I love books

[Black Sunday9]

This post has been edited by the BS9 software editing program. Have a nice day.

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Danke

[Dollardave]

I love to read stuff on serial killers. My favorite book is Human Monsters the encyclopedia of serial killers. I'm also a big fan of

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers...ious/index.html Big court TV fan I took alot of criminal justice in college b4 I got my associates in computer information systems. Just interests me.

Hi

some people might remember me from classic threads such as "I hate books" but I am here to come clean and admit I love books.  I love Borders, barnes and Noble, small independant bookstores, Libraries and librarians. 

So I'd like to hear what books everyone is into, got to read Mallochai's excellent thread and this is similar I suppose.  Throw some titles, authors, plotlines and ISBN's at me. 

I don't think anyone here is into the same books as I am though so I don't have any reccomendations, but I would like to share a few titles.  I took an econ class in college and became fascinated with the numbers and how policies had affected said numbers, and then how in turn those numbers influenced society, I was so enamoured with Milton Friedman that I became an Econ Major.    Most people think it is boring, that is ok, I love reading the theories of Economics, even people I don't agree with like Paul Samuelson though my favorite writers are dubbed "new classical economists" which is a "contemporary" reaction to modern Keynesian economists.  Ok if any of you havn't fallen asleep yet......

Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One

By Thomas Sowell

Sowell, as usual, makes the case that capitalism, microeconomics and less government intervention is the best way to deal with many of today's major social problems.  Many people think quite the opposite, that a socialist system is the best system to meet the needs of ALL the people but Sowell uses definite logic and statistical analysis to show his side of the story. 

Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

By John Mcwhorter

This guy is great, he is a linguist from UC-Berkley and he takes complex social issues and breaks them down into easy to underatand analysis.  He makes the case here that rap music is not good for society....ok I know that sounds dumb, but give him a listen, he makes the case that the violence, mysoginy (sp?) and hate in the music has had an influence on American culute in a negative way.  Sounds kind of preachy but it isn't and he makes good points, in fact if you don't have time for a full book check out this article he wrote

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

By Phillip K Dick

Blade runner, but not really.  You ever read a book when you were younger that has stayed with you your whole life?  This one did it for me, even though the sequels kind of sucked.    Was he a replicant or not?  The sequels seem to indicate yes but they don't know dick (literally- PKD had nothing to do with them)

John Mcwhoter

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[paradox]

i think you actually hate books and are only toying with our emotions, all for your own apparent pleasure... :fear

[Guest MsMaldoror]

i think you actually hate books and are only toying with out emotions, all for your own apparent pleasure... :fear

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[Black Sunday9]

i think you actually hate books and are only toying with our emotions, all for your own apparent pleasure... :fear

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:grin

so what have you been reading Paradox? any suggestions?

And where Phee's picks?

[Fierce Critter]

I know this is just BlackSunday's way of getting into Ms. Maldoror's pants, and that he really does hate books.

BS, you're shameless, you know that? Gads.

Anyway, I get in weird moods to read all one type of genre during different periods. There was my "historical fiction featuring Native Americans" phase, which led to my "non-fiction featuring Native Americans" phase, during which I read "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee".

Then there was my "science fiction by one-off authors, chosen by running my finger along the shelves at the library and picking whichever book my finger landed on when I counted to a certain number" phase (if I ended up on a series-writer, I went to the next author in line).

I read everything Stephen King wrote one after the other for a few years. Then I switched to Dean Koontz.

One genre I keep coming back to is detective/mystery novels, but only featuring female leads. Including all the Kay Scarpetta books by Patricia Cornwell, all the Anna Pigeon books by Nevada Barr (my favorites), all the Kathleen Mallory books by Carol O'Connell; Sarah Paretsky, etc.

I'm not reading much beyond magazines right now. Can't focus on a book for some reason. But in recent years, I've been reading a lot of Oprah's bookclub-type books (downhome women coming to terms with one crises after another, etc.), and biographies.

[Black Sunday9]

that's not true you know FC.

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Wow... that is just wos...FC... having a bad day?

[Black Sunday9]

Wow... that is just wos...FC... having a bad day?

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I think it was humor, and it was funny but I still had to defend myself!

Her book interest are good. And phee what about you?

[phee]

About 8 inches??? wait do you mean books?

[Black Sunday9]

About 8 inches??? wait do you mean books?

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see that is an example of poor humor.

yes Phee, the subject of this thread is books, it seem you and I have similar taste in science fiction, why don't you throw some titles out there.

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Nine Princes in Amber-Roger Zelazny.

The Enders Game series-Orson Scott Card.

Almost any Clive Barker, or H.P. Lovecraft.

[Black Sunday9]

Nine Princes in Amber-Roger Zelazny.

The Enders Game series-Orson Scott Card.

Almost any Clive Barker, or H.P. Lovecraft.

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I'll start with the first one and try to pick it up this weekend. thanks.

[phee]

Wow... well if you like that one There are actually ten books in the seris... and I think they have been combined in one big ol volume.

[The_Dark]

Books... yeah, I think I have looked at one or two of them...

[paradox]

:grin

so what have you been reading Paradox? any suggestions?

And where Phee's picks?

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now that school is done, im going to finish Thus Spoke Zarathustra, then on to.

-farenheit 451

-brave new world

-slaughterhouse 5

-dantes inferno

also planning to re-read Paradise Lost at some point.

and various novels between. mainly silly 'guilty pleasures' like ra salvatore etc

[SomeDanGuy]

now that school is done, im going to finish Thus Spoke Zarathustra, then on to.

-farenheit 451

-brave new world

-slaughterhouse 5

-dantes inferno

also planning to re-read Paradise Lost at some point.

and various novels between. mainly silly 'guilty pleasures' like ra salvatore etc

That's a great list, Paradox. And it reminds me that I got only a few chapters into Zarathustra several years ago and now it's on my shelf. Hmmm

[paradox]

its gets repetative quickly. but im stubborn.

[pomba gira]

Wish I had time to read like I used to. At present I have almost 4' of books that I haven't read yet, which would've been unheard of for me before I started (a) spending so much time online and (b) teaching.

Most of my reading is science fiction/fantasy stuff. I tend to like writers of the "erudite raconteur" style i.e. Avram Davidson, Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance. Also classic cyberpunk like Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson. And some less-classifiables like Jo Clayton, Iain Banks, Paul di Filippi. For fantasy I like stuff with non-European based settings, except for a few really stylish writers like Delia Sherman, Suzanna Clarke, & Ellen Kushner. And ov course, TANITH LEE IS GOD. Then there's what I call "Oprah Fantasy" like Nalo Hopkinson, A.S. Byatt, & Angela Carter.

In recent years I'm more into short stories than novels... I have almost-complete collections of the Dann/Dozois Year's Best SF and the Datlow/Windling Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, also their twisted fairy tale collections.

Don't read much nonfiction these days... when I do it's offbeat social- historical explorations like Deborah Visser's Much Depends on Dinner & The Rituals of Dinner, Reay Tannahill's Food in History & Sex in History, and A History of the Breast by Marilyn Yalom. I also have a lot of books about trashy/weird movies, like the ones the Medved brothers wrote before Michael became a self-appointed moral guardian & official fuddy-duddy.

Picture/quasi-children's books: Graeme Baese, Michael Wilks, Alan Aldridge.

I'll leave out the manga & graphic novel type stuff or this would be twice as long.

[Fierce Critter]

Wow... that is just wos...FC... having a bad day?

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BlackSunday got the joke.

I was playing off his farce created in his "I hate books" thread. I just didn't use appropriate smilies to indicate the humor. Got "emoticon-lazy".

(What does "wos" stand for?)

[Shade Everdark]

I'm currently re-reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, and then I'll be moving on to Undergound, an account of the Sarin gas bombing in the subways of Tokyo, written by none other than Murakami Haruki, author of his own special brand of understated trippiness, exemplified in Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World. After that, I'll have to check my reading list.

[cthulhu63]

I read plenty of books. I save the term "love" for the rare book that really moves me.

I love this book:

It was just released in paperback. Go, find it, read it.

[Guest MsMaldoror]

I told you I could get him to change his mind... :innocent

I know this is just BlackSunday's way of getting into Ms. Maldoror's pants, and that he really does hate books.

BS, you're shameless, you know that? Gads.

[Fierce Critter]

I told you I could get him to change his mind... :innocent

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Nothing beats the power of a good woman, and a good book.