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Hey /sci/, what's your favorite book?

>> No.4119081

God Delusion

>> No.4119080

Quar'an.

>> No.4119082

There's really not much point in having a favorite factual book, so I'm guessing you mean fiction?

My favorite fictional books would probably be... the collected works of Stephen Baxter and the collected works of Larry Niven.

Can't be more accurate than that, sorry.

>> No.4119084

>>4119073
Fiction- House of Leaves
Non fiction- Walden

>> No.4119086

>>4119080
>>4119081
>>4119082
>>4119084
>Not a philosophy e-book

Also math and science fall under philosophy, as does logic.

>> No.4119087

Ive read some good books in my day.

Instead of telling about some of my favorite and well known books let me tell you about a really obscure book that had a really big impact on me when I was in middle school.

It was called "The Ugly American" and I believe it was written in the 50s or 60s. It was a series of short stories revolving around a fictional south east asian nation, resembling vietnam. Note that this is before the Vietnam war. The book was all about the political and cultural problems with American foreign policy. The book demonstrated why communism was able to sweep through this fictional nation, like it has swept through many real life nations.

The book was only vaguely anti-communist. Communism being good or bad wasnt the focus of the book. Anyway, at that age I found the idea of communism really intoxicating. I dont think it made me a communist, but it taught me something really valuable.

I bought the book recently, more for novelty than anything. I remember the back of the book said about this book being banned if we were a free country. I thought that was very funny, because I feel the world has turned very "brave new world" and we dont need to ban books for them to fall out of favor. We can ignore books on the basis that books are boring.

>> No.4119089

Non-fiction: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Sagan

Fiction: Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories

>> No.4119091

>>4119086
wut?

>> No.4119093

>>4119091
He's trying to troll by implying that everyone who reads anything else than philosophy is an uneducated barbarian.

Just ignore and move along.

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>> No.4119119

Toss up between Catch-22 and Invisible Man. It really is a pity that Ralph Ellison never wrote anything else because of his fear of never writing anything as poignant as Invisible Man.

>> No.4119250

Foundation

>> No.4119263

Fiction: The Origin of Species

Non-fiction: The Secret

>> No.4119284

>>>/lit/

>> No.4119412

>>4119284
That's not a book.

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>> No.4119444

>>4119284

But the people on /sci/ are smarter and more interesting, besides, you should know a favorite book thread wouldn't fly on there.