Apolyton Reading List

[vomitus]

A guy on a talk radio show said, "You're not educated unless you've read 1984." I think I agree with that. It was definitely the most powerful book I've ever read.

Books I consider important for the reader:

Jennifer Government by Max Barry (humor fiction)
I consider it important simply because it gives the reader a glimpse into an ultraprivatised world. Companies are generally free to do whatever they want and companies control most of daily life.

Guns, Germs, & Steel by Jared Diamond (nonfiction)

I, Claudius by Robert Graves (historical fiction)

Brave New World (fiction)

Some other fun novels/stories:
All of E.A.Poe's short stories (horror? fiction)
Brian Lumley's short stories (horror fiction)
Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (nonfiction)


There are a host of other books I could put here but I don't remember them all.

[Provost Harrison]

I only read textbooks I'm afraid...

[Snotty]

I, Claudius by Robert Graves (historical fiction)

Thats what Im reading now 2nd hand book stalls

[Sava]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I only read textbooks I'm afraid of...

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by Japher
MikeH posts at CG as well

I didn't say he didn't, did I...?

[Japher]

but I don't count him as a Poly poster, more like CG spillage

[Zkribbler]

Uncle Tom's Cabin because no one does anymore.

The Warlord Chronicles (Winter King, Enemy of God and Excaliber) by Bernard Cornwell because it's friggen great

[CrONoS]

You're not educated unless you've read Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Also sprach Zarathustra'!

One of my must read:
Also sprach Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Psychology of unconscious - C.G. Jung
Crisis Of The Modern World - René Guénon
The Bible (Any major religious text specially the Bhagavad Gita)
The Foundation(all the series) - Isaac Asimov
The Republic - Plato
The New Industrial State - J.K. Galbraith (Economics)

[Dracon II]

Uncle Tom's Cabin because no one does anymore

What is an Uncle Tom? I've heard it mentioned before. It seems to have racist connotations for african americans.

[Datajack Franit]

it is fünny

[Sava]

the song by Warrant, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was good

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Dracon II
What is an Uncle Tom? I've heard it mentioned before. It seems to have racist connotations for african americans.

An "Uncle Tom" is an African-American who refused to make waves, lets himself be walked over, and identifies more with the white community instead of his own. (See also, an "Oreo" [black on the outside but white in the middle] and an "Aunt Jamima.")

"Uncle Tom" probably comes from the scene in Uncle Tom's Cabin in which Uncle Tom and his master are traveling on a steamboat down the Mississippi, and Tom on his own begins helping the men on the ship with their work.

However, anyone who thinks Uncle Tom is an "Uncle Tom" didn't get to the end of the book, where evil Simon Legree tries to force Uncle Tom to tell him where the run-away slaves are.

[Dracon II]

Aunt Jemima is a racist epithet? Jeez... when I was a child there was a TV show I watched called playschool and one of the characters was a little black girl doll called Jemima.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


an "Aunt Jamima."

[CrONoS]

I forget one of my most important book:

Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard

I think, if I have to chooseo only one book, and I had to exclude The Bible, i'll say, Fear and Trembling.

Edited: Adding my