Men and their favorite books

Options
JDMPWR
JDMPWR Posts: 1,863 Member
I read a lot and I seem to be reading a lot of Men's type books. Some of you know that I didn't have my dad around a lot when i was younger so I didn't really learn all the staples of a man's wardrobe, bar, etiquette(I still don't know this) but I do have my ever faithful Alpha male genetics to help me through most of it.

Anywho lately I have found myself reading a few intersting books:

How to be a Man by Glenn O'Brien
NLP: The New Technology of Achievement
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Stuff Every Man Should Know
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus
The Game
Catcher in the Rye
The Count of Monte Cristo
Charles & Ray Eames: 1907-1978, 1912-1988 Pioneers of Mid-Century Modernism
One The Road by Jack Kerouac
The Selfish Gene
ANABOLICS, 10th Ed. (William Llewellyn's ANABOLICS)
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
Meditation for Dummies
Mied Kampf(I found it to be crazy but interesting)

Please share some of the books that you have read lately that interested you as a man......
«13

Replies

  • leighton1245
    leighton1245 Posts: 125
    Options
    Its not a book but i read mens fitness and mens health.
  • DizzieLittleLifter
    DizzieLittleLifter Posts: 1,020 Member
    Options
    obviously I'm not a dude, lol but.....I bet you'd like:

    Way of The Peaceful warrior
    Teaching of Don juan a yaqui way of knowledge (who doesn't like this book?)
    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    Homers Iliad (seriously if you haven't read it, it is a must read!)
  • Smittyinthesun2
    Options
    10 ways to pick up women :)
  • MrBrown72
    MrBrown72 Posts: 407 Member
    Options
    http://artofmanliness.com/

    Hilarious site.
  • TromaRon
    TromaRon Posts: 228 Member
    Options
    Iron Joe Bob, by Joe Bob Briggs. Incredible book. Took it on my honeymoon, ...and read it!

    Also:
    Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
    The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
    A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
    Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum
    A Christmas Carol - Charles ****ens
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 MFP Moderator
    Options
    Belly Off Diet
    Book of the Farm
    Guide to Modern Homesteading
    everything Matthew Reily has published (contest, Area 7, 5 deadly wonders etc in case I spelled his name wrong...)
    Thriving During Challenging Times: The Energy, Food & Financial Independence Handbook
    The Renewable Energy Handbook: The Updated Comprehensive Guide to Renewable Energy and Independent Living
    The All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook

    Interesting Videos
    Frontier House
    Colonial House
    Victorian Farm

    Still have to find 1940's house and Pioneer Quest and Ranch House


    ETA - and since magazines have been tossed in Mother Earth News, Hobby Farmer.
  • Gilbrod
    Gilbrod Posts: 1,216 Member
    Options
    JTuner, been there. Maybe that's why my wife says I'm a good father. I do the opposite of what my father did. Anyway, here's my list.

    Dune by Frank Hebert
    The Jungle by Upton Sinclaire
    The Whole Left Behind series by John Hegee
    To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
    A Time To Kill by John Grisham
    What An Expectant Father Should Expect by Armin Brott
    For Him Only by Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn
    Life On The Edge by James Dobson
    Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    and many more.

    Those are the ones that stand out. I read Catcher and the Rye just to see what the big fuss was. I didn't see the big deal. Maybe because we're more desensitized. But you also can't go wrong with Mens Health and Mens Fitness.
  • Gilbrod
    Gilbrod Posts: 1,216 Member
    Options

    Homers Iliad (seriously if you haven't read it, it is a must read!)

    How could I forget that one?!
  • Gilbrod
    Gilbrod Posts: 1,216 Member
    Options

    Homers Iliad (seriously if you haven't read it, it is a must read!)

    How could I forget that one?!
  • NA_Willie
    NA_Willie Posts: 340 Member
    Options
    Mike Hammer books from Mickey Spillaine.

    Philip Marlowe books from Raymond Chandler.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,022 Member
    Options
    I read a lot and I seem to be reading a lot of Men's type books. Some of you know that I didn't have my dad around a lot when i was younger so I didn't really learn all the staples of a man's wardrobe, bar, etiquette(I still don't know this) but I do have my ever faithful Alpha male genetics to help me through most of it.

    Anywho lately I have found myself reading a few intersting books:

    How to be a Man by Glenn O'Brien
    NLP: The New Technology of Achievement
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    Stuff Every Man Should Know
    Men are from Mars, women are from Venus
    The Game
    Catcher in the Rye
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Charles & Ray Eames: 1907-1978, 1912-1988 Pioneers of Mid-Century Modernism
    One The Road by Jack Kerouac
    The Selfish Gene
    ANABOLICS, 10th Ed. (William Llewellyn's ANABOLICS)
    An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
    Meditation for Dummies
    Mied Kampf(I found it to be crazy but interesting)

    Please share some of the books that you have read lately that interested you as a man......

    I'm a woman, but I'm curious what you thought about The Game. I'm reading The Manual by Steve Santagati right now. A female friend of mine told me I'd be disgusted by it because let's just say he doesn't beat around the bush about what men think when it comes to women and relationships, but I've actually found it to be refreshingly honest.
  • FryingPanda
    FryingPanda Posts: 99 Member
    Options
    Calculating God by Robert Sawyer (love it for the Royal Ontario Museum ref)
    Kendo: Elements, Rules, and Philosophy by Jinichi Tokeishi
    And the most exciting book is..... Oregon Drivers Manual.
  • kingkong123
    kingkong123 Posts: 184 Member
    Options
    bump
  • truenorth4
    Options
    Sun Tzu - Art of War. Timeless
  • JDMPWR
    JDMPWR Posts: 1,863 Member
    Options
    Sun Tzu - Art of War. Timeless

    I was about to add this to my list.....still reading it.
  • JDMPWR
    JDMPWR Posts: 1,863 Member
    Options
    I read a lot and I seem to be reading a lot of Men's type books. Some of you know that I didn't have my dad around a lot when i was younger so I didn't really learn all the staples of a man's wardrobe, bar, etiquette(I still don't know this) but I do have my ever faithful Alpha male genetics to help me through most of it.

    Anywho lately I have found myself reading a few intersting books:

    How to be a Man by Glenn O'Brien
    NLP: The New Technology of Achievement
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    Stuff Every Man Should Know
    Men are from Mars, women are from Venus
    The Game
    Catcher in the Rye
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Charles & Ray Eames: 1907-1978, 1912-1988 Pioneers of Mid-Century Modernism
    One The Road by Jack Kerouac
    The Selfish Gene
    ANABOLICS, 10th Ed. (William Llewellyn's ANABOLICS)
    An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
    Meditation for Dummies
    Mied Kampf(I found it to be crazy but interesting)

    Please share some of the books that you have read lately that interested you as a man......

    I'm a woman, but I'm curious what you thought about The Game. I'm reading The Manual by Steve Santagati right now. A female friend of mine told me I'd be disgusted by it because let's just say he doesn't beat around the bush about what men think when it comes to women and relationships, but I've actually found it to be refreshingly honest.

    To give you an idea I have a huge fascination with male and female psychology and how women see men in dating, I started to read this book as well as other along with David D when I hit a rut with women, and it dawned on me that I hit a rutt because I wasn't being my typical Alpha male self and letting the female perspective of dating into my head.

    I think The Game gives a good direction to dating if it doesn't come naturally which once reading it and talking with my best of friends they said that I normally do anyways but when I actually take the situation to seriously is when I lose it. I noticed the same as I am very sarcastic and I do a lot of counter intuitive stuff to begin and my confidence can be taken as arrogance. I can literally say that every girl I have ever dated bluntly told me that they thought I was an *kitten* or very confident.

    I feel that this book is not as "rough" as the one you speak of and at give someone a guide to dating or at the very least becoming more in themselves and their own self worth/confidence. It also focuses on how women choose a mate even though 90% of women will argue that this is untrue but how the womens subconscious really have a bigger effect on the decision making process then they let on.
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    Options
    Seriously?! No one has mentioned Brad Thor or Vince Flynn novels?!
  • RoadDog
    RoadDog Posts: 2,946 Member
    Options
    Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck
    The Judoka -- W.D. Norwood
    Dando Shaft -- Don Calhoun
    Always on the Run -- Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, Dave Anderson
    Flood -- Andrew Vachss
    Point of Impact -- Stephen Hunter (I like all the Bob Lee Swagger books)
  • i_love_vinegar
    i_love_vinegar Posts: 2,092 Member
    Options
    Does Playboy count as a book....


    Or can we at least say it counts as a book :tongue:
  • BamBam1113
    BamBam1113 Posts: 542 Member
    Options
    Anything by Dan Brown (DaVinci Code), James Patterson, David Baldacci (the Camel Club series), or W.E.B. Griffin (the Corps series) ... currently reading (finally) The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.