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My favorite book recs
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items Born into a reading family. I consider these reading recommendations a powerful gift offered to the world, much of what I've read could shake the earth, you may just be on vacation but using 20 minutes here and there is how we learn and grow
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Business and Management
Games and Competition
Fiction
Banned Books
Straight up beautiful
Life Changing Philosophy
Business and Management
The one book I insisted my whole family read. Greatest management book since the HP Way. Who knew Pixar was the rebranded George Lucas studios? They made 13 consecutive billion-dollar movies in an industry that didn't exist (computer film).
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming Unseen Forces
Games and Competition
I was a 1750 before reading this book and feel like I'll gain +200 to my rank next look
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
This book will have you thinking you and your homies can start backyard boxing
Fight Club: A Novel: Palahniuk, Chuck - Books
Still haven't read it; everyone says i must
Ready Player One Series by Ernest Cline
Can't tell you how much I reorganized my life after reading. Sent by a person who never played tennis or sports. My new goal was to embody and impart a higher level of focus without wrecking motivation through heavy repetition and automation. So many...
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
Fiction
Continuously engaging coalition of authors create a feline landscape that rivals Fellowship of the Ring or Game of Thrones. Can't tell you how many times I've been reduced to tears, have given dozens of book reports to my son on it. Please note i hav...
Into the Wild (Warriors: The Prophecies Begin Series #1)
Traumatized us in the 70s, great read/watch
Watership Down: A Novel - Books
This book is not a factual account of a real story but it's my contention to enjoy it anyway
Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
Banned Books
They don't want you seeing how rotten immature mgmt is bc you'll recognize we are exposed to a bunch of grown up kids
Watch Lord of the Flies
The banned books draw pictures of futures where you have no independence or personal freedom, it's super gross when you see it overdrawn but hard to notice when the restrictions creep on you slow.
Brave New World (TV Series 2020)
My mom made me promise to read all these banned books; she didn't want to see my whole generation succumb to authoritarian ruling class and systems.
PDF George Orwell nineteen 1984
Straight up beautiful
Stunning beauty I had to reset my mind
I had no idea what I was signed up to read
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom: John O'Donohue
My whole family was changed by this book
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
A book I never wanted to finish
One: A Novel: Bach, Richard: 9780440205623
Gripping classic identifies prose elements
Best Selling Chapters: Middle Level (790h) - Hardcover
In epilog of OPEN, you find out it was ghost written by JD Moehringer. This is the hard times story of JDM growing up getting parenting love and advice in all the wrong ways. This author had a special way of understanding Andre Agassi's inner pain, w...
The Tender Bar: A Memoir: Moehringer, J. R.
Life Changing Philosophy
No less than pure life changing
Some people can't understand Stoicism
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Spiritual journey largely began here at 19
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: Life-Changing Book
After reading my 1st Daniel Quinn book, ultimately I read his 1st 10-12 publications
The first book is the first of a trilogy
In the first book, it's a slow student
The third book shows a prodigious student
Home • Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
Mind blowing demonstration of what another breakaway civilation could become. Everything rethought, from schools and work, to time, clothing and even drinking tea. You'll never see what conformists we are without this book.
Walden Two
Not an easy book but very important. Said to be second best selling book in the Western world, only behind the Bible.
The question, "Who is John Galt" from here
Atlas Shrugged: Rand, Ayn, Herrmann, Edward
I studied this book in high school and won national accolades for business competition. Essentially this is debate system allows opposing positions to discuss and finally limit discussions; forces ruling bodies to push altercations to vote.
Roberts Rules of Order – Simplified
SciFi
Became my favorite book when I read it; immediately read the first four of them. Couldn't put them down; canceled plans, stayed home to read one chapter after next
Ender's Game: Card, Orson Scott: 9780765342294
It was pointed out that this is not the second book in the Enders trilogy by another installment in a massive fiction realm.
Speaker For The Dead Orson Scott Card
The first rule of a technologically superior race in exopolitics: Mandated non-Intervention. Think of the implications.
Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Saga
I really did cancel all of my appointments and obligations for around 2 months to stay home and consume this story ASAP
Children of the Mind (Ender Quintet Series #4)
The whole Ender Realm presents an extremely well developed cast of independent agendas, priorities, friction between demagogues, and implications to incredible circumstances, dilemmas and 1-time events that are constantly rocking the timeline. Any tr...
Ender's Game Boxed Set
The shadow series seems to be available in box sets but harder to find online as individual books.. I must catch up w the Shadow series as it's where I left off after being interrupted and never got back to it
Orson Scott Card: Books
History
Dawn of computers timeline begins in landscape dominated by Xerox, elucidates how employee base of east coast Fairchild Camera becomes labor base for explosion of computers, semiconductors and the entire tech base of every computer component like pri...
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn ...
Sibel Edmonds is a very articulate woman and worthwhile person to discover in her own words. Imagine being a person who was considered so dangerous, she had to be muzzled. What exactly was she not supposed to say? No person can be made to not speak. ...
Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story
A few books w this title but I read this one. Extremely informative book; addictive read. So much to understand. How did they finally get the shot caller who couldn't be got?
The Fall of the Godfather - FBI & Castellano
No longer a new book but still a fascinating spotlight on the financial timeline that spans from dawn of monarchic wealth up to nuclear finance and hostile rogue super-trading.
The Vandal's Crown: How Rebel Currency Traders ...