Books that changed you...

[floridaorange]

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Interesting! What was it about "IT" that was so engaging?

[Funky Dredd]

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Stephen King - IT
I never liked reading books like that until I read IT.
I've been a Stephen King fan ever since!

[Lorn]

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^^Like most of us.

[mnbvcxz]

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pdowney. I can't comment on Fabric of the Cosmos, but... The Elegant Universe covers quantam mechanics, special/general relativity, and space and time. There's no doubt it gives you an entry level understanding of these so you can properly understand string theory. General relativity and space/time is extremely interesting. That one unusual property of light is still doing my head in. However, I've found quantam mechanics very hard to grasp.

[lilm]

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Imre Kert?sz-Fatelessness
Primo Levi- Survival in Auschwitz
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Thomas Mann- The Magic Mountain
J.D. Salinger- Catcher in the Rye

[pdowney]

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Fabric of the Cosmos, is another title by Brian Greene which is worth looking at aswell. I haven't read it yet... but seems interesting.

Doco snippets

I found Fabric of the Cosmos much more interesting than The Elegant Universe. I would recommend reading it first because it's more general, and covers quantum mechanics, general relativity, space and time, over a book just about string theory. Both require a lot of thinking, neither one is a light read.

If you want to read books against string theory, try Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit, or The Trouble With Physics, by Lee Smolin. Both are new and are getting decent reviews. I haven't read either, yet.

[picklemonkey]

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Missed Fortune 101

[mnbvcxz]

Re: Books that changed you...

Fabric of the Cosmos, is another title by Brian Greene which is worth looking at aswell. I haven't read it yet... but seems interesting.

I'd recommend watching the 3 hour doco before commencing the book, not as a replacement for the knowledge, but as a good "kick start" for the ideas presented. They're pretty out there, and getting a general run down of the theorectical framework can help understand the detailed explanation in the book.

Doco snippets

[floridaorange]

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The Elegant Universe; by Brian Greene

THANK YOU! DEF. BUYING THIS ONE!

[mnbvcxz]

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The Elegant Universe; by Brian Greene

[AndyH]

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Rich Dad Poor Dad

Biography of Edgar Cayce

The Three Pillars of Zen; Teaching Practice and Enlightenment

Reminices of a Stock Operator

Men Only - Issue Feb 2006

[palmer]

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The Tipping Point


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Almost any book however I feel as a pretty signficant impact on me.

[Lorn]

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^1984 sure is a read.

[Localizer]

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1984 from Orwell

Dale Carnegies's 'how to win friends and influence people' - dam good book

[floridaorange]

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Read "The Art of Listening" not exactly what I had in mind, as its all about therapy, but thats my fault for not investigating better...still a fun read. Fromm has a great writing style, very interesting, thanks for the recom.