[extropy-chat] Books - Personal favorites, most influential/inspiring, etc.

spike spike66 at comcast.net
Thu Apr 26 04:19:10 UTC 2007


> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Jef Allbright
...
> 
> How about some personal lists of our most influential/inspiring books?
>  Here are probably my top five:
> 
> Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
> Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
> The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
> Synergetics - Buckminster Fuller
> 
> Bonus childhood favorite:
> A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
> 
> - Jef


Thanks Jef.  Your top two are my top two as well.  A Wrinkle in Time was one
of my childhood faves too.  Arthur C. Clarke wrote most of the rest of my
childhood favorites. 

spike








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