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Nicool002
X-Ray Wave
USA
1323 Posts |
 Posted - 08/19/2002 : 04:22:22
Hey everyone! So here is the deal. We ahve had favorite movies music ect. ect. Well here is one I don't think we have had. What are your favorite books?"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." Albert Einstein
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Edited by - Nicool002 on 08/19/2002 04:23:47
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Siv
Hyper Wave
India
5271 Posts |
 Posted - 08/19/2002 : 11:22:44
Actually, this topic has been covered before  Anyway, here goes ... Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Contact - Carl Sagan
River Out of Eden - Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype - Richard Dawkins
Unweaving the Rainbow - Carl Sagan
On Human Nature - E O Wilson
Letters from Earth and Letters to Earth - Mark Twain
How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker
Kinds of Minds - Daniel Dennett Thats all I can think of right now .... - Sivakami. ***************************************************
" Old beliefs die hard, even when demonstrably false " - E O Wilson
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Zero
PF Mentor
USA
5996 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2002 : 11:31:10
This is a topic that keeps coming up...I think we've done EVERY topic at least once.
Anyways...everything by Piers Anthony, Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, the only two books I can find by John Steakley(which are the best two books of their type EVER).Nothing fails like prayer...
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SkazMAO
Infrared Wave
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2002 : 15:12:18
The Ender's Series, by Orson Scott Card
The Homecoming Saga, by Orson Scott Card
Contact, by Carl Sagan
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Heinlein
Shannara Series, by Terry Brooks
All Middle-Earth Books, by Tolkein
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series, by Douglas Adams
Prydain Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander
All Star Wars Books
Cosmos, Carl Sagan
Genome, Matt RidleyPlus other stuff I can't think of right now... -skaz -----------------------------------------------------
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Nicool002
X-Ray Wave
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2002 : 15:42:52
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Contact - Carl Sagan
River Out of Eden - Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype - Richard Dawkins
Unweaving the Rainbow - Carl Sagan
On Human Nature - E O Wilson
Letters from Earth and Letters to Earth - Mark Twain
How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker
Kinds of Minds - Daniel Dennett
so you've read contact siv? Is it really good? I have the movie on DVD but I hear that it is different. O sorry guys I must have missed this topic when it was made before. I know there was a funniest book you've read topic but I didn't know we had this one.
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." Albert Einstein
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Edited by - Nicool002 on 08/19/2002 15:45:04
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Nicool002
X-Ray Wave
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2002 : 16:06:50
OK I forgot to post my favorites so here we go:
Like SkazMAO ALL STAR WARS BOOKS (does this come as a surprise to anyone)
Along with:
Basic Physics
The New Solar System
and many more I should have made this topic something like "The Books You Have Read" or something like that. I have too many favorites I like almost every book I read but O well. How about everyone else's favorites?"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." Albert Einstein
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Sting1983
PF Mentor
USA
2836 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2002 : 00:14:58
Just out of curiosity, how many "favorite" topics are there?What's next? "Favorite Milk Product", "Favorite STD", "Favorite Cellular Biology Textbook Author"? Anyway...  Cosmos Carl Sagan
The Dragons of Eden Carl Sagan
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Inflationary Universe Alan Guth (I'm only half-way finished, but it's great so far so I'm adding it )
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Instant Physics Tony Rothman
Hamlet William Shakespeare
Why Do You Care What Other People Think? Richard P. Feynman And any Physics, Astronomy, or Mathematics textbook (with the exception of my current Calculus book) Just  du it
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Sting1983
PF Mentor
USA
2836 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2002 : 00:16:49
Just out of curiosity, how many "favorite" topics are there?What's next? "Favorite Milk Product", "Favorite STD", "Favorite Cellular Biology Textbook Author"? Anyway... Cosmos Carl Sagan
The Dragons of Eden Carl Sagan
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Inflationary Universe Alan Guth (I'm only half-way finished, but it's great so far so I'm adding it )
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Instant Physics Tony Rothman
Hamlet William Shakespeare
Why Do You Care What Other People Think? Richard P. Feynman And any Physics, Astronomy, or Mathematics textbook (with the exception of my current Calculus book) Just du it
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Nicool002
X-Ray Wave
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2002 : 02:22:56
Well everyone (that has posted) besides me has read contact or something by carl sagan. So I guess I'll go ahead and read it it has to be good."Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." Albert Einstein
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Sting1983
PF Mentor
USA
2836 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2002 : 02:55:40
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Well everyone (that has posted) besides me has read contact or something by carl sagan. So I guess I'll go ahead and read it it has to be good.
You'll enjoy Dr. Sagan's work. Artistic and informative. He's the reason why I would like to go into scientific journalism. Just du it
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wuliheron
X-Ray Wave
USA
1436 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2002 : 03:25:03
Anything by Isaac Asimov, D. C. Lao, or Deng Ming Dao.Asimov was the most prolific writer in the world with some 450 books to his name. A Russian Jewish immigrant smuggled out of the Soviet Union in a steamer trunk as a child his most prized posession became his NY library card. He said he could type as fast as he thought and did all his writing on an old manual typewriter in his attic. Although his fiction was ok, his nonfiction was the best. He came up with three new solutions to problems on the mensa test, a new record. I just hope someone else comes along to fill his shoes.
If you are not full of it you are either starving to death or have just had an enima. I prefer to just watch what I eat. Mahatma Gandi
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Nicool002
X-Ray Wave
USA
1323 Posts |
 Posted - 08/20/2002 : 15:34:55
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You'll enjoy Dr. Sagan's work. Artistic and informative. He's the reason why I would like to go into scientific journalism.
o.k I'll look forward to it then "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." Albert Einstein
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Tog_Neve
X-Ray Wave
USA
1294 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2002 : 16:00:08
Favored booksTaltos series by Stephen Brust
Dark Elf Series by R.A. Salvatore
Anything by Craig Shaw Gardner
Necroscope series by Brian Lumley
Mostly fantasy and some espionage type of stuff. But since I read to relax before going to bed it is best for light reading..
"God wants Spiritual fruit not religious nuts"
- Community Fellowship Baptist Church Sign
Tog Neve
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Nicool002
X-Ray Wave
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2002 : 18:58:43
Hey Tog neve I have never heard of the dark elf series but I know that R.A Salvatore is a good Star Wars author "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." Albert Einstein
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Edited by - Nicool002 on 08/21/2002 18:59:56
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Tog_Neve
X-Ray Wave
USA
1294 Posts |
Posted - 08/22/2002 : 20:55:17
Nicool
Yes Salvatore has also done some great SW books. The Dark Elf series is part of the Forgotten Realms world of books. Along the fantasy line. He did a great job in those as well. He does such a great job of making sure everyone is thuroughly involved with all the key players. Usually the good ones as well as the bad ones."God wants Spiritual fruit not religious nuts"
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doublethink
Radio Wave
United Kingdom
94 Posts |
Posted - 08/23/2002 : 00:04:11
OOOOHHHHhhhhh, bbbbboooooookkkkkkksssss, fantabulous, you guys, there's too much non-fiction here. Here's a brief lesson with Doublethink on how to broaden one's horizons. Umm, well you may have guest by my name that one of my favourites is 1984. By George Orwell, and it is absoloutley brilliant, such amazing, it;s a must read for anyone who has eyes or fingers, and a brain of course, and maybe some optic nereves attached to those eyes, well you get the picture. And some others:Nausea, Jean-Paul Satre- Existentialist beauty. The Outsider, Albert Camus - Ditto On A Winter's Night A Traveller, Italo Calvino- A maze of awe. Godel, Escher, Bach. the author has a really long name- Can't articualte its power. Time's Arrow, Martin Amis- the genecide of the Jews in reverse, interesting stuff. The Emperor's New Mind, Roger Penrose- Neuro-science and physics, could you ask for more, well maybe a mad hatter and a tea party but Godel, Escher, Bach fills those type of idiosyncratic gaps. Being And Nothingness, Jean-Paul Satre- The text book of existentialism. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Freidrich Neitzsche- Okay, so I haven't finishesd it, but what i've read I like. I'm going to stop there as my fingers are fatigued through carrying the burden of time, but I warn you all, that is only the tip of teh literary ice-berg........me is soooooo tired. Good night all, ah, the timelessness of summer holidays........
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SkazMAO
Infrared Wave
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 08/23/2002 : 00:33:45
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Yes Salvatore has also done some great SW books.
Yup. Kevin J. Anderson and Timothy Zahn also have great SW books! quote:
one of my favourites is 1984. By George Orwell
Wonderful. Along with A Clockwork Orange and Brave New World quote:
Mostly fantasy and some espionage type of stuff. But since I read to relax before going to bed it is best for light reading..
What kind of espionage stuff? Tom Clany? All I read is sf/f. lol. -skaz -----------------------------------------------------
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SkazMAO
Infrared Wave
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 08/23/2002 : 00:35:32
I also like Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.-skaz -----------------------------------------------------
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RageSk8
Visible Light Wave
USA
798 Posts |
Posted - 08/23/2002 : 01:03:12
The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1,2, and 3 by Foucault
Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
A Farewell To Arms by Hemingway
The Stranger by Camus
Philosophical Papers Vol. 1 and 2 by Richard Rorty
Ulyssies by Joyce
The Feynman Lectures by Ricahrd Feynman, any of them, they are all great.
Theoretical Physics by Joos
Being and Time by Heidegger
Civilization and Discontent by Freud
Beyond Good and Evil by Nietszche
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doublethink
Radio Wave
United Kingdom
94 Posts |
Posted - 08/23/2002 : 11:42:39
Ah yes Brave New World, Mr. Huxley I believe, yes that was a joy to read. Although despite I think, 1984 being better, Brave New World seems to have been more accurate.
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Zero
PF Mentor
USA
5996 Posts |
Posted - 08/23/2002 : 11:56:47
I absolutely can't stand literature, and those creative typist writers and their use of language as a replacement for plot, characterization, etc. The first rule for fiction must be to tell a story. Every other apect of the book should serve that goal.
For short stories, read any of Richard Christian Matheson's collections...and then go read his dad's classic SF novels!Nothing succeeds like rational thinking and hard work...
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