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Your best book recommendations

Your best book recommendations

Your best book recommendations

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Hi all,

I am starting a new job where I will be commuting about 30 minutes each way on public transportation, and am trying to compile a list of reading material. So tell me:

What is the best book you have read in the last several years?

Responses can be on any topic - project management, engineering, business, getting ahead, life lessons, etc., --but really try to select only the best and limit your response to one or two books.

Thanks in advance

4tuna

RE: Your best book recommendations

I say that Patrick Robinson's books:  Kilo Class, Nimitz Class, USS Seawolf.  Great novelist.

RE: Your best book recommendations

Steven Ambrose's "Undaunted Courage", a biography of the Lewis and Clark expedition gets a big vote from me.

RE: Your best book recommendations

Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles is an amazing story and well worth reading

StephenA

RE: Your best book recommendations

"Who moved my Cheese" by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard.  It is a short book, only worth a day or so of commuter reading, but it is a book that everyone should read at least once a year.

RE: Your best book recommendations

Consider "Cradle to Cradle:  Remaking the Way we Make Things" by William McDonough & Michael Braungart.  This book provides a unique persepective on how designers, engineers, and architects can effect postive societal/environmental change through thoughtful designs.

RE: Your best book recommendations

4tuna

Try out Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth".  Great novel and has some interesting information about early cathedral construction (ok, this may fall into the realm of "esoteric").  

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