books you should slap yourself for not having read yet

[willie]

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Confederecy of Dunces is without a doubt the funniest book I have ever read.

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hooorah, a few of you have discovered this gem.

i loved this book, great recommendation from a smarty pants off another board.

very comical, very well written, but alas- very tragic about the author

[InchoateHand]

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more technical books. maybe some language books. i could not care less about fiction/nonfiction whatever.

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yes, i meant nonfiction books that aren't technical/pure education books. i don't want to read about the civil war or a court case.

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So do you want technical or not? Can you even read?

[astroglide]

walk through it REAL SLOW NOW

1: "more technical books. maybe some language books. i could not care less about fiction/nonfiction whatever."

nonfiction whatever = non-technical nonfiction. particularly obvious because of the provided context.

2: "o.k. you realize that those are nonfiction right?"

your dumb observation

3: "yes, i meant nonfiction books that aren't technical/pure education books. i don't want to read about the civil war or a court case."

my clarification that when i said "nonfiction whatever" i meant nonfiction books THAT WERE NOT TECHNICAL.

get it? got it? good. you're also ignored now you [censored] moron.

[soundgarden4]

"Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn

"Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll

[Boris]

OK it's been a few years since I made an attempt at this book but, Diamond's primary thesis was that the rate of technological and cultural advancement among various societies is described by a society's access to natural resources. I don't believe this to be true and I think history is on my side. Diamond's book is a continuation of the tradition started (as far as I know) by Paul Erlich in the late sixties, namely that the human population is exploding and we're going to exhaust all the earth's natural resources in short order and then perish. The more conservative point of view is that these doomsday models never take into account any constraints on population growth and they never take into account human ingenuity.

Global Brain provides an interesting alternative explanation for how societies evolve. I'm still reading the book and I'm not completely sold on Bloom's thesis, but it is interesting to say the least.

[Boris]

interesting. I thought a smart guy like you would be more of a reader.

[astroglide]

i read "who's your caddy" and the first harry potter book. off the top of my head i think those might be the only books i have voluntarily read after the age of 5, and my last class that involved reading was english in my sopohomore or junior year of high school. never been interested in it, but i like technical books.

[InchoateHand]

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walk through it REAL SLOW NOW

1: "more technical books. maybe some language books. i could not care less about fiction/nonfiction whatever."

nonfiction whatever = non-technical nonfiction. particularly obvious because of the provided context.

2: "o.k. you realize that those are nonfiction right?"

your dumb observation

3: "yes, i meant nonfiction books that aren't technical/pure education books. i don't want to read about the civil war or a court case."

my clarification that when i said "nonfiction whatever" i meant nonfiction books THAT WERE NOT TECHNICAL.

get it? got it? good. you're also ignored now you [censored] moron.

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I still have no idea if you're looking for technical books or not?

[Skipbidder]

OP didn't say anything about good literature.

If that is what you want, I'll pick Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Illiad, and Lolita.

[PokerFink]

Fair enough.