Recommend me books!

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Pekka
Agathon, it wasn't a 'skin show'...

I know... I was joking. Shame though.

[DinoDoc]

Re: Recommend me books!

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Pekka
autobiographies[/q]Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

wars in general

What if?

movie books

Jurassic Park
Road to Perdition

[Pekka]

Agathon, well you realise why it couldn't be a skin show, even if it was aired by some adult channel? You pervert!

Fez, I have Sun Tzus Art Of War. It's ok book.
About that other one... I'm not very sure, as it is written by someone who wasn't a grunt in the war but politician...

DinoDoc, what if? What is that book?
Jurassic Park.. it's based on a book? I'm not sure..
Road to Perdition, I liked the movie very much, I could see myself enjoying the book

Hey anyone know any good spy books? Not fiction! Real spy book from ex-spy, modern spy.. ??

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Pekka
DinoDoc, what if? What is that book?

What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

Jurassic Park.. it's based on a book?

It's based on a very well written book, IMO.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Pekka

Agathon, well you realise why it couldn't be a skin show, even if it was aired by some adult channel? You pervert!

Yes, it is so perverted to desire attractive naked women.

[Pekka]

DD, Thanks. Looks interesting.

Agathon, I was thinking about her being underaged and all.. but I guess you like them young and fresh!

[flash9286]

Read by The Jungle Upton Sinclair.

[molly bloom]

'Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies'
by Christopher Hitchens.

Looks at the history of the political, cultural and dynastic ties between the U.S.A. and the U.K.

'The Bonnie and Clyde Book' edited by Sandra Wake and Nicola Hayden. Contains stills from the film, the screenplay, an essay by Pauline Kael, interviews with Arthur Penn, the director, producer Warren Beatty, and more reviews and essays besides. Shows that a lot of today's film makers have a great deal to forget and more to learn.

'An Angel at My Table', by Janet Frame.

The autobiography of a New Zealand poet and novelist, incorrectly diagnosed at an early age with schizophrenia who had to endure electroshock therapy in the run down asylums of the time, and her eventual release just before she was scheduled for a leucotomy. Made into a three part serial for New Zealand television and an award winning film by Jane Campion.

'The Tarim Mummies' by J.P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair.

Examines the evidence for the origin of the fair-skinned caucasoid tartan/plaid wearing mummies found in the arid oases dotted Silk Road region of China.

'Blues Fell This Morning' by Paul Oliver, foreword by Richard Wright.

As well as a history of the blues (and the variety of blues) you get reproductions of original blues advertisements, discography of quoted blues, original recording dates, session information, lyrics, frankly everything the blues fan could want, except original Bessie Smith and Robert Johnson 78s.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Pekka
St Leo, what are those books?

They are sf comedies for Oswald.

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by Pekka
About that other one... I'm not very sure, as it is written by someone who wasn't a grunt in the war but politician...

You should see the other translations out there for the Art of War. And Machiavelli also has his own.

Kissinger.. well... he had a lot to say in that book. I am currently reading it. Sure it may not be a war book directly related to some battle, but it talks about the overall war and the diplomatic breakdown that occurred with the North Vietnamese. More political however.

[Lonestar]

Pekka, I recommend The Great War: The American Front



In How Few Remain, Harry Turtledove set the stage for his stunning
alternate history of World War I. Now, with The Great War: American
Front,
he carries this towering epic into the early twentieth century in a bold
re-imagining of the fateful war that hurtled humanity into the modern
age.
Envision a divided America--one camp led by Theodore Roosevelt, the other
by Woodrow Wilson--in the most explosive conflict humankind has seen,
where
global war is waged with sophisticated weaponry on American soil for the
first time in history.



When the Great War engulfed Europe in 1914, the United States and the
Confederate States of America, bitter enemies for five decades, entered
the
fray on opposite sides: the United States aligned with the newly strong
Germany, while the Confederacy joined forces with their allies, Britain
and
France. But it soon became clear to both sides that this fight would be
different--that war itself would never be the same again. For this was to
be a protracted, global conflict waged with new and chillingly efficient
innovations--the machine gun, the airplane, poison gas, and trench warfare.



In the Americas, the fighting spread like wildfire on multiple and
far-flung fronts. The U.S. Army invaded the South, striking in Virginia,
Kentucky, and the West and assaulted Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. As
President Theodore Roosevelt rallied the diverse ethnic groups of the
northern states--Irish and Italians, Mormons and Jews--Confederate
President Woodrow Wilson struggled to hold together a Confederacy still
beset by ignorance, prejudice, and class divisions. And as the war raged
on, southern blacks, oppressed for generations, are fatefully drawn into a
climactic confrontation.



In The Great War: American Front, Harry Turtledove creates a vast,
vibrant
canvas that blends actual events and players with a history as it might
have been. This unforgettable, deeply moving, and superbly original novel
is a triumph of the creative imagination.
--------------------



Don't worry about reading How Few Remain, it's more of a prequel.

[MattH]

"Squares of the City" by John Brunner, if you like chess.

[LTEC!]

Last of the mohicans. classic, war, movie.

[st_swithin]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

Jurassic Park.. it's based on a book?

It's based on a very well written book, IMO.

I'm half with ya, Doc. If Crichton had just done a TEENY tiny little bit more research, or talked to a biologist or two, it might have been much, much more believable.

Movie kicked booty, though. Except for the kids. Where the he11 did they come from, and what purpose did they serve?

[MattH]

Originally posted by LTEC!
Last of the mohicans. classic, war, movie.

Yeah, great bedtime reading