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Hamhock
8/14/2006, 10:40 AM
i'm about to finish a book and don't have another lined up. i'm currently taking recommendations.

any suggestions?

non-fiction please.

TIA

Partial Qualifier
8/14/2006, 11:26 AM
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer.

royalfan5
8/14/2006, 11:32 AM
Pretty much any David Halberstam book is excellent and he writes about everything under the sun. Sports, Politics, history, etc.

JohnnyMack
8/14/2006, 11:41 AM
Europe Central by Vollmann.

TopDaugIn2000
8/14/2006, 11:45 AM
Devil in the White City

Kite Runner

IB4OU2
8/14/2006, 11:50 AM
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400032806.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400032806/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/104-8822575-0811900)

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 11:50 AM
Ok, back up.

Ya'll are gonna have to tell me what the book is about. I'm not going on just title and author.

sanantoniosooner
8/14/2006, 11:53 AM
Slipped Disk Mountain

It's about a gay couple that didn't have it too bad, but they complained a lot.

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 12:01 PM
Slipped Disk Mountain

It's about a gay couple that didn't have it too bad, but they complained a lot.


are pushing it because you're getting royalties?

;)

usmc-sooner
8/14/2006, 12:01 PM
Lonesome Dove

it's the best book I've ever read.

I also like it It, and The Stand by Stephen King

sanantoniosooner
8/14/2006, 12:03 PM
are pushing it because you're getting royalties?

;)
No........and I only feel comfortable sharing who does because Howzit has me on ignore.............

1stTimeCaller
8/14/2006, 12:18 PM
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893122077/104-9944582-8777568?v=glance&n=283155

Oil & Honor: The Texaco - Pennzoil Wars.

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 12:21 PM
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893122077/104-9944582-8777568?v=glance&n=283155

Oil & Honor: The Texaco - Pennzoil Wars.

$34.95 for a paperback?

will you just send me yours (and a blank CD)?

usmc-sooner
8/14/2006, 12:22 PM
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893122077/104-9944582-8777568?v=glance&n=283155

Oil & Honor: The Texaco - Pennzoil Wars.


I guess I'm just not into NASCAR:D

1stTimeCaller
8/14/2006, 12:23 PM
$34.95 for a paperback?

will you just send me yours (and a blank CD)?

you can get the hardback used for $1.00

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 12:23 PM
you can get the hardback used for $1.00


does it come with a blank CD?

1stTimeCaller
8/14/2006, 12:25 PM
I'm not understanding the blank CD portion.

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 12:26 PM
i'm in need of one and GHP won't send it to me.

OhU1
8/14/2006, 12:30 PM
"A World Lit Only By Fire" William Manchester. About medieval times. A quick and captivating read. I liked the book so much I was inspired to read other books about medieval history but didn't find another that was near as interesting or readable.

I would recommend anything Manchester wrote. He personalizes history and gets into the human motivation and mentality behind events as well as the contemporary culture of the times. Now I am reading "The Glory and the Dream" which is a 1300 page book of US history from 1932 to 1972. I read it in 1987 and I learned more from the book than any history class. I thought the book was worth reading again and I'm picking up much more than the first time I read it. It may be hard to find but it is one of the best history books of all time.

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 12:32 PM
"A World Lit Only By Fire" William Manchester. About medieval times. A quick and captivating read. I liked the book so much I was inspired to read other books about medieval history but didn't find another that was near as interesting or readable.

I would recommend anything Manchester wrote. He personalizes history and gets into the human motivation and mentality behind events as well as the contemporary culture of the times. Now I am reading "The Glory and the Dream" which is a 1300 page book of US history from 1932 to 1972. I read it in 1987 and I learned more from the book than any history class. I thought the book was worth reading again and I'm picking up much more than the first time I read it. It may be hard to find but it is one of the best history books of all time.


When i first read your post, I thought the book you were recommending has 1300 pages.

OhU1
8/14/2006, 12:39 PM
When i first read your post, I thought the book you were recommending has 1300 pages.

No, I wish it was. "A World Lit Only By Fire" is in the 300-350 range and is a very quick and mind opening read. The book made me think of our ancestors and our own times in a new perspective.

A great book is never too long. But it is intimidating to take on a large volume. Once I'm into a great book I don't want it to end.

GDC
8/14/2006, 12:55 PM
Lonesome Dove

it's the best book I've ever read.

I reread that book every couple of years or so, I agree. He has a new one called Telegraph Days, and the recent Berrybender series was good too.

I'm getting into Guns, Germs, and Steel and 1491.

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 01:05 PM
I reread that book every couple of years or so, I agree. He has a new one called Telegraph Days, and the recent Berrybender series was good too.

I'm getting into Guns, Germs, and Steel and 1491.


:les: What's it about?

GDC
8/14/2006, 01:06 PM
Which one?

TopDaugIn2000
8/14/2006, 01:09 PM
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Shadow of an Indian Star is an epic novel which chronicles three generations of a brawling pioneer family, their friends and enemies, and the women who helped battle tragedy, corruption, and their own inner demons to save themselves and the Chickasaw Nation from annihilation.

In 1825, 16-year-old Smith Paul runs away from a broken North Carolina home, is adopted into the Chickasaw tribe, and travels the infamous Trail of Tears to Indian Territory with his adopted family, Rev. McClure and his captivating Chickasaw bride, Ala-Teecha. There, Smith rediscovers the rich, pristine valley between two rivers he had encountered years before as a scout. Out of raw wilderness, he forges Smith Paul’s Valley where he vows that whites, Indians, and blacks will be treated equally. Torn between love and honor, Ala-Teecha remains a pillar of strength as she and Smith fight their forbidden love for each other.

Charismatic Sam Paul, Smith’s half-breed son, rides with his own renegade posse, including former Billy the Kid sidekick Fred Waite. Sam is brought before "hanging judge" Parker for murder three times before he’s finally convicted on manslaughter. His stint in jail opens his eyes to the greed of white men and he returns home determined to rescue Indian Territory from impending white encroachment. Sam’s insatiable lust earns him a libertine reputation until he meets the one woman who can sequester his fiery passion, the spirited Jennie Tolbert – the only woman Sam Paul ever truly loved.

Sam makes deadly enemies as he rises to political power, but no one bears him as much hatred as his neglected, bitter son, Joe Paul, who possesses all the Pauls’ passionate fire and none of his father/s charisma nor his grandmother’s visionary fair-mindedness. Jealousy drives Joe to seduce Jennie, igniting a bitter feud between father and son. One woman believes she can tame the desperate Joe Paul, brawny Maulsey Stewart, but Joe is already on a one-way path to self-destruction.

Today, the reborn Chickasaw Nation is thriving, and the Paul family rests in peace in Pauls Valley’s old cemetery around which so much turmoil swirled for decades.

1stTimeCaller
8/14/2006, 01:10 PM
See Spot Run

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 01:18 PM
Which one?


lonesome dove.

i thought that was a chick movie.

1stTimeCaller
8/14/2006, 01:22 PM
lonesome dove.

i thought that was a chick movie.


nah but it is about whorns.;)

GDC
8/14/2006, 01:54 PM
lonesome dove.

i thought that was a chick movie.

Not hardly, and as usual the book was far superior to the mini-series or movie, even if Robert Duvall was greatness.

GDC
8/14/2006, 01:55 PM
nah but it is about whorns.;)

Actually Call was from Ireland and Gus was from Tennessee.:texan:

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 02:15 PM
Actually Call was from Ireland and Gus was from Tennessee.:texan:

so, it's non-fiction?

IB4OU2
8/14/2006, 02:30 PM
I reread that book every couple of years or so, I agree. He has a new one called Telegraph Days, and the recent Berrybender series was good too.

I'm getting into Guns, Germs, and Steel and 1491.

I'm reading it now, i just got done with the part where Jake got hung with the Suggs gang. I've read all the Berrybender books along with Dead Man Walking and Comanche Moon. I'm a big fan of McMurtry.

OU4LIFE
8/14/2006, 02:34 PM
Clifford the big red dog.

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It's about a dog named Clifford. He's big. He's also red.

He hasn't had a hole-in-one however...and I realize that might be a deal breaker. But he's big. and red.

and he's a dog.

Paperclip
8/14/2006, 02:34 PM
Kite Runner

That book was disturbing and depressing. It made me sad.

Boomhauer
8/14/2006, 02:35 PM
If you are religious...and even if you are not....the book "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn is great. It tells about what he thinks, he has 35 years of research, about what will happen when we die and what Heaven will be like. It also answers such questions as Will there be animals in Heaven? Will we be married in Heaven? and even a question of Will we sin in Heaven??????

He has biblical verses that backs up everything that he says. Of course no one knows for sure but it gives me something to look forward to!

OU4LIFE
8/14/2006, 02:40 PM
If you are religious...and even if you are not....the book "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn is great. It tells about what he thinks, he has 35 years of research, about what will happen when we die and what Heaven will be like. It also answers such questions as Will there be animals in Heaven? Will we be married in Heaven? and even a question of Will we sin in Heaven??????

He has biblical verses that backs up everything that he says. Of course no one knows for sure but it gives me something to look forward to!

oh, I thought he said "non-fiction".

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 02:44 PM
If you are religious...and even if you are not....the book "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn is great. It tells about what he thinks, he has 35 years of research, about what will happen when we die and what Heaven will be like. It also answers such questions as Will there be animals in Heaven? Will we be married in Heaven? and even a question of Will we sin in Heaven??????

He has biblical verses that backs up everything that he says. Of course no one knows for sure but it gives me something to look forward to!


i've read several of alcorn's books.

i'm finishing George Muller's autobiography. i want to read something secular next.

Hamhock
8/14/2006, 02:45 PM
oh, I thought he said "non-fiction".


keep it up and you can kiss any future holes-in-ones goodbye.

:texan:

OU4LIFE
8/14/2006, 02:46 PM
keep it up and you can kiss any future holes-in-ones goodbye.

:texan:

I already have man, I already have......

GDC
8/14/2006, 03:40 PM
so, it's non-fiction?

Yes, but McMurtry is great at working actual historical figures like Charles Goodnight into his stories.

1stTimeCaller
8/14/2006, 03:50 PM
McMurtry is a whorn

GDC
8/14/2006, 03:51 PM
McMurtry is a whorn

He's a crabby old fart too, but nobody's perfect.

1stTimeCaller
8/14/2006, 03:52 PM
I was just kidding. He went to North Texas State and Rice.

usmc-sooner
8/14/2006, 04:05 PM
My wife gets tired of me watching Lonesome Dove at least once a year. Robert Duvall's performance along with Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Robert Ulrich, and Diane Lane was awesome.

The book was absolute greatness. Not anywhere close to a chick flick. I've heard that McMurtry wanted John Wayne and Gary Cooper to play Call and Gus. I don't think anyone could do it the justice Duvall and Jones did.

GDC
8/15/2006, 09:49 AM
I tivoed Broken Trail off AMC with Robert Duvall but I haven't got around to watching it yet.

Hatfield
8/15/2006, 10:04 AM
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.

Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.

For a start there's the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. Despite Katz's overwhelming desire to find cozy restaurants, he and Bryson eventually settle into their stride, and while on the trail they meet a bizarre assortment of hilarious characters. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Bryson's acute eye is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America's last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is destined to become a modern classic of travel literature.

Chuck Bao
8/16/2006, 10:42 AM
The most eye-opening non-fiction book that I’ve read in the last five years is “The Bible Unearthed” by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684869128/103-6284530-5503860?v=glance&n=283155

I was always put off by the God’s people and that whole idea in the Old Testament of a vengeful God, as opposed to a forgiving and loving God.

This book puts the whole Old Testament into context of being written as a nation-building, political, fictional re-write of history by a poor, small city state, at that time.

I also love anything that Karen Armstrong has written.

The first book I read of hers is “A History of God”.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345384563/sr=1-1/qid=1155741451/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-6284530-5503860?ie=UTF8&s=books

I mean it’s a paperback that puts the major religions in perspective.

My passion is reading about the wisdom of the ancients and their myths reviewed in the context of the procession of the equinoxes. There are many books on this subject.

I can’t imagine that our distant ancestors had much to do at night except make babies and look up at the stars and make stories about what it all means.

For fiction, my all time favourite is “The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon” by Tom Spanbauer.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080213663X/ref=sr_11_1/103-6284530-5503860?ie=UTF8

It’s just a very, very raunchy western tale.

proud gonzo
8/16/2006, 10:49 AM
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
it's about ebola

Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
In the 1400's, Brunellescihi undertaking the impossible task of designing and overseeing the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore.... it's fascinating.

Blink (the power of thinking without thinking) by Malcolm Gladwell
REALLY good book... read the reviews on amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316172324/qid=1155743310/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-1971047-1126354?v=glance&n=507846)

Scott D
8/22/2006, 03:57 PM
Joseph Campbell's 'The Power of Myth'

very very interesting perceptions about religion and cultures/societies at large.