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sexyanon2

sexyanon2

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Classic novels are nice and all, but I want something in addition to them. Maybe some books with some nice philosophy/science 'theme.' Most political books/documentaries depress and scare me due to obvious reasons.

So, any books that you guys know of that fall under this category of "interesting" that have some relation to philosophy and science?

Gratzi. :)
 
have you read angels and demons yet? Great book. It was suppose to be before the da vinci code. And that's another great book to read.

They are more like between science and religion.
 
^ Agreed!

I'm not normally into the 'blockbuster bestsellers' but picked this up on a whim & it's fantastic. A real page-turner. Got me back into the concepts of antimatter & string theory too, which I'd neglected for far too long...
 
I think you'd like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It is a good sci-fi read and poses some interesting questions.

Neuromancer by William Gibson, might also be a good choice. A bit less philosophical than BNW, it is a classic.

and...Dan Brown should write screenplays not books.
 
Are you interested in fiction or non-fiction books? I read much more fiction than non, but I'll try to recommend in both categories.

For fiction, I recommend the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, and Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I've read all three of these books in the past year and found them to be quite complimentary to each other.

For non-fiction, I'm currently reading the Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, which I would also recommend despite only being about 100 pages into it. This book deals with turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Chicago during the World's Fair and the serial killer loose during that same time period.

Originally posted by PlurredChemistry
Dan Brown should write screenplays not books.


I refuse to read any of his stuff. My roommate was reading one of his books and I browsed through the pages--amateur prose at best. I'll pass.
 
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the holographic universe by michael talbot

or

communion by whitley strieber
 
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
A gorilla teaches this guy about different cultural perspectives. I've read it many times and learn it anew every time.

Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
It focuses on Christianity in the background, but even my brother who's certainly not a "churchie" found this book to be perspective-altering. There's no other book which I can say left me physically relaxed and at ease after finishing it.


Of course there's more, I'll list them if I remember them.
 
For some light reading try any Ben Elton book. Each book deals with a particular theme (drugs, reality tv, violence and media, nuclear arms, pollution, capitalism etc.) in a highly satirical way.

Hilarious and somewhat insightful.
 
^ His books/plays are very underrated in my opinion.

Good call on Neuromancer - wasn't that the book in which the term 'cyberpunk' was first coined?
 
'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick.

The film Blade Runner was an adaptation of this book.

A fantastic science-fiction writer who deals with a broad range of concepts in his work that span culture, society, philosophy & science.

Check out his website here.
 
oooh!

milan kundera - if you're after philosophical / deep / interesting books, you really must check out 'the unbearable lightness of being'. also - 'immortality', 'life is elswhere' and 'identity' (although i haven't read the last one yet). kundera is really, really good.

Albert Camus - anything by Camus is good, in a general art-house existentialist fashion. there's a compendium called 'exile and the kingdom' which is superb.

Umberto Eco - 'Foucault's Pendulum'. this is a darkside semi-rant medieval epistemological conceptual novel which ties itself & your head in knots, but from what i've read of it (not a lot - only got a copy for 2 hours :() it's good.

bill bryson - 'a short history of everything'. this makes science comfortable, accessible and interesting to the non-scientist.. really an effortless, effable tour around the Big Things in Life.

john wyndham - 'the midwich cuckoos'. i can't stop recommending this to everyone, i always have and always will.

ben okri - 'the famished road'. again, i've yet to read it - but titania loves it and her judgment is superb. he's an african storyteller who instantly captures you and twists you through his narratives..
 
^ A short of history of everything is a fucking great book.

Does an awesome job of putting all the various schools of science and their historical perspectives, into a very readable and informative format.
 
Thanks for the replies.

Now which book to start off with?

The decisions are killing me. O_o
 
Hehe, by the way its a Short History of NEARLY Everything :P

but a good book nonetheless
 
If you want a book that teaches you the right way to live and think, read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.











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