Your Favorite Book: Why ?

[AbdiWahab252]

My favorite book that I have read so far is:

"The Prince" By Niccolo Machiavelli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince

The man was a genius and his theories work well: in life, at work and everywhere else.

[Basra-]

abdi

Being that u are a Habar Gidir...would make sense if u like 'The Prince'.The hunger for power, etc etc... The means justifies the ends is it?

[AbdiWahab252]

Basra-,



So whats your favorite book ?

Being nin madow in a cadaan country makes me be extra cautious.

[The_Emperior5]

the famouse boook of sheik cabdulqaadir yelaani

[zulaika]

emperior,

which book is that? i love reading books by muslim authors. my fav. author is of course, Tariq Ramadan.

abdi,

"The Prince"....what's it about? brief synopsis por favor. 8)

[xamari_gash]

THE HOLY QURAN

THE ONLY FINK DAT KEEPS ME GOIN KNOWIN IS NEVA BEEN TAMPERD WIV

BLOOD BROTHER BY WILLIE RUSSEL IT JUST MADE ME CRY
IV SEEN DA PLAY OVER TEN TIMES NOW

A CHILD CALLED ITBY DAVE PLAZER ONE OF DA BEST BOOKS OUT DER

ANN FRANK IS ALSO A GOOD BOOK

LAST BUT NOT LEAST OF MICE AND MEN BY JOHN STEINBUCK

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U PPL FINK IM UNEDUCATED BUT DNT JUDGE ME
IM MORE DEN MEETS DA EYE

[AbdiWahab252]

Zulaika,

Machiavelli was brilliant at analyzing human nature: what motivates us, what we fear, what we love, hate etc.

Here is a brief summary:

The Prince is widely regarded as one of the most influential books on politics, especially on the acquisition, perpetuation, and use of political power. Machiavelli's observations continue to resonate with politicians, students, and scholars. Not intending his writing to be a scholarly treatise on political theory, Machiavelli wrote The Prince to gain the favor of the ruling Medici family, offering advice on how a prince might gain and keep power.

Machiavelli justified rule by force rather than by law. Accordingly, The Prince seems to justify a number of actions done merely to perpetuate power. It is a classic study of power - how to get it, expand it and use it for maximum effect.

[zulaika]

abdi,

mucho gracias señor.

Machiavelli sounds like my kinda guy.

[AbdiWahab252]

Zulaika,

I suggest picking up the abbreviated version of the book. U will love it.

However, you might not want to be involved with a Machiavellian Farax

[Twisted_Logic]

Some of my favorite books
Fiction:
1) A tale of two cities
2) Kidnapped
3) Great expectation
4) Almost all of the plays by Shakespeare
5) The bottle and the bushman : poems of the prodigal son by Dr. Togane

Non-Fiction

1) The 48 laws of power
2) The 33 strategies of war
3) On war by Carl von Clausewitz ( the whole series)
4) The Prince
5) Any piece on military history ( especially on Napoleon Bonaparte’s exploits)
6) Modern military avaition
7) The Islamic Bomb
8) Man in the Shadows by Efraim Halevy former head of MOSSAD

[razzberry]

I love to read and have so many books it’s impossible for me to pick a favorite.

Here is one of my most resent reads. Its really drew me in and I felt every bit of the young characters love, joy, and pain.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookse ... 473788&z=y

I highly recommend it.

[zulaika]

[quote="AbdiWahab252"]Zulaika,

I suggest picking up the abbreviated version of the book. U will love it.

However, you might not want to be involved with a Machiavellian Farax [/quote]

abdi,

A Machiavellian farax? Are u kidding me, I wish there was such a farax. aniga iyo kaa camal waa perfect match…cir iyo dhul baan u dooni lahaa..we would rule the world

[AbdiWahab252]

>>> You are looking at him

A Machiavellian Farax never falls in love and is only in love with 1 person: himself. Everything else is disposable whenever they become a liability.

A Machiavellian would never share power. He would pretend to give some authority out but will always make sure he never loses it to anyone.

[Basra-]

Oh Lord...zulaika has discovered....Machiavelli ..... Lord and behold ...




Abdi --my favorite book??? All Jane Austen books of course. My particular favorite is Emma. Talking about an expert of Human nature, dont go any way futher than her royal highness. I drink, read, live Jane Austen!

[zulaika]

basra,

i found my calling....


abdi,

oh really?, so what proofs true of this Machiavellian trait you claim besides the self-serving characteristics, which all faraxs are in possession of by default.

laakin who knows eh, perhaps you are one in the making. tell u what…lay small claims under its allege and I shall be watching u. proliferate that drive to seize bigger things and u’d make a believer out of me….then I shall seize u myself at once.