LL.D., chaplain in the Army of the United States. Nave's Topical Bible; A Digest of the Holy Scriptures. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1897.

Naville, Edouard, trans. Egyptian Book of the Dead of the XVIII to XX Dynasties, Berlin, 1886.

Paglia, Camille. Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s.

http://www.bu.edu/arion/paglia_cults00.htm (An expanded version of a lecture delivered on 26 March 2002 at Yale University, sponsored by the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale.)

Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Rpr. First Vintage Books Edition, September 1991, New York.

Plaut, Steven. The Rise Of Tikkun Olam Paganism, Arutz Sheva: December 27, 2002.

http://www.arutzsheva.com/article.php3?id=1760

Potts, L.J. Aristotle on the Art of Fiction. London: Cambridge University Press, 1968.

Rand, Ayn. The Ayn Rand Lexicon. Ed. Harry Binswanger. New York: Penguin, 1988.

Tannahill, Reay. Sex in History. New York: Stein and Day, 1980.

Velikovsky, Immanuel. Ages in Chaos; from Exodus to King Akhnaton. New York: Doubleday, 1956.

Velikovsky, Immanuel. Oedipus and Akhnaton; Myth and History. New York: Doubleday, 1960.

West, Willis Mason. The Ancient World. Revised edition. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 1913.

Wheeler, Jack, Ph.D. The Secret to the Suicidal Liberal Mind. Freedom Research Foundation, 2002.

Williams, Raymond. Modern Tragedy, Essays on the idea of tragedy in life and in the drama, and on modern tragic writing from Ibsen to Tennessee Williams. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966.

[centexan]

Even before the events of last week I would highly recommend Isaac's Storm, a book about the 1900 Galveston hurricane. It's an incredible story. Link:

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/isaacsstorm/

[little jeremiah]

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but C.S.Lewis' trilogy beginning with "Out of the Silent Planet".

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped" and the sequel "Catriona" were really written for young people but I have re-read them a couple of times and could barely put them down.

Of course you've read LOTR.