Reading list: I am just curious what people on the website read --and why .....What was last (realitivly speaking) 10 books you read and why?

1) What is a Jew -Rabbi Morris Kertzer--Book about Jewish culture. I am reading it because my girlfriend is Jewish. Her name is Susan and she is the one who posted twice under Robtex's gf in the ethic section title "Age Differences

2) how we believe -micheal shermer-- Mike S. is an agnostic who heads the skeptics society (www.skeptics.com). This book is a theory on belief. --why people believe. I read it because I value his opinions.
3) makes me wanna holla -nathaniel mccall--nate mccall was a young career crimminal since reformed. Black fella, admitted serial rapist (never convicted), thug, burgler and junkie. He did time for armed robbery. Book was his auto---wanted to read about crime from crimminal's point of view.
4) 4 blondes --candance bushell--C bushell is the mastermind behind the series sex in the city. I enjoy her character development
5) stolen lives --- malika oufkir (michele fitoussi) -true story of malika oufkir who spent about 20 years in a morroco prision (she is a woman) after her father was killed trying to overthrow gov in 1970's. Wanted to read about person who had lots of time in their own head. moving book.
6) life in prision --stanley williams. Stan Williams is the co-founder of the Crips. His other co-founder was killed years ago. He is doing life for a number of crimes and writes to blacks about the ills of gang life. I read it beause of his background.
7) street justice --chuck zito, Chuck Zito is a hell's angel martial artist and ex-boxer . He was Sly Stallon's boxing coach off camera for the rocky movies. I read the book cause of who he is.
8) Underworld--greg cox--based on the movie. saw the movie read the book.
9) dearborne insurance book--I just passed the test to sell life and health insurance. The book was my study guide.
10) pour your heart into it--howard schultz--current owner (not founder) of starbucks. While I am not really into starbuck's coffee, I am into their success and growth rate and wanted to see what the head the company had to say about breaking into the coffee business.

I like to relax and reading and listening to classical music are the ways I do that.

1. James Thurber , "TheMiddle Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze"

2. Henry Thoreau, "Walden", "Walking",
and Civil Disobedience"

3.M.G. J. Minnart , "Practical Work In Elementary Astronomy"

4.Lewis Caroll, "Through The Looking Glass"

5.Douglas Hofstadter, "Godel,Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid"

6.Douglas Addams, "The Hitchehikers Guide To The Galaxy" (42, a number that defines everything)

7.Timoshenko, "Elements Of Strengths Of Materials"

8.George Gilder, "Microcosm"

9.Anna Lee waldo, "Sacjawea"

10. Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

definitely read the DA VINCI CODE
Possessing Genius is a very good book as well

definitely read the DA VINCI CODE
Possessing Genius is a very good book as well


explain why ....what did you gain from the book?

I like to relax and reading and listening to classical music are the ways I do that.

1. James Thurber , "TheMiddle Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze"

2. Henry Thoreau, "Walden", "Walking",
and Civil Disobedience"

3.M.G. J. Minnart , "Practical Work In Elementary Astronomy"

4.Lewis Caroll, "Through The Looking Glass"

5.Douglas Hofstadter, "Godel,Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid"

6.Douglas Addams, "The Hitchehikers Guide To The Galaxy" (42, a number that defines everything)

7.Timoshenko, "Elements Of Strengths Of Materials"

8.George Gilder, "Microcosm"

9.Anna Lee waldo, "Sacjawea"

10. Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

Cosmic pick one or two and tell me what you learned from it or gain from them? please.

i dont read, it is a waste of time, and when there is so much to learn i cannot waste time

Right now the only three books I have going on are:
re-reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Fitzgerald's Great Gatzby
and Russell's History of Western Philosophy (probably one of the most brilliant books I've ever read)

Cosmic pick one or two and tell me what you learned from it or gain from them? please.

I liked it for the research that Anna Lee Waldo did to create a historical and accurate account of the travels of Lewis And Clark. Here is a little of her Biography and about her first book. To bad not all historical books aren't done as this one was for it really was an enjoyable and rewarding book to learn so much as I was reading it.

"When I was in high school, I thought everyone ought to study American history and become thoroughly acquainted with some chosen segment in order to appreciate our heritage. I began to study the Lewis and Clark Expedition. My concern for this Expedition and my awareness of the importance of St. Louis as the gateway to the West was emphasized when we moved to St. Louis, Missouri. I began to wonder where Sacajawea really came from and where did she go after the Expedition what happened to her first-born son nicknamed Pomp by members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. I did ten years of research and my husband and I and our five children traveled the Lewis and Clark trail by automobile three times for summer vacations. We stopped at all the Indian reservations, universities and libraries and museums for information about the Shoshoni woman who went with the Expedition halfway across our continent on foot and by canoe. During the winters I took college courses in American Indian anthropology and archaeology and I went on digs in a satellite community related to the old Mississippian culture from Missouri’s Monks Mound. My finished book was titled, SACAJAWEA."

"Rage For Glory: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN"

The man is my hero. Why it never occurred to me until a few weeks ago to look for his bio I don't know, but he inspires me in many ways. His death sucked, it was a set-up and he should have listened to his wife and friends, but he felt honor was on the table and he went for it despite his own reservations. Maybe it was for the better. I can't picture him as a decrepit old man. (Rotting corpse, yes. Decrepit old man, no. :) )

There are other bios of Decatur, but historians say this one is the closest to reality as one can get without time-travel abilities.