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    Book Recommendations

    I like to read non-fiction while flying back and forth and I'm looking for book recommendations.

    Some recent authors I've read include

    Prof Bernard lewis - Middle Eastern History
    Christopher Hitchens - various -
    Edmund Morris - Roosevelt and Dutch - has anyone read his book about Beethoven?
    Last edited by SpencerH; April 21, 2008, 08:10.
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    If you're into classics, you can't go wrong with Le rouge et le noir by Stendhal.

    Edit: damn, just realized you said non-fiction.
    Last edited by Fake Boris; April 21, 2008, 09:09.
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    • #3
      I think the last non-fiction book I read was "Blackwater", and I highly recommend it. I also read "1776" by McCulloch before that, which was excellent.
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      • #4
        All my books are in storage in another country - but, the a book entitled "A Higher Form of Killing" - which is a history of chemical and biological warfare.

        It is a fascinating read - non judgemental -very objective - and quite horrifying.
        I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.

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        • #5
          Also - "The lost Executioner" - the story of a Khmer Rouge executioner.

          A brilliant read.

          Sorry for not being able to supply Authors.
          I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.

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          • #6
            I've enjoyed a few books by Ross King - Bruneschelli's dome etc.
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            • #7
              Imperial Presidency by Savage? was one of the 'recent' non-academic non-fiction non-religious books I have read.

              JM
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
                I think the last non-fiction book I read was "Blackwater", and I highly recommend it. I also read "1776" by McCulloch before that, which was excellent.
                The reviews of Blackwater suggested it was a leftie smear, so I'll pass on that. If my life had taken another route I might have been working for them now

                1776 looks like a very interesting book with the bonus that if I like it, there are a bunch more by the same historian. Thanks
                We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
                If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
                Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Jon Miller
                  Imperial Presidency by Savage? was one of the 'recent' non-academic non-fiction non-religious books I have read.

                  JM

                  I believe I stated "non-fiction"
                  We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
                  If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
                  Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Nugog
                    All my books are in storage in another country - but, the a book entitled "A Higher Form of Killing" - which is a history of chemical and biological warfare.

                    It is a fascinating read - non judgemental -very objective - and quite horrifying.

                    Also - "The lost Executioner" - the story of a Khmer Rouge executioner.

                    A brilliant read.
                    Interesting choices Thanks
                    We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
                    If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
                    Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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                    • #11
                      I'm in the middle of Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid. My mind has been blown and reformed many a time.
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