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The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

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  • #11
    Which one is the best translation of Machiavelli's The Prince?
    There was quite a few at the bookstore.

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    • #12
      well?...anyone?...any suggestions?

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

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

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      • #13
        Get the one translated and edited by Daniel Donno.
        Achkerov kute.

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        • #14
          Thanks, I'll look into it.

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          • #15
            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)

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            • #16
              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.
              Achkerov kute.

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              • #17
                Re: The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

                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? 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.

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                • #18
                  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.
                  Achkerov kute.

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                  • #19
                    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.

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                    • #20
                      Re: Re: The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

                      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.

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