Wolverton, Dave
Lem, Stanislaw
SERIOUS QUESTION ABOUT BOOKS AND LIFE !!!?
Recently I’ve read many really great books and seen some movies about “life” itself.
Some of them are:
-Into the Wild (book and movie),
-Family Happiness by Tolstoy (and much more from that author),
-Walden by Thoreau,
-some books of J. London,
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig,
-some books of Stanislaw Lem.
All of them are just extraordinary. I’m looking for some more and here is my request. I know that there are many good books about living, but life is too short to read them all, so I’mnot looking for “ordinary” ones.
What should I read next ?
Sorry, but I must aim this question to the ones, who read some of the books I typed, ’cause I think only they can understand me in 100%.
Really thanks for help !!!
PS Sorry for absence of mind, I know all of trilogy in 5 parts 
This is a fairly new book, literary fiction: “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein. It’s remarkable, moving, compelling and memorable. I read it straight through, taking breaks only when I was laughing too hard to read or sobbing. I’m fairly certain it will become a classic. Please do read it.
Also:
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Life of Pi by Yann Martell
The English Patient AND Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin
The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (non-fiction) by J. Berendt and don’t bother with the movie, which stinks
Pirsig’s “Zen” is one of all time favorites. “Walden” is a classic to read every couple of years.
Lewis, C. S.
How can you logically disagree with C.S. Lewis’s argument?
I don’t know if I believe the Bible.
C.S. Lewis stated that either Jesus was mad, he was lying, or he was telling the truth. The first two are inconsistent with Jesus’s character, so the latter must be true.
Couldn’t Jesus have been lying? Everyone knows what the right thing is to do even if they don’t do it. Maybe he wanted to abolish those crazy Jewish laws so he invented a relgion that would. Or maybe Christianity is a cult, just not a really evil one, though it would have given Jesus the satisfaction of controlling people.
Okay, first off JESUS didn’t SAY anything. His followers wrote that stuff down. Second, what THEY SAY HE SAYS is different from gospel to gospel, so WHICH JESUS are we analyzing?
Jesus (the version created by his followers) COULD BE A MANIPULATION.
Jesus’s Editors COULD JUST BE CRAZY
Jesus’s lifestory and resurrection COULD BE TRUE.
But C. S. Lewis’s argument is extremely disingenuous coming from a WRITER, who knows that stories have both truth and lies in them, even when the author is NOT CRAZY or intending to LIE.
[As for the commentor above, there is NO CONTEMPORARY historical record of Jesus, let alone his miracles outside of the Bible (which has OBVIOUS historical flaws like backdating the Pharasee movement to Jesus' lifetime when they weren't around Jerusalem until 95 years later.) and almost identical miracles ARE historically documented to two other Messianic figures from the same time period. They could have gotten their messiah's confused.]
Crichton, Michael
Who is the best author michael crichton, dean koontz, or stephen king?
Please tell me why.
My OPINION: Dean Koontz is the best, I have read almost everything he;s published, but he insists on having happy endings, so he may write another 75 pages to show you that. Crichton is good, but he gets so technical (like Timeline) that the books sometimes get boring, and Stephen King can’t even be taken seriously. He’s so mainstream that he just writes movie scripts and makes more money that way. And how much talent does it take to say the “F” word 4,000 times?
Dean Koontz. I can’t put one of his books down once i start. There are always so many twists and turns that you get involved into the storyline. I also love his characters. There is always some sort of redemption in the end with one or more of the characters. He describes everything so that you become a part of the story and truly invested in the characters. He is the BEST AUTHOR hands down. Stephen is a close second, he just takes too long to get to the point.