EPTRecommend me Books to Read! - Page 4
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1INK
United States630 Posts
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DJEtterStyle
United States2766 Posts
On August 17 2005 18:17 Sharkey wrote: Do these books have any substance to them? Because Das Kapital and The Wealth of Nations sound like very boring books. Probably even outdated; but I bet they have an everlasting quality like "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu (?). I know these books are/were (a)n important part of the historical development of Nations' economies and such. But they seem too unrelevant and just over-the-top boring to read. Any clarification you could make would clear up the fog that is my interpretation of these books. Also tell me more about Voltaire's book; never heard of it. I plan on reading "The Prince" though; even though the theme/subject I am morally opposed to. Candide is a satire of, well, life in general, but it deals most visibly with philosophy. Voltaire tells the story of a young man named Candide and the completely absurd number of horrible events that befall him. It's very short, very pointed, and very good. The other two books are conflicting works of economic theory that, although difficult to understand, are "good." That said, they're definitely not "light reading." If you're not at least moderately interested in economics, you can probably skip them. And if you're only going to read one, I'd recommend Smith over Marx, but that's probably just my biased, capitalist viewpoint talking. ^^ | ||
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Ghin
United States2391 Posts
It's fun to read and it has some literary value, though perhaps it was all accidental. Wheel of Time series is good until about the 4th or 5th book when it becomes talking about killing some forsaken guy for 600 pages. Then the 15 final pages are an action scene that doesn't fit at all with the rest of the book. This scene sets up an event that causes the next book's 600 pages of boring dialog and planning. | ||
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NeO)PhOeNiX
Canada250 Posts
1984 Handmaid's Tale Brave New World The Great Gatsby | ||
mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
On August 17 2005 18:17 Sharkey wrote: The Art of War by Sun Tzu. A short 80 page read and has relevance to 'everything' apparently. I didn't really like it and didn't understand it. I guess I don't read to deep. check out The Art of War, Special Edition version of the book, if you haven't already. I had Sawyer's version of the book, but the Special Edition filled in all the little details with its commentary section. edit: something in the amazon links seem to make the url parser for these forums go awry edit2: oh. the adwords :| amazon amazon whore whore amazon | ||
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LazySCV
United States2942 Posts
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shmay
United States1091 Posts
bringing down the house - heard it mentioned a few times in this thread, i can also attest that is a good book - it's about MIT students who win millions of dollars by cheating at blackjack in las vegas camoot - lay off dan brown | ||
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Talli-
Norway60 Posts
Da Vinci Code both great books by Dan Brown | ||
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camooT
United States1354 Posts
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EAGER-beaver
Canada2799 Posts
yep, that's what the book is actually called. | ||
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LazySCV
United States2942 Posts
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camooT
United States1354 Posts
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/v#a60 you can also take a look at some of H.G. wells' stuff and see how you like them here: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a30 | ||
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LazySCV
United States2942 Posts
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CTStalker
Canada9720 Posts
On August 21 2005 13:01 camooT wrote: if you like H.G. wells, you will probably like Jules Verne as well. Try 20k leagues under the sea. if you want, you can read them from .txt files here. http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/v#a60 you can also take a look at some of H.G. wells' stuff and see how you like them here: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a30 the mysterious island and vonnegut's player piano are two of my favourite books about engineers. | ||
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sith
United States2474 Posts
seriously it's not the movie i had to read it for school and thought it would suck but it doesn't their's tons of cool stuff | ||
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nvnplatypus
Netherlands1300 Posts
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BC.KoRn
Canada567 Posts
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Echo
United States435 Posts
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camooT
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