August Knights book club

[[AK]The Beast]

Thanks to recommendations from you guys, I've read two excellent books in the past couple weeks--Band of Brothers and Bernard Goldberg's Bias. Anyone else have any suggestions for "must-read" books?

[Hale]

Starship Troopers is an excellent book if you haven't read it yet.

[[AK]Bribo]

As long as we're talking classics, Asimov's "I, Robot" and "Foundation" series are must reads for Sci-Fi fans.

[[AK]StitchJones]

Let's not forget "The Caves of Steel" a amazing Asimov book.


And getting away from Sci-Fi, a amazing book is "Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris, that is my most favorite book. The book is much better then both the movies that were made off of it.

Another wonderful book is "The Stand" by mr. King

[[AK]Squidly]

If you're into the war theme right now (as I am) try this book:

How Wars are Won

Sort of a modern day "Art of War". Some interesting stuff in there.

[[AK]Bribo]

Originally posted by [AK?]StitchJones
Let's not forget "The Caves of Steel" a amazing Asimov book.

I didn't forget it. That's why I said the "I, Robot" SERIES of which "The Caves of Steel" is a part.

[[AK]Hylander]

The Art of War - Sun Tzu
We the Living - Ayn Rand
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Tangled Web - Richard Power
I feel great and you will too! - Pat Croce

[[AK]StitchJones]

Originally posted by [AK]Bribo
I didn't forget it. That's why I said the "I, Robot" SERIES of which "The Caves of Steel" is a part.

Quit your bellyaching I had to point the most important book out of the series. If you don't say it by name it will get lost in the mix. You survivor watching sally!!

[[AK]Squidly]

Stop knocking Survivor, Dude. You're missing out!

[[AK]StitchJones]

Dude, two words.

HAIRY ARMPITS!

[Pancito]

There is a series of books (5 or 6 i guess) by a spanish author, i don't know if its translated to English or not, it's called "Caballo de Troya" "Troyan Horse!?!?" it's by J.J. Benitez, and talks about americans finding the way to travel across time in the 70's so they have a few places to go and decide to go if Jesus Christ did in fact existed, it's a journey thru the last days of Jesus Christ, and it's very interesting. A little Sci Fi with History and the Bible involved.

[Pixelsponge]

I just finished reading Catch-22, which I really enjoyed. Get a different perspective about World War II the Joseph Heller way.

Also if you want to dive head first into cyber punkish sci-fi, grab Snow Crash. Absolutely amazing.

[[AK]Leonidas]

The best WWII book I've read is Easter Day 1941.

[Slaughter]

*has no patience to read a book unless it is very good, or the computer reads it to him*

Best books that I've been working on reading are Peter the Great and The Bible.

[[AK]Abaddon]

Starship Troopers - EXCELLENT READ. It is much better than the lame-ass movie was. Want to know my politics? Read this book. :-)

Snow Crash - Excellent! This is a very good book ... would make an awesome movie.

Cryptonomicon - Also by Neal Stephenson, the author of Snow Crash. This is a great read ... combines WWII cryptography with modern-day computer hijinks. A plus - some of the ciphers given as examples in the book are good enough to be classified as "munitions" by the U.S.

Neuromancer - by William Gibson. The definitive cyber-punk novel, although Snow Crash is better.

And three golden-oldies:

Inherit the Stars, The Gentle Giants of Ganymede and Giant's Star (all by James P. Hogan). These are great hard sci-fi, and not nearly as cheesy as the titles sound. The books start with the discovery of a human corpse in a pressure suit on the Moon ... who died 50,000 years ago.