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>> No. 7088 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 10:55 am
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If you had to pick 10 books (or series) that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime what would they be?

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>> No. 7089 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 11:11 am
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10? That's a lot, would have to think about it.
>> No. 7090 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 11:15 am
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>>7089
No rush, lad. We can wait.
>> No. 7091 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 11:18 am
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>>7088
I struggle to read books outside the fantasy fiction genre, so I could only make a list from a genre fiction PoV and that doesn't fit the remit.

I could make a list of 10 books (or series) that fantasy fiction fans should read at least once in their lifetime, but crime thriller aficionados probably wouldn't like them.

The only book I think everyone should read at least once is "The Drunkard's Walk" by Leonard Mlodnov.
>> No. 7093 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 11:37 am
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>>7091
I largely read fiction so it would largely be a list of "here's my favourite books" than anything.

That said, everyone should read something along the lines of Bad Science to better understand how studies and research are conducted and reported upon.
>> No. 7094 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 11:42 am
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>>7093
>largely
>largely

I swear I'm getting worse for this.
>> No. 7095 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 12:10 pm
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1984 but also Politics and the English Language, by Orwell
Volume 3 : Sorting and Searching by Donald Knuth
Effective Modern C++ by Scott Myers
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Games People Play by Eric Berne
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Oceanography and Seamanship by William Van Dorn
Practical Lockpicking by Deviant Ollam
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Options, Futures and Other Derivatives by John C Hull

I don't read much fiction tbh.
>> No. 7096 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 12:11 pm
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Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline
Core Maths for A-Level by L. Bostock and S. Chandler
An Adventure in Statistics by Andy Field
Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide by Karl F. Kuhn
Mechanical Engineering Principles by John Bird and Carl Ross
The Art of Electronics by Winfield Hill and Paul Horowitz
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
Introduction to Algorithms by T. Cormen, C. Leiserson, R.Rivest and C. Stein
A Course in Behavioural Economics by Erik Angner
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

Swap out The Art of Electronics for Chemistry³ by Burrows et al if you're so inclined.
>> No. 7097 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 12:16 pm
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Read whatever you want, what is this STEM brainwashing nonsense?
>> No. 7098 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 12:19 pm
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>>7096
>The Art of Electronics by Winfield Hill and Paul Horowitz

Ah I should have included that in my list. You also reminded me of my favourite maths back in the whole world, which is

Ripples in Mathematics by Jensen and Cour-Harbo
>> No. 7099 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 12:23 pm
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>>7097

Learn how to be useful or don't, it's no skin off my nose.
>> No. 7101 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 12:38 pm
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>>7099

Useful to who and in what context?
>> No. 7102 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 12:40 pm
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>>7101
>who

Whom. If a question can be answered with him/her then you should use whom rather than who.

Also, try and avoid a cunt-off from the get-go if you can lads.
>> No. 7103 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 12:41 pm
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>>7102

Is there a book version of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing? Because if that took you two minutes to write up, maybe you could use that.
>> No. 7104 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 1:33 pm
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>>7103
What?
>> No. 7105 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 2:51 pm
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>>7104

If that retort is too complicated, could you just explain why it's more "useful" to read nine books on mathematical subjects rather than, for example, one book on any of the following subjects: basic first aid, cooking, food hygiene, business studies, household management, knitting, sewing, golf or the basic flaws of utilitarianism?
>> No. 7106 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 2:54 pm
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>>7105
I don't think it is more useful to read nine mathematical books. All I did was post explaining when to use the word 'whom' and telling the rest of you lot to pack it in being cunts before it's a full blown cunt-off.
>> No. 7107 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 3:00 pm
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>>7106

If you're going to take an apparently opposing position in a thread then you need to make it clear that you're only chipping in with that one thing or else accept that you're taking the side of what has already been said.
>> No. 7108 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 3:12 pm
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>>7107
It wasn't an opposing position at all. I take it you didn't make it as far as the final sentence of the post? Attempting to educate someone on when to use the word 'whom' is not an opposing viewpoint. It's call being helpful; knowledge is power, after all.

I think the prospect of a cunt-off resulted in too much adrenaline pumping through your system, making you all too eager to see other posters as foes to be vanquished. I'm surprised after all this time we don't have a .gs equivalent of McCarthyism; instead of reds under the bed you're seeing cunts and cunt-offs everywhere that in reality only exist in your head.
>> No. 7109 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 4:16 pm
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>>7105

I include the three maths books not for their own sake, but because of the worlds of knowledge that numeracy unlocks. It's akin to asking "what ten books should I read" if most of the population were illiterate - half the list would be introductory literacy materials, because being able to read is an essential prerequisite to access most kinds of knowledge. Mathematics is the language we use to describe the natural world, but most people barely speak it and don't really understand why it matters because it's taught so badly at school.

Being competent and confident in using basic maths is practically a superpower, in the same way that being able to read and write is practically a superpower if you live in a pre-literate society. If you understand basic stats, you can read a clinical trial or a political poll, understand the data in context and work out for yourself if it's meaningful data or a load of bollocks. If you're comfortable with calculus, you can quickly figure out how to model the resonant modes of a guitar top or the strength of a joist or the aerodynamic properties of a spoiler. If you're comfortable with algorithms, you can write programs that write knitting patterns or avant-garde poetry or financial reports. Whatever it is that you're trying to do, maths gives you an incredibly powerful set of abilities to understand and do that thing better.
>> No. 7110 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 5:09 pm
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>>7109
Maths books are good (Drunkard’s Walk, lads), but it ain’t Steampunk and that’s all I say on the matter.
>> No. 7111 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>7103

POTY

Also if you're going to take a programming book why in all of green fuck would it be about C++, the biggest programming abortion ever to make it to full term? CUNTS.
>> No. 7112 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 5:50 pm
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>>7109

What's the point of being able to read a political poll if you don't understand politics? Or a clinical trial if you don't know the first thing about whatever branch of medicine it's in? All of those things are useless on their own and make it no more a "superpower" than a specialisation in anything at all.
>> No. 7113 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 10:23 pm
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>>7112

>Whatever it is that you're trying to do, maths gives you an incredibly powerful set of abilities to understand and do that thing better.

Numeracy is no more of a specialisation than literacy.
>> No. 7114 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 9:18 am
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>>7113

So recommend a book on literacy.
>> No. 7115 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 9:55 am
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Frankenstein
Crime and Punishment
Bad Science
Moneyland
Red Notice
The God Delusion
The Handmaid's Tale
This is Going to Hurt
The Secret Barrister
Drawdown
>> No. 7116 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 1:51 pm
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>What 10 books should everyone read once in their lives?
>MATHS PROGRAMMING LOCKPICKING EVERYONE ELSE IS DUMB

Never change, .gs.
>> No. 7117 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 2:02 pm
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>>7116
HEIGH-HO!
HEIGH-HO!
A-CUNTING WE WILL GO!
>> No. 7119 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 2:37 pm
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Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics is a must. Very simply explained with zero jargon. It'll change the way you look at money, trade and even politics. If you don't know anything about economics and would like to, I'd highly reccomend it.
You should probably throw in the Bible too, and possibly a Terry Pratchett novel.
>> No. 7120 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 2:43 pm
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- Freakonomics
- Freakonomics
- Freakonomics
- Freakonomics
- Freakonomics
- Freakonomics
- Freakonomics
- Animal Farm
- Freakonomics
- Freakonomics

Am I doing it right?
>> No. 7121 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 11:13 am
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Who Owns England?
Human Action
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
The Prince
Arthashastra
The Republic
How to Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)
The Conquest of Bread
Two Treatises of Government
The Social Contract
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
>> No. 7122 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 11:40 am
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Larousse Gastronomique
The French Laundry Cookbook
French Provincial Cooking
The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing
The Big Fat Duck Cookbook
Grand Livre de Cuisine
Masters of Doom
Le Cordon Bleu’s Complete Cooking Techniques
>> No. 7123 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 11:49 am
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Covey, How to Make Friends and Influence People by Carnegie, Unmasking the face by Ekman, The 48 Laws of Power by R. Greene, The Art Of Seduction by R. Greene, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Cialdini, What Every BODY is Saying by Navarro, The Like Switch by Schafer, The Price by Machiavelli, Hogg by Delaney.
>> No. 7124 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 11:51 am
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>>7121
>How to Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)

Didn't this line of thinking lead to the failure of May's relatively tame Brexit deal, only for it to be replaced with Johnson's much worse Brexit deal?
>> No. 7125 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 12:15 pm
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>>7121
> Who Owns England?

Wow, the MoD owns a lot more than I thought.
>> No. 7126 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 12:50 pm
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Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes - Jacques Ellul
The Technological Society - Jacques Ellul
Propaganda - Edward L. Bernays
Tragedy & Hope: A History of The World in Our Time - Carroll Quigley
The Shallows - Nicholas Carr
The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose
Ashtavakra Gita
Discourses, Enchiridion - Epictetus
Technological Slavery - Theodore J. Kaczynski
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality - Ken Wilber
>> No. 7127 Anonymous
30th April 2020
Thursday 8:43 am
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>>7126
Alright there, Keith
>> No. 7128 Anonymous
30th April 2020
Thursday 8:53 am
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>>7127
Gone too soon.
>> No. 7129 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 7:55 am
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>>7125
It's a fascinating book. I live in an area of Hampshire that is surrounded by MOD land - they own tons of the place (and give it to eco warriors to manage when they're not using it).
>> No. 7130 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 9:24 am
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>>7126

>Technological Slavery - Theodore J. Kaczynski

You're on a list now.
>> No. 7131 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 9:29 am
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>>7130
I remember reading it at the time it was published - if you didn't know who the writing was by, and what he was up to, it's actually well written.

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