books every intelligent person should read

[James Robertson]

agree

> Jacob Carey <mailto:aristotle114 at gmail.com>
> 8 April 2014 09:26
> Infinite Jest needs to be on here. That book made me love writing.
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> Ian Livingston <mailto:igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> 4 April 2014 03:07
> Open Culture is one of very few websites I know of that actually 
> fulfills the promise of the internet.
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> Charles Albert <mailto:cfalbert at gmail.com>
> 4 April 2014 01:59
> I AM NOT ALONE.......
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> love,
> cfa
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> Michael Bailey <mailto:mikebailey at gmx.us>
> 3 April 2014 13:46
> For an intelligent person who (as i consider myself to be), maybe 
> isn't all about reading per se, so they mightn't have the patience or 
> fortitude to get thru nonfiction outside of an educational setting, I 
> think these would be loved
>
> A) Pynchon oeuvre goes without saying
> 1. John Crowley Solitudes (formerly called Aegypt, but that's the name 
> of the tetralogy, 1st book by far the finest IMHO)
> 2. Richard Grant Tex and Molly
> 3. Shea & Wilson Illuminatus trilogy
> 4. Catch-22
> 5. Gibson, Spook Country
> 6. Kim Stanley Robinson Blind Geometer
> 7. Joyce Carol Oates Foxfire
> 8. JCO them
> 9. Nalo Hopkinson Brown Girl in the Ring
> 10. Chip Delaney's Stars in my Pocket
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> Plus Pinter's Nobel speech
> http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture.html
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> Robert Newman - History of Oil: http://youtu.be/GIpm_8v80hw (essential)
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> a-and Ian dury's hit me with your rhythm stick, Tim Curry's I Do the 
> Rock, the version of One Night in Bangkok with the female vocal ...
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> For an aspiring intelligentsnik, well then,
> How about
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> Freud
> Darwin
> Marx
> Lacan in French & be analyzed
> Learn Lisp and write an OS
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> Learn geometry & build a zome
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> Learn chemistry ...
> & work thru Shulgin's Pihkal /Tihkal
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> -- 
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>
> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l

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