# Recommend me a book! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095 "2003-12-26T06:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![geewhiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@geewhiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geewhiz)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095/21 "2003-12-27T15:06:48Z")
Savage Nation is a book about inequality in the school systems. You won’t agree with everything he says but it is a good book. I don’t like or trust her reporting but something by Judith Miller. Hillary Clinton’s new autobiography. And yes there is stuff in there about Monica. ---
**Author:** ![geewhiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@geewhiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geewhiz)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095/22 "2003-12-27T15:09:30Z")
It is not called Savage Nation…I think it is Savage Inequalites. Ah nevemind…I forgot sorry. Nickel and Dimed is very interesting. Richard Feynman is beautiful., I am so happy someone recommended and I will second What Do You Care What Other People Think and add The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095/23 "2003-12-27T15:46:46Z")
Last winter a book called “They Fought Like Demons” came out. It was about women who dressed up like men to fight in the Civil War. Very interesting. Also, a book called “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues” was a pretty good read. I’ve always liked, and on occation go back and reread “And the Band Played On” Randy Shilt’s excellent account of the AIDS crisis. Depressing, frightening, but enlightening and well written. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095/24 "2003-12-27T16:01:46Z")
A proper [hockey book](http://www.quarrington.org/six.htm) would fill the bill. ---
**Author:** ![maralinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@maralinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maralinn)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095/25 "2003-12-27T18:32:55Z")
Have you read anything about the Wright Brothers? I liked “First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane.” Do you like historical true crime? I liked “The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America” which is about the serial killer during Chicago’s world fair of 1893. ---
**Author:** ![dal\_timgar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@dal\_timgar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dal_timgar)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095/26 "2003-12-27T19:59:13Z")
RULE BY SECRECY by Jim Marrs The last 30 pages get pretty wierd. Dal Timgar ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095/27 "2003-12-27T20:26:19Z")
Try reading “Black Boy,” an autobiography by Richard Wright. Wright describes his frustration with a family that never understood him and with his inability to obey the “Jim Crow” social codes of the South in the 1920’s, but does so without self pity. He also writes about the clash between his stubborn individualism and a communist group he has joined. If possible get the restored text version, which includes passages that the original version lacked. ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095/28 "2003-12-27T20:29:31Z")
If you manage to remember it, [The Seven Sins of Memory](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618219196/). ---
**Author:** ![jayseebee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@jayseebee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayseebee)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095/29 "2003-12-27T21:57:57Z")
Of stuff I’ve read recently, I quite enjoyed [Fat Land](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618164723/qid=1072561571//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/104-9498932-7761546?v=glance&s=books&n=507846), loved [Five Past Midnight in Bhopal](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446530883/qid=1072561677/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-9498932-7761546), and I just reread [The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060900075/qid=1072561802/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-9498932-7761546) which was interesting, still. And sorry to break the non-fiction rule but feel I should mention [The Rachel Papers](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679734589/qid=1072562047/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-9498932-7761546?v=glance&s=books). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-book/221095.md?page=1)