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PeteSB75 06-23-2009 12:50 PM

Re: Manly Book Suggestions
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Wolfgang (Post 434707)
New Moon ;)

:hn

I don't think abstinent, sparkly vampires count as manly, sorry...



I'd suggest "Drink, Play, F@#k" by Andrew Gottlieb

e-man67 06-23-2009 01:01 PM

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Sonny Barger autobiography.....founder of the Hells Angels. pretty interesting.

Starscream 06-27-2009 06:20 PM

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Anything by Hemingway.

The Rum Diaries by Hunter Thompson

GhostRyder 06-27-2009 06:48 PM

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Shadow Divers. Great book about deep sea diving and the expolaration of various shipwrecks in the Atlantic.

On Killing/On Combat are manly and quite good.

Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber by Mark Twight. This guy is sick nasty at climbing mountains. Now he runs Gym Jones, the gym that trained the "Spartans" in 300 to look all ripped and hairless.

Hemingway, Krakauer, are both good suggestions, quite manly.

Col. Kurtz 06-27-2009 08:50 PM

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At Dawn we Slept by Gordon Prange

Great account of the sometimes lesser addressed theater of WWII.

Based on firsthand accounts and interviews. Good historical account. We're loosing too many of our WWII vets way too fast....

Starscream 06-27-2009 08:57 PM

Re: Manly Book Suggestions
 
Depending on your literary level, you may enjoy Faulkner. He writes about manly things from a Southern p-o-v. If your not a fan of Modernism, I would stay away, but if you're cool w/ stream of conscious technique, plotlines that jump all over the place, and sentences that may last a page or more, then Faulkner is a good man's author. If you're not familiar with his work, I would suggest checking out some of his short stories first, such as "Barn Burning". If your into the modernist era of literature, I would suggest his masterpeice, Absolom, Absolom!.

:eevis 06-29-2009 07:01 PM

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Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived - Amarillio Slim Preston

1984 & Animal Farm - George Orwell
:2

kgoings 06-29-2009 09:28 PM

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nice list here!

rhdad42 06-30-2009 03:08 PM

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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
by Hampton Sides -- great book about the U.S. Army Rangers rescue of the survivors of the Bataan Death March.

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough -- another fantastic book, especially for us New Yorkers

poker 06-30-2009 03:22 PM

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http://www.cigarmony.com/ProductImages/MRNBook3.jpg

:)

SchizoFilly 06-30-2009 03:33 PM

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Chuck Palahniuk has some pretty messed up stuff to read. George Carlin also wrote some hilarious stuff.

The Poet 06-30-2009 03:46 PM

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I love Faulkner, but you said you're tired of fiction. That given, I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned:

Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
The Gulag Archipelago - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

TheBeard 06-30-2009 10:28 PM

Re: Manly Book Suggestions
 
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Originally Posted by DavenportESQ (Post 434282)
The Alphabet of Man! this is by Maddox or some internet guy..its pretty hilarious

For shame, for shame. The book is "The Alphabet of Manliness." I think I'm going to have to revoke your Man Card for this error in passing along manliness to your fellow man.

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/ima...0/10996221.jpg

adampc22 06-30-2009 10:36 PM

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get eny book by hunter s thompson


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