Greetings all,
I've been lurking around for a few days now and finally took some time to register; I'm grateful for coming across such an interesting site. Introduce yourselves if you'd like and/or list your top 5 favorite books, as the title suggests.A bit about me: I am a Kosovar, born and raised in Kosovo; currently reside in the States. I am freshman, majoring in Economics and...
My top 5:1. Orientalism by E.W.S2. Don Quixote by Cervantes3. Macbeth by Shakespeare4. War and Peace by L.Tolstoy5. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Looking forward...
1. The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin
2. Democracy - the God that failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
3. The Silmarillion by Tolkien
4. Human Action by Mises
5. The Divine Comedy by Dante
2-5 could easily be replaced by You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe, East of Eden by Steinbeck, The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, Eyeless in Gaza or Point Counter Point by Huxley.
Or the novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
I know I'm forgetting some that could knock any of the above off the list...Well, except The Idiot which IMHO is the best book I've ever read.
Top 5 is really harder than it seems, top 10 1/2 I suppose...
1) Time Storm by Gordon Dickson
2) Space by (can't remember author
3) Dune Trilogy by Frank Herbert (and nothing by his son)
4) Foundation Series Isaac Asimov
5) I can't remember even the title to this, since it was the first book I ever read, but it was about this cat that could travel through time. I make special note of it because it was the first /actual/ book that I ever read, and I think most people hold something special to the book that got you to read.
Latest Projects
"Even when leftists talk about discrimination and sexism, they're damn well talking about the results of the economic system" ~Neodoxy
1. Godfather
2. Idiot
3. Murakami (all)
4. War in the mind
5. Google.com :)))
NON-FICTION
01 Ludwig von Mises - Human Action
02 Richard Cobden - Russia and the Eastern Question
03 Werner Herzog, edited by Paul Cronin - Herzog on Herzog
04 François Truffaut - Hitchcock/Truffaut
05 Henry Hazlitt - Economics in One Lesson
FICTION
01 Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
02 Anthony Burgess - The Wanting Seed
03 Gilbert Keith Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
04 Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svejk
05 Boris Vian - I Spit on Your Graves
My favorites are 1) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by (I forget who).
2) You are the World by J. Krishnamurti
3) The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
4) Island by Aldous Huxley
5) La Noia (The Empty Canvas) by Alberto Moravia (Davidson translation)
In no particular order...
1. Language In Thought and Action - S. I. Hayakawa
2. Knowledge of the Holy - A. W. Tozer
3. World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 - G. Edward Griffin
4. Shogun - James Clavell
5. Human Action - Ludwig von Mises
"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears." - Gian Carlo Menotti
Well, based on how much time I spend reading or re-reading them (not in order):
Lane
Steppenwolf (Hesse)
Siddharth (Hesse)
Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse)
Demian (Hesse)
The Counter-Revolution of Science (Hayek)
1. Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
2. The Divine Comedy - Dante
3. King Lear - Shakespeare
4. Metallica & Philosophy
5. Harry Potter Series - Rowling
...tried to stay away from history/politics since I'd need many more than just five.
1. For a New Liberty (Rothbard)
2. The Road to Serfdom (Hayek)
3. The Creature from Jekyll Island (G.E. Griffin)
4. Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt)
5. Catch - 22 (Heller)