Ten Books

[Philboid Studge]

Everyone in this forum must have a bookshelf nearby. Look at the row of books nearest you, and list the first ten books in that row. I'm curious to see if and how they reflect on the characters in here. Here are mine:

1. Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
2. Marijuana: The Connoisseur's Handbook
3. The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances
4. The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain
5. A Pocket Book of Short Stories
6. Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
7. The Case of the Missing Neutrinos and Other Curious Phenomena of the Universe
8. The Bible (KJV)
9. The Koran
10. Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex

1. An Introduction to Genetic Analysis
2. Biology
3. Biology of the Invertebrates
4. Cell: A Molecular Approach
5. The World of the Cell
6. How Things Work Today
7. Principles of Economics
8. Microbiology
9. Finding Darwin's God
10. The Beak of the Finch

I was a bio minor in college.

1. Capitalism and Freedom
2. The Communist Manifesto
3. The Spirit of Laws
4. On Liberty and Other Writings
5. The Prince
6. The Federalist Papers
7. Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar
8. The Rights of Man
9. Media Control
10. Candide

[Tenspace]

Ten of the books above my desk:

1. The Feynman Processor, Gerard Milburn
2. Religion Explained, Pascal Boyer
3. The Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, FAA
4. A Twist of the Wrist, Keith Code
5. Sport Riding Techniques, Nick Ienatsch
6. The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch
7. The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene.
8. Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams
9. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
10. The Reality Dysfunction, Peter Hamilton

My current reading stack contains:

1. Phantoms In The Brain, V.S. Ramachandran
2. The Evolution of Consciousness, Robert Ornstein
3. Ki In Daily Life, Koichi Tohei
4. What Evolution Is, Ernst Mayr

Then there's the living room bookcase... :)

Tenspace

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1. "How to Prepare for the MCAT"
2. "MCAT Physics"
3. "Organic Chemistry"
4. "Chemistry"
5. "Campbell's Biology"
6. "Kaplan's MCAT Preparation guide"
7. "Concentration: A Guide to Mental Mastery"
8. "Schaum's outlines, College Physics, Ninth Edition"
9. "University Physics, 11th Edition"
10. "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"

My dad gave me the last book. Number 7 is mine. And the rest are mostly being used in preparation for the MCAT this coming August.

[Philboid Studge]

Tenspace wrote

6. The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch

This looks like something that would interest me. I checked out chap 1 online and it looks promising. Is it? I have a probably slightly-better-than-average grounding in science and I don't want to get quagged down in something way out of my depth.

1. A short history of nearly everything. Bryson, B.
2. The LOTR. Tolkien
3. Timeline. Crichton, M.
3. Robot visions. Asimov, I.
4. Dune. Herbert, F.
5. A brief history of time. Hawking, S.
6. 1984. Orwell, G.
7. Animal farm. Orwell, G.
8. A house for Mr. Biswas. Naipaul, V.S.
9. My Side of History. Chin Peng.
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke, A.

What can I say? I love my fiction. :)

The Practice of Poetry, Mary Kinzie
Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, John Frederick Nims
Sound and Sense, An Introduction to Poetry, Lawrence Perrine and Thomas A. Arp
Core Python Programming 2 ed., Wesley Chun
Scheme and the Art of Computer Programming, Matthias Felliesen
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, Northrop Frye
The Oxford Canadian Dictionary
Whitfield University Rhyming Dictionary
Traveller: The Classic Books, Marc W. Miller et. al.

[Tenspace]

Philboid Studge wrote

This looks like something that would interest me. I checked out chap 1 online and it looks promising. Is it? I have a probably slightly-better-than-average grounding in science and I don't want to get quagged down in something way out of my depth.

Excellent book, though some of his ideas are stretched pretty far. If you made it through The Elegant Universe or A Brief History of Time, this one should be a good challenge. It's an excellenet primer into Everett's Many Worlds Theorem, and does quite well investigating multiverses.

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[Tenspace]

Lundie wrote

1. A short history of nearly everything. Bryson, B.
2. The LOTR. Tolkien
3. Timeline. Crichton, M.
3. Robot visions. Asimov, I.
4. Dune. Herbert, F.
5. A brief history of time. Hawking, S.
6. 1984. Orwell, G.
7. Animal farm. Orwell, G.
8. A house for Mr. Biswas. Naipaul, V.S.
9. My Side of History. Chin Peng.
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke, A.

What can I say? I love my fiction. :)

If you like Sci-Fi, check out, "The Reality Dysfunction", by Peter Hamilton. It's in the Space Opera genera, but has a much richer plot than Star Wars or the like.

And, it intertwines religion with science. Humanity in the future has split into two groups - Adamists and Edenists. Adamists are conventional, god-fearing humans who run our corner of the galaxy, but won't accept genetic modifications beyond the mainstream. Edenists are equipped with an "affinity gene" which allows telepathic communication. Even their spaceships and habitats are sentient. Not to mention servitor chimps, affinity-bonded eagles (for scouting), etc.

Then the fabric of reality is ripped, allowing the souls of the dead to possess the living. :)

Good stuff.

Ten

[PanAtheist]

"Whitfield University Rhyming Dictionary"
I fancy getting a rhyming dictionary.
A happy way to experience words. methinks!

Here is the book shelf next to me:
1. Positional Release Therapy (D'Ambrogio & Roth)
2. Anatomy & Physiology, (Thibodeau & Patton)
3. Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Cox, Melloni, Eisner, & Melloni)
4. Atlas of Human Anatomy (Anatomical Chart Co.)
5. Wolf-Heideger's "Atlas of Human Anatomy" Volume 1. (Petra Kofp-Maier)
6. Wolf-Heideger's "Atlas of Human Anatomy" Volume 2. (Petra Kofp-Maier)
7. Sobotta's "Anatomy" Volume 1.
8. Sobotta's "Anatomy" Volume 2.
9. Grant's "Atlas of Anatomy" (Agur Lee)
10. Blueprint for Life (TimeLife)

You get the picture!
Frankly, I hardly read.
The vast majority of my books are picture books!
And many of them, like "Sobotta" and "Wolf-Heideger" contain artwork (of the anatomical variety) which is truly AWESOME.
The folk who produce such images are truly extra-ordinary people, to which the world owe's a debt.

Well, this is opening a can of worms for me...only 10? Here's the last ten things I bought/read/looked at:

1. The Iliad, Homer
2. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
3. Ulysses, James Joyce
4. Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
5. Poetry, Language Thought, Martin Heidegger
6. The Journals of Jack Kerouac
7. Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
8. Nine Stories, JD Salinger
9. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

*Shrugs* That is the shelf of an English major. But religion-wise, I do have a handful of Bibles and "Touchdown Jesus" (despite the funny title, it's not exactly about Notre Dame football, but the mixing of sacred and secular).

Ah, last ten books read... I like that notion:

The Sandman: Brief Lives
The Sandman: Fables & Reflections
The Sandman: World's End
The Unending Mystery: A Journey Through Labyrinths and Mazes
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History
Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the
Future of the Cosmos
Curious Life of Robert Hooke, The: The Man Who Measured London
First Idea, The: How Symols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved From Our
Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1775-1783

And right now I'm working on The Reformation, by MacCulloch

The Sandman series is friggin' awesome. Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman, I like.