<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Essential Books for Smart People](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Books-for-Smart-People/lm/1SBS191OV88JA]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Books-for-Smart-People/lm/1SBS191OV88JA)</p>
<p>Lol Amazon has a list just for that.</p>
<p>Twilight :P</p>
<p>Get lots of esoteric nonfiction books, and “read” a new one every couple days. That’d impress me. I also feel like some Ayn Rand would work for this purpose too, I’m really only vaguely familiar with her, though.</p>
<p>Edit: I’ve read 4 of those! lololol.</p>
<p>@Noli: I can’t tell if your joking or not… Do you really not know what Readings on Dialectical Metaphysics is?</p>
<p>^^I read 7 of those unless 23. The Metamorphosis is a new story written by Martin Jarvis</p>
<p>I disagree substantially with that list.</p>
<p>Definitely Phenomenology of the Spirit by Hegel. Damn shxt is hard.</p>
<p>The human body</p>
<p>Godel, Escher, Bach</p>
<p>Anything that looks old and antiquated with no modern-day front cover photo should do the trick for you.</p>
<p>Or try something in Latin. Latin looks like an extremely intelligent language.</p>
<p>^ Haha, Latin does seem pretty intelligent. Maybe that’s why all the school’s have mottos in Latin?!</p>
<p>I’m like the bookworm at my school… kind of. Nobody else in my class (which is supposed to be the top class for our grade) reads challenging books, and when they do, it’s not either for school or just a one time thing.
When I was 11 or 12 while the rest of the class read Roald Dahl, I was the only one reading Charles Dickens.
Once I was reading Anna Karenina and a girl in my class said, “OMG the author’s Russian. The book is really thick…”
Her friend was like, “I read a book as big as that, Breaking Dawn (Twilight saga).”
Well, that kind of explains everything, but I know guys that read Stephen Hawking’s stuff and all the science-y books that make them seem really smart!</p>
<p>Damn, how did I miss this thread?</p>
<p>I think Ulysses would be the best book for this purpose. It is very well known, but most people have not read it (or at least not finished [noparse];)[/noparse]). I should probably read it sometime…</p>
<p>most books mentioned above won’t really impress me, seeing that they’re catered towards people with intelligence levels below that of CC</p>
<p>now, what’s actually impressive are books like…</p>
<p>landau and lif****z course of theoretical physics</p>
<p>edit: *** lmao</p>
<p>that being said though, i’ve been guilty of carrying around theoretical physics and math books that I could barely comprehend. but that I sometimes use for reference. certainly it makes people think i’m smarter than i am, and then probably makes them disappointed.</p>
<p>Suggest that you conplement that with a football on the other hand.</p>
<p>that way you can look outgoing and intelligent. lol</p>
<p>lol^^^^^ :)</p>
<p>^^^Lif****z? Apparently, CC does not care for Russian Physicists.</p>
<p>Carry around a dictionary.</p>
<p>^ That’ll make you look like an exchange student.</p>
<p>^Ouch. That was scum. I’ve yet to meet an exchange student who does, btw.</p>
<p>Carry around Finnegan’s Wake.
=).
Stream of Consciousness = as confusing as possible.</p>
<p>^Finnegan’s Wake gave me nausea. I had read some Faulkner to ease the transition, but still!–that book was a horrifying read. I prefer Ulysses to that monstrosity, and I HATE Ulysses. </p>
<p>Ahem. My apologies to the rabid Ulysses fans here. It’s not my fault the book sucks. :p</p>