<p>Updated with wonderful lurkers. More people should come out and join us! (44 people so far)</p>
<p>Astrophy918 (NY)
Beefinbj (US citizen abroad) - trilingual (reading, writing, speaking in all of them)
Boggler
Carolightning
Chichibi (SoCal)
Cicero<em>oratore (MA) - physics/math
Clamzoni</em>of_RI- Well-rounded w/ emphasis on Biochem. and Tenor Voice
Daffodils
Dan92
DoleWhip
DreamHigh91
Dx1992
Fluffysheep (IN)- the blunt well-rounded type with a special thing for science
Gcall1090 ¶- classical history with sciency undertones.
geoindy
Goyankees1219 ¶ - history
Guitar01 (FL)
Gunther6456
HurtLocker (So. Cal) - well-rounded with a leaning toward music, psych, and history
ItchyTorso (Switzerland)
JenRocket
Journeverte (Texas)
KRNpro (WA) - well-rounded poor man with a inclination towards the humanities
Macarenaps (Peru) well rounded
Mikezy (Australia)
MorganSimone (NJ)
Mrbopalop1 (WI)
MSauce
Neapolitan
Nickwasy
Pappa1 (NYC Suburbs)
Passiongirl
Plumazul (Maryland) Hispanic, Concert Pianist, Chemistry/Music/premed trilingual …
Qizixite (Northeast) interested in some sort of mathy subject
Raving (SC)
Reach4thestars45
RedlinetoHarvard
Serendipityyy
Simplywaiting (GA)
SouthKP
Tharp993 (Western NY)
Tracyxxx
Vikroz (MI) - cello, science
Zachboy</p>
<p>qizixite, in my defense, I HAVE read Joyce’s Ulysses. Granted it was for one of my summer courses and I still only understand about 50% of it, but regardless…I definitely deserve brownie points for struggling through that. Besides, literary reading takes a back seat to historical readings to me (Plutarch and Polybius always beats Hemmingway and Steinbeck in my book). Which of course means I am in love with the true classics (i.e Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid)</p>
<p>Morgan. I don’t know what is was, but I hated the Grapes of Wrath. I don’t mind Steinbeck but I didn’t like the way he wrote that one.</p>
<p>AAAHHHHH! qizixite, must request a change to mine. No science undertones for me. Never, ever. Despise science (I dont consider psychology a “science” since I would only study it as a means of re-evaluating historical figures). Mathy undertones maybe, I enjoy my theoretical math. But physics, chemistry, biology, etc…never will those subjects come near me again (unless required…)Why I suffered through AP Bio and AP Chem is beyond me.</p>
<p>Reaching back a couple of pages…</p>
<p>@qizixite: How is physics not applied math? Literally, all the concepts in physics are derived from some mathematical principle.</p>
<p>Okay fine gcall, that is impressive. I’ll give you 80 brownie points. Still, not reading the Three Musketeers and claiming to be a Dumas fan is at least -200 so you have a ways to go. I’ll even give you 5 points per post which puts you back at -100. I vote 25 as the threshold for admittance. Can we make a list of arbitrary rules? Add on please!</p>
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<p>I’m just going to throw this out there and will probably receive a few sighs, but I hate American literature. The ONLY American novel I have ever enjoyed was The Scarlet Letter, and I like some of Poe’s writing. But Hemingway, Steinbeck, Thoreau, etc… I would prefer they disappeared from shelves (this results in some arguments at home as my dad’s favorite author is Hemingway–but I consider him to be biased since he was a journalism major and Hemingway had such a journalistic writing style)</p>
<p>Cicero, take a theory in physics. Although people use mathematical formulas to quantify the theory, the theory wouldn’t exist without the experiment.</p>
<p>okay fine gcall, I revised it.</p>
<p>Updated with wonderful lurkers. More people should come out and join us! (44 people so far)</p>
<p>Astrophy918 (NY)
Beefinbj (US citizen abroad) - trilingual (reading, writing, speaking in all of them)
Boggler
Carolightning
Chichibi (SoCal)
Cicero<em>oratore (MA) - physics/math
Clamzoni</em>of_RI- Well-rounded w/ emphasis on Biochem. and Tenor Voice
Daffodils
Dan92
DoleWhip
DreamHigh91
Dx1992
Fluffysheep (IN)- the blunt well-rounded type with a special thing for science
Gcall1090 ¶- classical history with undertones of psychology/math.
geoindy
Goyankees1219 ¶ - history
Guitar01 (FL)
Gunther6456
HurtLocker (So. Cal) - well-rounded with a leaning toward music, psych, and history
ItchyTorso (Switzerland)
JenRocket
Journeverte (Texas)
KRNpro (WA) - well-rounded poor man with a inclination towards the humanities
Macarenaps (Peru) well rounded
Mikezy (Australia)
MorganSimone (NJ)
Mrbopalop1 (WI)
MSauce
Neapolitan
Nickwasy
Pappa1 (NYC Suburbs)
Passiongirl
Plumazul (Maryland) Hispanic, Concert Pianist, Chemistry/Music/premed trilingual …
Qizixite (Northeast) interested in some sort of mathy subject
Raving (SC)
Reach4thestars45
RedlinetoHarvard
Serendipityyy
Simplywaiting (GA)
SouthKP
Tharp993 (Western NY)
Tracyxxx
Vikroz (MI) - cello, science
Zachboy</p>
<p>What happened to our discussion on Heinlein, qizixite?</p>
<p>@gcall: You read ULYSSES?! OMG!! Amazing!</p>
<p>@goyankees: Yeah, I really thought Grapes of Wrath was overrated. I am not a big fan of Steinbeck and I also didn’t like Great Expectations.</p>
<p>Ya Gunther, I’ve been rumaging through piles of books looking for my favorite Heinleins; I’ll get back to you shortly!</p>
<p>okay, here are some good ones:</p>
<p>Space Cadet, The Star Beast, Starship Troopers, Podkayne of Mars, and my favorite: Have Spacesuit–Will Travel.</p>
<p>qizixite, in my defense I actually never said he was one of my favorite authors, just that I love what I have read of him. My favorite author is Cicero, hands down. Or Plutarch, but that’s slightly different. Although my favorite book is How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn. Most beautiful writing style I have ever seen. In fact:</p>
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<p>@Morgan I did, though don’t be overly impressed. Like I said, I read it as part of a course I took at Harvard, and Professor Theoharis actually wrote the book on Ulysses, so I had A LOT of guidance. Besides, Ulysses is nothing compared to Finnigan’s Wake. The first day of class, the professor pulled out his copy of that book, had a kid point to a random word in it, then proceeded to go into 4 levels of meaning for that word, which Joyce made up.</p>
<p>Thanks. I’ll look into those.
@MorganSimone, I like Steinbeck, especially of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath. For some awful reading, try the Red Pony. I hate Dickens especially Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities!</p>
<p>Some books that I have enjoyed reading:</p>
<p>Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild, Into Thin Air
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers, Blink, The Tipping Point, What the Dog Saw
Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five
Taleb: Fooled By Randomness
Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye</p>
<p>There are plenty of theories in physics that have no experimental backing. While any science implies some notion of experiment or modeling…because we are talking about trying to explain the real world here and not just what it could be…it is still based on math. To understand any physical phenomenon you need math.</p>
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<p>@gcall: Yes, I heard Finnegan’s Wake is very complex and intricate so much in fact that people are turned away by it.</p>
<p>@Gunther: I was completely turned off by Dickens because of Grapes of Wrath.</p>
<p>Turned off by Dickens because of Grapes of Wrath???</p>