Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read, before they die |
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 Apr 29 2007, 10:39 PM
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 Sanctimonious Pleasure Seeker  Group: Members Posts: 9,892 Joined: 3-September 04 From: a frummie big town Member No.: 662  |
Please name some. I've been running out of good books to read.
-------------------- "Except for the most part what people seem to be pining for is licentiousness and debauchery and culinary experimentation, rather than wearing a srugie and a blue shirt at a simchah sitting next to a person of the opposite gender while eating fresh strawberries while checking your emails from the Sen. Obama camp on your Blackberry." ~ Melech
"The quest to be non-nebach is what keeps the whole of our society going." ~ Int |
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Apr 29 2007, 10:47 PM
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 חסד ואמת Group: Members Posts: 8,725 Joined: 16-November 06 Member No.: 4,063 |
Is it a joke, a link, an opening?
We are eagerly awaiting the moment we will find out. -------------------- "If they would allow one dead soul to visit an assembly of philosophers, that would be the end of all their teachings."
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Apr 29 2007, 11:09 PM
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Godol Hador Group: Members Posts: 4,295 Joined: 10-October 05 From: Mason-Dixon line Member No.: 1,911 |
My, that's a short list.
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Apr 30 2007, 04:48 AM
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 Verisimilitudinous Group: Members Posts: 8,910 Joined: 25-June 03 From: Runway 37 Member No.: 106 |
QUOTE (brianna @ Apr 29 2007, 11:39 PM)  Please name some. I've been running out of good books to read. Noddy. mosheshmeal . -------------------- LIMS |
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Apr 30 2007, 04:55 AM
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חסד ואמת Group: Members Posts: 8,725 Joined: 16-November 06 Member No.: 4,063 |
QUOTE (brianna @ Apr 29 2007, 11:39 PM) Please name some. I've been running out of good books to read. Secular/ English? Godel, Escher, and Bach A History of The Modern World The Placebo Response Woe is I/ The Grouchy Grammarian Books of quotations (but forget about the before they die part, please.) -------------------- "If they would allow one dead soul to visit an assembly of philosophers, that would be the end of all their teachings."
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Apr 30 2007, 06:29 AM
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QUOTE (existwhere? @ Apr 30 2007, 04:55 AM) (but forget about the before they die part, please.) Should she read it after she dies? Brianna: which books do you like? -------------------- it's not that h has gotten boring. it's that we've become more jaded. bring the luster back in. polish your souls. learn to enjoy again. --int999 (ok, ok, I concede!)
this forum has been taken over by a bunch of punk kids who are pseudo-intellectual wannabe's with a chip on thier shoulder because they think they are frum, when they have no idea on what it means to be a True-Torah Jew. --adiel Why do your own thinking when someone you like has done it for you already? --Moshi I'm putting my money on Xi. --Rachel8 |
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Apr 30 2007, 07:29 AM
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http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
There are tons of these "Top 100" lists on the Internet. Google it and you'll have plenty to choose from. |
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Apr 30 2007, 08:44 AM
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Intelligent people read books?
-------------------- "Eat. Spit. Be Happy." -Davids
"Who is wise? he who can learn from every man. can be applied here, getting 'inspiration' from a one eyed whacko." - soapmaker " He who stands on toilet is high on pot" -Confucius " When life gives you lemons make lemonade..... but if life gives you a handful of cr@p, dont try making anything out of it, trust me on that one. -Dahlai Lama " I love Jews." -Somebody must have said it, somewhere "A good friend will come and bail you out of jail................. but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "d@mn that was fun". Make aliyah, or aliyah will make you. OFF SAVING THE WORLD |
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Apr 30 2007, 08:48 AM
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Sanctimonious Pleasure Seeker Group: Members Posts: 9,892 Joined: 3-September 04 From: a frummie big town Member No.: 662 |
QUOTE (doodlehead @ Apr 30 2007, 09:44 AM) Intelligent people read books? *bangs head against wall -------------------- "Except for the most part what people seem to be pining for is licentiousness and debauchery and culinary experimentation, rather than wearing a srugie and a blue shirt at a simchah sitting next to a person of the opposite gender while eating fresh strawberries while checking your emails from the Sen. Obama camp on your Blackberry." ~ Melech
"The quest to be non-nebach is what keeps the whole of our society going." ~ Int |
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Apr 30 2007, 09:34 AM
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 Godol Hador Group: Members Posts: 5,936 Joined: 1-June 03 Member No.: 72 |
Calculus - Computer Algebra Approach
Computational Complexity Fundamentals of Physics Principles of Quantum Mechanics Computer Architecture Mathematical Logic by Quine or Introduction to Logic by Tarski I could go on... -------------------- |
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Apr 30 2007, 09:36 AM
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Sanctimonious Pleasure Seeker Group: Members Posts: 9,892 Joined: 3-September 04 From: a frummie big town Member No.: 662 |
Int...............
-------------------- "Except for the most part what people seem to be pining for is licentiousness and debauchery and culinary experimentation, rather than wearing a srugie and a blue shirt at a simchah sitting next to a person of the opposite gender while eating fresh strawberries while checking your emails from the Sen. Obama camp on your Blackberry." ~ Melech
"The quest to be non-nebach is what keeps the whole of our society going." ~ Int |
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Apr 30 2007, 09:39 AM
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 Masmid  Group: Members Posts: 228 Joined: 3-December 06 From: Yerushalaim Member No.: 4,259 |
The ones marked with a star is not assur to read
 Kafka - The trial, the castle, America and Metamorphosis Camus - The stranger Dostojevskij - Crime and punishment Homer - Illiad, Odessey and then go on to James Joyce version of it called Ulysses Virgil - Aeniden Ovidius - Art of Love Machiavelli - The prince Honor de Balzac - La pere Goriot Flaubert Shakespeare Voltaire - Candide Goete - Faust Moliere Ibsen Shalom Aleichem * -------------------- I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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Apr 30 2007, 09:42 AM
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 Disgustingly Insensitive Group: Members Posts: 16,825 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Occupied Palestine Member No.: 407 |
QUOTE (doodlehead @ Apr 30 2007, 04:44 PM) Intelligent people read books? No, average people THINK that if they read a lot of books and fill their heads with all sorts of shtuss they will too one day become intelligent.... -------------------- [/flirting]
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Apr 30 2007, 09:43 AM
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Sanctimonious Pleasure Seeker Group: Members Posts: 9,892 Joined: 3-September 04 From: a frummie big town Member No.: 662 |
A study should be done involving identical twins. Sit one in front of a TV every afternoon, give the other an endless supply of books. See which one ends up getting higher IQ scores.
-------------------- "Except for the most part what people seem to be pining for is licentiousness and debauchery and culinary experimentation, rather than wearing a srugie and a blue shirt at a simchah sitting next to a person of the opposite gender while eating fresh strawberries while checking your emails from the Sen. Obama camp on your Blackberry." ~ Melech
"The quest to be non-nebach is what keeps the whole of our society going." ~ Int |
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Apr 30 2007, 09:46 AM
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Godol Hador Group: Members Posts: 5,936 Joined: 1-June 03 Member No.: 72 |
QUOTE (brianna @ Apr 30 2007, 10:36 AM) Int...............  But seriously, I truly believe every intelligent person should read those books. Or others that will [intimately and in detail] familiarize him/her with the subjects of mathematical logic, philosophy, physics, and theory of computation. I've only listed books I've read or whose authors I'm familiar with. I can surely name many more - such as the about 48 philosophy books we were made to read during the year long philosophy course at CU. [But I don't consider them absolutely necessary for reading. In fact, most of them are complete cra-p.] -------------------- |
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Apr 30 2007, 09:53 AM
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 Rebbe  Group: Members Posts: 1,281 Joined: 14-June 06 From: On a Plane. Member No.: 2,881 |
QUOTE (brianna @ Apr 30 2007, 09:43 AM) A study should be done involving identical twins. Sit one in front of a TV every afternoon, give the other an endless supply of books. See which one ends up getting higher IQ scores. Do identical twins have the same IQ score to begin off with? I know identical twin girls that are not even 2 yet and you can already see the different personality's and intellect by the speed of them talking and how they think. -------------------- hieb oif danne hentelech tsim taten in himel........
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Apr 30 2007, 09:57 AM
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 Gabbai |
