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Even though I have a strong ability, I am a pretty slow reader. So when I say i would like to read 10 books in the next 10 months, that seems like a lot to me.

*edit* maybe I should shoot for 12, have some ambition and stuff

Regardles i am looking for suggestions. Here is what I am planning on so far to give you an idea. Not in any order:

1 - The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
2 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
3 - Midnight in a Perfect World - Steve Kappotis
4 - The Bhagavad Gita
5 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
6 - Lord of the Flies - William Golding
7 - Terms of Endearment - Larry McMurtry
8 - Happiness - Will ferguson
9 - The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
10 - Watchmen - Alan Morre & Dave Gibbons

+1 for #5 Very compelling.

You could also look at Ivanhoe. Its a classic and light reading for a thick book. Ive read it 10 x at least in the last 20 years.

If you like dystopic novels like Brave New World, 1984 is the perfect right-wing compliment to BNW's leftist extreme. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin inspired them all.

Anything by Vonnegut is hard to beat for dark humor and social commentary.

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman was very good - what would happen if humans disappeared, how long it would take things to break down, how the planet would adjust, etc. Very well researched.

The Zombie Survival Guide is really well done also, if you like zombie stuff. The survival guide aspect is an interesting take. It reaffirmed my habit of always keeping a crowbar in my car door pocket.

For old classics, I like HG Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, and Dashiell Hammett (30's hard-boiled detective stories).

I also have a small obsession with World War II, particularly the aircraft, and like to read biographies and stories from guys who were there. But that's probably just me.

So, what would you recommend for WWII air combat literature? Just out of curiosity, of course.

Oh, and I would also recommend Brain Rules by John Medina, if you wonder what people think when they do the things they do.

I really enjoyed "The Last Mission" by Harry Mazer was a favorite WWII airforce novel of mine back in middle school.

High school was all about AP American Literature, and you've got all the good books listed already.

I'm a big fan of the AVG (Flying Tigers) since they volunteered to help the Chinese who were being raped and slaughtered by the Japanese before we entered the war using warplanes rejected by the British, even though they were desperate for aircraft at the time, against a numerically and dynamically superior aircraft. Then they were fucked by the USAAF. My favorite was probably Tale of a Tiger by RT Smith (Pilot and fighter ace from the Hell's Angel Squadron). It might be out of print.

Hmmm...

Gateless Gate
10 Bulls
Tibetan Book of the Dead
I Ching
Tao Te Ching

in order, however, it would have to go

Tao Te Ching
10 Bulls
I ching

evolutionmovement wrote:If you like dystopic novels like Brave New World, 1984 is the perfect right-wing compliment to BNW's leftist extreme. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin inspired them all.


The Zombie Survival Guide is really well done also, if you like zombie stuff. The survival guide aspect is an interesting take. It reaffirmed my habit of always keeping a crowbar in my car door pocket.

I read 1984 last summer. Probably one of my favoritre books.

We sounds interesting

My friends swear by the Guide, ha ha. I like zombie stuff too. Probably wil read that eventually.

Man that South Park episode is funny: change? change. change.....

I am gonna look into Ivanhoe and Tao Te Ching and others mentioned here aswell

thanks for all the suggestions!

I'll have to check some of those out.

I'm really enjoying Steve's book. I'm not an overly quick reader. I do ok....but I think all the technical engineering books stunted my desire to read. But books like Steves I can get into.

The zombie guide sounds cool I've got a thing for zombie movies.

without having consulted the Guide, I believe my weapon of choice would be a katana. infinite ammo!