Book recommendation

[sqabeloth]

I like everything by Sheckley, my fav sci fi author.

[blacksails]

I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett's work. I also enjoyed Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time."

I had to read that book in english when I still was in High School. I myself got an A on the test we did afterward, however a friend of mine didn't even get a grade, just the question "Did you actually read the book?".
Anyway, it is a good book.

[Jacko]

The best books I've read recently are 'The lord of the flies', 'The satanic verses' & 'Do androids dream of electric sheep'.

I agree with the Philip K Dick, Do androids dream of electric sheep. I saw it second hand in a charity shop and picked it up just because of the title. Quite futuristic to say I recall it was the late 60's when it was published.

[guybrushthreepwood]

I recommend Atonement by Ian Mcewan. One of my favourite books. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami is also a really bizarre read.

[hilariousandco]

I recommend Atonement by Ian Mcewan. One of my favourite books. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami is also a really bizarre read.

Atonement is great and so is the film, but I'm not a big fan of McEwans other books, though I haven't read any of his earlier stuff which is apparently more macabre. Wasn't a big fan of Kafka, but I'm not a big fan of magical realism stuff.

A book I recommend is Kill Your Friends by John Niven. It's like American Psycho set in the 90s music industry and it's laugh out loud funny. They're making a film of it soon.

[mrgian]

siddharta hermann hesse

[lynn_402]

The best books I've read recently are 'The lord of the flies', 'The satanic verses' & 'Do androids dream of electric sheep'.

I agree with the Philip K Dick, Do androids dream of electric sheep. I saw it second hand in a charity shop and picked it up just because of the title. Quite futuristic to say I recall it was the late 60's when it was published.

I did not read it, but shall soon. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick was great. The movie was good, but the book even better, showing the damages of heavy drug usage but from an insider's totaly unjudgemental perspective.

[blacksails]

siddharta hermann hesse

I read that one during my time as a buddhist. It was good actually.

[yatsey87]

siddharta hermann hesse

I read that one during my time as a buddhist. It was good actually.

This made me lol for some reason. Are you no longer a Buddhist?

[newflesh]

Das Kommunistische Manifest

[blacksails]

siddharta hermann hesse

I read that one during my time as a buddhist. It was good actually.

This made me lol for some reason. Are you no longer a Buddhist?

I still am to a certain degree. But I had a period of being a hardcore buddhist, and honestly, I have never been as calm as I were back then. And that is what me and my friends refer to as "The Buddhist Period". I maybe should have written that post in another way haha

[mistress_magpie]

Lovely to see the Chomsky and Pilger reccy's here

[Bitcoin Is A Great Idea]

It'd be helpful if everyone said why they recommend each book

[abit2slo]

Go for old schoool. Asimov is cool.

[SaltySpitoon]

I'm a fan of the classics, I highly recommend Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote as it is actually a rather good comedy in the modern sense of the term, it made me laugh quite a bit despite being 400 years old. Its a book that I would consider light reading and very important to catch a huge amount of modern references. I remember sitting in a QED (physics) class reading it, and then bursting out laughing, everyone looked and imediately understood when I said, "d00d got knighted by a hoe" or at least they gave me an even stranger look that I assume meant that they understood.

Inferno, Purgatorio, y Paradisio by Dante Aligiheri. I haven't got around to reading Paradisio yet, but they are an interesting look into untampered with religion, not diluted by today's agenda told in a way that isn't dry and pedantic.

if we are going historical here, I had a buddy who had an original 1926 English edition of Mien Kampf that allowed me to borrow it. While it is not a light read, its essentially just a political campaign/propoganda, if you like psychology or history it has a lot of interesting things that allow you to draw connections to how the whole WW2/holocaust thing came to be.

And more modern, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. I feel a lot of Bitcoiners who are involved in the business side of Bitcoin will draw a lot of connections to the book. It worried me at first, but then I stopped worrying about myself and found the book rather enjoyable. If you are interested in the world's financial system as effected by large corporations, or have conspiracy theories about such, you will like this book.

[Sindelar1938]

To mock a hummingbird is an all-time favourite

[BTCWizard]

I'd recommend Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

+1

Normally I don't really read fiction, but this one is really good!

[act now]

"451 degrees fahrenheit" is my personal top1. "Atlas shrugged" is probably somewhere nearby with a "One flew over the cuckoo's nest". Can recommend them all as a very interesting, educational and fascinating books.   

[ahmedjadoon]

Also I would like to recommend The Kite Runner.Its one of my favorite read.

[Mythul]

Inferno - Dan Brown was pretty decent in my opinion.