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 Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:23 am
I rarely find time to read for pleasure (as I have said) But I do find time to read non-fiction books for school.
Non-fiction books are books that are true or hold facts.
My favorites have been:
Why Beautiful People Have more Daughters
Looks: Why they Matter more than ever Imagined
and Co-Ed Combat: The New Evidence that Women shouldn't Fight the Nation's Wars.
They are all psychology related books, mostly evolutionary psychology.
Discuss: Your favorite non-fiction books you have read.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:33 pm
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf was quite good.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:06 pm
The A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking was very good if you enjoy science.
I don't actually read much non-fiction sadly. I should though.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:16 pm
ProphitAngell The A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking was very good if you enjoy science. I don't actually read much non-fiction sadly. I should though.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:23 pm
Christmas In Iraq The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf was quite good.
The last ten page paper I had to write for psychology was on a book called Survival Of The Prettiest.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:43 pm
Sadly I find very little time to indulge in reading, and when I do find the time I usually curl up with a fiction novel rather than a sobering non fiction experience. I did read a little bit of Antony Kleidis' Biography, its rather fascinating.
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Omnipotent Uncertainties Captain
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:47 am
I don't read too much non-fiction, but if I do, I usually don't like it. I did, however, very much enjoy Listening is an Act of Love. It's a series of stories dictated by regular people who have something to share, and fifty were selected, edited and put into a book (all with consent, of course). While there are too many religious overtones that make me wish God was even more dead (ha, a Nietzsche joke) it was still pleasant to read.
There is even a special section dedicated to Katrina and 9/11 victims, and since my father had worked in the Twin Towers (though he is perfectly fine now), I found my sentiments appealed to.
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:47 pm
Omnipotent Uncertainties Sadly I find very little time to indulge in reading, and when I do find the time I usually curl up with a fiction novel rather than a sobering non fiction experience. I did read a little bit of Antony Kleidis' Biography, its rather fascinating.
I prefer non-fiction. I enjoy learning that comes with it.
I found my passion for evolutionary psychology by reading The Moral Animal.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:29 am
I enjoy non fiction books out of all genres.
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
and The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice is among my favorite reads.
(I read too much Vampire related stories sweatdrop )
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:42 am
I usually read fiction, because it gives me a chance to live out things that would be all but impossible in this world. But if I had to choose a non-fiction, it would have to be some kind of biography. Or anything on Nostradamus. Or something on crime.
But when it comes to fiction, there's nothing I love better then something psychological. It gets inside your head and messes with you.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:29 am
My favorite non-fiction is American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. It is more of a history book more then anything but it is still very entertaining. While it is nowhere near a comedy many stories in the book are very funny.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:39 am
I'm not ceratin if this will count...
But I suppose that my favorite non-fiction book is The Things They Carried
this title is technically fiction, but aslo technically non-fiction. It all depends your view of story and real or fake.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:41 pm
My favorite non-fiction book has got to be Night by Elie Wiesel. It's a short book, but it's very intense. It's the author's account of being in a concentration camp during World War II - a rather sad book, really.
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:41 pm
Colourblind Rainbows I rarely find time to read for pleasure (as I have said) But I do find time to read non-fiction books for school.
Non-fiction books are books that are true or hold facts.
My favorites have been:
Why Beautiful People Have more Daughters
Looks: Why they Matter more than ever Imagined
and Co-Ed Combat: The New Evidence that Women shouldn't Fight the Nation's Wars.
They are all psychology related books, mostly evolutionary psychology.
Discuss: Your favorite non-fiction books you have read. So why do beautiful people have more daughters? And that Survival of the Prettiest book, is that a common read for Psychology classes? I'm starting a Pysch class in a week, and I over the summer I read a short introduction Sigmund Freud's theories, just to wet my palate in the subject, and I found it pretty interesting, but it was too basic. Which book would you recommend to provide a good understanding of pyschology? As far as my favorite Non-Fiction book, maybe On Writing by Stephen King. Or god Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. (god is meant to not be capitalized, he makes a big point out of it in his book).
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