Torneyboy Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Sahara.....Clive Cussler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Probably something By Hermann Hesse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 p.s. Cussler was fun ... before he went around the bend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Ahhh Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf, and read by the club too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saiphon Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Fiction - Gunter Grass "The Tin Drum" Science Fiction - Frank Herbert "Dune" (film was awful however) Fantasy - J. R. Tolkien "Lord Of The Rings" History - A. J. P. Taylor "Bismarck" Self Knowledge - M. Scott Peck "The Road Less Travelled" & S. Covey "Seven Habits Of Highly Effective OPeople" Science - S. Hawking "A Brief History Of Time" & "The Universe In A Nutshell" Thailand - C. Moore "God Of Darkness" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglesoup Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 I ll second Herman Hesse. Great writer who can has a strong spiritual/soul searching element in his writing, but written in beautiful language and unpretentious way. I liked Siddhartha and Gertrude. Vedanta Treatise by Swami A Parthsarathy. THis is a true manual for life and death. The world needs this book iMHO. Its truth is its own authority and it expounds scientific knowledge with facts of living. Teaches how to analyse and objectify for yourself and not to rely on authorities to do your thinking. It really leads you on a journey to that enables us to program our evolution by conscious effort and less selfish actions. I am eternally greatful to the guy who put in the direction of this hard to find title. Music of the MInd- daryly Reaney. Zen Guitar Irvine Welsh-Trainspotting, Filth, The acid house etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
was_usvirgin Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 "Murder at the Horny Toad Bar" by Dean Barrett. Just pulled that one out from under my coffee table when I read your post and noticed that I'd spilt coffee all over it. Damn! I'm certain that the author would encourage me to go buy a replacement, if it's still in print. At least 'Thailand, Land of Beautiful Women' seems to remain unscathed. But, with all due respect to Mr. Barrett, I'd have to say that 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S. Thompson was the most influential book I ever read. Prior to that, it was 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain. I really wish I'd stuck with Huck as a role model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McBif Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 I can't narrow it down to any particular book or books, but for authors, fiction and non: P.G. Wodehouse Raymond Chandler Dashiel Hammett Patrick O'Brian George Orwell George MacDonald Fraser Bertrand Russell John Keegan John Luckacs James Boswell There're more, but I that's quite enough to go on with... Flashermac: You're joking, right? I mean, I loved Hesse from my teens to mid-twenties, but he's a young man's writer, don't you think? "Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore." Samuel Johnson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 The early books by Wilbur Smith... And Robert Ludlum as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 Hmmm - Best Bangkok book? God of Darkness and Chairs are the best CG Moore books, but I quite like Letters by some other bloke about Thaiand. DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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