|
Da Book Recommendations Thread inda Houze.. (pg. 5)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| Izzy |
| quote: | Originally posted by PeacefulWarrior
Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men" |
as i said before there is a strange truth in the ironic connection between the title of the book and the author :p |
|
|
| TranceGiant |
| In the process of finishing my Fukuyama book, whilst starting two other ones, namely Trainspotting (gotta love Irvine Welsh) and Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. The latter is supposed to be a good introduction to Existentialism..let's see what this is all about :D |
|
|
| PeacefulWarrior |
All Americans should read this book:
Silencing Political Dissent by Nancy Chang
It discusses how post-september 11 anti-terrorism measures threaten our civil liberties. |
|
|
| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by CortexBomb
Essential stories about future "negative" utopias...with all too many shades of our current world in them. |
Look into the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" if you want something sketchy to ruminate over.
Hegel was also an interesting cat. Thesis ~ Anti-Thesis/Synthesis...
How about American industrialists funding Communism. There's much that the public doesn't know! How could we? We're kept in the dark. |
|
|
| OLi_A |
we had to read this book in social ecology last year that i thought was pretty mind blowing
ishmael by daniel quinn
has anyone read it? if so what did you think cause im not much into philosophy and what not but this book was pretty good |
|
|
| Konijn Island |
All of the following have been published in the last 10 yrs:
Best Fiction:
Jamaica Kincaid "Autobiography of my Mother"
Philip Roth "American Pastoral"
Peter Taylor "Summons to Memphis"
Jeffrey Eugenides "The Virgin Suicides
Literary Biography:
Philip Roth "Patrimony"
Collection of Short Stories:
A.S. Byatt "The Matisse Stories"
Books of 'Dissent,' broadly construed:
Naomi Klein "No Logo"
Robert McChesney "Rich Media, Poor Democracy"
Nancy Snow "Propaganda Inc." (a 60 pp. pamphlet)
Christopher Hitchens "The Missionary Position"
anything by Chomsky (it's just not fair how smart he is)
Cartoon/Satire:
Anything by Tom Tomorrow
Books to name-drop at cocktail parties (and whose good ideas get lost in impenetrably esoteric lingo):
Gyatri Spivak "A Critique of Postcolonial Reason"
Homi Bhabha "The Location of Culture"
American History (it's what I study)
Thomas Sugrue "Origins of the Urban Crisis" (a book everyone at Fox news should be beaten over the head with)
Glenda Gilmore "Gender and Jim Crow"
Matthew Jacobson "Whiteness of a Different Color"
Mike Wallace and Ted Burroughs "Gotham" a sentimental fave
Alan Brinkley "End of Reform"
P.S. Ayn Rand's writing is as awful as her politics
P.P.S. There's a reason the independent press voted Tom Friedman the journalist who has traveled the most yet learned the least... |
|
|
| biznology |
okay, this is fiction, but it spans the 'lifetime of civilization' and is a great read:
Tom Robbins 'Jitterbug Perfume' and connects history and religion in ways never thot poss ;)
few more:
Richard Preston 'The Cobra Event' and 'The Hot Zone' both go along somewhat with the Aids discussion. very interesting, very engaging. Cobra is mostly ficticious while Zone recounts the short history of Ebola, but is better than that damn Dustin Hoffman movie with the monkey| |
|
|
| Trancer-X |
Oh yeah, books.
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Art of War - Sun Tsu
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal (not that I agree with it)
The Death of Common Sense - Philip K. Howard
The Book of Thoth - Haha |
|
|
| Trancer-X |
| Perfume - Patrick Suskind |
|
|
| Mental Exodus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancer-X
Oh yeah, books.
The Book of Thoth - Haha |
Is this a real book? I once saw a thing that delt with Thoth and was wondering. Somthing to do with ligh and darkness and stuff. |
|
|
| Floorfiller |
heheheh i got you beat here is a link to lots of FREE hostorical texts including the Emerald Tablets...
www.ancienttexts.org
they got lots of different cultures...at the moment i'm reading the book of the dead...just cause i like all that stuff... |
|
|
|
|
