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