what are your favorite non-fiction books?
ps:
i just read running w/ scissors and it was avg. 3 stars out of 5. i liked the movie more.
2006-11-24 18:14:03 · 12 answers · asked by Garret 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
I re-read it about once every year (though I didn't like his second book, 'Tis , very much)
I'm hoping to start "Running With Scissors" soon.
2006-11-24 18:21:15 · answer #1 · answered by nobodyuknow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Non-fiction. The Bible became God-inspired. this is God's note. this is been copied, with the help of hand, persistently with a great quantity of care through the years. decrease back contained in the situations at the same time as they absolutely had scrolls, if a scribe made the smallest blunders at the same time as writing the Bible, they could ought to initiate all yet back. It did not matter even if or not they misspelled "Amen", the awesome note of the Bible. they could ought to initiate over. it rather is how precise the Bible is. So if it all began non-fiction, there ought to nonetheless be no way that it grew to develop into into fiction, because the suggestions are nonetheless a similar. Historians have got here upon endless first-individual debts that decrease back up the reality of the Bible. each and every thing in there's one hundred% real; even if people favor to have self belief it or not. this is as a lot as each and every individual to make your ideas up their faith (& destiny). i desire this helped! GB.
2016-11-26 21:07:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have just finished 'The Innocent Man' by John Grisham. Wow! This book was really good. It has to do with murders and the injustice of sending two men to prison for a crime they didn't commit. I did not want to put this book down. It sites that this is John Grisham's first work of nonfiction. That is a shock, because he did a very good job. I would definitely recommend reading this one!~
2006-11-24 20:14:34 · answer #3 · answered by stephaniea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hunter Hurst Helmsley's Making the Game
2006-11-24 18:19:38 · answer #4 · answered by amsoldier69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are some of my favorites:
David Sedaris, "Me Talk Pretty One Day"
Bill Bryson, "Neither Here Nor There" and "A Walk in the Woods" and "In a Sunburned Country" (anything by Bill Bryson is great)
Anne Garrels, "Naked in Baghdad"
Eric Schlosser, "Fast Food Nation"
Joan Didion, "The Year of Magical Thinking"
"Everything Bad is Good For You" (can't remember author)
"Blink" and "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
2006-11-24 18:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by iwriteplays 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope they serve beer in Hell by Tucker Max....
Its a really interesting book with a really interesting point of view...its either hated or loved because of the content. Good Luck
2006-11-25 19:16:12 · answer #6 · answered by shanstew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black Hawk Down is a very good book and different than the movie too!
2006-11-24 18:21:16 · answer #7 · answered by Joe Knows 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clive Staple Lewis-"Mere Christianity".
It's great, from many a points of view.
2006-11-24 22:32:37 · answer #8 · answered by Mexie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the one authored by the father of our nation MAHATMA GANDHIJI- The experiments with the truth- SATHYA SODHANAI. Please excuse me the title in English may be the same or different, I am not sure. But in Tamil language it remains the samd. In my view that may be one among the best NONFICTION one
2006-11-24 18:23:52 · answer #9 · answered by hari prasad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is creative writing based on real life "Crying Mountain" by Lili Dauphin you can find it on Amazon
2006-11-26 11:05:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋