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Izzy
Virtue & Vice
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: TX TA #5
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Nov-07-2002 05:03
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CortexBomb
Slave to the Dark Beat
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Watching the Waves under Red Skies on My World
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quote: | Originally posted by Izzy
The Prince - a great book on politics and governing over the people... really revolutionaty for its time |
Ugh, me hates Machiavelli...damn him and his "ends justify the means" bullshite
Definitely is an essential philosophical work though...
A couple fictional works that I'd recommend:
- Crime & Punishment by Doestoevsky.
Classic that asked "Why not murder?" Doestoevsky's answer at the end doesn't ring true for a non-Christian, but it stands as a deep and interesting novel, one of my faves.
- 1984 by Orwell, Brave New World by Huxley, Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury.
Essential stories about future "negative" utopias...with all too many shades of our current world in them.
And a book that I haven't read but can certainly recommend (since the fellow who wrote it is my favourite philosophy teacher) is:
Meditations for Spiritual Misfits by Robert Badra.
It's a short work, but Badra has a very interesting take on life (An ex-monk, ex-priest, who's currently a Christian *and* a Buddhist, very open to other religions, and thinks all are equally valid, just different expressions of the same thing) and flared my interest in philosophy again, so I can definitely recommend this book; though it's out of print...
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Nov-07-2002 06:50
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IronDragon
Ya'll be some busters
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: So sleepy
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Nov-07-2002 16:34
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Sarcoman
Infected Mushroom Addict
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto (Mississauga)
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Bibliophiles
Ahhh... cool thread.
Intriguing book:
Steal this Book - Abbie Hoffman ... Here is an excerpt from Amazon that talks about the book.
In 1970, Abbie Hoffman conceived the idea for his most ambitious book project yet. He had begun criss-crossing the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting along in America--some illegal, but most of them having to do with survival techniques. Steal This Book captures the spirit of those years, describing actions and techniques that were already in use in all 50 states.
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (this is the book that inspired Orwell to write 1984, short book ~115 pages, but very good).
Communist Manifesto -Karl Marx
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Book of Happiness: A Handbook for Living - His holiness the Dalai Lama
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - One of the best reads I have had the pleasure of reading .... awesome.
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ... Salingers writing style is amazing, very easy to read... Most of the time when a book is easy to read (like a micheal crichton book for eg), i feel like i wasted time. Salingers book made me feel satisfied in the story.
A book of five rings - Miyamoto Musashi (havent read this one yet, but I plan to soon)
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - great book.. saw the movie first (Apocalypse Now --- for those of you who have been living under a rock), and loved it. The book was great as well.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
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Nov-09-2002 00:04
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JohnSmith
Agent Smith
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Kamloops
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Sadly, i haven't read many books
I was big time into literature in higschool, but mostly fiction. the college came, and away went my time.
now, i mostly just read on the web. I have several books inline to read though, some fiction some fact, including some of the ones listed above, especially 1984.
But, one book i would reccomend to anyone is "The Life Era" by Eric Chaisson. Truly remarkable book that changed my life. It's quite math and physics heavy, but a good read even if you don't understand all the equations. Which even with a strong math background, 4 years of college, and 3 years of computer programming, i didn't fully grasp. Just pick it up and read it, believe me.
Also, "A Brief History of Time" by Steven Hawkings is excellent, also in the physics realm.
Here are some good quotes from that book:
http://www.zentraveler.com/FavoriteArt/Time.htm
Also, "Billions and Billions" by Carl Sagan, a book i always THOUGHT was about astronomy, but is actually not entirely, it is a collection of essays on a variety of subjects, including but not limited to the cold war, and abortion. Those are the only chapters i have read, but i'd love to finish it.
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Nov-09-2002 02:23
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