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Enoch
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The original Dune by Frank Herbert. So much better than the movie.
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Pillers of the earth saga, by Ken Follett. There are 4 different books in the saga.
A complex story about an English village called Kings Bridge.
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Chasing The Dime
It's about a guy who moves to Santa Monica and when he sets up his house phone he finds out that it's the old phone number of a call girl...
After doing some research he realizes that she's missing and goes on this chaotic journey down this rabbit hole to find her...
I liked it..
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^ Michael Connelly - his books are always a good read
One of the few books I have ever read twice in a row was The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom -
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I agree with Ayla
What are you looking for to read?
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I am on my second pass of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. His insight into the transient nature of life and the importance of accepting what we cannot control is incredible. A must read.
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The History of Man ~ L Ron Hubbard
According to the author, it provides "a cold blooded and factual account of your last sixty trillion years." of the Whole Track of Time.
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The Bible written by Jesus, I think
Boring mostly but got lots of sex and violence
Also recommend Kama Sutra, writing is OK but illustrations were done by acrobats
And, they are excellent
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In Search of GoodPussy: Living Without Love. by Don Spears..
Relationships in the Modern Age.
Enjoy.
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Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker. Helps us look past the short term and bi-partisanism and focus on the core values of reason, science, and humanism that bring real positive progress.
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Anything from Harlan Coben. And then binge on the many Netflix movies made from his books.
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The Bible. You need Jesus
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To serve mankind. From the 60's I think.
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It's a cookbook
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‘Unbroken’. It is a World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption a 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is a biography of World War II veteran Louis Zamperini.
She also wrote ‘Seabiscuit’ another fantastic read.
For light reading Jack Reacher series of novels, by British author Jim Grant under the pen name Lee Child
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Pimp: The Story of My Life: Slim, Iceberg
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"To Serve Man" snapz!
Episode 24, 3rdth season
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Non-Fiction:
Running with Scissors: A Memoir
By Augusten Burroughs
(movie watered-down)
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age 12, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor.
My Lobotomy: A Memoir
By Howard Dully
In this heartfelt memoir from one of the youngest recipients of the transorbital lobotamy, Howard Dully shares the story of a painfully dysfunctional childhood, a misspent youth, his struggle to claim the life that was taken from him, and his redemption.
My Dog Tulip
By J. R. Ackerley
(haven't seen the Movie)
The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German Shepherd. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the �ideal friend� he had been searching for in vain for years. My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet retrospective account of their sixteen-year companionship, as well as a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness that lies at the heart of all relationships.
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
By Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is returned captures the abilities of both humans and animals to cross the seemingly unbridgeable gap between their radically different worlds. Especially now, at a time when the sanctity of the wild and its inhabitants is increasingly threatened by human development and natural disaster, Adamson's remarkable tale is an idyll, and a model, to return to again and again.
Fiction:
Life of Pi: A Novel (movie enjoyable)
By Yann Martel
After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan�and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.
Magic Street
By Orson Scott Card
a child who is discovered in abandoned overgrown park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman, Mack comes and goes from family to family. Mack senses that he is different from most and knows that he has strange powers, he cannot understand how unusual he is until the day he sees, in a thin slice of space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a backyard, and an entryway into an extraordinary world stretching off into an exotic distance of geography, history, and magic.
Inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Under the Dome
By Stephen King
(TV Series, bad)
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - very funny and creative. Light-hearted great time.
Stephen King's Skeleton Crew - great collection of short scary stories. There was another one I have somewhere but I forgot its name. It had The Mist way before it became a movie.
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Don't forget the classics like Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. They are classic for good reason.
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The Foundation series, Asimov......now on Apple+
Agony and the Ecstacy, Irving Stone
Anything by K Vonnegut, R Heinlein, M Twain, S Pinker or U K Le Guin
Seriously......
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Anything from Philip K Dick
I am currently reading his Exogenesis trilogy
Being and Nothingness - Satre
Bhagavad Gita
Farinhiet 451
Yoga Sutras
Anything from Issac Asimov
Hero with 1000 faces - Joseph Cambell
Liber al Vel Legis
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i dont know if you like short stories but if so i highly recommend Guy de Maupassant.
regarding novels, i highly recommend "From here to Eternity" by James Jones.
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oh and yeah its about a soldier in the US army stationed in Hawaii in the early 40s.
Private Prewitt.
He falls in love with a lady of the night, but he is special - not a john..
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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Great read
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Just for fun:
Coyote v. Acme
We all know the story of Wile E. Coyote always chasing and failing to catch the Roadrunner. and Wile E. always used products from the Acme Corporation, which always backfire, fail, blow up in his face, etc. Well, Mr. Coyote finally decides to fight back, and sues the Acme Corporation. And that, is the story of the book.
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True confession by John Gregory Dunne
It is inspired by the black dahlia murder. A disgraced l.a. homicide cop investigates the case and finds the killing brings up dirty business dealings betwenn his brother, a high ranking priest, and a gangster from east l..a
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