Nerdly reading list?

[EyeMWing]

Looking for nerdly books only.

I've read:
Mein Kampf
Animal Farm
A whole bunch of other stupid classical/contemporary bullsh!t for school. Supposedly. It all sucked so bad I couldn't read it.

Examples of things that I havn't read, but should:
HHGTTG.

What else should I read?

 

[dug777]

1984
The Old Man And The Sea
A Fringe Of Leaves
Voss

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

get a couple of anthologies of short fiction... you'll get all sorts of literary goodness.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: dug777
1984

I've been meaning to read that... Forever. Seriously, I have. I actually had the book at one point. Just never read the first page.

The Old Man And The Sea

Read it in school. Hated it. Give me 10 years to recover from the trauma of being forced to read something before you tell me to read it again and enjoy it.

 

[SaintTigurius]

war of the worlds.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: dug777
1984

I've been meaning to read that... Forever. Seriously, I have. I actually had the book at one point. Just never read the first page.

It's kinda cool- hl2 and the Combine reminded me of it the other day- i could imagine the settings in 1984 looking just like City17

 

[SWScorch]

The Dune Series

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
The Dune Series

Only the first 3-4, not the awful cashing-in-on-the-estate books by the son.

The Odyssey
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Puddinhead Wilson and most everything else by Twain

Ender's Game

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: SWScorch
The Dune Series

Only the first 3-4, not the awful cashing-in-on-the-estate books by the son.

The Odyssey
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Puddinhead Wilson and most everything else by Twain

Ender's Game

Check, check, check and check. Again, tainted by school syndrome. I'm looking for nerdly reading material, dammit! Stuff that raises questions about humanity and existance, and yet isn't a quantum physics textbook.

 

[dullard]

Anandtech?

 

[Siva]

I think Dune is about as good as you can get when it comes to nerdly... that and A Brief History of Time

 

[SWScorch]

anything by Arthur C Clarke

 

[UNCjigga]

How bout some Asimov stuff?

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

The Old Man And The Sea

Read it in school. Hated it. Give me 10 years to recover from the trauma of being forced to read something before you tell me to read it again and enjoy it.

I think Old Man And The Sea is the only Hemingway book short enough to be bearable.

For "nerdy" books I would recommend the following sci-fi authors:
Arthur C. Clarke
Isaac Asimov
Phillip K. Dick
Frederic Pohl
Robert Silverberg
Neal Stephenson
Stanislaw Lem
Rudy Rucker

Most of these guys are respected scientists and mathematicians in addition to being entertaining writers.

You should also be reading lots and lots of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

 

[AMDZen]

Don't forget Robert A. Heinlein