Editing ShmackBooks
From the thread entitled "Reading" from 12/15/02 -MattBeaumont *Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson *Rule of the Bone by Russel Banks *All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren *A Farewell to Arms and/or For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway -Candy (CMC friend of JoseluisEspinosa) *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams *Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan *Curious George meets the Man in the Yellow Hat by H.A.Rey **(Riveting account of a primate and his need to assimilate with society) -NickJohnson *The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkein **(you'll note LotR is absent from this list) *Candide by Voltaire *Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes *Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams *Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson *Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevski *We the Living by Ayn Rand **(earliest work, the philosophy is not omnipresent or even well developed and it has the best characters and story, especially since she's writing about a world she grew up in) *Through the Ice by Piers Anthony and Robert Kornwise *Three Kingdoms, attributed to Luo Guanzhong ''Do you mean Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Chinese classic saga?'' *Beowulf or any of the icelandic legends. *The Song of Roland *Lancelot or Yvain by Chretien de Troyes **(probably only one is necessary) *Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant **(not because you'd enjoy it, but because you should read it, anything else by him subject to your tolerance for pain) *Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx *2nd Treatise on Government by John Locke **(should be required reading to be an American citizen) *Everything Darwin wrote. All of it. The man's a genius. *Works by St. Augustine *Stephen Gould. Also a genius. *1984 and Animal Farm by GeorgeOrwell *Brave New World by Aldous Huxley *Iliad and Odyssey by Homer -MicahSmukler *Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter *Illuminatus! by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson *Watership Down by Richard Adams *Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones *As I Lay Dying by Faulkner *something by Daniel Pinkwater, it doesn't matter much what *"About Nothing" and "Sure Thing" by Isaac Asimov *Catch-22 by Joseph Heller *Charlie Dancey's Encyclopedia of Ball Juggling **(well, for loose values of "read") *The Dispossessed and Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula leGuin *Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco -RachelGabor *...and a Hard Rain fell by John Ketwig *Bridge to Terebithia by Catherine Paterson *Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther *The Chosen by Chaim Potok *The Source by James Michener *Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein *Q-Sqaured by Peter David **(I have no good reason...) *A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller *some type of mythology by any culture *A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin *The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss *The War Prayer by Mark Twain *And I Never Saw Another Butterfly, a collection of stuff -AlexPopkin *Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. **I've noted that people our age tend to enjoy this one more than adults do, so if you haven't read it yet, hurry up. *A Passage to India by E. M. Forrester. *Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. *MacBeth and King Lear by Shakespeare -EricAngell *Henry V by Shakespeare *"Defaults like Ender's Game as well." -BrieFinger *Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen -AvaniGadani *Brave New World by Aldous Huxley *On the Road by Jack Kerouac *Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman *Les Miserables (or just about anything else by) by Victor Hugo *Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde *A second vote for Voltaire's Candide. **Its the best thing I've read in a long time, and the political commentary is fitting. *The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle *A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L'Engle -BenjAzose *Genesis and Exodus *The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay *Montagne's Essays -NickHerman *The Stranger & The Plague, both by Albert Camus *Paradise Lost by John Milton *Sir Gawain and the Green Knight *The Oddyssey by Homer *Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein *A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi *The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler *Timeline by Michael Crichton *Hamlet by Shakespeare *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard *Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco *Maniac Magee by Bruce Coville *Foundation Series by Isaac Asmiov *The Metamorphosis (and his other short stories) by Franz Kafka *Poetry of Robert Frost *Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop *The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco *Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong *Candide by Voltaire -ClaireSandraLaunay *Plays by Tom Stoppard, including Arcadia and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead *Books by Umberto Eco, for instance Name of the Rose *1984 by George Orwell **(It might be more thought-provoking than enjoyable, but it's worth reading.) *Jorge Luis Borges' fictional short stories. *Labyrinths is a pretty good anthology. *Books by Douglas Hofstadter, such as Godel, Escher, Bach and Le Ton Beau de Marot *Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel, is a very well written account of the longitude problem. **Sobel's also written Galileo's Daughter, which is also good. *Guns, Sails, and Empires by Carlo M. Cipolla *The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder. **I haven't actually read this one yet, but I've heard a lot of good things about it. It's about the history of the meter. I wrote down this list a while ago as a required reading list to an East Coast Tech School, and it's been floating around on a little piece of paper for years, so I'll transmit it to something more permanent. -Random Tech School *The Mathematical Experience *A Mathematician's Apology *Godel, Escher, Bach *The Soul of a New Machine *Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry *Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times *The World of Mathematics *Science and Hypothesis *Mathematics and Plausable Reasoning *Hilbert *Computer Power and Human Reasoning
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