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Living with three other college age guys, there tends to be a beer can or two on there. But, we do have a coffee table book on coffee tables...:cool:

The Island of Dr. Moreau: H.G. Wells Winesberg, Ohio: Sherwood Anderson Various T.S. Eliot (I'm still reeling from it) The Nick Adams Stories: Ernest Hemmingway The Professor's House: Willa Cather Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Not to mention Plato and...

I see benefits and drawbacks. The largest drawback though would have to be the discontinuity of imagination and visual cues. Meaning, that what readers tend to imagine while doing just that, and what gamers see while playing the game are two seperate things. I thought that one of the...

You're absolutely right, Diamond somehow manages textbook amount of details into a novel type of read. I read The Third Chimpanzee by him over the summer and it was the same way, highly educational and very enjoyable. I definetly recommend it.

A Belgian Style Tripple Ale, called Final Absolution brewed by Dragonmead. OHHHHHHHH Heaven... My favorite beer that is around everywhere and I don't have to drive miles to find it is Killian's Irish Red. The new bottles are gorgeous! :cool:

I, too, drive a lot and audiobooks are great! Sometimes when I just can't seem to get the book down by reading myself, an audiobook helps to pave the way. I just recently used one to finish The Pillars of The Earth.

I will second THE STAND, by King. I kept saying to myself, "holy crap, would you spit it out already, man!" Also, some of Descates' work was hard to get through too...

Why is that? I thought that it was a pretty vivid account of depression, one which puts the readers through ups and downs(almost all downs here) realelistically. It addressess an important issue as well; the world of psychiatry and the trial and error techniques used with medication. It...

I'm going to give that specific credit to, Look Me in the Eye, by John Elder Robinson (Augusten Burroughs brother). What is parcticuarly astonishing about this book is it is written by a person with Aspergers Syndrome, which if you have known anyone with it, realize how hard it is for them...

Depending on your cup of tea, Prozac Nation, by Elizabeth Wurtzle is almost all time based during her(elizabeth Wurtzle) time spent at college. I can't remember which university it is though, some Ivy leaguer. I will warn you though that it is an exceptionaly detailed account of...

I enjoyed it. It takes either a lot of money, or a lot of well laid out plans to keep something of that magnitude secret for so long. The camera work, like mentioned above, does a great job of putting you in a situation where you believe to actually be there. This is the closest you can...

An old picture of Albert Einstein. He's been in there for years now, and I don't ever plan on changing it. Everytime I think of something besides Al in my book I get dismayed. Actually, I used to use dollar bills as book marks, but they'd always go missing.... I don't think I'll ever...

Studies have shown that girls tend to have a slightly higher vocabulary then the average boy student, it is minimal, but there. The same is said for studies have shown that boys typically perform better in tests of fluid intelligence, such as spatial recogonition and the such. Perhaps...

I only received two books as presents, but I did get quite a bit in terms of value as gift cards. The first book I received for Christmas was Look Me In the Eye, by John Elder Robinson, which I have devoured over the last 24hrs. The second book was The Pillars of Earth, by Ken Follet...

To be honest, I haven't looked too much into, aside from occasional thought. Also, I haven't found much directly relating to it in psychology courses per se, but I was browsing a few books the other day, and I believe an author named Steven Pinker may be able to give you a few ideas as to why...

PipPirrip, does a good job of summing up LRT. And he is correct stating that it is under debate. I'm am however an advocate of it based on yet again, personal experience. For example, when there is a person unknown to the meaning of the word "hubris" then they will without a doubt have a hard...

Speaking on personal experience only, I've noticed direct correlations in the amount I read and my test taking abilities. As I'm sure you're expecting the more I read the higher my test scores tend to be. This isn't shocking at all, but what is shocking is when I would replace studying at...

That's quite a bit of attributes to fit into one book, I think you'd do well to look into the manic- depressive section of psychology books. I actually remember reading a book titled Electroboy while in high school and I believe it fit many of those catagories if not all of them. And no doubt...

Fantasy Moon, it's great that you brough it up, because I agree with your suggestion, it's also nice that someone mentioned that the brain is like a muscle in which it can only take so much stress until it needs time off. As a big fan of phsyiolgy and exercise science I've come to the...

The Golden Compass did a great job combining a fantasy appeal mixed with a bit of science, be it pseudo or not. It was also easy to read it in big chunks because each chapter had a lot happening in it, Pullman is not one to draw things out. It isn't one of my favorite books, but it was more...