We did movies and music, so what about books. Here is my list. Lord of the Rings Darktower series by Stephen King Anything by Clive Barker Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
Anything having to do with internal combustion engines or race cars. Last few titles i have read Design + simulation of 4 stroke engines allied Aircraft piston engines of WW II The internal combustion engine in theory + practice volume 1+2 Formula 1 technology And currently on order Ferrari Formula 1 : under the skin of the F1-2000
Racecar Engineering - Paul Van Valkenburgh Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet Hermann Hesse - Demian Currently reading, and unable to put it down: Cannonball - Brock Yates
The Ender series by Orson Scott Card great reading... I think there are 7 books now with 1 more on the way for sure and more in the future (hopefully)... I have read them each at least twice but some I have read 3-4 times
HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy (5 part trillogy) Zen and the art of motorcycle maitaince Tom Clancy (lots) A Farewell to Arms (Hemmingway)
As far as favorite books go: The Isis Papers, The Keys To The Colors, by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Behold A Pale Horse, by William Milton Cooper Pretty much any book on Ferrari and his cars... As far as books go that i would take with me on an island... The first two listed above and pretty much any book on Ferrari and his cars that i've not yet read... i don't want to be on island with books i've already read (save the first two in the top list)...
Here are a list of my favorite books: The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann Demien - Herman Hesse Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis Now for the good stuff: Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics The Rebel - Albert Camus The Stranger - Albert Camus Fear and Trembling - Soren Kiekegaard Simulacra and Simulation - Baudrillard The Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fanon The Will to Power - Nietzsche Pretty much anything that deals with 19th- and 20th-Century Continental Philosophy Etc... Yes, I am a philosophy major and am going to get my PhD in philosophy... Oh, and I also enjoy The Definitive Guide to Pickup Lines by Tucker Max, even though I'm in a serious relationship and can't use any of the material.
Sci-fi nut here The best recent book I got has been Robotica by Orsen Scot Card. This book has Beautiful Illustrations. The Dune books. Herbert is a master and his son is equelly as good. Hitchhikers guide- Adams(RIP) Any of L. Ron. Hubbards Science Fiction. Mission earth, final blackout, Battlefield earth. 1984 Ringworld- Niven Moo by Jane Something I forget. Good book. Infromation Architecture for the world wideweb volume 2 - Lou Rosenfeld Most of my computer books are the O'rielly Nutshell series.
That is also one of my favorites, Catherine. I am a big fan of true crime, especially Mafia related. My #1 choice would have to be Underboss - Peter Maas.
Catherine - are you an objectivist or do you just find Rand's writing and philosophy intellectually interesting?
women - bukowski post office - bukowski race car vehicle dynamics - millikan & millikan brief history of time - hawking surely youre joking mr. feynmann - feynmann the stranger - camus crime and punishment - dostoyevsky the rememberance of things past series - marcel proust the pearl - steinbeck relativity - einstein the things they carried - tim o'brien johnny got his gun - dalton trumbo view w/ a grain of sand - szymborska fear and trembeling - kirkegard we - zamiatin classics in total synthesis - nicolaou siddhartha - hesse painted bird - kosinski the sound and the fury - faulkner querelle - jean genet there's more, but i feel self indulgant already. i apologize.. edit: currently reading: the elegant universe by brian greene - a theroretical symbiosis of quantum and general rel. via string threory to procure the grand unified theory. regards, a very drunk hubert
Operation Drumbeat History of the French Foreign Legion Adolf Galland bio On The Road All of david sedaris' and Jean Shepard's books Learned pigs by ricky jay Collected works of Victor Hugo Impotance of Being Earnest Eddie Mercyxk bio World of Chas Addams Autographed copy of yeagers autobiography Speedsters: Today's Air Racers in Action autographed by the rare bear miss america and dago red crews. Pimp, Iceberg Slim Agamemnon Art of war Naked Lunch Spartans at the gate of fire marine sniper
Right now I'm just finishing up Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me" - a book Stanley Kubrick called, "The most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered"...and I agree, yikes! Some favorites off the top of my head: Brave New World (& Revisited) Mary Shelly's Frankenstein The Razors Edge Catcher In the Rye Steppenwolf, Beneath the Wheel - Hesse Remembrance of Things Past - Proust Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Ulysses (too intimidated to go near Finnigan's Wake) Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem The Lexus & the Olive Tree - Friedman Anything by Doestoevsky A Year With Swollen Appendices - Eno The writings of H.L. Menken The writings of Noam Chomsky The writings of great philosophers SELF-HELP Psychocybernetics (the original) The Psychology of Winning The Artists Way SCIENCE Who's Afraid of Schrodinger's Cat? The Holographic Universe A New Science of Life FUN A Confederacy of Dunces Sick Puppy - Hiassen The Boat Who Wouldn't Float - Mowat I'm sure I'm forgetting dozens, especially in science, physics, and astronomy...
wow, well I read Candide, and was contimplating it's angst ridden message, seems like evryone is out to get eacg other, not one of his best works, I think his commentary is far better than his writings. You're and ass -Frederick read aloud as: You're and ass Frederick Touche