Official Book Recommendation Thread - Page 3

Can't believe no one has mentioned Game of Thrones.

I personally like to read autobiographies of remarkable people.

Most recent best one is about an American Art Forger who got away with selling over a million dollars worth of frauds in auction houses + flea markets by reverse engineering paintings from American Painters.

His biggest score was over a half a million dollars and he got away with it all because in the auction house they have in the fine writing *caveat emptor , which means Buyer Beware.

I like the balls this guy had the first time he passed off his first forgery, the process of replicating a masterpiece, his mentality and rationalization around it, how he considers himself a great painter but yet he can't come up with anything original.

Autobios are great because you can see their self delusions as a third party but also you see the mentality around achieving
remarkable things.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1605983608

hows ur weightloss? u doin any program in particular?

yeah i started reading Game of Thrones like 2 weeks ago from 2nd book as Daut recommended, best fantasy i've read so far. However 4th book somehow feels like a filler so far but im in the very beginning like 300th page or smtng
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Althought i've only read 100 pages of it and stopped reading cause of Game of thrones its ridiculously good, its just that i prefered something more like GoT to read at this point.

On March 22 2013 18:49 mnj wrote: hows ur weightloss? u doin any program in particular?

Pretty good, I'm going to the gym about 5 times a week and am running around 3 miles on the treadmill. My rec basketbnall team is 11-1 and we're about to go State in early April.

I'm not concentrating so much on weight loss other than getting in real good shape and my current goal is to run a half marathon in August.

On March 22 2013 15:02 sniderstyle wrote: Can't believe no one has mentioned Game of Thrones.

there was another thread where GoT and other awesome books were mentioned.

Unbearable lightness of being is one of my favorite books

gets really bad with anti communism stuff but then goes back to give u a decent ending

On March 22 2013 13:05 2c0ntent wrote: Show nested quote + On March 21 2013 10:02 Mariuslol wrote: I read through derek siver's review of it, not sure if that counts, and I have it on a list of stuff to read xD LOL Marius for some reason I love you but you can't run around recommending books you've never read.. dude.

But I have a really good intuition when it comes to stuff, like, I predicted the internet would be huomoungous (I'm so lucky if I spelled that right lol) and wrote an essay about it when I was a kid. Teachers lolled and hinted I was a retard.

Hmm.. That might not really have much, if any correalation lol. Bude dude!! I'm sure it's great!!

this book is full of facts and history on economic policy, and how it's immensely affected the world.


a compilation of recent interviews/questions with noam chomsky.


a disturbing look at how the mass media in america has manufactured the 'consent' of their public. Failing reading the book, you can watch the movie.


havn't read all of this yet, it's quite long. Failing reading this you can read a very good Excerpt from the book here. http://www.chomsky.info/books/power01

the claimed facts in the books above have an extensive list of footnotes at the end of the book.

will give it a read...

but i'm 99.99% sure free trade, laissez-faire government or capitalism is the most efficient economic/government policy

If you enjoy feeling depressed and you're forever alone, this is a good read. (just white nights. The story is only 60pages~)

One of the best science fiction books of all time. If you are going to read ONE sf novel, let this be the one.

yeah enders game is pretty cool. They are making it into a really bad movie

How about some fiction recommendations?

Some sweet Dick-fiction Fun fact: the cover picture has exactly nothing to do with the story and is hilariously telling on "SF PR work" back then lol.

Anything from bukowski

First they killed my father
story about events happening in Cambodia 1976-1980 by eyes of a little girl. 2million people were killed by Cambodian communists, wearing glasses got you in the first row of hammer to the head.


The Alchemist
Just an amazing fairy-tale like book about a farmer boy looking for treasure.

Think the majority of LP dislikes the Alchemist for it's blanket advice

yap the alchemist seems pure shallowness to me, its fundamentals i totally agree with however

can someone recommend some Fantasy ? Perhaps something GoT style ( not Wheel of Time please i dont feel like reading 14? books + not finished by the same author ) or something like Discworld by Pratchet ( I enjoyed first two books about Rincewind but the 3rd one kind of bores me + its not written in the same satirical style like the previous two ) or something like The Hunger Games

Started reading too many sociological/philosophical books lately + Chomsky which comes a bit too heavy mentally to be reading before sleep

On May 31 2013 17:12 Spitfiree wrote: yap the alchemist seems pure shallowness to me, its fundamentals i totally agree with however can someone recommend some Fantasy ? Perhaps something GoT style ( not Wheel of Time please i dont feel like reading 14? books + not finished by the same author ) or something like Discworld by Pratchet ( I enjoyed first two books about Rincewind but the 3rd one kind of bores me + its not written in the same satirical style like the previous two ) or something like The Hunger Games Started reading too many sociological/philosophical books lately + Chomsky which comes a bit too heavy mentally to be reading before sleep

Try Brandon Sanderson (is the one finishing wheel of time ) or Malazan book of the fallen (long series, like 10 books i think)

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Both by Gene Wolfe, im reading The Knight, so far looks interesting