Pit Recommended Reading List

[harmless]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thomposon. Read everything else by him while you're at it.

[gaxx29538di]

PopeKevin is a bitch

[ViriiK]

Dreadnought : The Coming of the Great War

[Gouda2]

Originally Posted by huxley

ugh...atlas shrugged the most painful 900 pages of my life

I think the book has a good story to tell, but yeah, it drags on waaay longer then it needs to.

[jaydotess@hotmail.com]

starwars

[De7|ro|i7]

Chuchill's War by David Irving

[Heinrich Himmler]

I'm not reading every last post so you may see duplicates.

Any Hunter S Thompson stuff from the 60s-70s

"Fatherland" by Robert Harris. set in 1964, afetr the Germans won WWII. An SS officer learns the truth of the Holocaust and that the "Jewish relocation" was a lie to cover up the death camps. Betrays and exposes Hitler at the end(now for ForeverVirgin to come in and say the Holocaust never happened, among other Nazi lies).

Given that the upcoming Doom movie sounds to be done by the same brainless turds who did the Darkstalkers cartoon, pick up the 4 Doom novels, if you can find them.

Catch 22

anything by Robert Bloch

Ten Little Indians

[arthur pendragon]

Originally Posted by Nano

The Dune Litany against Fear is one of my favorite pieces of literature.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Heh heh I always liked the mentat oath better.....

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts aquire speed. The lips aquire stain, the stain becomes a warning, it is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

[Rage2132]

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

International Relations 6th Edition - Joshua Goldstein

- Text Book: Explains current theories of international relationships with regards to past, present, and future conflicts and social traditions.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846




US SECURITY POLICIES FROM WWI -> POST 9/11

Suprise, Security, and the American Experience - John Lewis Gaddis

- Reader: Mostly about how american experience has created a lack of internal security and how the current government is changing the american experience and security

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books





INTERVENTION / WAR

The Purpose of Intervention: Changing beliefs about the use of force - Martha Finnemore

- Reader: Discusses why realism theory failes and the varying uses of intervention since Napoleanic wars to Iraq.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...196610-9222552

[irate_vermin]

Voices of a Peoples History of the United States - Howard Zinn. A collection of primary source documents from American history.

[SchrodingersCat]

Anything by Orson Scott Card (I'm slightly obsessed)
The entire Ender's series -- Shadow series too
Women of Genesis Series
Alvin Maker Series
Lovelock - written with Kathryn Kidd
The Lost Boys
Songmaster
Wyrms
Worthing Saga

Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell

The Misbegotten Son: A Serial Killer and His Victims: The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross - Jack Olsen

[*LANGAN*]

The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby:
this is the most intresting book i have ever read, once you start you cant put it down... i highly suggest reading it. This book includes out-there theroys about the human mind, the universe, and halucinigenic drug use to learn more about these things, it also includes documenting from halucinigenic trips on many drugs that were aquired from Jeremy Narby while he was visiting some rainforrest tribes where he learned many intresting things. It explains how nature and universe are connected... i cant really begin to explain it.. but reading this book will really get you thinking and i HIGHLY suggest reading it.

[yolo]

Vendetta's choice was interesting to see. My dad has worked in the military for 40 years, served 2 terms in Vietnam, and he calls Bush the modern day Caesar.

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[Dyno]

I finished reading a book called: 'SALT: A WORLD HISTORY' by Mark Kurlansky. It's a fascinating around-the-world history of salt, one of the most important elements for the development and expansion of human civilization. Salting food has fallen into obscurity only one hundred years ago but prior to that it was a commodity worth billions. Whole countries set their fortunes to salt. Indeed some countries came to be because of salt. This was one of the best books I've read all year.

Now I'm reading 'THE ORIGIN OF SATAN' by Elaine Pagels. While only half way though I'm finding it very informative. This is a social history of the devil as found in the bible and apocryphic writing through the ages. It's interesting to see how religious fiction has been revised through the centuries and how societies organise into holy and unholy, US and THEM, in order to survive their respective trials.

Usually I read science fiction and fantasy, but recently I'm on an information kick.