"The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth" Non-Fiction Thread

[Zens7s]

Since I thought it would be hard to just start a whole new thread for each seperate book, I am going to make some categories where you can just post recommendations, what you are reading, what sucks, and fish for suggestions from others.

So here it is...NON - FICTION!

[ratm1966]

Well, for this category, I will have to go with Ann Coukter's "How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must). This has got to be the best fact (Truth) based books ever written.

[psax]

Well, for this category, I will have to go with Ann Coukter's "How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must). This has got to be the best fact (Truth) based books ever written.



Then I'll have to go with Lies and the Lying Liers Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look At The Right by Al Franken, particularly the chapter "Ann Coulter is a Crazy Bitch." :)

[psax]

In all seriousness, though, the last non-fiction book I read was Vonnegut's collection of short essays, A Man Without a Country. It was alright. You can definitely tell the guy is getting old.

Well, you've been able to tell he's been getting old since Breakfast of Champions in the early seventies, but man does he sound like an old man now.

My favorite non-fiction books are Band of Brothers, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and the aforementioned Al Franken book.

[Dave]

Sedaris is pretty funny, I saw him talk here in Birmingham last year sometime and i don't know what he's like in other parts of the country, but when he's down here he really plays up the dumb south stories. It's some really funny stuff.

[psax]

yeah I saw him here in Champaign (Illinois). I don't recall any Southern stories, but there was a hilarious fable about some bears, the details of which escape me, and a wonderful story about his trip to Australia with his partner.

His whole family is talented. His sister is hilarious as well.

[Zens7s]

Good call on Me Talk Pretty One Day. I read that on a trip to Northern Wisconsin one year, and I felt guilty because I kept laughing out loud and we know how annoying that can be for the other people in the car.

[Dave]

yeah I saw him here in Champaign (Illinois). I don't recall any Southern stories, but there was a hilarious fable about some bears, the details of which escape me, and a wonderful story about his trip to Australia with his partner.

His whole family is talented. His sister is hilarious as well.\

I think he may just tell those tales down here among his own kind, I guess he probably feels like to tell them away from the south it would seem like he's taking shots, even though the stories are told with love.

[jjcourtright]

In a PM to Bamss, I just recalled one of my favorite books: Beside Still Waters: Searching for Meaning in an Age of Doubt. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688160654/sr=8-5/qid=1140125669/ref=pd_bbs_5/103-3673354-0723027?%5Fencoding=UTF8) Top ten for me.

[JuliaWinston]

My favorite piece of non-fiction, currently, changed my world view:
The Lost Language of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner

[slizzelizzel]

Currently reading The Letters of Abelard and Heloise for my History 111 class.

[Zens7s]

[Note: Adding BAMSS04's suggestion to the non-fiction thread - Zen]

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This was a great book!! IT was sad of course, but I learned a lot about what actually happened in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo . Clea does a wonderful job telling the facts in this book. Which, as an anthropologist, she is supposed to do. She tells her story in there as well, but she is a foot note in the story.


I had a pretty decent knowledge of the events before I read this, but I PROMISE you will learn something new about what happened to these people. If anything you will learn a lot about how dangerous Forensic Anthropology really is.

This is Good, short , read.

Great for the plane.