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100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
32Ace wrote:The I Ching as #1 surprises me.
The list is chronological...
100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
33Respectable, but they leave too much out.
kerble is a walking contradiction
100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
34ebeam wrote:Ace wrote:The I Ching as #1 surprises me.
The list is chronological...
Oh. Yeah. Ha. Okay.
I can read those books but i can't read a goddamn list.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
3634 Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
Gentle Giant did a song about this.
I LOVE that song--"The Advent of Panurge"!
Where's The Golden Bough on this list?[/quote]
Gentle Giant did a song about this.
I LOVE that song--"The Advent of Panurge"!
Where's The Golden Bough on this list?[/quote]
100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
37I've read significant chunks of 17 or 18 of them (I lost count), and passages/chapters from a further 10 or so. The only ones I've read in their entirety are:
43. Discourse on Method, René Descartes
71. The Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
86. The Trial, Franz Kafka
93. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
95. Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Although I have read the whole of the children's illustrated bible so I wouldn't mind claiming both the old and new testaments please.
One's that I have either only read bits of or not read at all which are on my to read list:
61. Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
67. The World as Will and Idea, Arthur Schopenhauer
73. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin
85. I and Thou, Martin Buber
97. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, T. S. Kuhn
43. Discourse on Method, René Descartes
71. The Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
86. The Trial, Franz Kafka
93. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
95. Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Although I have read the whole of the children's illustrated bible so I wouldn't mind claiming both the old and new testaments please.
One's that I have either only read bits of or not read at all which are on my to read list:
61. Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
67. The World as Will and Idea, Arthur Schopenhauer
73. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin
85. I and Thou, Martin Buber
97. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, T. S. Kuhn
Rick Reuben wrote:He went to bed about a decade ago, or whenever he sold his soul to the bankers and the elites.daniel robert chapman wrote:I think he's gone to bed, Rick.
100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
383. The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
8. History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (not in full)
11. History, Herodotus (not in full)
15. Aeneid, Virgil in latin
32. The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
93. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
bits and pieces of old & new testament.
I'm not really interested in reading any of the rest of those books. Meh.
8. History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (not in full)
11. History, Herodotus (not in full)
15. Aeneid, Virgil in latin
32. The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
93. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
bits and pieces of old & new testament.
I'm not really interested in reading any of the rest of those books. Meh.
100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
39Ones I have 'kinda' to 'mostly' read (like that scale?):
1. The I Ching
3. The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
10. Works, Aristotle
26. The Koran (does reading a translation of this one count? Not to the believers...)
30. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (Inferno only, of course)
38. Don Quixote, Parts I and II, Miguel de Cervantes
43. Discourse on Method, René Descartes
45. Works, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
50. Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
53. A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume
55. A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson (does reading one of Webster's pocket dictionaries cover to cover when you were 12 count? Does comprehension or retention count? If yes on the latter, then...)
56. Candide, François-Marie de Voltaire
57. Common Sense, Thomas Paine
60. Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
73. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin
89. Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
100. Beyond Freedom and Dignity, B. F. Skinner
Ones I have definitely read. Once again, about that retention...:
2. The Old Testament (King James version, early teens. Doesn't really count.)
12. The Republic, Plato
18. The New Testament (once again, KJ version.)
28. The Kabbalah
32. The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
41. The First Folio [Works], William Shakespeare (lots went over my ability to comprehend. Some of it was annotated, and some of it was studied in school)
84. Psychological Types, Carl Gustav Jung
86. The Trial, Franz Kafka (c'mon. Who hasn't read this one?)
93. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (see above)
96. Syntactic Structures, Noam Chomsky (Yep. Own a 'vintage' copy. Still don't get all of it.)
The weird thing about both 96 and 84 is that they were both disowned after being published as inaccurate by their authors. Not that they aren't important or anything, but...
1. The I Ching
3. The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
10. Works, Aristotle
26. The Koran (does reading a translation of this one count? Not to the believers...)
30. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (Inferno only, of course)
38. Don Quixote, Parts I and II, Miguel de Cervantes
43. Discourse on Method, René Descartes
45. Works, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
50. Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
53. A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume
55. A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson (does reading one of Webster's pocket dictionaries cover to cover when you were 12 count? Does comprehension or retention count? If yes on the latter, then...)
56. Candide, François-Marie de Voltaire
57. Common Sense, Thomas Paine
60. Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
73. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin
89. Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
100. Beyond Freedom and Dignity, B. F. Skinner
Ones I have definitely read. Once again, about that retention...:
2. The Old Testament (King James version, early teens. Doesn't really count.)
12. The Republic, Plato
18. The New Testament (once again, KJ version.)
28. The Kabbalah
32. The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
41. The First Folio [Works], William Shakespeare (lots went over my ability to comprehend. Some of it was annotated, and some of it was studied in school)
84. Psychological Types, Carl Gustav Jung
86. The Trial, Franz Kafka (c'mon. Who hasn't read this one?)
93. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (see above)
96. Syntactic Structures, Noam Chomsky (Yep. Own a 'vintage' copy. Still don't get all of it.)
The weird thing about both 96 and 84 is that they were both disowned after being published as inaccurate by their authors. Not that they aren't important or anything, but...
100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
40rayj wrote:26. The Koran (does reading a translation of this one count? Not to the believers...)
I would actually argue that it does, fwiw. I was raised in a muslim household and attended sunday school for about eight years (1st-8th). I studied urdu as a language before religious studies and can speak that just great, but we only ever learned Arabic phonetically. It's fucked b/c on paper, they're essentially the same letters in both languages with I think only three or so variants.
I can read Arabic aloud, but I don't understand a damn word (give or take). Kinda pisses me off in hindsight considering how much time I spent there. you'd think they'd teach you more of the language instead of just the english translation. CRAP.
my story isn't unique to our school, either. I've met lots of folks that have the same experience.
I still regret not being able to speak Arabic to this day. I think it would've been cool. plus whenever the point of what languages do you speak, Arabic always has to come with the "I can read and write it" modifier. weak.
kerble is right.