What book are you reading now / or recommend?

[Jackson-ctid]

Steve Jobs autobiography is worth a read

 

[citiblue375]

Anyone got any recommendations, looking for something new to read

Lots I could recommend, but what are your interests (fact, fiction, genre)?

Picked up a few books about the war recently so I'm interested in that at the moment, fact more so than fiction, crime, started reading a lot more in spare time at uni and found a good couple of book stores with a great range.

I am suspecting you mean WW11 rather than WW1 but 'All Quiet on the Western Front' is one of the best books on war ever written.......it is a novel but written by a WW1 veteran.

 

[gordo eddie]

ROOM by Emma Donoghue ,
The good the mad and the ugly -Andy Morrison.

 

[BlueTG]

Lots I could recommend, but what are your interests (fact, fiction, genre)?

Picked up a few books about the war recently so I'm interested in that at the moment, fact more so than fiction, crime, started reading a lot more in spare time at uni and found a good couple of book stores with a great range.

I am suspecting you mean WW11 rather than WW1 but 'All Quiet on the Western Front' is one of the best books on war ever written.......it is a novel but written by a WW1 veteran.

find the hitler/concentration camp era very interesting, but we did WW1 in history at school for nearly 3 years so i do know quite a bit about it

thanks for the suggestions, catch 22 has been recommended before so ill follow that one up first!

 

[BlueHammer85]

Absolutely loving this

 

[BlueTG]

Absolutely loving this

used some of his ideas from this book in sociology, could you sum up what its main gist is? we never looked at this in huge detail

 

[Skashion]

Steve Jobs autobiography is worth a read

Sorry to inform you but that book doesn't exist, sadly. I'd read it if it did. Have you read any stuff on folklore.org? I've spent many an hour there.

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used some of his ideas from this book in sociology, could you sum up what its main gist is? we never looked at this in huge detail

God is more unlikely than a multiverse. Why? Because I said so. Also, religion causes harm in the world.

 

[MCFCTrick]

The Passage by Justin Cronin

Good post apocalyptic thriller.....first of a trilogy.

 

[Plaything of the gods]

Picked up a few books about the war recently so I'm interested in that at the moment, fact more so than fiction, crime, started reading a lot more in spare time at uni and found a good couple of book stores with a great range.

I am suspecting you mean WW11 rather than WW1 but 'All Quiet on the Western Front' is one of the best books on war ever written.......it is a novel but written by a WW1 veteran.

find the hitler/concentration camp era very interesting, but we did WW1 in history at school for nearly 3 years so i do know quite a bit about it

thanks for the suggestions, catch 22 has been recommended before so ill follow that one up first!

'All Quiet on the Western Front' is indeed one of the best books on war ever written. It was written by a German just after the war. I've seen the film also - a really old one made in the 20's or early 30's I believe - and rereading the book several years later (I'd read it for school previously) made me physically retch with some of the descriptions as I remembered back to the film and real footage of WWI.

Other classic books based on personal war experiences are Ernest Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' and George Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia', both being about the Republican side in the the Spanish Civil War. In fact any of Hemingway's or Orwell's writings are well worth reading. Hemingway I do find difficult to get started with, but the stories are real crackers by the end.

Can't help you with the war, or crime, factual books though. Economic meltdown, environmental catastrophes and ecological destruction - yes, but crime as such - no (!!)

 

[loyalblue2806]

any of Nelson Demilles books they are all worth a read