Tom-Guy

On that subject, perhaps we should get signorelli21 to give us a list of his favorite books so that we can avoid the snoredom.

signorelli21

um actually those are some of the more interesting books i have read recently if thats any indication, i usually avoid the fiction section of the library and stick to nerdy ----.

b18.

+1

Everything and More is shaping up to be a good book. David Foster Wallace.

Tom-Guy

Such as?

signorelli21

well lets see, sitting on my desk currently i have the latest issue of the New Yorker, Scientific American and Foreign Affairs magazines as well as the winter publication of the "Journal of international affairs" from columbia university, as far as books I'm trying to finish a book called "Leviathan" by Thomas hobbs and "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins.

Favorites, I don't think i have any, but i enjoyed "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, "The Revolution a Manifesto" by Ron Paul, "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein, "Blackwater" by Jeremy Scahill , "Ghost Wars " by steve coll and other authors such as Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Peter Schiff, Charles Darwin, James Madison.

My favorite fiction author is Dean Koontz.

So yea, I doubt your going to find anything there that isn't boring, I do disagree with Rawr though about "Brave New World", its poorly written but I still thought the story was interesting, mainly because of how strange it was, sort of like "Animal Farm", but meh whatever.

Tom-Guy

Yeah, I noticed he uses small words. Haven't you noticed you can read all that pseudo-intellectual politically oriented crap but you can only deal with imagination on a much lesser level? You aren't desiged to take in right brain material.

jinxy

Quit reading stuff from social scientists. They're bad people. If you want to learn how the world works, or the financial system, it's better to read books by people who actually have worked or do work on that level and are obviously not doing it to make more money. People like Leon Levy who write because they've worked their whole life and no one has understood them and they write because they want to explain their life story to someone who does.

signorelli21

lol, no most of the time when i read fiction I feel like I am wasting time I could be spending doing something else, also I've been trying to find books that are considered to be "classic" literature but I have found them to not live up to their expectations, like "catcher in the rye" or "Moby Dick", those books are ------- terrible but are on lots of recommended reading lists I have found. Not sure where you get the imagination bit from though, the people I know that spend vast amounts of time reading science fiction and romance novels are not very grounded in reality, and I never claimed to be a philosopher.

I'll look into Leon Levy, the reason I subscribe to the New Yorker is because of Seymore Hersh, your greatly mistaken if you think he has never "worked on that level" before, and also their articles are all fact checked for accuracy before going to publication. I read the rest of those magazines for the same reason I have read the bible and the Quaran, not because I am a believer but so that I am familiar with the subject when it comes up, they also provide a good insight into how the people that run our government think, but yea I am fully aware that they are usually very biased, I don't just read information on a subject from one source as your suggesting, I would rather read it from every source available and make my own conclusion.

jinxy

If you really want to read some ---- read The Categorical Imperative then re read it 15 times and see if you can understand exactly what it is Kant is trying to say from the primary source, then read Aristotle, learn that Kant thinks he got most of his ideas from Aristotle and try to figure out how the ---- he even thinks that.

signorelli21

will do, (i'll just read it once and take notes though) but is there a purpose behind this or are you just trying to point out that philosophy is confusing and everyone interprets things differently? also on Leon Levy, I thought you said he was unknown and noone listened to him? According to Wikipedia he basically invented the idea of the hedge fund and co founded Oppenheimer, it doesn't matter though because it looks like he wrote a book on the stock market so i'll be picking that up tommorrow along with the two others you mentioned, right now i have to figure out how to mount the turn signals on the back of my stupid *** motorcyle.