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strangebrew
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Have you ever read the Count of Monte Cristo? One of the best books ever.
by Andrew Greeley...
I usually read two or three books at a time. I am about to start "The Fundamentals of Extremism", currently reading another comentary on the cosmology of the 'Gita, Just read a history of pirating in the 16 & 17 centuries. I read anything by Stephen Donaldson.
Fact and Fantasy for the most part. I think I will reread Art of War coming up, but need some fresh stuff. I don't do Stephen King, Romance anything, don't do hate. Other than that, I am open to everthing.
Fact and Fantasy for the most part. I think I will reread Art of War coming up, but need some fresh stuff. I don't do Stephen King, Romance anything, don't do hate. Other than that, I am open to everthing.
supersizeme
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The Scar - China Mieville. read a review of it on amazon.com
Buddy_Christ
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want a story about a death penalty case? actually pretty damn good, IMO. there's legal stuff in there, but not overwhelming.
May God Have Mercy by John C. Tucker. true story. very well written book.
May God Have Mercy by John C. Tucker. true story. very well written book.
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Gambino
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Murder Machine by Jerry Capeci
True-crime...excellent tale of orgainized crime in America.
True-crime...excellent tale of orgainized crime in America.
mountain muscle
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The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. A great breakdown on super string theory if you like science books.
strongsmartsexy
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Another book I found interesting about 7 years ago or so was a book called "The last days of ancient sunlight"
plornive
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Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
Provides the most most rational explanation of consciousness, demystifying consciousness and thereby essentially obliterating the ultimately incoherent questions initially begged.
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
Memetics: A paradigm shift and memeplex itself that will undermine many other memeplexes including Christianity.
The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
A short but very educational read.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's most groundbreaking work, in my opinion. Also try Will to Power (although he didn't really intend to publish it i think), Beyond Good and Evil and Human, All Too Human. Human, All Too Human is a very entertaining read.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
A great book about evolution.
Play Poker, Quit Work And Sleep Till Noon! by John Fox
A pleasure to read. You once called me a Weazelboy, and I think you would call John Fox a Weazelboy.
Provides the most most rational explanation of consciousness, demystifying consciousness and thereby essentially obliterating the ultimately incoherent questions initially begged.
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
Memetics: A paradigm shift and memeplex itself that will undermine many other memeplexes including Christianity.
The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
A short but very educational read.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's most groundbreaking work, in my opinion. Also try Will to Power (although he didn't really intend to publish it i think), Beyond Good and Evil and Human, All Too Human. Human, All Too Human is a very entertaining read.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
A great book about evolution.
Play Poker, Quit Work And Sleep Till Noon! by John Fox
A pleasure to read. You once called me a Weazelboy, and I think you would call John Fox a Weazelboy.
Cool! Good list: add that feel A Brief History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
plornive said:Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
Provides the most most rational explanation of consciousness, demystifying consciousness and thereby essentially obliterating the ultimately incoherent questions initially begged.
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
Memetics: A paradigm shift and memeplex itself that will undermine many other memeplexes including Christianity.
The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
A short but very educational read.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's most groundbreaking work, in my opinion. Also try Will to Power (although he didn't really intend to publish it i think), Beyond Good and Evil and Human, All Too Human. Human, All Too Human is a very entertaining read.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
A great book about evolution.
Play Poker, Quit Work And Sleep Till Noon! by John Fox
A pleasure to read. You once called me a Weazelboy, and I think you would call John Fox a Weazelboy.
jestros
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Since your read some pirate history you might like the "alan lewrie" series by Dewey Lambdin. Its about the English fleet in the napoleanic era. Lots of good natical flavor, and the main character is constantly getting shit faced, and he cant keep his dick in his pants, good readin!
jestros said:
Pirate novels are not really my thing... read too much of it when I was living in the Islands...
I like stuff like Under the Black Flag, Blackbeard (Lee), Pirates: Terror on the High Seas, the classic A General History of the Pyrates (defoe)....
There are all sorts of books on lesser piratical types like Anne Bonny and Mary Read, but the real indepth reads on Blackbeard and Kidd and all sorts of stuff on the Barbary Corsairs, the Privateers... etc...
There are few books out there about contemporary blue water pyrates in the Malaga etc. but thats more of a 'how not to get yer ass killed' series of books for yachties.
Just found out that Kipling (do you kipple?) wrote a couple of SF short stories between 1905 and 1917, set in an "airship utopia" of the year 2000. They're available on the net: "With the Night Mail" and "As Easy as A.B.C." Cool in a hardware fantasy sort of way, sort of halfway between H.G. Wells and Heinlein.
c-sharp minor
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plornive said:Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
Provides the most most rational explanation of consciousness, demystifying consciousness and thereby essentially obliterating the ultimately incoherent questions initially begged.
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
Memetics: A paradigm shift and memeplex itself that will undermine many other memeplexes including Christianity.
The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
A short but very educational read.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's most groundbreaking work, in my opinion. Also try Will to Power (although he didn't really intend to publish it i think), Beyond Good and Evil and Human, All Too Human. Human, All Too Human is a very entertaining read.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
A great book about evolution.
Play Poker, Quit Work And Sleep Till Noon! by John Fox
A pleasure to read. You once called me a Weazelboy, and I think you would call John Fox a Weazelboy.
You've been checking the books on my nightstand, haven't you.
Excellent list Plornive. I've currently been reading Consciousness Explained and have been looking to pick up Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
Very similar interests have we.
PIGEON-RAT
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Mountain Muscle said:
I'm reading this now, and it's definitely a good book. I read Hawking's A Brief History of Time and Universe in a Nutshell, and although they were great books, Greene is definitely better at explaining a lot of things. I wish I could take a class with him, but he's only teaching high level math classes at the moment, so fuck that.
plornive said:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is good, and I really enjoyed the Genealogy of Morals too.
My current reading list:
The Culture Industry by Theodor Adorno: A collection of his essays regarding culture and philosophy. Some of the essays are pretty dense, but there are some gems in here, and great critiques of mass culture.
Democracy Realized by Roberto Mangabeira Unger: Unger departs from neoliberal philosophy from the likes of John Rawls and discusses a much more viable solution to inequalities in both developing nations and developed nations. He advocates capacitative welfare as opposed to compensitory welfare. There is some assumed knowledge of basic economics in some of the earlier chapters as he lays down the groundwork for his plan. He's actually had some real world experience as an elected official in Brazil, I believe, and I think he's currently a professor at Harvard. Interesting read, and I'm not exactly an advocate of liberal social policies.
I need to read something besides scientific or philosophical texts. My personal philosophies have been bouncing all over after reading so much. I just need some good fiction now.
PIGEON-RAT
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plornive said:
I'm planning to read A History of Rome by Marcel Le Glay, but I haven't gotten around it yet. I finished up the Elegant Universe today, so I should have some time to start it.
