Books You Must Read!

[Dis]

Moby ****?

it's a good story. I just dislike the type of english it was written in. We could use a modern ebonics version.

oh I forgot my bibles

Radiolocial Controls Manual (RadCon)

Water Chemistry Manual

and most importantly. Reactor Plant Manual (RPM)

[Space05us]

updated the list, you might want to go glance over it again.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Japher
I think what they are trying to say is:

The Dictionary - D. Webster

I had no idea Daniel Webster wrote the dictionary. All this time I thought it was Merriam...

[Boris Godunov]

"Tower of Babel" - Robert Pennock. A thorough and rather concise rebuttal of Creationist nonsense.

[Odin]

Great works of Biology:


The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin
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The Cradle of Life, William Schopf
-In 1992 microfossils of bacteria were found in NW Australia that are 3.5 BILLION years old, the oldest fossils ever discovered.

Symbiosis in Cell Evolution, Lynn Margulis
- Mitochondria and Cloroplasts in Eukaryotes are the desendants of a mutualistic relationship between protists and bacteria.

Dinosaur Herisies, Robert Bakker
-Pioneering work that dismissed many myths about dinosaurs.

Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson
-Award winning work about the life's diversity and how we are unwittingly distroying it. Explains ways of Using nature to our advantage rather than distroying it (Such as new medicines from plants and using different animals for livesrtock in the tropics. grilled Iguana anyone? ).

Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Stephen Jay Gould
-One of Gould's final works before his death, this HUGE (1,300 PAGES!!! ) book discusses the history of evolutionary theory and discusses his many ideas in this field.

[DAVOUT]

Three men in a boat by Jerome K Jerome
Candide by Voltaire

[Brundlefly]

Re: Books You Must Read!

Originally posted by Space05us
Lets here it, what books are a must read in this life time? I

I've given up reading in favor of surfing the internet...

(It's the truth! Unfortunately...)

Back from my reading days though, I can reccommend "As A MAn Thinketh" by James Allen.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Lord Merciless
Other must-reads:

"Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.

Chairman Mao's Collection, the so-called "Mao Bible".

"The Capital" and "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx.

"Al Qu'ran".

Have you read them all?

I read excerpts from "Mein Kampf", it is not only racist ****, it is also simplistic as hell. It offends people with a certain degree of intelligence

Same goes to some extent for Mao´s texts (without the racism - at least in those texts I read).

[Boris Godunov]

I don't see why anyone would recommend "Mein Kampf." It is relatively poorly written, offers little to no insight into Hitler beyond what we already know and certainly doesn't offer any valuable philosophy.

[RGBVideo]

What? You have read Mein Kampf? You... neo-nazis! Evil!

That book is extremely boring, as well...

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by PLATO1003
There was a book I read years ago about a jewish guys life. He spent his youth in the warsaw ghetto. The story has always stuck with me. It was called For those I loved . It was autobiographical but I can't remember his name (Martin....???)

Martin GRAY.

[molly bloom]

Ficciones/Labyrinths by Borges

(one in Spanish, one in English, to be fair to his dual heritage)

The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The first because although Borges wrote mainly short stories, the wealth of ideas and images encapsulated in each of them makes them seem more like novels, especially ones such as Funes the Memorious, and the Aleph. He takes us down recondite and arcane pathways and byways in Twentieth Century culture and thought.

The second because it comes from a time when English was being formed into what would become Modern English, and Chaucer's experience at court, in life, and in diplomatic service to the Crown in Europe breathes life into a wonderful array of characters- rarely has 'Literature' made me laugh so hard, so loud and so long as the 'Miller's Tale' and the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'.

edited for extraneous letters- my fingers are so cold...

[Zero]

-All quiet on the western front
-Edgar allen poe stuff
-plato's republic
-Leviathan

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Zero
-All quiet on the western front
-Edgar allen poe stuff
-plato's republic
-Leviathan

Ah, yes. Edgar Allen Poe's immortal work, Stuff. The film just didn't do it justice!

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090094

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-Dune (Frank Herbert) (all 6 )
-Ender's Game(Orson Scott Card (??) )
-Prince delightfull and the flameless dragon (short story by Asimov(it's just to good not to mention))