<p>OfEternity: "i heard 'the curious incident' is amazing"</p>
<p>....yeh i really enjoyed it....</p>
<p>BUMP, since people are asking.
and I'll update this with what I put:</p>
<p>Books:
War and Peace (Tolstoy), Diary of a Drug Fiend (Huxley), La Femme Rompue (Simone de Beauvoir), Diary (Chuck Palahniuk), Basic Writings of Nietzsche, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath</p>
<p>Required and Enjoyed:
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams), The Whitsun Weddings (Philip Larkin), Hamlet (Shakespeare), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Berni</p>
<p>gota plug my book - SURELY YOU'RE JOKING MR. FEYNMAN
(it's only 'my' book in the sense that i like it a lot lol)</p>
<p>Republic - Plato
Big Bang - Simon Singh
Parallel Worlds - Michio Kaku
The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe- Brian Greene
The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
o and > Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich (really entertaining book about how these mit kids counted cards and toatally jacked some casinos)</p>
<p>oh and Winning - Jack Welch (decent book)</p>
<p>wow everyone has such intense books</p>
<p>copy/paste from my app:</p>
<p>PLEASURE: "No Logo" Naomi Klein, "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" Thomas L. Friedman, "Ebony" Ryszard Kapuscinski, "Fatelessness" Imre Kertesz, "White Teeth" Zadie Smith, "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee</p>
<p>REQUIRED: "The Plague" Albert Camus, "The Great Gatsby" Francis Scott
Fitzgerald, "Master and Margarita" Mikhail Bulgakov, "Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller, "Conversations with an Executioner" Kazimierz Moczarski</p>
<p>MAGAZINES: "Polityka" ("Politics"), "Newsweek", "Gazeta Wyborcza"
(polish daily), "The Economist", "The New York Times" (web edition)</p>
<p>Performance of The Capitol Steps; Films: "Crash", "The Constant Gardener", World Press Photo 2004 exhibition</p>
<p>and note - I'm from Poland :D</p>
<p>I'm glad to see that someone else listed Brian Greene's books. I loved both "The Elegant Universe" and "The Fabric of the Cosmos", but I wasn't sure if it would seem somewhat sketchy to list books written by Columbia faculty. It worked out fine, though.</p>
<p>Yeah I put The Elegant Universe on my app aswell. I didn't wan't to sound like a kiss-ass, but I really enjoy Greene's writings.
I also put down a bunch of Palahniuk and some Kerouac.</p>
<p>I thought about writing it down. I might add it, but I sort of like the books I have now. They're all different, and I think they fit my personality well.</p>
<p>lol i think my list is a little different to most people's:</p>
<p>READING: Catch-22, Blink, Brief History of Medicine, Fermat's Last Theorem, Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Deception Point</p>
<p>REQUIRED: None lol I only do bio, chem and math at my school</p>
<p>NEWSPAPERS/MAGS: Time, NewScientist</p>
<p>ENTERTAINMENT: Cinderella Man, Crash, Star Wars Ep3 (yep!), Coach Carter, Mr and Mrs Smith</p>
<p>whoa you only do science and math at your school??? crazy...</p>
<p>lol no.. i do A levels so i only have to choose 3 subjects, and considering i suck at english.. i chose all math/sciencey subjects... which also means no essays to write woot</p>
<p>haha yay for a levels i personally dropped anytihng science/maths shaped like a proverbial hot potato as soon as i could after gcses. and then found I had to do the sat after 2 years of not doing math. and just when I thought i was finally done i had to do a math sat 2 cos of my subjects ( eng lit / french/economics/art/music tech AS).</p>
<p>and now i realise that thank's to the core there'll be even more of it, sigh.</p>
<p>eMJay, I was considering putting no logo down, but I didn't....just wondering have read adbusters? I remember when I read no logo as a freshman I was obsessed with that magazine...</p>
<p>I heard about Adbusters but never actually got a chance to read it. I put "no logo" on the list but not because I'm and alter-globalist and the book is my bible or something, but because it changed my perception of how the world and the economies etc. function. Note, I put "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" too, even though it's a really PRO-globalization book, but it evened out "no logo" and somehow shaped me. Besides, I wanted to show that I always try to go for the balance ;)</p>
<p>How can all of you forget Asterix and Oblix ... I found a new one at the bookstore just last week and I sat in the middle of the store reading it ...</p>