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:	post by dickhead666 nli at 2013-02-26 12:19:03

if you dig non-fiction stuff around travel, geopolitical shizzz, history, or music shit check out some of these that blew my mind:

Black Earth - a journey through Russia after the fall (totally bleak and captivating)

Miles Davis' autobiography is great, he's the biggest asshole in the universe

The Real Frank Zappa book is awesome, tons of great opinions

Guns, Germs, & Steel is heavy reading but is worth it (it's a dense history of how different civilizations adapted to their surrounding environments and resources, enabling different speeds of development, ending up in heavy technological imbalances)

Travels of Marco Polo (the actual book he wrote like 700 years ago) is mindblowing, he just passes through and describes all the old cultures he encounters, endless amount of obscure groups of people and practices...

Behind the Urals - an American communist traveled to the USSR in the 1920's to support the cause, worked as a welder at a steel plant in the harshest conditions imaginable, stuck around until Stalin's purges, and documented the whole thing.

The Hunter, the Hammer, Heaven - this journalist documents his visits to three totally fucked up places... Sierra Leone, Chechnya, and Bougainville, wicked harsh and heavy reading but awesome....

God is Not Great - great reading for people who are opposed to religion, god, etc... Christopher Hitchens was the man.

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