The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

[Anonymouse]

These are the list of books that everybody should own and if you don't, I hope you get stung by a scorpion. Read all these books you will definitely be an enlightened person despite what other people will tell you.

The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
-America's Great Depression
-The Mystery of Banking
- The Ethics of Liberty
- Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labour
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
- Theory and History
- Nation, State, and Economy
- Liberalism
The Terror Enigma : 9/11 and the Israeli Connection
by Justin Raimondo
Mahabharata retold by William Buck
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs
Crossfire by Jim Marrs
Alien Agenda by Jim Marrs
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anarchism by Daniel Guerin
Myth of Nations by Patrick Geary
The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
The Temple and the Lodge by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
- The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
- Unseen Forces
The Rosicrucians by by Hargrave Jennings
The Teachings of Osiris by H.C.Randall-Stevens
The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic by Israel Regardie, Samuel Weiser
The Encyclopedia of the Occult by Lewis Spence, Bracken Books
Hitler and the Age of Horus by Gerald Suster
Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper
Problems of Humanity by Alice A. Bailey
New Lies For Old by Anatoly Golitsyn
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
- Das Kapital
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Republic by Plato
- The Trial and Death of Socrates : Four Dialogues

On Christian Doctrine by St. Augustine
-Confessions
- City of God
A Brave New World by Alduous Huxley
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Animal Farm by George Orwell
-1984
Gods of Eden by William Bramley
The 12th Planet by Zechariah Sitchin
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov
- [Crime and Punishment
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Bible
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Burning Tigris by Peter Balakian
The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century
by Richard Hovannisian
The Kingdom of Armenia by Mark Chahin
The Republic of Armenia by Richard Hovannisian
History of Armenia by Movses of Khoren
None Dare Call it a Conspiracy by Gary Allen
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
- The Anglo-American Establishment
- Evolution of Civilizations
The Cambridge Modern History by Lord Acton
Illuminati 666 William Josiah Sutton
Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster by David Icke
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
The Templars and the Assassins by James Wasserman
-Art and Symbols of the Occult: Images of Power and Wisdom
Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Museum by Alexander Roob
Evolution: A Theory In Crisis by Michael Denton
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hanxxxx
-The Mars Mystery
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
Carolingians by Pierre Riche
Before France and Germany by Patrick Geary
Evolutionary Biology by Douglas Futuyma
Russia's War by Richard Overy
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
Democracy, the God That Failed by Hans-Herman Hoppe
Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War
by George Morgenstern
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Harry E. Barnes
Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert Stinnett
Into the Darkness by Lothrap Stoddard
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald
The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
The Politics by Aristotle
The Prince by Nicholo Machiavelli
The Federalist Papers
The Anti-Federalist Papers
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
Five Dialogues by Plato
The Politics of Anti-Semitism by Alexander xxxxburn
America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony C. Sutton
-Wall Street & the Rise of Hilter
-The Federal Reserve Conspiracy
- Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline by James Perloff
Are We Alone in the Universe? by Zechariah Sitchin
Aryan Origin Of The Alphabet by L.A. Waddell
Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica
by Thomas Aquinas
- St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics
The Trinity by St. Augustine
The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Art of War by Shun Tzu
Iliad by Homer
Othello by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth
-Romeo and Juliet
- Hamlet
The Essays by Francis Bacon
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime by Immanuel Kant
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by G.W. Hegel
The Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Philip Dru Administrator by Col. Edward Mandell House
Who Financed Hitler by James and Suzanne Pool
The Holocaust Industry by Norman G. Finkelstein
The Mind Controllers by Armen Victorian
911 by Noam Chomsky
The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler
World Orders Old and New by Noam Chomsky
- The Fateful Triangle
Worship of the Serpent by John Bathurst Deane
The Sirius Mystery by Robert Temple
When Time Began
The First New Age by Zechariah Sitchin

[Darorinag]

Great post, Mousey.

The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson << just got this from the library. Nice book :D

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler << another great one

Some more to add:

Anarchy Cookbook :eek:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce :D
Utopia - Sir Thomas More
Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence <<< currently reading this one! Great book!! Doing a seminar presentation on it next week. :D :p

[Hogg]

Animal Farm by George Orwell
-1984

The only books I've read in the entire list. Actually, I'm not even sure if I read either one completely. :p These days, I got so much reading for class that I won't even contemplate picking a book up to read for fun even though I'd like to.

[Anonymouse]

I forgot to include The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

EVERYONE should read that, regardless of age.

I should also add:

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, but I never completed that in its entirety.

[Darorinag]

Animal Farm is short. I read it in 4 hours, and I'm a very slow reader. Great book.

I had to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for my Satire course.. it was the first time I had read it, believe it or not. :eek: It was pretty good! :D But weird.. lol. Was Carroll on E or something while writing it??!? :confused: or maybe opium...

Mousey, have you read all those books you listed?

I remember reading umm a book called uhhh, Two Early Tudor Lives.. I think that's what it's called.. I still have the book, it's somewhere in my closet (no space for books in my room anymore! lol).. so yea, it was a very boring yet informative book, about Cardinal Wolsey and Sir Thomas More.. I had to read it for one of my summer courses, but we never got tested on it, so it was in vain.. but still informative.. i do think it's a must have book for anyone who's interested in Sir Thomas More's life and works. :)

[Darorinag]

I seemed to forget:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K xxxx (poor guy, his last name happens to be d|ck, but the filter won't let me write it lol) :D

Ooo, ooo, and how about Fanny Hill - John Cleland..

that book is HOTTTTTT lol.. I have a rare copy of it. :D

[sleuth]

i read "'one hundrid years of solitude'' by Marquez when i was 12 heheheheh :)..and Dostoevsky my all time fav...Smerdykova xaxaxa...

Tolstoy << Anna Karenina>>
Turgenev<Mu-MU>.>

Michio kushi( banch of xxxxslol)

Bocaccio <,The Decameron>.

Elaine pagels'', Origine of satan"'

Judith Wechsler ""A human comedy""

''On Aesthetics in science''

"" the interpretation of CEzanne""

Nahum Norbert Glatzer"" Loves of Franz Kafka""

Franz Kafka "" The metamorphosis""

..............hehhehe i still in love with "" the little prince"'lol i really do...though i read it when i was 10 or something,in armenian :P

[ckBejug]

. The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
. Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur S. Golden
. Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
. On The Road- Jack Kerouac
. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

. All Summer in a Day- Ray Bradbury (book of short stories, of which the title
story is my favorite short)

[dusken]

A dictionary.

[loseyourname]

Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - H.S. Thompson
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
The Sickness unto Death - Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Communion - Whitley Streiber
Genesis Revisited - Zecharia Sitchin
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification - Michael Martin
The Case Against Christianity - Michael Martin
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Nothing in this Book is True, But It's Exactly the Way Things Are - Bob Frissell
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
Universal Myths - Joseph Campbell
The Golden Bough - George Frazier
The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking
A Short History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Religion and the Modern Mind - William T. Stace

and many, many others . . .

[spiral]

Which one is the best translation of Machiavelli's The Prince?
There was quite a few at the bookstore.

[spiral]

well?...anyone?...any suggestions?

I searched online, but I'm not a very savy surfer.

I came up with Adams...but ...

[Anonymouse]

Get the one translated and edited by Daniel Donno.

[spiral]

Thanks, I'll look into it.

[Darorinag]

Also,
The Moon and Sixpence - Somerset Maugham
Old Goriot (or Père Goriot) - Balzac
Germinal - Emile Zola
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

and, for those who want to learn German:

German for Beginners - Dieter Cunz (1965)

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by loseyourname Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - H.S. Thompson
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
The Sickness unto Death - Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Communion - Whitley Streiber
Genesis Revisited - Zecharia Sitchin
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification - Michael Martin
The Case Against Christianity - Michael Martin
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Nothing in this Book is True, But It's Exactly the Way Things Are - Bob Frissell
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
Universal Myths - Joseph Campbell
The Golden Bough - George Frazier
The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking
A Short History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Religion and the Modern Mind - William T. Stace

and many, many others . . .

You're books seem very limited, only reading the things you agree with.

Do correct me kind sage.

[anileve]

Originally posted by Anonymouse
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


I am surprised...This is a novel about love and has a very surreal, romantic feel to it. Something you wouldn't normally be interested in.

Originally posted by Anonymouse
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hanxxxx

So what was the last name of the author again? :D By the way, which one of his books is the most intriguing? I like the Mars Mystery so far, also "The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant" is supposed to be good.

A few others that are one my list are:

-The Eternal Darkness : A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration by Robert D. Ballard

-The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh

- The Praetorian Guard : The US Role In The New World Order by John Stockwell

- The Illuminatus! Trilogy : The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea

- Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

- The Footprints of God : A Novel by Greg Iles

Has anyone read these? So many books to read and not enough time. Hopefully when I retire.

[Anonymouse]

Wow, look at that, some books I haven't come across but seem interesting after a nice search.

I especially am intered in The Praetorian Guard.

As for On Hundred Years of Solitude, it was more than just a love story, let's not forget why the author was writing, when, and where, Ms anileve.

[loseyourname]

Originally posted by Anonymouse You're books seem very limited, only reading the things you agree with.

Do correct me kind sage.

I would have listed many more, but you already listed a lot of them.

By the way, there is plenty in those books that I do not agree with. Even the Blind Watchmaker, which I constantly cite and praise, is a very flawed book.

[Fadix]

Originally posted by anileve

- Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot



That is a great book.

Here some others.

The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World by Maggie Goswami(Physicist)

Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable by Bob Toben

...and those are from Fred Alan Wolf(Physicist)

The Eagle's Quest, Parallel Universes
The Dreaming Universe
Taking the Quantum Leap
Matter Into Feeling: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit
Bridging Science and Spirit: Common Elements in David Bohm's Physics, the Perennial Philosophy and Seth(Wolf and by Norman Friedman)
The Body Quantum: The New Physics of Body, Mind and Health
Star Wave: Mind, Consciousness, and Quantum Physics
The Spiritual Universe: How Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soul
Mind and the new physics

I will be adding more later.

[anileve]

Thank you Fadyush, I was actually looking for more scientific books to add to my list.

Sometimes I wish I was more knowledgeable in physics and mathematics to understand certain book better. I think I took my science classes for granted, not knowing that one day I will regret it.

Personally when it comes to understanding universe, this book is one of a kind.

The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking

[clubbin714]

Great f#cking books here, I would add

The First 200 Years Of Monty Python by Kim Howard Johnson
The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyayana edited by Richard Burton
The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains And How Children Learn by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff and Patricia K. Kuhl
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Castle by Franz Kafka
Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist
Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Thumbsucker: A Novel by Walter Kirn


Biographies

Muhammad Ali: His Life And Times by Thomas Hauser
Einstein: The Life And Times by Ronald W. Clark
Uncertainty: The Life And Science Of Werner Heisenberg by David Cass idy
Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz
Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho And His Friends by Charlotte Chandler
Rashi: The Man And His World by Esra Shereshevsky
Maimonides: A Biography by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx


Physics

In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin
In Search of the Big Bang: Quantum Physics and Cosmology by John Gribbin
The God Particle by Leon Lederman
The Tao Of Physics by Fritjof Capra
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
The ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell
Relativity: The Special And General Theory by Albert Einstein
QED: The Strange Theory Of Light And Matter by Richard Feynman
Beyond The Quantum by Michael Talbot
The Arrow Of Time: A Voyage Through Science To Solve Time's Greatest Mystery by Peter Coveney
Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed The Face Of Physics edited by John J. Stachel
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, And The Quest For The Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

Math

The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis
Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems Of Mathematics by William Dunham
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Sphereland by Dionys Burger
One, Two, Three...Infinty: Fact And Speculations Of Science by George Gamow
Chaos by James Gleick
e: The Story Of A Number by Eli Maor
Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest To Solve The World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh
Five Golden Rules: Great Theories Of 20th Century Mathematics - And Why They Matter by John L. Casti
An Imaginary Tale by Paul J. Nahin

[sSsflamesSs]

Originally posted by clubbin714 The Trial by Franz Kafka

Disturbing and depressing, although interesting.

[Darorinag]

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

:D Great books, particularly the first one.

Also, The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham. About Paul Gauguin, if I remember correctly. :)

And Regeneration (trilogy) (Part I - Regeneration, Part II - The Eye in the Door, Part III - Ghost Road) by Pat Barker.

A MUST read (& own) book is Germar Rudolf's Dissecting the Holocaust - very interesting. It's available both online and in print.

[jilbagh]

The Jordan Rules-Sam Smith
Shaq Talks Back
Ain't No Tomorrow
Sacred Hoops -Phil Jackson
A Minds Game -Phil Jackson
Values of The Game- -Phil Jackson
The New War- John Kerry
Wooden-John Wooden
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them- Al Franken

[Siggie]

Mousy - if you liked the da vinci code you should read angels and demons

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by loseyourname I would have listed many more, but you already listed a lot of them.

By the way, there is plenty in those books that I do not agree with. Even the Blind Watchmaker, which I constantly cite and praise, is a very flawed book.

I was only jokin'. Lighten up man. There's a flaw in every book, but that's not why we read them is it?

[Anonymouse]

These two books I recently purchased and have arrived in the mail. I doubt I can get to them now due to constraints, but if anyone besides clubbin is interested in Mixed Martial Arts, you should definitely check it out.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1550225170.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130977608.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[vrej]

Paris 1919- Margaret Macmillan
40 Days of Musa Dagh- Franz Werfel
Hitler and the Armenian Genocide- Bardakjian
A crime of Vengence- Edward Alexander

-Warrant for Genocide
-The Historical and Legal interconnections between the Armenian Genocide and xxxish Holocaust: from impunity to retributive Justice.
The history of the Armenian genocide : ethnic conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus
- Vahakn Dadrian

-The Armenian kingdom in Cilicia during the Crusades : the integration of Cilician Armenians with the Latins, 1080-1393- Jacob G. Ghazarian.

Armenian Books
-Khente, Gaydzer, Khatchakoghi Hishadagaranuh, Samuel- All from Raffi

- Any book on the philosophies of Karekin Njteh

- Zartonk- Malkhas

[spiral]

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extremely easy read.

[Fadix]

Originally posted by vrej Paris 1919- Margaret Macmillan
40 Days of Musa Dagh- Franz Werfel
Hitler and the Armenian Genocide- Bardakjian
A crime of Vengence- Edward Alexander

-Warrant for Genocide
-The Historical and Legal interconnections between the Armenian Genocide and xxxish Holocaust: from impunity to retributive Justice.
The history of the Armenian genocide : ethnic conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus
- Vahakn Dadrian



Have them all. :)

[Anonymouse]

ttt .

[Thai-Samurai]

I own a total of 5 books for Anon's first list. Also can someone tell me what Of Human Bondage is about? Slavery or something?

In highschool I was a big fan of Ray Bradburry, if you get into it read ALL his books. Starting w/ The October Country, which are short stories. Toynbee Convector is good too. And The Martian Chronicles is an awesome book.

My senior year in highschool I really got into Carl Jung. And I've read just about all his books. Psychology of the Unconscious is quite a read but worth it. So is Carl Jung's Seminar on Nietzche's Zarathustra.

Frederick Nieztsche is one helluva an interesting read but good luck on undestanding what he's talking about.

Lately I havnt been reading cuz school keeps making me write essays. But I''m into concepts of the mind, Zen, and theories of the higher order.

Oh yeah history and evolution are really interesting topics also, If you want to undestand the transition between caveman to some form of civilization Ancient Society, is pretty good. (if you know another book that covers that topic let me know please).

[nairi]

Speaking with God from the Depths of My heart - Narekatsi

See for translated online version here: http://www.stgregoryofnarek.am/book.php

[Emil]

To Kill A Mockingbird.

[GSTracer05]

Ebay is a good place to pickup alot of these books for pretty cheap prices.

[XxgoeyxX]

Okei Odkei I will give you my own. I did read the list but I'm sorry if im repeating any of it.



The Bible
Siddhartha By Hermann Hesse
Chuang-Tzu Translated by Burton Watson
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Burning Tigris By Peter Balakian
Rise The Euphrates By Carol Edgarian
A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry
The Poisonwood Bible By Barbara Kingsolver
All of the Harry Potter Series
My all time favorite Charlotte's Web by E.B White
The Hobbit By J.K Tolkien
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison
Mr. Vertigo By Paul Auster
Master of the Lotus Garder- The life and art of Bada Shanren


Okei these are the only ones I can remember at the moment.

BTW thanks for the advice Mr. Racer...I wouldnt know what to do without your brilliant mind!

[HyeJinx1984]

You know what I just realized? I don't really read all that many books (novels anyway)

[Thai-Samurai]

ive read all of herman hesse's books, and chuangtzu and mencius, also on zen

[Anonymouse]

Ebay is a good place to pickup alot of these books for pretty cheap prices.

Or Amazon.com if you want certainty.

[Thai-Samurai]

half.com works...

[Anushik]

My favorite books

"Trilogy of life" (three books) Theodore Dreiser

also
all books of Onore de Balzac (they are great)...
"Crime and Punishment" Dostoevsky
"Idiot" Dostoevsky
"American Tragedy" Dreiser
"12 little Indians" or "And than there was none" Agatha Christy (actually I love all her novels, but this one is special...)
"Goya" (I can't remember author’s name)
"Da Vinchy's Code" (I'm reading it now, and it's pretty interesting)
Hovhannes Tumanyani poemner@
"Vardananq" Derenik Demirchyan

and there are more, but I cannot remember them right now...

[sleuth]

"Goya" (I can't remember author’s name)
".

Evan Connell ? :wave:

[Anushik]

Evan Connell ? :wave:

I think so... I have hard time to remember authors' name if they are not really-really famous... :)... Isn't that book great? I remember that after that book I was in the Library all day long; I was trying to find a book with all his paintings... :)

[sleuth]

I think so... I have hard time to remember authors' name if they are not really-really famous... :)... Isn't that book great? I remember that after that book I was in the Library all day long; I was trying to find a book with all his paintings... :)

Read *old man goya* by Julaia Blackburn.

http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/minisites/goya/


I loveeeeeee Goya. LOVERRRR.. hahahaah

[Anushik]

Read *old man goya* by Julaia Blackburn.

http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/minisites/goya/


I loveeeeeee Goya.

Thanks a lot sleuth... I'll read it defenetely... :)

[Tres Bien]

One title comes to mind...easy to read though very entertaining, puts your mind off from depressing things for a while- High fidelity by Nick hornby
I love the book. It gives me joy just holding it in my arms. :laugh:

[garegin]

religion within the limits of reason only
immanuel kant

[Tres Bien]

More Books:
"Armenians, a people in exile"- David Marshall Lang
"The Christian Oriental Carpet" -Volkmar Gantzhorn
"Armenian Women of the Stage"- Alice Navasargian

[Tres Bien]

I'd love to read some auto-biographies about survivors from the armenian genocide, any suggestions to a couple of good books?

[garegin]

I forgot to include The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

EVERYONE should read that, regardless of age.

I should also add:

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, but I never completed that in its entirety.

i read that when i was like 9

[xBaron Dants]

i read that when i was like 9

You should reread it now. You'd be amazed at how much things change. :wave:

[Inna]

I just finished reading "Portrait of Sepia" by Isabel Allende. She also wrote "The House of the Spirits." Those are the only two books I've read by her and I love both of them. Allende is such a great author; she really keeps you glued to the book, anticipating what will happen. I'd recommend it to females though sense these two books deal more with women issues and feminism. But its also a good history lesson of Chile.

[angelik22]

okie i know there are alotta books listed in this thread- but jsut as a refreshment of ideas/opinions- are there any new books out there that you guys would reccommend? something more spiritual...perhaps eastern philosophy or what not.... im not sure if im spelling it correctly- but one of my personality theory professors mentioned "Siddharta" i believe-- i just wanted to know if thats a book or the name off a haracter in a book- because the theoretical concepts behind it seemed rather interesting- anywhoo--- gimme some ideas pleeeze ;) i have a month of "freedom" and the only chance to grab a good book and read it ;) thanx in advance

[HyeJinx1984]

An oldie but a goodie, I suggest reading the entire Divina Comedia. For some reason people focus so much on Inferno, but personally I like Paradiso the best. Dante is a geniues, most people don't realize it but he really shaped what we today imagine hell and heaven to like look (more so hell). Although I do suggest getting a copy that has appendices that explain who everybody is... most people today don't know much about medival politics.

The Knight in Rusty Armor is a good book too.

[Inna]

okie i know there are alotta books listed in this thread- but jsut as a refreshment of ideas/opinions- are there any new books out there that you guys would reccommend? something more spiritual...perhaps eastern philosophy or what not.... im not sure if im spelling it correctly- but one of my personality theory professors mentioned "Siddharta" i believe-- i just wanted to know if thats a book or the name off a haracter in a book- because the theoretical concepts behind it seemed rather interesting- anywhoo--- gimme some ideas pleeeze ;) i have a month of "freedom" and the only chance to grab a good book and read it ;) thanx in advance

Siddharta(also a character in the book) is the title of the book written by Hermann Hesse(i think thats how you spell his name :confused: ). Its a good book, I had to read it in 10th grade. I should probably read it again since I have a better knowledge and understanding of Buddhism, just havent gotten around to it.

p.s. read the book I suggested in my previous post, its REALLY good :D

[Thai-Samurai]

siddhartha doesnt really have anything to do w/ buddhism, its just done kinda like it. The character uses the "bhuddist" route but the story is really another one of hesse's represntations of a person looking for an identity. The character in siddhartha also had a son and it was a sort of father/son version. In Steppenwolfe the story is more about a lonely man, it has a more philosophical style to it.

[Inna]

siddhartha doesnt really have anything to do w/ buddhism, its just done kinda like it. The character uses the "bhuddist" route but the story is really another one of hesse's represntations of a person looking for an identity. The character in siddhartha also had a son and it was a sort of father/son version. In Steppenwolfe the story is more about a lonely man, it has a more philosophical style to it.

thats what i meant by siddhartha and his journey relating to buddhism. And about Steppenwolfe, I tried reading that book, it was so confusing...way to philosophical for me.

[Thai-Samurai]

oh i understand. what other books have u read?

[Hayq]

lol i actually read the Republic and Communist manifesto, along with Orwell's book.

I am currently reading UTOPIA by Thomas More and will soon start on The Politics by Aristotle. Any comments?

[Anonymouse]

To the list requires an update of books that one should own. I found the reading material for one of my classes to be very interesting, and had a theme running throughout all the books. I highly recommend them.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
-Beyond Good and Evil
-The Gay Science
-On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
-Human, All Too Human Human
Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw
The Dehumanization of Art (essay) by Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Civilization and It's Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
-Discipline and Punish
-The Order of Things
-The History of Sexuality
One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

[CatWoman]

Currently I'm reading:

-"The Caucasian Knot" about Nagorno Karabakh
-Angelina Jolie's "Notes From My Travels" about her visits with refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador.... very touching stories

Great books.... I just don't have time to finish 'em with all these school work and this forum isn't really helping lol.

[Anonymouse]

Currently I'm reading:

-"The Caucasian Knot" about Nagorno Karabakh
-Angelina Jolie's "Notes From My Travels" about her visits with refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador.... very touching stories

Great books.... I just don't have time to finish 'em with all these school work and this forum isn't really helping lol.

One is definitely a celebrity worshiper if you read Angelina Jolie. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Anonymouse/laugh.gif

[tunot]

Next to everything else that is good for the brain and you enjoy reading, I'm actually surprised that no one has posted an Armenian literary author. As Armenians we should care not to neglect our own authors. There really are some great names out there that are absolutely worth reading if you like fiction. Here's a short list of some of our classic authors. (NOTE: some of them have been translated to English so you have no excuse!):

Gostan Zarian
Hagop Baronian
Yervant Odian
Aksel Bakounts
Khachatur Abovian
Yeghishe Charents
Zabel Yessayan
William Saroyan
Michael Arlen
Raffi
Derenik Demirchian
Shahan Shahnour
Arthur Adamov
Hovhannes Toumanian
Avetik Isahakian
Vahan Totovents

And many, many more. I'd like to hear more from you!

[Anonymouse]

Next to everything else that is good for the brain and you enjoy reading, I'm actually surprised that no one has posted an Armenian literary author. As Armenians we should care not to neglect our own authors. There really are some great names out there that are absolutely worth reading if you like fiction. Here's a short list of some of our classic authors. (NOTE: some of them have been translated to English so you have no excuse!):

Gostan Zarian
Hagop Baronian
Yervant Odian
Aksel Bakounts
Khachatur Abovian
Yeghishe Charents
Zabel Yessayan
William Saroyan
Michael Arlen
Raffi
Derenik Demirchian
Shahan Shahnour
Arthur Adamov
Hovhannes Toumanian
Avetik Isahakian
Vahan Totovents

And many, many more. I'd like to hear more from you!


Thanks for that. Note that I have read Toumanian, as well as Sevak and Shiraz, and Saroyan. I have heard alot of Zarian and would like to make some time to read his stuff as it has interested me for quite a while.

[transience]

Mikael Nalbandian

[tunot]

You'll like Zarian, Mouse.

Nalbandian is a classic as well!

[Quarteria]

The Cloning of the American Mind -- B. K. Eakman (Mouse, I REALLY think you should read this)

All of Denis Miller's "Rant" books

Borstal Boy -- Brendan Behan.

[Anahita]

The Tao of Physics: An exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism Capra, F. {1975/…2000}

REALLY good read...
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Sometimes GARBAGE sings just that...


I only can be happy, with NO RAIN, or any of the rest of that. Much of the time, they get it 1/2 right. Or maybe *I* only get 1/2?


Happy and 'rain' are not even in the same galaxy, to me.

Jack Johnson understands some...

[transience]

You're only happy when it's complicated. :(

[karoaper]

I haven't read a single fiction since reading The Broker by Grisham a year ago. Grisham is to literature what Hollywood blockbusters are to film.

[transience]

Too true.

[Quarteria]

Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes of the Horrible 70s -- James Lileks
(good for a laugh, or to recall the repressed memories. You decide)

[Anahita]

I like books on ECOFEMINISM.

An Unnatural Order: Uncovering the Roots of Our Domination of Nature and Each Other by Jim Mason (1993)


This woman is studying ecofeminism--a better way (IMHO). I think she has interesting things to think about, as well.

http://thecrazyhippiecatlady.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_thecrazyhippiecatlady_archive.html


Thoughts on medicine
...

Funny thing is, while I was waiting on my various diagnoses, I was reading from an anthology, doing research for my Ecofeminism and the Sacred Feminine research paper that I am writing (why did I say I would do a 20 page thesis?) A couple of the essays did a lot of talking about the patriarchal medical system and how it subverts female bodies to the male will. I don't think the white, 50 something stereotypical (but nice) doctor man and his young, pretty female nurses were attempting to keep me subservient by writing me a prescription to fix me up, but I do find myself wondering WHY I am sick in the first place. I have been sick more times this pst year or so than the several years proceeding it put together. Come to think of it, I have actually been pretty sickly most of my life. And generally unhealthy.

So what is it about the society that I live in that is making me sick? In medieval times, people walked around cities in xxxx. And there were rats that spread plague, after superstitious woman-hating nonsense about the wise women being witches encouraged people to kill all the cats they could. I have six cats and indoor plumbing, so I don't think poo or rats has anything to do with it. I don't eat meat. I am slowly phasing out all unnatural chemicals from my cleaning products and such.

Of course, no matter what I do for myself, my daughter and I interact constantly with people who continue to practice these nature and people killing everyday activities. So probably these germs came from either her daycare or my own daily run ins with other people, at school and at the bookstore.

But what can I do to prevent myself and Danielle from getting sick? What sort of things can boost my overall health naturally? Stay tuned for more as I continue to investigate..."
















'Mama was a hippie"--Chili Peppers

[Anahita]

STAYING ALIVE: Women, Ecology and Development (1989) by Dr. Vandana Shiva

“Vandana Shiva—physicist, philosopher and feminist… [she] is a leading physicist who abandoned an exciting career in her country’s nuclear energy programme because she felt ‘the reaction of nuclear systems with living systems is being kept from the people.’ Like all Greens, she decided that arrogant late twentieth-century science now poses such a threat to ‘the web of life’ (of which we are merely a part) that a committed scientist should take the side of Nature against further artifice and destruction.”



I’d highly suggest reading at least the first few pages of this book in link below (and the first few pages of the book)—from Amazon.com about the book—it could literally help to save your life. Dr. Shiva is certainly a HERO of a Grand kind—I painted her into a kind of super-goddess. I doubt I’ll EVER have to revoke that status from Dr. Shiva.

STAYING ALIVE
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0862328233/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-7597190-5735305#reader-link (Go to the bottom corner to turn pages)



If you can’t get the book at the library or bookstore, check out these by Shiva:

Globalization: War Against Nature
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Globalization/War_Against_Nature_VFTS.html

Monocultures of the Mind
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Vandana_Shiva/Monocultures_Mind.html

Other Shiva articles.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Vandana_Shiva/Vandana_Shiva_page.html

Other info:
http://www.ecofem.org/
http://www.ecofeminism.net/
http://www.genesisretreat.com/

[Lamb Boy]

So I guess we are talking like 90%+ nonfiction works here huh? [Are social/political and philosophical books considered nonfiction or are they just considered social/political and philosophical?]

[Anahita]

I think the next book I'll get is:

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0670033375/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-2169706-3764660#reader-link

If I remember correctly, just one iron smelter (steel production) in Brazil, if it continued, would be responsible for the loss of 16% of the Amazon. That is just one example. Maybe we should 'mine' landfills to obtain raw materials.