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 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:19 pm
Filter apparently doesn't like D.I.C.K.'s last name
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:22 pm
OH SNAP!
It's FINALLY happened, everyone!
I've updated the Recommended Reading List!
I should have included everything suggested to date, but if I've missed something, just leave a message and I'll be sure to take care of it.
PHEW.
Now onto other matters within the guild.
-grabs her cup of tea, changes the music to The New Pornographers, and begins-
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:21 am
Walden~ Henry David Thoreau
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:28 pm
From the realm of political philosophy, I present the following:
Fiction:
Animal Farm-George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
Non-Fiction:
Theory of Moral Sentiments-Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations-Adam Smith
Leviathan-Thomas Hobbes
Two Treatises on Government and a Letter Concerning Religious Toleration-John Locke
On the Social Contract-J.J. Rousseau
The Prince-Niccolo Machiavelli
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:47 am
I'm glad to see so many people love The Giver, but as good as it is, I don't think it's necessary to list it twice. wink
I'll contribute some lovelies to this list later tonight.
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:38 am
-Camber of Culdi
-Katherine Kurtz
-fiction
Considering this book's series isn't about philosophy, I can't honestly believe that this book should on on your list. I do recommend it though due to the nature of giving a scenario of if there were some humans with a genetic ability to produce special abilities. Essentially magic to a lesser extent. For those looking for Mary Jane characters, they're not here. These people are heavily drained from even the smallest of power uses, so no unlimited reserves of "mana" or something along those lines.
Another thing I loved about this series is that later on, this race goes from being represented in the royal line (which was enthroned by force), to falling into hiding. A crusade of sorts is had to discover all these "Deryni" and kill them for being what they are, no matter good or bad or even if they knew themselves. Politics is VERY heavy in this series and if you aren't interested in politics, you'd probably do better to steer away.
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:27 am
Fiction
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
It is great for a simple introduction to Postmodernist absurdism.
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
A not so simple introduction. Though in some ways is considered more as magic realism than exact absurdism in terms of literature, but still gives some impressive insight on memory, purpose, and identity.
Non-Fiction
Simulacra and Simulations - Jean Baudrillard
I've just started it, but already it has some great thought concerning hyperrealism.
Meditations on First Philosophy - René Descartes
I figured I had to add this one. While simple, I feel it is a forerunner to much modernist thought concerning subjectivism .
Apology -> Ion - Plato
I think that the first of Socrates' dialogues were good in that there was no clear answer at the end only more questions. Afterward Plato, I believe, starts throwing his own Philosophy in Socrates' mouth and I lost interest.
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:07 pm
I highly suggest Douglas Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid. It's a nonfiction book and Pulitzer Prize winner that discusses everything including mathematic systems, genetics, biology, zen buddhism, the prospects of artificial intelligence, classical music, dadaist art, neuroscience, the way we think, the way our formal systems work, etc. It opened my eyes tremendously and is in general revered by most anyone who has read it.
Word of warning though...it is quite lengthy and dense reading. At least it is very witty and well-written though.
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 1:01 pm
A really great (but horribly depressing) dystopian novel, would be Oryx and Crake by Margeret Atwood. It's post-apocalyptic and falls under the same category (in my mind) as 1984 and Clockwork Orange. Come to think of it, another good one by her would be The Handmaiden's Tale (Maybe that one's already on the list?).
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:42 pm
These three are about dystopian societies:
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Fiction.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Fiction.
1984 by George Orwell, Fiction.
Others:
Til We Have Faces by CS Lewis, Fiction/Mythology.
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche, Fiction. (A modern Heart of Darkness)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid, Fiction.
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