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The 100 Greatest Books, according to PD.com

Started by Requia ☣, February 28, 2009, 10:26:04 AM

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LMNO

#45
March 05, 2009, 04:00:02 PM
Quote from: rong on March 05, 2009, 07:29:06 AM
Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter

This.

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#46
March 05, 2009, 05:58:23 PM
Quote from: whatc on March 03, 2009, 08:19:29 PM
Some faint memories from the wasted youth  :roll:

Deus X - Norman Spinrad
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Software - Rudy Rucker


Don't forget Pratchett's book The Thief of Time, which is even more appropriate here than Pratchett's other books, due to the blatantly Discordian/SubGenius themes it deals with (ie. the whole novel revolves around time-control, there are FIVE horsemen of the Apocalypse rather than four, the plot involves a conspiracy to wipe out individuality, et cetera)
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LMNO

#47
March 05, 2009, 06:09:49 PM
Yeah, Thief of Time, absolutely.

Jasper

#48
March 05, 2009, 06:40:27 PM
Ooh!  Ooh! 

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Kai

#49
March 05, 2009, 07:55:35 PM
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

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Grand Visser of the Six Legged Class
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AFK

#50
March 05, 2009, 08:16:00 PM
Garfield Minus Garfield - Jim Davis and some other spag.
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Z³

#51
March 05, 2009, 09:57:58 PM
Quote from: ᐂ on March 05, 2009, 12:45:45 PM

Quote from: nostalgicBadger on March 04, 2009, 10:58:18 PM
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
I haven't read this one, but I've read Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? and it was quite interesting.



Thats the one that Total Recall was based on.

nostalgicBadger

#52
March 05, 2009, 10:06:44 PM
Quote from: Z³ on March 05, 2009, 09:57:58 PM
Quote from: ᐂ on March 05, 2009, 12:45:45 PM

Quote from: nostalgicBadger on March 04, 2009, 10:58:18 PM
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
I haven't read this one, but I've read Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? and it was quite interesting.



Thats the one that Total Recall was based on.

Total Recall - We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
Bladerunner - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
meh.

Requia ☣

#53
March 06, 2009, 12:56:53 AM
Quote from: LMNO redux on March 05, 2009, 06:09:49 PM
Yeah, Thief of Time, absolutely.

Thirded.
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Requia ☣

#54
March 06, 2009, 01:00:18 AM
Quote from: Kai on March 05, 2009, 07:55:35 PM
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin

I haven't read this, but I'm breaking rule two and putting it on the list anyway if there are no objections*

*Creationists may not object
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Triple Zero

#55
March 06, 2009, 09:22:08 AM
my votes (partly inspired by this thread, only ones I've read myself):

- Goedel Escher Bach, D.Hofstadter
- Thief of Time, T. Pratchett (my favourite Pratchett, still)
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, D. N. Adams
- Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
- American Gods, Neil Gaiman
- Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition, W. Gibson (hey anyone read that one btw? I should re-read but the way he describes an online forum community really struck a chord with me)
- Cat's Cradle, K. Vonnegut
- Fooled by Randomness, N. N. Taleb (I prefer this one greatly over Black Swan, and deals nearly with exactly the same subject)
- Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big, M. van der Holst
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e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

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UncannyValleyGirl

#56
March 06, 2009, 09:59:41 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 06, 2009, 09:22:08 AM
my votes (partly inspired by this thread, only ones I've read myself):

- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, D. N. Adams

- American Gods, Neil Gaiman

I strongly second (or in the case of H2G2, more like thirtysecond) these.

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Cain

#57
March 06, 2009, 12:34:10 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 06, 2009, 09:22:08 AM
my votes (partly inspired by this thread, only ones I've read myself):

- Goedel Escher Bach, D.Hofstadter
- Thief of Time, T. Pratchett (my favourite Pratchett, still)
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, D. N. Adams
- Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
- American Gods, Neil Gaiman
- Neuromancer W. Gibson
- Fooled by Randomness, N. N. Taleb (I prefer this one greatly over Black Swan, and deals nearly with exactly the same subject)

The ones I've left in all have my vote, although I'll vote whichever way on BS/FbR with Taleb.

Also, I have read Pattern Recognition.  I'm not sure I would include it, since I don't think its his best work, but its well worth a read, yes.

rong

#58
March 07, 2009, 09:30:07 AM
the art of demotivation E.L. Kersten
"a real smart feller, he felt smart"

Honey

#59
March 07, 2009, 02:08:49 PM Last Edit: March 07, 2009, 02:15:13 PM by Honey
Something by Kafka?  The Metamorphosis, The Trial, Amerika & he has good short stories too.

QuoteIf the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?  Good God, we would also be happy if we had no books, & such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves.  But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill-fortune, & distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide.  A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside of us.
-Franz Kafka

*edited to add quote
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