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MN Dave

#40
September 07, 2010, 10:54:32 AM
Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Ulysses
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Charles Darwin-On the Origin of Species
Dhammapada - Buddha
Elements (consider it as one book in thirteen volumes) - Euclid
The Bible
Everyone Poops - Taro Gomi
Prose Edda
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
The C Programming Language, Kerninghan and Ritchie (1978)
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - War and Peace
Dostoevsky 'Crime and Punishment'
Simon Vestdijk, De kellner en de levenden
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bwv 1080

#41
September 07, 2010, 12:17:56 PM
Newton - Principia
Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments
David Hume - An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Friedrich A. Hayek - Individualism and Economic Order
James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock - The Calculus of Consent

MN Dave

#42
September 07, 2010, 12:25:06 PM
Quote from: bwv 1080 on September 07, 2010, 12:17:56 PM
Newton - Principia
Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments
David Hume - An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Friedrich A. Hayek - Individualism and Economic Order
James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock - The Calculus of Consent

Pick one please.

DavidRoss

#43
September 07, 2010, 12:39:54 PM
Quote from: MN Dave on September 07, 2010, 12:25:06 PM
Pick one please.
Quote from: bwv 1080 on September 07, 2010, 12:17:56 PM
Newton - Principia
Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments
David Hume - An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Friedrich A. Hayek - Individualism and Economic Order
James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock - The Calculus of Consent
Interesting implication, that the latter two are as significant as the first three.  I've read Hayek, but not Buchanan & Tullock.  Perhaps it's time to remedy that.   8) 
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

knight66

#44
September 07, 2010, 01:10:09 PM
The Rights of Man:  Thomas Paine

Influenced democratic thinking across the world.

Mike
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I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Verena

#45
September 07, 2010, 01:29:51 PM
Immanuel Kant "Critique of Pure Reason"
Don't think, but look! (PI66)

MN Dave

#46
September 07, 2010, 01:33:18 PM
Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Ulysses
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Charles Darwin-On the Origin of Species
Dhammapada - Buddha
Elements (consider it as one book in thirteen volumes) - Euclid
The Bible
Everyone Poops - Taro Gomi
Prose Edda
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
The C Programming Language, Kerninghan and Ritchie (1978)
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - War and Peace
Dostoevsky 'Crime and Punishment'
Simon Vestdijk, De kellner en de levenden
The Rights of Man:  Thomas Paine
Immanuel Kant "Critique of Pure Reason"
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AndyD.

#47
September 07, 2010, 02:05:38 PM
I'm surprised Dostoevsky hasn't shown up. The Idiot, or Brothers Karamazov. Hemingway, Faulkner, Kierkegaard...Stephen King, John Russo.
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DavidRoss

#49
September 07, 2010, 02:10:59 PM
Quote from: AndyD. on September 07, 2010, 02:05:38 PM
I'm surprised Dostoevsky hasn't shown up. The Idiot, or Brothers Karamazov. Hemingway, Faulkner, Kierkegaard...Stephen King, John Russo.
Look again, Andy--Crime and Punishment is there...as it should be.  ;)
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

AndyD.

#50
September 07, 2010, 02:17:50 PM
EEEwwwps!


Sorry!
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bwv 1080

#51
September 07, 2010, 02:21:44 PM
Quote from: MN Dave on September 07, 2010, 12:25:06 PM
Pick one please.

OK

James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock - The Calculus of Consent

Bulldog

#52
September 07, 2010, 02:30:26 PM
Elizabeth Taylor - My Love Affair with Jewelry (just kidding).  Likely one of the least important books ever.

DavidRoss

#53
September 07, 2010, 02:40:17 PM
Quote from: Bulldog on September 07, 2010, 02:30:26 PM
Elizabeth Taylor - My Love Affair with Jewelry (just kidding).  Likely one of the least important books ever.
Right up there with Miley Cyrus's autobiography!
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

MN Dave

#54
September 07, 2010, 02:45:42 PM
Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Ulysses
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Charles Darwin-On the Origin of Species
Dhammapada - Buddha
Elements (consider it as one book in thirteen volumes) - Euclid
The Bible
Everyone Poops - Taro Gomi
Prose Edda
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
The C Programming Language, Kerninghan and Ritchie (1978)
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - War and Peace
Dostoevsky 'Crime and Punishment'
Simon Vestdijk, De kellner en de levenden
The Rights of Man:  Thomas Paine
Immanuel Kant "Critique of Pure Reason"
James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock - The Calculus of Consent
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AndyD.

#55
September 07, 2010, 02:46:48 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 07, 2010, 02:40:17 PM
Right up there with Miley Cyrus's autobiography!


Oh NO :'(! Could I change my entry?
http://andydigelsomina.blogspot.com/

My rockin' Metal wife:

Herman

#56
September 07, 2010, 05:11:43 PM
Quote from: MN Dave on September 07, 2010, 01:33:18 PM

Simon Vestdijk, De kellner en de levenden


Did you read this in the original language? How did you get to read Vestdijk anyway?

Cato

#57
September 07, 2010, 06:14:59 PM
Scarpia earlier wanted to know how to interpret the word "important," e.g. important for History or Science or Literary Development, etc.

Here are some books important to me:

Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)
Hermann Hesse: Narcissus and Goldmund
Josef von Eichendorff: From the Life of a Good-For-Nothing (Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts)
Patrick Süskind: Mr. Summer's Story (Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer)


Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The GULAG Archipelago
Ivan Goncharov: Oblomov

Jan Potocki: The Manuscript Found At Saragossa
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Philoctetes

#58
September 07, 2010, 06:49:03 PM
Viktor Shklovsky's Energy of Delusion

knight66

#59
September 07, 2010, 10:32:21 PM Last Edit: September 07, 2010, 10:40:24 PM by knight
Dickens' work was important in promoting social reform, I think that now tends to be forgotten. Ditto a book such as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle also Zola's Germinal. All three authors wrote uncommonly well in addition to influencing society.

Narcissus and Goldmund would be in my personal top 10, but I am not sure it has had much impact outside of those few of us who read it.

Mike
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I wasted time: and time wasted me.
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