recommend me some nerd books

[weezergirl]

along the lines of a brief history of time or einstein's dreams...
i like robot books too! (i've already read most of asimov's stuff tho)

 

[WayneTeK]

ender's gam.e

 

[weezergirl]

Originally posted by: WayneTeK
ender's gam.e

i already read that...good book!

 

[Descartes]

Two of my favorites:

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Golden Ratio

 

[Schadenfroh]

the adolesence of P1

 

[bentwookie]

lord of the rings

 

[PowerMacG5]

The Universe in a Nutshell.

 

[weezergirl]

Originally posted by: Descartes
Two of my favorites:

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Golden Ratio

awesome. sounds really interesting. thanks for the suggestion!

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
the adolesence of P1

I liked that book, also along the same idea is "When Harley Was One" by David Gerrold

 

[ZeroEffect]

Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

Hitchiker's guide, if you wanna go that branch of nerd.

 

[CanOWorms]

The Physics of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors

 

[weezergirl]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
The Physics of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors

hmm, that's a little too nerd for me.

 

[datalink7]

Neuromancer - "name is escaping me for some reason"
Dune - Frank Herbert (must read if you haven't)
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
Farenheit 541 - Ray Bradbury
Starship Troopers (NOTHING like the movie) - Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Rendevous with Rama - Arthur C Clark
Children of the Mind - Arthur C Clark
Cosmos - Carl Sagan

My two favorites off of this list are "Cosmos" and "The Illustrated Man"

 

[Chaotic42]

Blackholes and Time Warps-Kip Thorne. It's my book of the moment. It's a very long book.

 

[CanOWorms]

Originally posted by: weezergirl

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
The Physics of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors

hmm, that's a little too nerd for me.

Come on... be a little open-minded. Everyone is raving about it in all the social circles at the coffee shops!