Which book can you recomendate???

Hello!! What kinds of book do you like to read? What's your favorite book??

My favorite books are "In his own write" by John Lennon, "Going up by stairs that going down" by Belle Kaufman and "Alchemist". These books are very philosophical, they have great meaning and, surely, they are very interesting. To rest I like to read Russian book "Tanya Grotter" by Dmitri Emez. It is a parody after Harry Potter. But it's much interesting and including stories about different Russian traditions.
What books can you recomendate me? Which are your favourites?

 

1. Touching the Void - Joe Simpson. Amazing true survival story.
2. South - Ernest Shackleton. Record of doomed 1914 Antarctica journey, and incredible trip back.
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston. Superb novel
4. The Choice Theory - Dr. William Glasser. Psychology book that was the most useful one I ever read.
5. Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman. Explains why personality is more important than intellect.
6. Illusions - Richard Bach. Novel that is full of profound thoughts.

 

Thank you. I'm going to read this book.

 

anita, zdrvastsvuite...
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some books fun to read & intellectually engaging, maybe:

meetings with remarkable men / g i gurdjieff

the book: on the taboo against knowing who you are / alan watts

russalka / c j cherryh

huckleberry finn / mark twain (samuel clemens)

leaves of grass / walt whitman

stranger in a strange land / robert a heinlein

cosmos / carl sagan

in search of the miraculous / p d ouspensky

be here now / ram dass (richard alpert)

world tales / idries shah

star maker / olaf stapledon

tau zero / poul anderson

the way of a pilgrim / (paul french? i forget)

the way of the white clouds / lama angarika govinda

island / aldous huxley

russia, mushrooms, and history / r gordon & valentina pavlovna wasson

pilgimage: the book of the people / zenna henderson

the complete stories / cordwainer smith (paul linebarger)

godbody / theodore sturgeon






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well, that ought to keep you busy for a little while...

dos v'donya

 

If you like philosophy with a story, the 19th century Russian authors are the best! I love all the short stories by Leo Tolstoy, especially my favorite, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". That one is rather dark. But he has others that are that are humorous, like "Skazka (Ivan the Fool)". Kafka is another great Russian author whose stories are bizarre, like "The Metamorphosis", a story about a guy who wakes up as a giant cockroach. Short stories are a great way to explore, because you get a good taste without wasting months of reading.

 

I enjoy books pertaining to spiritual and philosophical growth.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a great book that had spiritual growth tied in with its plot which made it slightly more enjoyable than if it was in text book form. (And its NOT about motorcycles)

The DaVinci Code, which I just finished a couple days ago, was undoubtedly one of the best books I have ever (and probably ever will) read.

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is a very good book by the world renowned Sogyal Rinpoche. He was the founder of the Naropa Institute in Colorado.

I'm reading a book right now called The Ten Commandments of Character by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. He's very insightful and steers clear of dogmatic advice (which I truly respect).

 

Here's some good titles to check out:

A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
Beowolf
David Copperfield - Charkles Dickens
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Luck of Ginger Coffey - Brian Moore
Angel Square - Brian Doyle
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Smith - Leon Garfield
In The Skin Of A Lion & The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Goodnight Desdemona (Goodmorning Juliet) - Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
God's Debris - Scott Adams (philosophy with a storyline)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy - Douglas Adams
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Black Gold - Marguerite Henry
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
The Works of Karl Marx
The Rape of the Lock & The Dunciad - Alexander Pope
Satire 1 & The Flea & Death Be Not Proud & This is My Play's Last Scene- John Donne

*Don't bother with that Da Vinci Code crap. Dan Brown can't write fiction to save his life. He is too dependent on others for information. I feel sorry for him. The poor guy thinks he is a success when all he has really done is capitalize on the research of others. All that information is available without the crappy characters and predictable plot lines in Brown's latest 454-page, forest-swallowing money-maker.

 

Ooooh, almost forgot:
The Nine-Billion Names of God - Arthur C. Clarke

 

Please avoid these kinds of threads. There are a million of them already anyhow.

If you want to find a good book to read; then read threads dedicated to specific books and truly see if they are worth it.