MJ’s Comments (group member since May 23, 2008)

MJ’s comments from the The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List group.

I just reserved at the library

SERIAL KILLERS AND OTHER MURDERS: KILLING BY THE NUMBERS

Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder by Jerry Bledsoe
Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer by Gary C. King
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
The Innoncet Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham
Last Rampage: The Shocking, True Story of an Excaped Convict's Killing Spreeby James W. Clarke
The Misbegotten Son, a Serial Killer and His Victims: the True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross by Jack Olsen
Sleep My Child, Forever by John Coston
St. Joseph's Children; A True Story of Terror and Justice by Terry Ganey
Such Good Boys: The True Story of a Mother, Two Sons, and a Horrifying Murder by Tina Dirmann
Teach Me to Kill by Stephen Sawicki
Whatever Mother Says: A true Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder by Wensley Clarkson
Who Killed My Daughter by Lois Duncan
Zodiac Unmasked by Robert Graysmith

ORGANIZED CRIME: AS OPPOSED TO DISORGANISED CRIME

Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
Gotti: Rise and Fall by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain
Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Live in the Mafia by Peter Maas

HISTORICAL TRUE CRIME: BLOOD UNDER THE BRIDGE

Anton Wonder: The Boy Mirderer by Dick Kreck
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at The Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Sunk Without a Sound: The tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde by Brad Dimock

CLASSICS: NO USE CRYING OVER SPILLED BLOOD

Fatal Vision by Joe McGinnis
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by the District Attorney Who Put the Puzzle Together by Vincent Buglioski
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder-A Family Album by Shanna Alexander
The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh
Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson
The Stranger Besides Me by Ann Rule

Classics: no use crying over spilled blood
Historical true crime: blood under the bridge
Organizes crime: as opposed to disorganised crime
Serial killers and other murderers: killing by the numbers
Theft and white-color crime: when good boys go bad

And once you have read it will be addicted to the series and start to read them all

ANIMALS: FINE, FEATHERED, FINNED, AND FURRY

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Amazing Gracie: A Dog's Tale by Dan Dye
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds by Joy Adamson
The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed it: Over the Edge and Back with My Dad, My Cat and Me by Geneen Roth
Crocodile Hunter: the Incredible Life and Adveture of Steve and Terri Erwin by Steve Erwin and Terri Erwin
Dog Eat Dog: A Very Human Book About Dogs and Dog Shows by Jane Stern and Michael Stern
A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs and Me by Jon Katz
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
I Have Heard YOu Calling in the Night by Thomas Healy
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
My Dog Skip by Willie Morris
My Fine Featehred Friend by William Grimes
The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship by Joanna Burger
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
A Three Dog Night by Abigail Thomas
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story...with Wings by Mark Bittner

NATURE: DOWN TO EARTH

Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the Worlds Most Precious Stones by Greg Campbell
A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 21, 1883 by Simon Winchester
The Origin of Humankindby Richard E. Leakey
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Dont other people do that as well???

MEDICINE: WRITER. HEAL THYSELF

And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
And the Waters Turned to Blood: The Ultimate Bological Threat by Rodney Barker
The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
Maneater and Other Stories of a Life in Infectious Diseases by Pamela Nagami
My Mother's Keeper by Tara Elgin and Joe Holley
Nobody, Nowhere; The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic by Donna Williams
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio by Jeffery Kluger
Sybil by Flora Rhea Schreiber
Whose Hands Are These? A Gifted Healers Miraculous True Story by Gene Egidio
Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

Well hurry up...Im waiting lol

SCIENCE: LIFE ON THE EUCLIDIAN PLANE

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawkings
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Heisenberg Probably Slept Here: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Physicists of the 20th Century by Richard P. Brennan
Manhattan Project by Daniel Cohen
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Rocket Boys: A Memoir by Homer H. Hickam Jr.
Strange Universe by Bob Berman
Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Surely Your Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Phillip Feynman
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife

Science: life on Euclidian Plane
Medicine: writer, heal thyself
Nature: down to earth
Animals: fine, feathers, finned, and furry

Carrie was my first but I ahve been a fan for a long long time

lol.

What are you underpressure for?

Oh the pressure

MORE GREAT READS: FAITH OF MY MANY FATHERS AND MOTHERS

The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness by Jerome groopman, M.D.
Bad Girls of the Biblr and What We Can Learn from Them by Liz Curtis Higgs
Cure for the Common Life by Max Lucado
Driven by Eternity: Making YOur Life Count Today and Forever by John Bevere
Experencing Father's Embrace: Finding Aceptance in the Arms of a Loving Father by jack Frost and John G. Arnott
Experiencing God; Knowing and Doing His Will by Henry Blackbury
The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew-Three Women Search for Understanding by Rayna ldliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Pricilla Warner
The Father's Blessing by John Arnott
If God is Love: Rediscovering Grace in an Ungracious World by Phillip Gulley and James Mulholland
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It by Robert Fulghum
Mother Angelica's Answers, Not Promises: Simple Solutions to Life's Puzzling Problems ny Mother Mary Angelica
Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness by Depal Chopra
The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For by Rick Warren
Questions Christians Ask the Rabbi by Ronald H. Isaacs
Reasons for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall
That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate buddhist by Sylvia Boorstein
Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot
Through the Narrow Gates; A Memoir of Spirtual Discovery by Karen Armstrong
The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
What We Ache for: Creativity and the UNfolding of your Soul by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
When God is Silent: Choosing to Trust's Life's Trials by Charles Swindoll
Whereever You Go, There You Are: Midfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Wisdom of Islam: A Pratical Guide to the Wisdom of Islamic Beleif by Robert Frager
Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential by Joel Osteen
Your God IS Too Safe: Rediscovering the Winder of a God You Can't Control by Mark Buchanan

CLASSICS: WIND FOR YOUR WINGS

The Art of Hapiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama
The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine of Hippo
The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich
Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Stories of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, et. al.
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Brown
The Journey: How to Live by Faith in an Uncertain World by Billy Graham
Man's Searching for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Naht Hanh
The Road Less Traveled: a New Psychology of Love, Traditional Vlaues and Spirtual Growth by M.Scott Peck
Self-Love: The New Affirmation by Robert Schuler
The Way of a Pilgram: And the Pilgrim Continues His Way by Annonymous (traslated by R.M. French)
This is My God: The Jewish Way of Life By Herman Wouk
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Words to Love By by Mother Teresa