Top 100 books list

Scoty · Post by **Scoty** » May 21st, 2007, 7:42 am

PocketKings wrote:Have you read Anthem? I like Rand and never read that one.

Not a bad read.

Flesh Thorn · Post by **Flesh Thorn** » May 21st, 2007, 8:00 am

I have been reading a lot of Hemingway as of late. Something that I could not have appreciated until I got older. Big Two Hearted River is one of my favorite short stories by Hemingway and one I highly recommend if you are a fisherman.

AngryPistols · Post by **AngryPistols** » May 21st, 2007, 9:56 am

The Color Purple made #5 on the list????

I tried reading it in an airport and the vocabulary gave me a headache.

Angry

Rett · Post by **Rett** » May 21st, 2007, 10:02 am

I don't see how The Hobbit or Robinson Crusoe didn't make it...I thought they were great books.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » May 21st, 2007, 11:43 am

I read 40 of them. A few missing classic Authors should include: Locke, Milton, swift, Dante, Homer, and Kafka. The omission of the bible is interesting.

army85 · Post by **army85** » May 21st, 2007, 12:35 pm

Hey Ranger Jim,
I think the absence of the Bible is exactly what is wrong with our world today. We have taken prayer out of school, In God we trust off the new dollar coin. And now they are tring to take "one nation under God out of our pledges" If someone uses the name of God in public, they might be arrested, but if someone bows toward mecca and prays to allah then that is ok.
I do not believe that this is what our founding fathers had in mind.

Draco · Post by **Draco** » May 22nd, 2007, 3:35 pm

Old Grunt noted....

Musashi's "A Book of Five Rings"

I would have to agree 100%. Most military officers love to toss an occasional Sun Tzu quote around, but when I ask them about Musashi, they have never heard of him. (I then tend to become snide and succinctly embarrass their intellect...silly me.

) Sun Tzu is good for operational and strategic ops, but he doesn't hold a candle to Musashi on tactical ops.