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Ok, I need to start reading so here's the {qoou}Unofficial Book Recommendation Thread!

Please recommend fiction, non-fiction, philosophy or anything else that you've enjoyed reading.

Now I would recommend a book for everyone, but the only books I've bought/read in the past 4 years were instructional books. And before those, I read Hatchet (in 5th grade)

a book thread

All I can recommend is some catty witch book adventure thing I stole from school about 10 years ago

EDIT: was called gobbolino the witches cat I think...

EDIT: YES! here it is

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EDIT: hmm I need to think of some more I read as a kid

I give three:

1. Lord of the rings if you havent already
2. Enders game + Speaker for the dead
3. The Curse of Chalion + Paladin of souls

angels and demons
the da vinci code
pride and prejudice

catcher in the rye

Here's some good books for you:

1. Drawing down the moon - Margot Adler
2. Voltaire's Bastards - John Ralston Saul
3. The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
4. The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose.
5. Tertium Organum - P. D. Ouspensky

That would keep you going for a while.

Note: Everyone was posting fiction. So I thought I would post some non-fiction.

Hells Angles-Hunter S. Thompson
Crisis On The Infinite Earths-DC Graphic Novel
MAUS-GRaphic Novel about the Holocaust
Wierd NJ

Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
Tales from Jabbas Palace
Tales of the Bounty Hunters

3 five star Star Wars novels!!!

An autobiography of Spider-man

wasnt that the book by Stan Lee

Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler

that was actually a veeery interesting book

Awesome! Thanks everyone

I'll make a trip to the library today, and then when cash permits there shall be a hefty amazon order

Good luck finding something you like rickshaw

Ok, bad news

I just got back from the library and it did not have one of the books recommended. The computer catalog said it had The Emperor's New Mind, but it wasn't on the shelf.

However, some of the books were checked out and most of the others are held at the other two library buildings/branches around town, so I can pick them up on Sunday

http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/ one of the best reads ever

LD8242 wrote:http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/ one of the best reads ever

Did you really read the whole thing? I found it difficult to follow because of the translation I had.

I found that the first parts of "Mein Kampf", "Das Kapital" and "The Wealth of Nations" all sound like the same book.

I read the first 2 chapters.

A women that can read?! *GASP* She's a WITCH!

The #1 book I'd recommend for any UT player (or any other gamer) is Sun Tzu's The Art Of War. It was written in Chinese 2,500 years ago but it still applies today - and not just for war, but for business and life. But it's especially great for UT.

Some examples:

"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
Translation: If the opportunity is provided, it's always better to launch. The fact that the other team left a hole open in their defence means that they failed at this next quote...

"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by enemy himself."
Translation: Your should always defend by covering every possible attack route. If you're assaulting, you should look for holes that the other team has "provided" to you.

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
Translation: If you're playing a match and the other team picks all the maps, has had more practice, is on a server that gives their team better ping, has more experienced players, and has strategies in place for winning each map, guess who is going to win. I'm sure the following is true for most of us, but when I'm playing on AS1, I'd say that 70% to 80% of the time, I can tell which team is going to win before the match has ever begun. This is because I usually know the experienced players, and can pretty much see which team is better off. Which brings me to another quote...

"If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."
Translation: Why is Bitchy so good at killing me when I'm boarding the ship on Frigate? Is it because she uses her admin hax to find me with radar and shoot homing flak balls with triple damage at me? Well it's partly that, but mostly because she knows all of the 2 or 3 tricks that I like to repeat over and over on that match. But the same goes for any person/clan. If you know how your enemy fights, and can predict what they're going to do and how they'll do it, you will beat them. And of course if you're assaulting and you make good use of the first quote, you'll beat them without ever firing a shot.


Translation of this post:
I recommend reading The Art of War. Specifically James Clavell's translation.

Captain_Obvious wrote:The Art of War

That's been on my list for a while (ever since I read your sig months ago ) I think I may have to buy a copy considering my library never has it in.

tv and video games have destroyed my mind

i can no longer read a book without getting horribly bored 3 minutes into it

Captain_Obvious wrote:The #1 book I'd recommend for any UT player (or any other gamer) is Sun Tzu's The Art Of War. It was written in Chinese 2,500 years ago but it still applies today - and not just for war, but for business and life. But it's especially great for UT.

By far, the Thomas Cleary translation is the best
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books

Megor wrote:A women that can read?! *GASP* She's a WITCH!

I still remember the time that I turned you into a newt....

it's such a pity you got better

we still got to burn you