From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Sat Oct 10 1998 - 08:04:58 MDT
I don't think I could ever recommend just one book . . . I've thought about it
since this thread started and simply can't accept the premise -- even though
the exercise is useful. I agree that Hofstadter's _Goedel, Escher, Bach_
comes close to meeting this standard, though. I DO have "most recommended"
books, though. Over time GEB is on this short list, as is Persig's _Zen and
the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ and Howard Buss' _The Evolution of Desire_.
Recently, I've been pushing Steven Pinker's _How the Mind Works_ pretty
strongly.
BTW, I keep an annotated bibliography of every book I read (how obsessive!) on
the web at:
http://users.aol.com/gburch2/reading.html
<A HREF="http://users.aol.com/gburch2/reading.html">Greg Burch's Reading
List</A>
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<burchg@liddellsapp.com>
Attorney ::: Director, Extropy Institute ::: Wilderness Guide
http://users.aol.com/gburch1 -or- http://members.aol.com/gburch1
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must
be driven into practice with courageous impatience."
-- Admiral Hyman Rickover
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