Recommend some books for me!

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<p>I'm going on "vacation" soon to a dreadful place without internet access or TV. This place is my grandparent's home :( Therefore, I'm going to try to read a bit to pass the time. </p>

<p>Anyway, I'm looking for nonfiction books. Topics I enjoy are psychology, sociology, physics, math, philosophy, and even a little religion. Examples of the types of books I'm looking for are Malcolm Gladwell's books and Jonah Lehrer's books, so please don't give me the titles of textbooks :) </p>

<p>Thanks for any recommendations you can provide.</p>

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<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (9780140296471): Charles Seife: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Biography-Dangerous-Charles-Seife/dp/0140296476/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278025884&sr=8-2]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Biography-Dangerous-Charles-Seife/dp/0140296476/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278025884&sr=8-2)
[Amazon.com:</a> Flatland (9781907727337): Edwin A. Abbott: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Flatland-Edwin-Abbott/dp/1907727337/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278025901&sr=1-2]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Flatland-Edwin-Abbott/dp/1907727337/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278025901&sr=1-2)
[Amazon.com:</a> Abstract Algebra (9780471433347): David S. Dummit, Richard M. Foote: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algebra-David-S-Dummit/dp/0471433349/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278025944&sr=1-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algebra-David-S-Dummit/dp/0471433349/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278025944&sr=1-1)
[Amazon.com:</a> A Mathematical Introduction to Logic, Second Edition…](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Introduction-Logic-Second/dp/0122384520/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278025959&sr=1-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Introduction-Logic-Second/dp/0122384520/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278025959&sr=1-1)</p>

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<p>I picked up a copy of Plato’s Republic yesterday. Definitely worth the read.</p>

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<p>If you picked it up yesterday, did you also finish it? It’s nice and logical, but the premise is really faulty. And if you don’t like something that reads just like a logical procession, it’ll be weird.</p>

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<p>Are you insinuating that my veins are in fact not flowing with silver?</p>

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<p>I hear Harry Potter and the Socks of Poor Judgment is good.</p>

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<p>Guns, Germs, And Steel!</p>

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<p>^ That’s got to be a joke…</p>

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<p>Gödel’s Proof</p>

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<p>I would recommend some Nietzsche. Try “The Antichrist”, it was a good read.</p>

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<p>How about Junky by William Burroughs</p>

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<p>A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson</p>

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<p>A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess</p>

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<p>^I was discussing that book (actually, the book vs. the movie) at an ice cream parlor today. I feel like several mothers were upset with me.</p>

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<p>world guinness book of records…?</p>

<p>How about farenheit 451? Catcher in the Rye? 13 reasons why?</p>

<p>or just pick up some Dan Brown books. like angels & demons or the Da Vinci code.</p>

<p>Just make a trip to Barnes and noble… should making choosing easier for you.</p>

<p>-sorry this is coming from a person that reads anthropology stuff, national geographic, autobiographies, stuff about other cultures and histories for fun…im not a very big fan of reading non-fiction :frowning: and you’re also a guy so you might not like the stuff i’d suggest anyway :D</p>

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<p>on the road by jack kerouac, wise blood by flannery o’connor</p>

<p>my two favorite books (currently)</p>

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<p>ovid’s metamorphoses ----amazingly entertaining + some Theogony by Hesiod, mythology is a whole other world, super fun! :D</p>

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<p>The Triumphal Chariot of Alchemy - Basilius Valentinus</p>

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<p>^ oops didnt read NONFICTION my bad…</p>

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<p>oh i didn’t read nonfiction either…Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World was pretty good</p>