[Capitalism2003]

I don't get to read much as I'd like but a picture someone posted of the new Coulter book reminded me how much I enjoy it. I did a little browsing and found that Ebay and Amazon have huge collections of books on sale...new and old. I'd just like to get some recommendations. I checked out "Bush at War" at the library and was bored halfway through it...Woodward seems to have the amazing ability to read the minds of everyone in the Bush administration...got old after a while. Anyway, I loved Slander by Ann Coulter. I thought it was just awesome and I can't wait to get her new book. I also finished "Showdown" by Larry Elder a few weeks ago and thought it was excellent as well...highly recommended! I also finished a little $5 Neal Boortz book in about an hour a while back. The only fiction book I've ever enjoyed was Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and I don't think anyone will ever be able to touch her in that area...sooo I'm looking for some good non fiction stuff similar to Coulter/Elder/Horowitz. Any suggestions? Anyone read any of the stuff from Walter Williams? He's another libertarian I really like. I figure if a few Freepers were to post their all time favs, it would give me and other newbies a good list to get started on. Suggestions?

[7beuties]

Witness,Wittaker Chambers(Reagan's favorite book)
The Black book of Communism
Left for Dead

[Cooter]

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

[Ford Fairlane]

It's not my all time favorite, but it hasn't been mentioned, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson, (the whole series) it kept me occupied for a long time

My all time favorite would be any of Louis L'amour's westerns.

[x]

Go here for a list to get you started. Richard Weaver's "Ideas have Consequences" is an important book. So is Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind." A.J. Nock's "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" is also worth reading. And of course, G.K. Chesterton. But take care that you don't become a cultist or doctrinaire who thinks that one book contains all truth and wisdom. Reading books that have different points of view or no particular point of view on politics is also important.

[Mr. Thorne]

Most anything by Thomas Sowell.

Might suggest you give Jerry Pournelle a try on the fiction side.

[Ford Fairlane]

Also any of Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat series

[PatriotGames]

Silent Victory......forgot the author. Historically accurate depiction of every submarine patrol of any significance of WWII.

[greydog]

To Kill a Mockingbird. When Atticus shoots the dog, it reminds me of what the President said last night of Hussien.

[csvset]

The Bounty Trilogy by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The trilogy is comprised of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island.

Action, adventure, good vs evil, it has it all.

[CFC__VRWC]

I've seen a lot of really good titles here, but no one has mentioned the Hornblower series by C.S. Forester. Until now.

[Richard Kimball]

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test is good, but I personally prefer The Right Stuff, also by Tom Wolf, as is A Man in Full, and Bonfire of the Vanities, also noted on this thread.

The Caine Mutiny is one of my personal favorites, along with LOTR. Anything by Herman Wouk is brilliant, but Caine Mutiny and Winds of War are his best. I also liked Marjorie Morningstar by him, but it's not for everybody. For a meandering, philosophical book, I'll still pull out my old dog-eared copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The Bible never gets old. Francis Schaeffer's "The God Who is There" is a brilliant book on Christianity in a post-modern world.

For heavier reading, The Bell Curve is a good, but long read. Robert Bork's The Tempting of America should be read by every thinking person, IMHO. Starship Troopers is a little long on philosophy and short on action for my tastes, but was certainly a worthy read.

For trash reading, Hollywood Babylon is a blast. Moe Howard's autobiography, Moe Howard and the Three Stooges, is short and poorly written, but I love it because it's Moe actually writing it, not a professional writer pretending to be Moe Howard. If you've ever gotten into comic books, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is IMHO, the best comic book ever written. Raymond Chandler writes great old detective books, I can read any of the Philip Marlowe stories over and over.

I find most sports books to be a total waste, but When Pride Still Mattered, a biography of Vince Lombardi is a good read, as is Instant Replay by Jerry Kramer, an accounting of the Packers '67 Super Bowl season (kind of strange choices for a Cowboys fan.) As you may have guessed, I have weird taste.

[dasboot]

"It Takes a Village"

[Physicist]

History: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.

Science: Spacetime Physics by Taylor and Wheeler.

Fiction: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis.

Poetry: The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

[Denver Ditdat]

The Bishop's Boys - Tom Crouch
Chesapeake - James Michener
Fate is the Hunter - Ernest K. Gann
A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chaikin
Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert K. Massie
Peter the Great - Robert K. Massie
The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill - William Manchester
The Sand Pebbles - Richard McKenna
The Sherlock Holmes stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Time After Time - Allen Appel
Time and Again - Jack Finney
A World Lit Only By Fire - William Manchester

[Diana Rose]

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

[opbuzz]

Glass Bead Game

[Dan from Michigan]

Tie

ATLAS SHRUGGED
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

[Whitebread]

My Uncle Oswald, by Roald Dahl

[Whitebread]

"My Uncle Oswald"

Description

The nameless narrator has revealed snippets of the lovable, lascivious Uncle Oswald's life in other collections, but this is the only novel – brief though it is – dedicated solely to the diaries of "the greatest fornicator of all time." Inspired by stories of the aphrodisiac powers of the Sudanese blister beetle, the palpable seductiveness of the lovely Yasmin Howcomely, and the scientific know–how of Professor A. R. Woresley, Uncle Oswald anticipates the concept of the Nobel sperm bank by some 40 years, flimflamming crowned heads, great artists, and eccentric geniuses into making "donations." The life of a commercial sperm broker has a few surprises even for a sophisticated bon vivant, and Dahl manages his signature sting–in–the–tail ending even in one of his lightest comic works.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

"Stolen Valor"