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- staticfish, on 10/11/2007, -3/+35Would be okay if the list wasn't so repetitive and and optimisation oriented. Very boring. There are no great classics in here.
- scabbers, on 10/11/2007, -14/+40* High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (1998) (ISBN 0895261138)
* Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (2002) (ISBN 1400046610)
* Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (2003) (ISBN 1400050308)
* How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) : The World According to Ann Coulter (2004) (ISBN 1400054184)
* Godless: The Church of Liberalism (2006) (ISBN 1400054206)
* If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans: Ann Coulter At Her Best, Funniest, and Most Outrageous (2007) (ISBN 0307353451)
FOR ME TO POOP ON - cpbrown, on 10/11/2007, -3/+25"on the road" - Jack Kerouac
"1984" - george orwell
"les miserables" - victor hugo
there are so many good books out there, why make a "top 10" list? - kyleandstan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21of those 10, the only one that would have a chance of being in my top 50 would be Cat's Cradle. Half of his list is self-help mumbo jumbo!
- LuciferChaos, on 10/11/2007, -8/+19"A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn
Read it online here:
http://historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html - LuciferChaos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10That movie was called "Good Will Hunting"
- wushi, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12B-O-R-I-N-G
new age crap... - spudnic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11I'm surprised people even read those crappy self-help books, and shocked they basically make up his entire top 10.
- LuciferChaos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Ha! Thats from David Horowitz's website - if you don't know who David Horowitz is, please research him:
http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=34
http://mediamatters.org/items/200503160001
Quoting Horowitz from "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks—and Racist Too," by David Horowitz, FrontPageMagazine.com, Jan. 3, 2001:
“What about the debt blacks owe to America—to white America—for liberating them from slavery? This may not seem like a serious question to some, but that only reveals their ignorance of the history of slavery and its fate.” - christuf, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Google mirror at:
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:http://zenhabits.net/2007/06/10-books-that-shaped-my-life-and-40-others-i-love/ - SillyRabbits, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8What an awful list of books. Are those the only 10 books he has ever read? That's the only way I can see them making a top 10 list. It's sad that not only does he consider those great books, he feels so strongly about it wrote an article about it. I'm sad he hasn't experienced what truly good books can be.....
- gharding, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
- JCSaint, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7No, we only read things that have full color glossy photos in them.
- antineocon, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Absolutely, I learned about that book watching a movie, I can't remember the name but Robbin Williams was in it and the other character kind of said it in passing and I went and bought it. Changed my life..
- picardo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+11Yaaaawn.
It started bad and got good in the middle, then it literally died. I'm not saying Gandhi was not a great politician, but to say "his words are profound and his actions more so" you have to be kind of ignorant that he was a die hard racist when he was a small town attorney in South Africa, and he remained unrepentant about his racism afterwards.
Here is Gandhi on blacks:
"Now let us turn our attention to another and entirely unrepresented community--the Indian. He is in striking contrast with the native. While the native has been of little benefit to the State, it owes its prosperity largely to the Indians. While native loafers abound on every side, that species of humanity is almost unknown among Indians here."
http://www.trinicenter.com/WorldNews/ghandi4.htm
"Contrary to the liberal myth, Gandhi never once tried to help anybody else but Indians, and even then, only upper casts Indians at that. He consistently sought a special position for his people which would be separated from and superior to that of the Blacks."
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2419
I don't care if he was a great person in Indian history; he doesn't deserve the place he currently enjoys in the world history, except perhaps for inspiring the words and actions of a greater man than he-- Martin Luther King Jr. - bardamu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I'll add all the books I've read at least 3 times
"Journey to the end of the night" by Celine
"Slaughterhouse Five" by Vonnegut or any other he wrote for that matter. I never get tired of his refreshing pov.
"Dream of a ridiculous man" by Dostoevsky (novella but still good)
"Theodore Rex" In case you need to see what a real president should be like.
These books only once but still good.
"The God Delusion"/"The Selfish Gene" By Dawkins
"The Darma Bums" By Kerouac
"A Walk in the Woods" by I forget?
I could keep going but it is time for some other Diggers to share the books that have become a force in their lives. Give me some new books to read too! - mymomsaysimcool, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5You just judged him for having judged someone else. What's the difference? *****. (Yes, I've passed judgement)
- Noctem, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Yikes. Account suspended already.
- stormgren, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"A Brief History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson is, while more accessible than "A Brief History of Time" (probably, at least. I haven't read Hawking... unfortunately) is a very fun book on science in general, although there is nothing extraordinarily insightful in it. It is still a good book.
If you're looking for math instead of physics, then:
"Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter
"The Music of the Primes" by Marcus du Sautoy - rejoined, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Here: http://www.duggmirror.com/offbeat_news/10_Books_That_Shaped_My_Life_and_40_Others_I_Love/
- Malbene, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6"Catch-22 " Joseph Heller
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7DOUGLAS ADAMS FTW
RIP. - martinraul, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5i know nobody cares, but "Into the wild" by Jon Krakauer is a good read...
- carl201167, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Some books I've really enjoyed recently:
James Ellroy - LA Confidential (better than the film - cold, hard fiction)
Tom Wolfe - The Right Stuff (fantastically well written book about the space race test pilots)
Wilkie Collins - Woman in White (excellent & readable Victorian 'sensation' novel)
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep (the original Noir detective book)
Mikhail Bulgakov - Master and Margherita (an extraordinarily twisted book - really good)
Ian Fleming - Casino Royale (the first Bond novel and very different to the movies)
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall (vicious & funny satire on posh English people) - flaterates, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3OK, there's a lot of books here that I have not read, if they're no good I WILL E-mail you in Hell.
- Erlton, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
and I'll second "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn - Armistead, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Strangely enough, I didn't get the opportunity to read Howard Zinn until I was out of college. I wholeheartedly recommend him.
- jefu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The Children's War - J.N. Stroyar
A Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
And bookmooch is a good way to get them. - luckyzzkl, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5http://duggmirror.com/offbeat_news/10_Books_That_Shaped_My_Life_and_40_Others_I_Love/
- KMye, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6How again, did this make it to the frontpage?
- VirtualCtor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3You might want to look up "ulimit -t". Just sayin'.
- revenge7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Kind of off topic, but can anyone recommend a nonfiction physics book? I read "A Brief History of Time," and really enjoyed it.
I was thinking of getting Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe." Is that good, or is there something better? - cyclopsface, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3'What is Mathematics?' by Courant and Robbins
'The Feyman Lectures on Physics' by ... Feynman! - Nick519, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3i disagree -- while it is a slog to get through, hugo does give amazing historical context for his story, and his history of the paris sewers is the best i've read of them anywhere. i far prefer the complete les miserables to the edited version. i've read it three times.
- miriclaire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Well, reading gives you something to think about....a good book is better than the best Digg comments section!
- stormgren, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3books that are actually good that I've read recently:
Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse V, both by Kurt Vonnegut
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Small Gods, Terry Pratchett (and his other stuff is also great)
And I just re-read Dune, which is an obvious classic. By Frank Herbert.
Anyone got any others? I need stuff to read! - Singularitarian, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3--Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (Richard Feynman)
--The Art and Craft of Problem Solving (Paul Zeits)
--Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
--The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
--His Dark Materials trilogy (Philip Pullman) - itkeepsuswarm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Unfortunately for you, Vonnegut, Fitzgerald, and Joyce are all amazing writers, whose works are considered by many to be true classics.
- carl201167, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Is this the slowest news day ever on Digg?
(I might blog "10 slowest news days ever on Digg - AMAZING" and submit it for cheap traffic) - Armistead, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3ANYTHING by Murakami is great.
- cmcarson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Agreed.. anything by Krakauer is a good read: Into the Wild, Under the Banner of Heaven, Into Thin Air, Eiger Dreams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Krakauer - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6Haha, I love how this list of crap is getting dugg. Talk about no one reading the article.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Try Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything is Illuminated", or, better in my opinion, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
and "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith - LuciferChaos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Not getting into the debate about Ghandi, but you said "Nelson Mandela who basically followed Gandhi's footsteps and his thoughts"...
What about Umkhonto we Sizwe? Nelson Mandela co-founded and lead Umkhonto we Sizwe in a campaign of armed guerrilla struggle against the Apartheid ruling class regime:
"In 1961, Mandela became the leader of the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (translated as Spear of the Nation, also abbreviated as MK), which he co-founded. He co-ordinated a sabotage campaign against military and government targets, and made plans for a possible guerrilla war if sabotage failed to end apartheid. A few decades later, MK did indeed wage a guerrilla war against the regime, especially during the 1980s, in which many civilians were killed. Mandela also raised funds for MK abroad, and arranged for paramilitary training, visiting various African governments.
Mandela explains the move to embark on armed struggle as a last resort, when increasing repression and violence from the state convinced him that many years of non-violent protest against apartheid had achieved nothing and could not succeed.[5][2]
Mandela later admitted that the ANC, in its struggle against apartheid, also violated human rights, and has sharply criticised attempts by parts of his party to remove statements supporting this fact from the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...
In his statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the trial on 20 April 1964 at Pretoria Supreme Court, Mandela laid out the clarity of reasoning in the ANC's choice to use violence as a tactic. His statement revealed how the ANC had used peaceful means to resist apartheid for years until the Sharpeville Massacre. That event coupled with the referendum establishing the Republic of South Africa and the declaration of a state of emergency along with the banning of the ANC made it clear that their only choice was to resist through acts of sabotage. Doing otherwise would have been tantamount to unconditional surrender. Mandela went on to explain how they developed the Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe[9] on December 16 1961 intent on exposing the failure of the National Party's policies after the economy would be threatened by foreigners' unwillingness to risk investing in the country. He closed his statement with these words:
“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.[5] ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela#Guerrilla_activities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe - perogi21, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Erleichda!
- Neiby, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I guess you flunked econ, huh?
- JorgeGT, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2THAT GUY OF THE HAT IS REALLY FUNNY!
:P - stormgren, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"A Walk in the Woods" is Bill Bryson. "The Lost Continent" is also good if you like his writing (Who wouldn't?)
- tucobenedicto, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3The Chosen by Chaim Potok
- jonnyboy1544, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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