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Recommend me some non-fiction books

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SnorkBoard
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I don't read nearly enough, anyone have a recommendation?
May 27 2013 11:42PM
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Bogs
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and/or Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

Any of Malcolm Gladwell's books of essays
May 27 2013 11:48PM
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BikeMlatt69
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman- Richard Feynman
Crazy for the Storm- Norman Ollestad
Life-Keith Richards

Threads so i can find some.
May 27 2013 11:51PM
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yourthemannowdog
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Plato's dialogues
Descartes' Meditations
Kant's Critiques and Prolegomena
Machivelli's Prince
Hobbe's Leviathan
Spinoza's Ethics
Aristotle's Ethics
Moore's Ethics

or read a biography. I don't know. Do your own book project
May 27 2013 11:55PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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The Heroin Diaries

My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, Drugs, and Guns 'n Roses

Slash

these are all some pretty good biographies of various rock stars that tell some tales of debauchery. Pretty awesome yet easy reads.
May 27 2013 11:57PM
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Chron_Rabbit
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May 27 2013 11:59PM
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FLBP
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Biography about one of the biggest gangsters that ever lived.
May 28 2013 12:02AM
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DaveJ
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If your in to war some very high action books I enjoyed we're Lone Survivor, No easy day, Service, and American Sniper.
May 28 2013 12:20AM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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LOL
May 28 2013 12:29AM
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SirClancelot
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The Innovator's Dilemma - Michael Christensen
May 28 2013 12:39AM
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chicken
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May 28 2013 12:41AM
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RimJobber
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The Bible?
May 28 2013 1:13AM
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white+wolf
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full


http://www.principiadiscordia.com/downloads/05%20Quantum%20Psychology.pdf



http://ia600300.us.archive.org/35/items/TerenceMckenna-FoodOfTheGods.pdf/TerenceMckenna-FoodOfTheGods.pdf

May 28 2013 1:18AM
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MLB
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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer..... so epic, such a crazy story of survival.


Life by Keith Richards. This guys has lived it all, definitely the hardest mother fucker in the stones.
May 28 2013 2:46PM
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king.tubby
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the elegant universe- astrophysics and string theory.
catch a fire- bob marley biography.
under the banner of heaven- mormonism history by krakauer.
the naked mountain- badass mountaineering book by reinhold messner.
under the blag flag- super interesting history of pirates.

i love nonfiction.
May 28 2013 3:12PM
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yourthemannowdog
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How about Wittgenstein's Tractatus? That's a quick read
May 28 2013 5:13PM
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Skibumsmith
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May 28 2013 5:20PM
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louie.mirags
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Mindfulness A beginners Mind
Jul 26 2013 4:18AM
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eheath
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He said non-fiction.
Jul 26 2013 4:42AM
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iSmokeweed
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World war z, brave new world
Jul 26 2013 10:07AM
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Ski_the_east01
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While the story was amazing considering the bravery and acts the seal team went through plus the selflessness of the tribesmen...I was really put off by that book. He complained a lottttt about how the media made his unit not kill those two sheepherders. Everything else about that book is incredible - it was just very annoying to hear him bring that up every like 10 pages...
Jul 26 2013 10:19AM
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LIL_WAT
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The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking
Jul 26 2013 10:28AM
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Kazabazua
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Tipping point - Malcolm gladwell
The winners effect - cant remember authors name
Jul 26 2013 10:49AM
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GeorgiaJibber
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Black Hawk Down
Jul 26 2013 3:38PM
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howlongcanausern
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ah yeah, adding this one to my list....second time i've heard about it today
Jul 26 2013 3:46PM
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Errl
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau is what I just finished. It was an awesome, fairly quick read that I would recommend everyone to read.
Jul 26 2013 3:47PM
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louie.mirags
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Correction: Mindfulness in Plain English.. free pdf version via a google search
Jul 26 2013 4:42PM
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Dwarftosser1
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Anything Malcolm Gladwell

"Pigs Wars and Witches"
"Lone Survivor"
"The Forever War"
"Into Thin Air"
"No Silent Night"

Really there's a shit ton of goodstuff out there
Jul 26 2013 4:47PM
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Jul 26 2013 4:48PM
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JzD.
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Second on Lone Survivor. Such a badass book
Jul 26 2013 5:30PM
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123ski
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...Except that the author apparently has a hard time distinguishing the difference between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and other sects and splinter groups that are unaffiliated with that Church... many of his statements are inaccurate and cause the reader to believe that they are one and the same.
Jul 26 2013 5:41PM
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123ski
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Alive
Killing Lincoln
The Innocent Man
Into Thin Air
Into The Wild
The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons
Touching the Void

Jul 26 2013 5:46PM
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corona
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I don't read a shit load, but 2 non-fiction that stood out for me were:

Beyond the Horizon. about the first human powered trip around the world. really good read.

Biohazard. About the Soviet biological weapons program in the Cold War. some chilling stuff in there. highly recommended if you're into that sort of stuff.
Jul 26 2013 5:55PM
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skisalot111
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read this, i thought it was great Click for larger image
Jul 26 2013 6:00PM
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sneaky_pete
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if you are into survival/history check our "undaunted courage" by stephen ambrose. talks in detail about day to day life of the louis and clark expedition. good shit.
Jul 26 2013 7:29PM
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Spinoza
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Ayeyeye
Jul 26 2013 7:31PM
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frozenskier_
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George Orwell - 1984
Jul 27 2013 7:24AM
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