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#31
05-30-2006, 06:08 PM
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Re: Books that made you look at things differently
Die, re: 1984
I know my Mom said she never looked at the world the same after she read this book. I think I had the same experience from Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 70s movie. I really feel like Chronicles of Narnia helped shape my imagination as a child. Although the movie was kind of a disappointment to that memory. Is that really all there was to the story? #3 - Voyage of the Dawn Treader was my favorite though. Hopefully they get to that and it lives up. 
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#32
05-31-2006, 02:59 AM
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Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People. Fundamentally simple and effective [/ QUOTE ] How to talk dirty and influence people: an autobiography, 1965, LENNY BRUCE A bit more switched on that the former! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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#33
05-31-2006, 10:21 AM
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The Fountainhead. [/ QUOTE ] Got halfway through and HATED the characters, but still had to finish it....sigh... Chaim Potok is one of my favorite fiction writers. I recommend My Name is Asher Lev, the story of a young Hasidic Jewish artist.
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#34
05-31-2006, 02:29 PM
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Re: Books that made you look at things differently
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene. This book introduced me to the world of classical and quantum physics. My mind was blown at the implications of quantum mechanics. This book also deals heavily with String or M Theory, which is the theoretical framework that might one day be a theory of everything in the universe. Very good and easy to read
The Lucifer Principle Howard Bloom. This is along the same lines as the one DB mentioned, dealing with memes, genes, and sociology. It is very well researched with many citations as long as very entertaining. Others include "Parallel Universes" by Michio Kaku and "The Fabric of the Cosmos" again by Brian Greene.
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#35
06-03-2006, 02:18 AM
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Godel Escher Bach, Minds I... what's the deal with these books? They come highly recommeneded but for the life of me I can't understand them. Minds I, here is a typical sentence "but the deadly cat gives us a paradox on the two non comittal states it could be in. one is a discrete eigenvalue and the other is a continual stream of conciousness how is this to be resolved!?" blah blah blah on forever. Same with GEB don't get it
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#37
06-03-2006, 04:02 AM
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[ QUOTE ] My Century, Gunter Grass [/ QUOTE ] Pryor, Have you read <u>The Tin Drum</u>, b/c I liked it as much as "Century." [/ QUOTE ] I like the Tin Drum a lot, both the film and the book. Grass always has something interesting to say in it. I'v tried a few others of his though, and found them a little high-noise.
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#39
06-04-2006, 12:54 AM
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[ QUOTE ] My Century, Gunter Grass [/ QUOTE ] Pryor, Have you read <u>The Tin Drum</u>, b/c I liked it as much as "Century." [/ QUOTE ] no, but it's in the big pile of stuff i want to read. my roommate loves it.
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#40
06-04-2006, 10:12 PM
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Re: Books that made you look at things differently
Fast Food Nation
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