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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > TBB Book Recommendation Superstation !!
 
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miniskirts
Aug 24, 2005

CheerGrrl92 posted:

I have 2 requests..

1) This is really general. I just want to read something nonfiction that can give me knowledge or appreciation for a subject. For example, I read Cosmos and now I have a deep appreciation for why we know what we know about space and how we know it, along with tons of things ordinary people don't know. I could read about anything nonfiction, be it history, a biography, anything, as long as I come out knowing something I didn't know before.



Try Devil in the White City by Eric Larson. Read it and loved it. Bought Thunderstruck (also by Larson) because of it, but have yet to read it.

Currently, I'm reading The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager. so far, wonderful and interesting and falls into this category.

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miniskirts
Aug 24, 2005
 Looking for:

1. Books on Architecture: Fiction, non-fiction, textbook, anything and everything. This is a budding interest for me and I'm looking for information (technical and theory). If fiction, I prefer something where architecture is a main part of the plot (much like The Fountainhead by Rand, which I've already read). If it's non-fiction or a textbook, I prefer something relatively simple and basic, as I'm new to this. But, if there's a really good technical or theory book that delves deeper, I'm willing to give it a try.

2. Books about the Manhattan Project

3. Books/biographies about Kaiser Wilhelm I and II


Thanks in advance!

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