stump Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Any thought provoking books you guys are currently reading or recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead_lemons Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 P.A. Sorokin's "the crisis of our age"about the death cry of western culture -DL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldog_916 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 The Genesis Code by John CaseParallel Worlds by Michio KakuAlien Agenda by Jim Marrs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hojo Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (very dense, requires multiple readings)The Stranger - Albert Camus (a quick read, sort of an absurd existentialist piece)Anthem - Ayn Rand (anti-communist/pro-individuality, a VERY quick read)1984 - George Orwell (a classic must-read)I'll try to think of more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 (edited) From my bookshelf...Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonTao Teh Ching by Lao TzuAnything by Fyodor Dostoevsky (See esp. Notes from Underground)Anything by Kurt Vonnegut (See esp. Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5 and Jailbird)Anything by Jane Jacobs (See esp. Dark Age Ahead)Awaiting Oblivion by Maurice BlanchotThe 13th Orangutan, Collapse, and Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared DiamondAmerican Psycho and Glamorama by Brett Easton EllisAnimal Farm and 1984 by George OrwellAnything by Voltaire (See esp. Candide)The Art of War by Sun TzuAnything by Gabriel García Márquez (See esp. Love in the Time of Cholera and Memories of my Melancholy Whores)Anything by Hunter S. Thompson (See esp. The Great Shark Hunt and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (See esp. Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters and Rant)Anything by Noam ChomskyAnything by George CarlinAnything by Nikolai GogolEarth Democracy by Vandana ShivaThe Water Business by Sjollander HollandParecon by Michael AlbertOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodGlue by Irvine WelshFaust by GoetheAnything by Niccolo Machiavelli (See esp. The Prince)Manon Lescaut by ProustPirates! In Adventures with Communists and Pirates! In Adventures with Scientists by Gideon DeFoeThe Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. WellsThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayAnything by Friederich NietzcheLife of Pi by Yann MartelAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandMein Kampf by Adolf HitlerAlso take a look at...Anything by Friederich HegelAnything by John Stuart MillAnything by Emma GoldmanAnything by Karen ArmstrongAnything by Amartya K. SenAnything by Mahatma GandhiAnything by Joseph Nye Jr.Anything by Jean Jacques Rousseau Edited October 6, 2008 by gaia.plateau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stump Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 Thanks! I will look into those... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pullingteeth Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 QUOTE (gaia.plateau @ Oct 5 2008, 02:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>From my bookshelf...Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Wretched of the Earth by Franz FanonTao Teh Ching by Lao TzuAnything by Fyodor Dostoevsky (See esp. Notes from Underground)Anything by Kurt Vonnegut (See esp. Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5 and Jailbird)Anything by Jane Jacobs (See esp. Dark Age Ahead)Awaiting Oblivion by Maurice BlanchotThe 13th Orangutan, Collapse, and Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared DiamondAmerican Psycho and Glamorama by Brett Easton EllisAnimal Farm and 1984 by George OrwellAnything by Voltaire (See esp. Candide)The Art of War by Sun TzuAnything by Gabriel García Márquez (See esp. Love in the Time of Cholera and Memories of my Melancholy Whores)Anything by Hunter S. Thompson (See esp. The Great Shark Hunt and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (See esp. Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters and Rant)Anything by Noam ChomskyAnything by George CarlinAnything by Nikolai GogolEarth Democracy by Vandana ShivaThe Water Business by Sjollander HollandParecon by Michael AlbertOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodGlue by Irvine WelshFaust by GoetheAnything by Niccolo Machiavelli (See esp. The Prince)Manon Lescaut by ProustPirates! In Adventures with Communists and Pirates! In Adventures with Scientists by Gideon DeFoeThe Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. WellsThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayAnything by Friederich NietzcheLife of Pi by Yann MartelAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandMein Kampf by Adolf HitlerAlso take a look at...Anything by Friederich HegelAnything by John Stuart MillAnything by Emma GoldmanAnything by Karen ArmstrongAnything by Amartya K. SenAnything by Mahatma GandhiAnything by Joseph Nye Jr.Anything by Jean Jacques RousseauGeorge Orwell ftw!as well as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradburyi'd say Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilgrim Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Everything by aldous huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noca$h Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judgeposer Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 If philosophy is your bag, then I'd suggest:Anything from Alasdair MacIntyre, especially After VirtueNicomachean Ethics, by AristotleBut on a lighter note, Twinkie, Deconstructed, by Steve Ettlinger kept my interest recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apets22 Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Pullingteeth,I had a history professor recommend Guns, Germs, and Steel, how was it? I know it was good other wise you wouldnt have recommended it but a small synopsis and a review maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 QUOTE (Apets22 @ Oct 6 2008, 08:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Pullingteeth,I had a history professor recommend Guns, Germs, and Steel, how was it? I know it was good other wise you wouldnt have recommended it but a small synopsis and a review maybe?I already knew most of the content in GG&S, so I preferred Collapse and 13th O, but I still highly recommend it to anyone interested in world history. It's basically a history of civilization, but with a focus on how certain civilizations (Eurasian) came to have such overwhelming advantages over everyone else- titularly, Guns, Germs and Steel. It's extremely, extremely readable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveRadical Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 siddhartha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippo_Master Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan I love this book so far, and it's changed some of my eating habits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerritus Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I can't believe no one's put this on here yet... Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staygone Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Alice in Wonderland.-QM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erufiku Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Many people will disagree... but I love Proust and reading random passages from 'À la recherche du temps perdu'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvtaco17 Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 anything by Soren Kierkegaard! and again back to my AF Plum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anathema Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 (edited) The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exuperymy all time favorite book, though i happened to lose my first and only copy...reads like a childrens book Edited October 9, 2008 by anathema Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 (edited) QUOTE (kvtaco17 @ Oct 8 2008, 11:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>anything by Soren Kierkegaard! and again back to my AF Plum...QUOTE (kvtaco17 @ Oct 8 2008, 11:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Talk to a dick or an asshole...one will either piss or vomit on you and the other will shit on you......and back to my AF plum...QUOTE (kvtaco17 @ Oct 8 2008, 11:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>no to mention how stable this pipe is... awesome for group sessions... and again back to my AF plum....QUOTE (kvtaco17 @ Oct 8 2008, 11:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>actually looks a lot like my mini MYA acrylic...and back to my AF plum (I'm lovin this flavor)QUOTE (kvtaco17 @ Oct 8 2008, 10:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>lol utorrent = sex! back to my af plum!Dude you need to learn how to smoke AF Plum and type at the same time. Edited October 9, 2008 by gaia.plateau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apets22 Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 I thought AF plum was average, I never got great flavor. That was a hell of a collection of posts. Thread Jacking FTW!!!Uhm...Im not enough of a reader to reccomend anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashes87 Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker.The individual books are Black, Red, and White.If you havent heard of them, I would recommend them highly because I couldnt put them down once I started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joytron Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 into the wildkrakauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirus Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.Makes you think... if you were in a futuristic training facility, would you hate bugs too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melanko Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Anything by Aleister Crowley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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