Books worth reading thread.

[redmud]

One of my favorite authors is Clive Cussler The Numa series is good they turned Valhalla rising into a movie.

And Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

 

[Just Jim]

Some favorite books of mine:

· Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
· The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
· Change we can Believe in by Barack Obama
· An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
· Common Sense Government by Al Gore
· My Life by Bill Clinton
· It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
· Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton
· Know your Power by Nancy Pelosi

They all burn really well and will keep you warm on a cold winter's night while you read something actually worth reading.

 

[OLDNEWBIE]

Some favorite books of mine:

· Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
· The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
· Change we can Believe in by Barack Obama
· An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
· Common Sense Government by Al Gore
· My Life by Bill Clinton
· It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
· Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton
· Know your Power by Nancy Pelosi

They all burn really well and will keep you warm on a cold winter's night while you read something actually worth reading.

Also along with old Hope and Change posters should make decent toilet paper if these jerks finally succeed in turning this Country into a complete Socialist economic wasteland that they want.
Social justice, subsidized green energy and "fixing" the wage disparity between hard working go getters and the guys who want to stay in their entry level job their whole life while raising a family of four might just cause an increase in TP prices.

 

[3MTA3]

Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin needs to be on everybody's book shelf.

 

[Sabertooth]

The Tradional Boyer's Bible - how make bows and arrows, 3 volumes
Drift Boats and River Dory's
Gem Trails of Oregon
The Modern Rockhounding and Prospecting Handbook
Building A Strip Canoe
The Wood and Canvas Canoe
Building with Aluminum. (Boats)
The Dory Book
I get my books from Amazon.
Northern Tool and Equipment
That should keep you busy for awhile.

 

[206thsense]

Well, since this is a firearm forum, CJ Chiver's THE GUN is must read epic of everybody's favorite (and least favorite) rifle: the Avtomat Kalashnikov / AK-47.

http://www.amazon.com/Gun-C-J-Chive...1418341568&sr=8-1&keywords=CJ+chivers+the+gun

Currently am reading Scott Anderson's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. I do a lot of shaking my head at the antics of the British and the other European colonial powers as they completely screw-up that part of the world. Our modern world is a direct consequence of their actions.

http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-Arab...+of+arabia+and+the+shaping+of+the+middle+east

I also read science fiction on occasion. Anybody else fans of DUNE or ENDER'S GAME?

 

[Sabertooth]

Dune

 

[Sabertooth]

That stuff would put me back on anti-depressants.

 

[beavernation]

The first Rawles book "Patriots" is worth a read......the others not so much. Elmer Keiths "Hell, I was there" is the real deal if ya wanna know Idaho in the 30's........."One Second After" is a good read for TEOTWAWKI.

 

[Soj1057]

Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin needs to be on everybody's book shelf.

I read this book. It helped me understand a lot. Like the Conservatives / libertarian ideology being closer to what humans are. and how statist folk use liberalism as a vehicle to get where they want humans to be, most of the time weather or not they want to go along for the ride. It was pretty informative.

 

[Qjay]

Like 206thsense, I'm a huge fan of the Ender novels, and all the Shadow novels on top of them. Card also had a really good book of short (ish) stories called "Folk of the Fringe" which was all Post-Apocalyptic and still reasonably realistic.

The one book that got me interested in preparing for emergencies and post-apocalyptic fiction, way back in the day, was Heinlein's "Farnham's Freehold". There's a lot of useful info, more useful theory/ideas, and the political views hold through to today, without being aimed at the political parties.

One last set of books is "The Crosstime Engineer" by Leo Frankowski. He was an actual engineer and his protagonist got to take advantage of a lot of that info. It isn't a guide on how to do everything, but it gives you starting points and the basis for how to start building the tools to build the tools to make the stuff you really want to have. The first few are the best, but the whole series was really worth a read for me.

Also check out William Golding with "Lord of the Flies" for a more "normal day" approach to survival fiction. It was written back in the 50's, but primitive survival is still primitive survival. The clothes on their backs, a couple of pocket knives, and a pair of glasses, the kids have to deal with it, and like you might expect, group dynamics can get really ugly.

So many more... I'm really looking forward to having my eyes back, I really miss reading.

 

[sixfoot674]

just finished the second Brushfire Plague book, its well written and was hard to put down! Another series i enjoyed was the Vince Flynn books (CIA cloak and dagger, style)

 

[YoungBlood]

1984
The Straw Men
Fight Club
The Running Man- completely different from the Movie
Out Bad
The First Law Trilogy
American Desperado
Lord of the Flies
American Terrorist
Last Men Out

To name a few

 

[Bon Sauvage]

For a good, easy, thought provoking read: Killing Jesus.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

Give a Boy a Gun. The story of Claude Dallas
The spiritual roots of human relations. Stephen Covey.
Loose Balls. Written by Jayson Williams.
The scriptures

 

[44mag2ndamend]

If you like Stephen Covey, Try People of the Lie,







IT IS EYE OPENING!

 

[Oregonhunter5]

If you like Stephen Covey, Try People of the Lie,
I will! It sounds like it will help me deal with my brother and his wife.







IT IS EYE OPENING!

 

[Siglvr]

Excellent books upthread guys. A great site for general items (ie, "how to fly with your handgun") and for book ideas as well. Am reading the Civil war book they suggested and it's a great read. http://www.artofmanliness.com/books-for-men/

 

[MikeE]

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (Christian fascist cult takes over the USA).
Margaret Atwood: The Maddadam Trilogy (SHTF via biotech)
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Mars Trilogy (interplanetary eco-revolution).
George Orwell: 1984 (Stalinist totalitarianism, but also a deeper look at how words and thought control are used to control people. WARNING - Do not read while watching Fox News).

 

[OLDNEWBIE]

For a good, easy, thought provoking read: Killing Jesus.

Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln were pretty good too.