Most Interesting Book You've ever Read?

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May have to get this one.

-Zeno

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Especially since your SN is 'Zeno'...

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Choke by Chuck Palahniuk...very strange and interesting.

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Um, isn't that the short story where he gets his guts sucked out of his [censored] by a pool filter? Or am I thinking of another Chuck Palahniuk gem?

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Fiction - Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Non-Fiction - Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstader

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Fiction - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (thought I was the only one)
Non-Fiction- Book of the Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

found a cool online text of Musashi's book, if anyone's interested enough to read it but cheap enough not to buy it
Go Rin No Sho

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Illuminatus! Trilogy by Fnord! and Fnord!.

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FYP

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Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha.

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What's so funny? Couldn't stumble through the first section, eh?

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These are great threads except I end up spending a lot of money at Amazon for books I have no shelf space for.

I can't say what the most interesting is, but here are some good ones:

"The Nature and Power of Mathematics" by Donald M. Davis link - This book requires nothing post algebra. Instead of broadly covering math, it goes in depth into three topics: non Euclidean Geometry, Fractals, and Number Theory as it applies to public key encryption. Great stuff, easy to read.

"Conned Again Watson" By Collin Bruce link - This goes into a lot of neat critical thinking stuff in the guise of Sherlock Holmes stories. Good for people who have math phobia, but still insightful enough that most people will pick something up from it.

Two I have great hope for that I just got are "Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases" and "Choices, Values, and Frames". These are collections of articles edited by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (the former also has Paul Slovic as an editor). link and link - These are about how people make decisions, and how they screw them up. It is the work that started behavioural finance. Kahneman won a Nobel prize for the work (I believe Tversky was already dead by then, and they don't give Nobel prizes posthumously past the year of your death.) I have read some of their articles already, and they are very good. They are the sort of thing you think "I would never be stupid enough to do that" then you read some of the examples and go "DOH!"