Summerhaze

I have an english assignment that's due this upcomming tesday and I need your help. I need to finish half of a book. And it needs to e a nonfiction book.

I have one question for you... What is the best non-fiction book you've ever read?
Hell just give me the title&author of any nonfiction book that you've read.

PLEASE AND THANK YOU I could really use your help.

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RomanticRose

The best non-fiction book I've ever read: Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl

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Jocelyn

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. Funny and informative.

Talia_Brie

Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash. But that'll be hard to get your hands on. I also enjoyed A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

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Malone

Fear and Loathing. It's all true except for one drug they take.

I'd just get the cliff notes, whatever you choose.

Frabes

Dino by Nick Tosches.

Although, the nonfiction area of my bookshelf is way too thin.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is another, but the lines there are a little blurred.

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A Kind of Truth

Shavixmir

The bible. By God.
I mean, there can be no doubting the higher Being's story, surely!

Or, if you can't find the bible try "The God delusion" by Richard Dawkings. Although you could go to hell for doing so (or be harassed by bible-thumping, doctor killing, creationists).

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In Vino Veritas

ClancyBoy

I loathe this book with every sinew of of my being.

This book is made from the pressed pulp of Satan's knickers, bound in human flesh, and printed backwards with Hillary Clinton's breast milk.
This book is so evil the printing sears mirror images of the pages into your flesh from twenty paces.
Reading this book will kill your firstborn child, give you a miscarriage, or both.
Having this book in your house will animate every corpse in a 50-mile radius.


I was raised on the Frankl philosophy. It was even more horrible than being raised by behavioral psychologists. That book is 90% of the reason I haven't spoken to my parents in several years.

Burn that book, and get your house exorcised by a professional.

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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.

ClancyBoy

Edgy.

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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.

RomanticRose

Explain to me again, why I care about your opinion of what's on my bookshelf.

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Summerhaze

Holy shit, thats a coincidence. I just watched that movie last night.

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Summerhaze

Her we go again. Clancy, didn't we just have an argument like this last night with thoth.

SHIT DOUBLE POST - sorry.

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RomanticRose

I wasn't really trying to be argumentative. I'm sorry if I gave that impression.

It's just that tastes differ. Clancy is entitled to his opinion, and even to his hyperbole. Clancy may also very well have things on his bookshelf that I would consider utter drivel.

My apologies for thread derailing.

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Amara-J

Wild Swans by Jung Chang. Autobiographical novel of three generations of women in her family, from the final years of the Qing Manchu dynasty (early 1900s) to the Maoist era, to modern times. Harder to understand the cultural dynamics if you're not Chinese / Asian, I suppose, but it's a damn good read.

Also The British In Malaya by Margaret Shennan. Chronicles detailing the colonial years of Malaya (now Malaysia, a country in South-East Asia) under British rule during the 1800s to Independence in mid-1900s. Quite amusing especially with the cultural clashes between the locals and the 'expats' (British planters, their families, and officers). Also scrutinizes major events like the Japanese Occupation of Malaya during World War II, and the Communist threat to Malaya after the war. Informative.

I have both books on my bookshelf.

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Non Serviam

You two have just practically forced me to read "Man's Search for Meaning", you realise.

My favourite non-fiction book to read for pleasure is William L. Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", but it's a tad on the long side; half of that book is longer than the whole of some excellent books.

My favourite non-fiction to read for edification is Daniel C. Dennett's "Darwin's Dangerous Idea".

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