Best Non-Fiction Book, Best Chapter

Pivot Eoin

What's the Best Book, and best Chapter of that book that you've read?

I love reading but rarely can dedicate myself fully to a book, prefer to read in bursts and great chapters is a good way to do that.

I mostly read Psychology, Business, Self Help kind of books but any book where there's a good message and good takeaways from I'm open to.

(Mods feel free to move, didn't really see an adequate place for this anywhere else on Boards)

On The Road, Chapter 1:

"...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."

Ten of Swords

Zlatas Diary

Written by an eleven year old in 1992-93 as she lived through the siege of Sarajevo during the Balkan wars.

As far as i know she now lives in Dublin

Pivot Eoin

Will Check these out Thanks. More please!

A short history of nearly everything - all chapters.


The Dig Tree


The Stolen Village.


The list is enormous. What interests have you? Science, Nature, History, Sport, Politics, Exploration?

TheValeyard

Edit: ballsed up.

JohnnyFlash

Think some people have difficulty working out what nonfiction means.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Chapter 1 of my own novel.

It has been in development since December 2005. Work on Chapter 2 is due to begin early next year.

Stormlight Archive

Can't describe it without giving major spoilers.

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Chapter One: The Eve of the War

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment."

Zelda Small Bicyclist wrote: »

Stormlight Archive

Can't describe it without giving major spoilers.

Non-fiction? Or have I missed something?

TheValeyard

Katherine Disgusting Stocking wrote: »

Non-fiction? Or have I missed something?

Eek!! This is what not reading a thread title does!

Katherine Disgusting Stocking

Katherine Disgusting Stocking wrote: »

Non-fiction? Or have I missed something?

You're not. I missed a key word in the title.

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Eek!! This is what not reading a thread title does!

Burn him with fire!!!!

Outlaw Pete

An Evil Cradling.

mrcheez

Anything by Bill Bryson

(anything not being the title of the book.. I mean literally anything)

mariaalice

A small history of everything because you start looking at the everyday differently, picking up a fork and thinking.. yeah why dose it have 4 prongs not 5 or 3.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Mod note: I'll move this to the Literature forum, OP. Just follow the link on the forum main page.


Please note the change of forum and forum rules, folks.


Buford T. Justice


To answer your question, currently on HAVOC, the Auxiliaries in Ireland's War of Independence by Paul O'Brien. Finding it very interesting so far.


And I'll echo the Bill Bryson books particularly Made in America.

Greyfox

Dont know, non fiction puts me to sleep. Fiction books are miles better

Pivot Eoin

Greyfox wrote: »

Dont know, non fiction puts me to sleep. Fiction books are miles better

Great Reply lol