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What's the most intellectually challenging book you've read? |
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Love and Will - Rollo May |
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Ulysses by James Joyce and poems by C.K. Norwid, our poet from XIXth century. (And pretty much on the same, or even higher level...some volumes from Tadeusz Rozewicz Collected Works, Milosz and Herbert poems, some old Indian works on advaita vedanta philosophy, Valis by P.K. Dick). |
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Nothing really challenges me, I'm too smart, but The Sacred Fount by Henry James is very stimulating. |
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grimm brothers books.. |
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the bible |
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what do you mean by intellectually challenging? hard to "get" or most "complex/deep"? |
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Thats the same. You either understand something or you dont |
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not the same, no. you can easily understand a complex or deep book, and just as easily not "get" a very straightforward book. |
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I would say Ulysses, cause nothing else comes to mind |
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So, if you dont understand that easy straightfoward book, how do you know it is easy and straightforward? Huh? |
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not understand. get. stop trolling you wanker. |
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Stop asking superficial questions |
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Understand?Good. Play! by Hatsumi Masaaki and Ben Cole Quotes by a martial arts master. Deep shit. |
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Freidrich Hayek:A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944--when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program--The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would inevitably lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of nazi Germany and fascist Italy. "In the negative part of Professor Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often--at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough--that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of."--George Orwell, Collected Essays Thatcher was a fan too. |
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Ricky Gervais Flaminals |
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Harry Potter. |
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chicken soup for the tridenti |
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Cat in the hat |
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Heideggers being and time is pretty awkward to read |
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once upon a time in chicken soup land, tridenti wanted to become a moderator..... |
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The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone DeBeauvoir it's was very ambiguous, you see. |
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though quite a fantastic read I might add. well, not might, because I did, and well you get the idea |
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I don't know about challenging but the book that gave me impitus to read philosophical stuff was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. If you havn't read it Monoid I suggest you do. |
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such a great book that :D |
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It's good, though I much preferred the beginning to the end... it's like he was thinking "I just have to finish this thing!" and it was all rushed while the beginning was so carefully thought out. And have you read the sequel? It's crap. The book that got me into reading philosophical stuff was Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, which is amazingly simple, yet amazingly complex/deep, as is anything in life. |
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Interesting you should say that.. I love Hesse. Steppenwolf was fairly challenging at times but it's one of my favorite books. Plotwise it's not that tough, but he likes to explore these really bizarre tangents that can be difficult to follow. I have not read Siddhartha yet, but it sounds like it comes highly reccommended from you. |
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right now i'm reading memoirs of a geisha. it's not really intellectually challenging though. really, it reads like a harry potter novel, but instead of wizard school and magic, it's prostitution school and make-up. |
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mother goose |
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um.. neitzsche crap |
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you found nietszche intellectually challenging? |
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I think what she was getting at was that she found Nietzsche’s mustache physically satisfying |
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Harry Poppers and the goblet of absinthe |
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woah, what happened to your account? |
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peter and jane go to the seaside |
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The Bible |
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not really a book, but i'd say any of Monoid's threads have been the most intellectually challenging things i've ever read. |
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a sad goodbye from the babysitter's club, i felt so bad for claudia kishi, her grandma had the same name as me |
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meg's eggs |
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Many many characters with many many pseudonyms |
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Would definitely have to be stuff by Hegel. The language requires a lot of concentration. Heidegger seems a little more easy to read (even though he's famous for being hard to read) but his philisophy is much more interesting to me so its well worth the effort. And I'm talking about English translations, too, both authors would probably be much easier to read in the original German. |
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yeah. why |
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I cant believe someone said james joyce. shame on you. |
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I can't believe someone said DUBturbo. |
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