(Part 2) Top products from r/NetflixBestOf

One of my favorite animated movies. Folks who enjoy this might also enjoy Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization which explores the impact of Irish monastic traditions on the preservation of knowledge through the dark ages. You also get some cool background on St Patrick and his struggle with the cult of Crom Cruach a prominently featured character in The Secret of Kells.

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385418493/ref=cm_sw_r_other_awd_SGyQwb42Q7S0S

If you liked the movie, then you're bound to love the book it's based on.

It's one of my favorite books and I therefore had very high expectations for the movie (which it did not exactly meet...), but I would expect going from the movie to the book to be much more enjoyable.

Movies sometimes bend reality in favor of fully capturing an emotion. This is commonly used in action movies, where the hero of the story will overcome extreme odds to achieve their goal. I recommend you start here if you're just embarking on studying the art aspect of film and want to get more serious about studying mise en scène.

If you're interested in an early history of fast food franchise in America I highly recommend Big Mac. I bought a copy way back in the early eighties and found it fascinating. It doesn't confine itself to just McDonald's but also addresses other fast food chains starting at the time like KFC.

Yep! This one, very funny read it all the way through in an afternoon.

Check out The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot. An excellent book that looks at Allen Dulles and the CIA and how the dealt with Kennedy.

You'd enjoy reading this Nickel and Dimed

Not trying to be a jerk or anything, but exactly ten seconds worth of "searching" Amazon will get you what you want here.

http://www.amazon.com/Donnie-Brasco-Joseph-D-Pistone/dp/0451192575

There's a book called "Without Warning", which explores a similar idea where most of the citizens of the United States vaporized by a mysterious force-field.

William Goldman wrote the screenplay. I just finished his book Adventures in the Screen Trade which I can recommend.

If you want to go absurdly in-depth, this was part of our recommended reading for the course:

http://www.amazon.com/Kubrick-New-Expanded-Inside-Artists/dp/0253213908/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381606263&sr=1-8&keywords=kubrick

If you think it ends too soon, read "This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It" which is the sequel to the original book John Dies at the End

https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047

What if it was this instead

Based on the book by Neil Gaiman, read it it's good

Here are three. Knock yourself out!

https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174

https://www.amazon.com/How-America-Lost-Its-Secrets/dp/0451494563

https://www.amazon.com/Marys-Mosaic-Conspiracy-Kennedy-Pinchot/dp/1510708928

He also wrote a memoir called Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16.

If you're interested in reading a book with a somewhat similar theme as the movie (who even started the fight? war is not pretty, etc...), I highly recommend The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. It's sort of an anti-Starship Troopers story where the main character is drafted to war rather than volunteering. Still scifi with bizarre alien creatures but, IMHO with a more memorable story.

https://www.amazon.com/Among-Grizzlies-Living-Bears-Alaska/dp/0345426053

Here's the book he wrote.

There's also a whole gang of articles about his death from before the documentary came out. Not quite sure why you think the interviews seem staged.

to find the real Zodiac killer: The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer

I came into the thread hoping someone would say this - great, great, film, but very, very one-sided. Senna was a genius, but no angel. I recently read Folley's Senna versus Prost - no doubt the book has its faults (it may even go too far into Prost's corne), but it's a balance to the film - the truth is probably somewhere in between.