We've had Funniest book, saddest song, how about most thought provoking Book?
Monday, June 14, 2004 by IPlural | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Found thins link again just a bit ago...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/General/JohnnyGotHisGun.html
fair warning, it isn't nice, it isn't funny and it isn't anything but what you take from it...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/General/JohnnyGotHisGun.html
fair warning, it isn't nice, it isn't funny and it isn't anything but what you take from it...
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CerebroJD
Reply #2 Monday, June 14, 2004 8:49 PM
Reply #2 Monday, June 14, 2004 8:49 PM
"The Screwtape Letters" - C.S. Lewis
Its a pretty cool book dealing with religion, and christianity and devils. It has some humor, and alot of irony, but its a pretty good book just to read and make your own decision on. Check out your local library to find it.
Its a pretty cool book dealing with religion, and christianity and devils. It has some humor, and alot of irony, but its a pretty good book just to read and make your own decision on. Check out your local library to find it.
CerebroJD
Reply #4 Monday, June 14, 2004 9:00 PM
Reply #4 Monday, June 14, 2004 9:00 PM
I still pop in once in awhile. You on the IRC channel?
"Mathpower 12" - Alberta Learning
^ That provokes very evil thoughts in me. The diploma is tommorow.
"Mathpower 12" - Alberta Learning
^ That provokes very evil thoughts in me. The diploma is tommorow.
IPlural
Reply #6 Monday, June 14, 2004 9:05 PM
oops...
The link is to Johnny Got His Gun, not the whole book, but enough to let anyone know if they would want to read the whole book.
Personally I think it should be required reading...
Reply #6 Monday, June 14, 2004 9:05 PM
| by IPlural - 6/14/2004 8:44:18 PM Found thins link again just a bit ago... Linkfair warning, it isn't nice, it isn't funny and it isn't anything but what you take from it... |
oops...
The link is to Johnny Got His Gun, not the whole book, but enough to let anyone know if they would want to read the whole book.
Personally I think it should be required reading...
Matchbook
Reply #7 Monday, June 14, 2004 9:11 PM
Reply #7 Monday, June 14, 2004 9:11 PM
Michael Collins Piper's The Final Judgment would be my choice.
Interesting read: http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/Critical_Summaries/Books/Piper_responds.html
Interesting read: http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/Critical_Summaries/Books/Piper_responds.html
Shameless Designs
Reply #10 Monday, June 14, 2004 10:42 PM
Reply #10 Monday, June 14, 2004 10:42 PM
My list (in no particular order)
- "Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther
- "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
- "Trinity" and "Redemption" by Leon Uris
- "The Anzacs" by Patsy Adam Smith
- "Walden II" by B.F. Skinner
- "The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement" by Eliyahu M Goldratt, Jeff Cox
- "The Lion" (2 vols) by William Manchester
- "The Death of a President (November 20-25, 1963)" by William Manchester
- "The God Game" by Andrew M. Greeley
- Almost anything written by Elie Wiesel, but especially "Night"
- "Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther
- "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
- "Trinity" and "Redemption" by Leon Uris
- "The Anzacs" by Patsy Adam Smith
- "Walden II" by B.F. Skinner
- "The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement" by Eliyahu M Goldratt, Jeff Cox
- "The Lion" (2 vols) by William Manchester
- "The Death of a President (November 20-25, 1963)" by William Manchester
- "The God Game" by Andrew M. Greeley
- Almost anything written by Elie Wiesel, but especially "Night"
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #11 Monday, June 14, 2004 11:39 PM
Reply #11 Monday, June 14, 2004 11:39 PM
A clockwork orange...not so much the book itself but I wonder about the author...how does someone even concoct a book like that?(he practically invented a new language) 
Ande
Reply #12 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:22 AM
Reply #12 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:22 AM
I'm outta here - while I still have some happy thoughts going for me.
Aleatoric
Reply #13 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:28 AM
Reply #13 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:28 AM
A few of mine:
Karl Popper - "The open society and it's enemies".
Douglas Hofstadter - "Godel, Escher, and Bach".
John Gribben - "The search for Schroedinger's kittens".
Ludwig von Mises - "The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality".
Virginia Postrel - "The future and it's enemies".
Lots more, but these are some of my favorites
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Karl Popper - "The open society and it's enemies".
Douglas Hofstadter - "Godel, Escher, and Bach".
John Gribben - "The search for Schroedinger's kittens".
Ludwig von Mises - "The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality".
Virginia Postrel - "The future and it's enemies".
Lots more, but these are some of my favorites
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teddybearcholla
Reply #14 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:36 AM
Reply #14 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:36 AM
The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey
Old_Crab
Reply #16 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:16 AM
Reply #16 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:16 AM
I've got a strange mixture of choices I've read but the one that do make one ponder are "The Will To Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche and "The Holy Bible" by God. >
NightTrainthedark
Reply #17 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:30 AM
Reply #17 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:30 AM
The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra. Laterd turned into the movie Mindwalk.
eieio
Reply #19 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:50 AM
Reply #19 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:50 AM
The Art of War - SunTzu
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
The last two are a bit difficult to read but worth it, if you can manage.
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
The last two are a bit difficult to read but worth it, if you can manage.
_footsie_
Reply #20 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 7:34 AM
Reply #20 Tuesday, June 15, 2004 7:34 AM
Being and Nothingness- Jean-Paul Sartre
The Tacit Dimension- Michael Polanyi
Meditations- Descartes
The Enchiridion- Epictetus
The Prince- Machiavelli
Easy Journey To Other Planets- His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Freud And The Problem Of God- Hans Kung
Elements of Theosophy Lilian Edger
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah- Richard Bach
Journey To The East Hermann- Hesse
Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game- Hermann Hesse
Frontiers of Healing: New Dimensions in Parapsychology- Edited by Nicholas M. Regush
Many Mansions:The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation- Gina Cerminara
The Incredible Story Of Edgar Cayce 'The Sleeping clairvoyant' Venture Inward-Hugh Lynn Cayce
The Remarkable Birth of Planet Earth Henry M. Morris
Future Shock-Alvin Toffler
Contemporary Philosophy: A Book of Readings-Edited by James L. Jarrett and Sterling M. McMurrin
Meta-Physics: New Dimensions of the Mind- Anthony Norvell
Oedipus Rex- Plato, Socrates
Dante
Stigma:Notes on the management of Spoiled Identity- Erving Goffman
Piers Anthony- Bio Of A Space Tyrant (1-5)
Stranger In A Strange Land- Robert A. Heinlein
The World Inside- Robert Silverberg
The Martian Chronicles- Ray Bradbury
1984- George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451- George Orwell
The Illustrated Man- George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
Watership Down- Richard Adams
Shardik- Richard Adams
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Resey
A Separate Peace- John Knowles
To Be Free!- Ron Martin
The Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane
The Red Pony- John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
Angela's Ashes- Frank McCort
Frank and I- () McCort
Lowell
Canterbury Tales- Chaucer
Walden Pond- Henry David Thoreau
I have read the book Johnny Got His Gun, IPlural...very disturbing book...there was also a film made...but as usual skips over alot of the 'internal dialogue' of the narrative...
Whew! Looking at your list I 'see' an imminent trip to the library!
The Tacit Dimension- Michael Polanyi
Meditations- Descartes
The Enchiridion- Epictetus
The Prince- Machiavelli
Easy Journey To Other Planets- His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Freud And The Problem Of God- Hans Kung
Elements of Theosophy Lilian Edger
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah- Richard Bach
Journey To The East Hermann- Hesse
Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game- Hermann Hesse
Frontiers of Healing: New Dimensions in Parapsychology- Edited by Nicholas M. Regush
Many Mansions:The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation- Gina Cerminara
The Incredible Story Of Edgar Cayce 'The Sleeping clairvoyant' Venture Inward-Hugh Lynn Cayce
The Remarkable Birth of Planet Earth Henry M. Morris
Future Shock-Alvin Toffler
Contemporary Philosophy: A Book of Readings-Edited by James L. Jarrett and Sterling M. McMurrin
Meta-Physics: New Dimensions of the Mind- Anthony Norvell
Oedipus Rex- Plato, Socrates
Dante
Stigma:Notes on the management of Spoiled Identity- Erving Goffman
Piers Anthony- Bio Of A Space Tyrant (1-5)
Stranger In A Strange Land- Robert A. Heinlein
The World Inside- Robert Silverberg
The Martian Chronicles- Ray Bradbury
1984- George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451- George Orwell
The Illustrated Man- George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
Watership Down- Richard Adams
Shardik- Richard Adams
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Resey
A Separate Peace- John Knowles
To Be Free!- Ron Martin
The Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane
The Red Pony- John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
Angela's Ashes- Frank McCort
Frank and I- () McCort
Lowell
Canterbury Tales- Chaucer
Walden Pond- Henry David Thoreau
I have read the book Johnny Got His Gun, IPlural...very disturbing book...there was also a film made...but as usual skips over alot of the 'internal dialogue' of the narrative...
Whew! Looking at your list I 'see' an imminent trip to the library!
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Reply #1 Monday, June 14, 2004 8:48 PM